Cleveland Browns: Freddie’s t-shirt causes mockery
By Joel W. Cade
The Cleveland Browns lost 13-20 to the Pittsburgh Steelers. Then the inevitable happened, someone decided to mock the Browns over Freddie Kitchens’ t-shirt.
The Cleveland Browns pulled off another classic of the Freddie Kitchens’ era. The entire week was spent talking up a big game. Head coach Freddie Kitchens’ even wore a t-shirt that read “Pittsburgh Started It”.
Of course, the Browns go out an lose the game. Freddie makes some terrible clock management mistakes that seriously hurt the team.
Then team looks like it quit the game for a while. In all, the Browns do what they do best under Freddie – promise a lot, deliver very little.
Inevitably somebody decided it would be funny to make a joke about Freddie’s derogatory t-shirt. Who can blame them really? It just seemed so obvious that the only question was who would get to it first.
The answer? Josh Alper writing for Pro Football Talk on NBSports.com.
As Browns fans know Freddie got the t-shirt as a gag gift from his daughter. As a good parent he wore it. But he didn’t have to double down later in the post game press conference that he would wear it again.
Gotta love Freddie. He goes out an gets his butt handed to him and then continues to talk smack at the team who did it. There is a fine line between ignorance and arrogance. Safe to say that Freddie is breaking through that line like the cool aid man. Oh Yeah!
Of course Josh Alper has to make the obvious point. He states,
"“Some in Pittsburgh might decided to send an alternate shirt to Kitchens. It could read ‘Pittsburgh ended it’ in a nod to what Sunday’s loss means to the Browns’ playoff hopes.”"
Yes. Pittsburgh started it and, with the help of Freddie’s poor clock management, they ended it as well. Congratulation Josh! You got that joke out there first.
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Maybe Freddie’s daughter can get him Homer Smith’s The Complete Handbook of Clock Management. If unavailable a good fallback is John T. Reed’s Football Clock Management. That would be something worth Freddie doubling down on.