[Other Sport] Official NFL Thread 2024/25 🏈

[One Teddy Maybank]

Thing is - we suffer more than most! After our 0-16 season in 2017 (following on from our 1-15 in 2016) Cleveland has had TWO winning seasons, the best of which was 11-5 in 2020. The great thing about the NFL is because of mechanisms like the Draft and the Cap no one team ever dominates for long and everybody can expect at least one season in the sun (like Detroit now). We've apparently gone from shit to shit with only that 11-5 season to show for it. And then we compounded it by signing Watson, thus, rightly, losing any sympathy anyone might have had for us.

Anyway, sorry, I've banged on about this before.

You were good when you had Jim Brown……

 

[Brovion]

You were good when you had Jim Brown……

Indeed. Long before my time, back in the pre-Superbowl era Cleveland were apparently a really good team, that, (gulp), won championships.

 

[Albion my Albion]

Indeed. Long before my time, back in the pre-Superbowl era Cleveland were apparently a really good team, that, (gulp), won championships.

As my brother keeps reminding me those Cleveland Browns are actually the Baltimore Ravens now. The NEW Cleveland Browns were an expansion team.

 

[Albion my Albion]

What a huge letdown for the Ducks, I gave up at 34-0. Just an utterly wretched first half capitulation. Congrats to Ohio State that was very impressive and Will Howard finally looked like a decent QB.

A real shame for Oregon to just lay an egg and give their critics some ammunition. Still a successful season but this defeat casts a long shadow over it. The defense just did not turn up at the start and the offence was clueless. I wonder if the long gap between games had an impact on their intensity (obviously ASU didn't have the same problem though).

Ohio State is clicking on all cylinders. They really woke up after the Michigan game. They should have beaten Oregon back in the early part of the season.

 

[Brovion]

As my brother keeps reminding me those Cleveland Browns are actually the Baltimore Ravens now. The NEW Cleveland Browns were an expansion team.

No. As the NFL works on franchises Baltimore were treated as a new franchise and the Browns franchise was suspended. It's like if your local McDonalds closed down and the owner and all the staff go to work in a McDonalds in another town. Despite the fact it's the same people the one in the new town is treated as a new McDonalds, and it isn't 'your' McDonalds any more. 'Your' McDonalds stands empty until a new franchisee takes over and reactivates it. That's what happened with Cleveland.

You can argue that that's just paperwork, but it's important. Any sports club is its fans, not the bits of paper.

 

[One Teddy Maybank]

No. As the NFL works on franchises Baltimore were treated as a new franchise and the Browns franchise was suspended. It's like if your local McDonalds closed down and the owner and all the staff go to work in a McDonalds in another town. Despite the fact it's the same people the one in the new town is treated as a new McDonalds, and it isn't 'your' McDonalds any more. 'Your' McDonalds stands empty until a new franchisee takes over and reactivates it. That's what happened with Cleveland.

You can argue that that's just paperwork, but it's important. Any sports club is its fans, not the bits of paper.

This.