Black and Brown Blues
Great post by Chuck Klosterman on my hometown team, the Cleveland Browns. My favorite excerpts:
How do you appease a fan base that is both highly critical and eternally infatuated? It’s like dating a woman who hates you so much she will never break up with you, even if you burn down the house every single autumn.
And:
This is the central dichotomy of Cleveland football: No other fan base is so deeply loyal and so self-consciously negative at the same time. Locally, there just seems to be a universal belief that — somehow, either by human error or random chance — the Browns will fail at whatever they try.
And:
I don’t think they’re building chemical weapons in Berea. But they might be. I can’t say for sure.
Captures the scene well.
