Week 16: Baltimore Ravens (10-4) @ Cleveland Browns (5-9)

• like_that

  

  bigdaddy2003;609527 wrote:I don't need to know the history of why Modell left Cleveland to be a Raven's fan.

  
  Well, don't be so ignorant until you learn about all the events that led to the move.
• bigdaddy2003

  

  like_that;609529 wrote:Well, don't be so ignorant until you learn about all the events that led to the move.

  
  I don't think I was being ignorant chief. I'm just not a home town team fan and I never knew exactly why he left.
• Non

  

  Uh oh bad blood
  
  Browns need to show them who the real Browns are
• justincredible

  

  ytownfootball;609528 wrote:No...it just wasn't going to be as soon as he wanted. He was seeing how well things were being run in the Indians organization and was jealous as hell. He loaded buses in the middle of the night and pulled out at dawn, no warning, bitch move.

  
  Just like with officiating, things even out. Indy screwed over baltimore and baltimore screwed over cleveland. Eventually cleveland will screw over indy.
• Ironman92

  

  GO BROWNS!!!!
  
  ....but also McCoy needs sacked 10X and Hillis needs about 54 carries and 10 receptions deep into OT
• Non

  

  McCoy showed me at the end of the Cincinnati game that he's going to compete until the end this season and try to be a leader. The defense couldn't get the ball back.
  
  Browns need a receiver or tight end to help him out this week and make some big catches if they're going to hang around.
• Writerbuckeye

  

  If you're going to root for a team whose mascot lives off the rotting bodies of the dead, you should know that the guy who took the team to Baltimore was such a bad businessman -- he had to be bailed out financially twice.
  
  Once in the original bribery to get the team to Baltimore, and then again when he fucked up the finances so bad he had to sell all but a very small percentage of it so it wouldn't end up in bankruptcy. Modell hated doing that; he had wanted to leave the team to his drug-addled son.
  
  Now, he's wasting away in a wheelchair and pretty much blind, by all accounts. As Browns fans, we patiently wait the day he dies so we can hold a party to remember what a lying scumbag he was, and celebrate the fact that the Earth is much better off without him.
  
  My hope is that, someday, I can visit his gravesite in (I assume) Maryland. I'll make sure to eat lots of asparagus that day, right before I piss on his gravestone.
• Murdski99

  

  Writerbuckeye;609668 wrote:If you're going to root for a team whose mascot lives off the rotting bodies of the dead, you should know that the guy who took the team to Baltimore was such a bad businessman -- he had to be bailed out financially twice.
  
  Once in the original bribery to get the team to Baltimore, and then again when he fucked up the finances so bad he had to sell all but a very small percentage of it so it wouldn't end up in bankruptcy. Modell hated doing that; he had wanted to leave the team to his drug-addled son.
  
  Now, he's wasting away in a wheelchair and pretty much blind, by all accounts. As Browns fans, we patiently wait the day he dies so we can hold a party to remember what a lying scumbag he was, and celebrate the fact that the Earth is much better off without him.
  
  My hope is that, someday, I can visit his gravesite in (I assume) Maryland. I'll make sure to eat lots of asparagus that day, right before I piss on his gravestone.

  
  
• Commander of Awesome

  

  Writerbuckeye;609668 wrote:If you're going to root for a team whose mascot lives off the rotting bodies of the dead, you should know that the guy who took the team to Baltimore was such a bad businessman -- he had to be bailed out financially twice.
  
  Once in the original bribery to get the team to Baltimore, and then again when he fucked up the finances so bad he had to sell all but a very small percentage of it so it wouldn't end up in bankruptcy. Modell hated doing that; he had wanted to leave the team to his drug-addled son.
  
  Now, he's wasting away in a wheelchair and pretty much blind, by all accounts. As Browns fans, we patiently wait the day he dies so we can hold a party to remember what a lying scumbag he was, and celebrate the fact that the Earth is much better off without him.
  
  My hope is that, someday, I can visit his gravesite in (I assume) Maryland. I'll make sure to eat lots of asparagus that day, right before I piss on his gravestone.

  
  Pwned.
• I Wear Pants

  Writerbuckeye;609668 wrote:If you're going to root for a team whose mascot lives off the rotting bodies of the dead, you should know that the guy who took the team to Baltimore was such a bad businessman -- he had to be bailed out financially twice.
  
  Once in the original bribery to get the team to Baltimore, and then again when he fucked up the finances so bad he had to sell all but a very small percentage of it so it wouldn't end up in bankruptcy. Modell hated doing that; he had wanted to leave the team to his drug-addled son.
  
  Now, he's wasting away in a wheelchair and pretty much blind, by all accounts. As Browns fans, we patiently wait the day he dies so we can hold a party to remember what a lying scumbag he was, and celebrate the fact that the Earth is much better off without him.
  
  My hope is that, someday, I can visit his gravesite in (I assume) Maryland. I'll make sure to eat lots of asparagus that day, right before I piss on his gravestone.

  But how do you really feel?
• GoChiefs

  

  bigdaddy2003;609513 wrote:Could you inform me of why Modell left in the first place?

  
  I'm guessing it's b/c once he was banned to the basement, he had his avatar changed to Peyton Hillis. Now he's sitting in a corner at home in the fetal positition, helpless, not knowing how to express his dislike for Cleveland.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  GoChiefs;609821 wrote:I'm guessing it's b/c once he was banned to the basement, he had his avatar changed to Peyton Hillis. Now he's sitting in a corner at home in the fetal positition, helpless, not knowing how to express his dislike for Cleveland.

  
  I think this applies here as well.
  
  
• bigdaddy2003

  

  I think I may still buy tickets and head up to the game.
• Non

  

  They'll be giving them away.
• Ironman92

  

  I'm sure every fan is knowledgable of their owner.....no way can you be a loyal fan and not know all branches of the owner's tree.
• bigdaddy2003

  

  I know a decent amount about the current owner. Never knew much about Modell because I was young and wasn't that interested in pro football.
• Ironman92

  

  It's critical to fanhood.
  
  
  You are this close to being fanhood basement material.
• Commander of Awesome

  

  bigdaddy2003;609905 wrote:I think I may still buy tickets and head up to the game.

  
  I was thinking about heading to the game as well, but my schedule isn't going to work out.
• bigdaddy2003

  

  Ironman92;609958 wrote:It's critical to fanhood.
  
  
  You are this close to being fanhood basement material.

  Say what?
• Ironman92

  

  what
• bigdaddy2003

  

  Ironman92;609968 wrote:what

  
  So you are saying because I don't know a lot about Modell I'm not a credible Ravens fan?
• Ironman92

  

  Oh...I'm typing it on here but I'm sarcastic as hell and in a way defending you. God forbid you not being 20 years old when Modell moved them.
  
  Aren't too many Indy Colts fans really worried about why they left Baltimore 30ish years ago.....they just root for the Colts.
  
  I guess for it to come full cycle the Colts will be uprooted and moved to Cleveland and maybe the current Browns team could combine with them or maybe just join the Big Ten Legends.
• bigdaddy2003

  

  I admit I need to read up on the whole situation but for the Browns fans to call me ignorant is stupid. I could care less about the whole situation. I get why Brown's fans would be mad at the guy but he isn't even the owner anymore so it doesn't mean anything to me. I know a decent amount about the current owner and I know a lot about the team. That is what matters to me.
• Non

  

  if the Browns take the Colts that will probably mean they'll start sucking
  
  so I'm all for it
  
  two teams in that crummy city, though?
• ytownfootball

  

  bigdaddy2003;609981 wrote:I admit I need to read up on the whole situation but for the Browns fans to call me ignorant is stupid.

  
  Don't be too offended, ignorance of the whole story is in fact ignorant. Not ignorant being a jerk, ignorant I just don't know. No big deal.