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Cleveland Browns: Three offseason fan types – which are you?

By Mike Lukas

CLEVELAND, OH - DECEMBER 17: Browns fans seen at the end of the game against the Baltimore Ravens. The Baltimore Ravens won 27 to 10 at FirstEnergy Stadium on December 17, 2017 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images)
CLEVELAND, OH - DECEMBER 17: Browns fans seen at the end of the game against the Baltimore Ravens. The Baltimore Ravens won 27 to 10 at FirstEnergy Stadium on December 17, 2017 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images) /
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CLEVELAND, OH – DECEMBER 17: Browns fans seen at the end of the game against the Baltimore Ravens. The Baltimore Ravens won 27 to 10 at FirstEnergy Stadium on December 17, 2017 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images)
CLEVELAND, OH – DECEMBER 17: Browns fans seen at the end of the game against the Baltimore Ravens. The Baltimore Ravens won 27 to 10 at FirstEnergy Stadium on December 17, 2017 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Jason Miller/Getty Images) /

Here comes the doubt kettle

But when we hang this Browns bucket-of-hope up on the fair scale of possibilities, its automatic counter-weight is the cask-of-all-doubts.

And the Browns’ cask-of-doubts is a doosie.

Every team has one, but Cleveland’s doubt-kettle is currently (for now) the bulkiest.

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It’s no fun to see what’s inside:

  • Zero wins last season and only one the season before;
  • Since 1999, the Browns have said things would be different next season every season and yet since then their record has been a dismal 88-216;
  • Since 1999, the Browns have only been to one playoff game;
  • Since 1999, the Browns have had a string of 24 failed quarterbacks;
  • Every year the Browns draft a stellar rookie quarterback, they fail to let him develop, start him too soon and he either gets injured or loses confidence;
  • The fans are so used to losing in the fourth quarter and witnessing each new head coach’s tired old bag of tricks that to believe it will be different next season is simply naive;
  • The Browns 2018 schedule is tied for the fifth toughest according to CBSSports.com;
  • And so on…

Geesh, this team’s got some serious baggage, Browns fans.

These two opposing forces (the bucket-of-hope and that cask-of-doubt) weigh against each other every offseason, and whichever bucket a Browns fan thinks is more  substantial affects their attitude towards the next season.

And which type of offseason Browns fan they become…

 

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