Browns running back Jamal Lewis doesn't agree with the plan of two longtime season ticket holders for the Nov. 16 Monday night home game against Baltimore. Mike Randall of Massillon and Tony Schafer of Sandusky want fans to wait until after kickoff to go to their seats in protest over the state of the franchise and owner Randy Lerner's unwillingness to talk on camera.
"The great thing about Browns fans was that they were going to be there regardless," Lewis said Wednesday. "And that's being an opposing team coming in here that the fans would
be cursing you out no matter what, no matter what the record was and that was how it was going to be. That's what I expected with this team.
"And now the talk that I hear about the fans not coming to the game and doing all this, you should just take a step back and look. We might have a lockout here soon in the future and there's not going to be some football probably, who knows? So as a fan you need to take advantage of the time we have right now with this team and
just know that in the future it's going to be all right. I was just thinking about that last night. I know you all write everything, so hopeful you write that."
When it was suggested that Randall and Schafer are not advocating that fans stay home, Lewis said, "What is that going to do? They should just know that one day there might not be a game going on when it's supposed to be, so enjoy it now and take
advantage of it. You never know what you might miss."
Jamal, you are a great, tough player at the end of his career, and to go out with a team like this is a very sad way to end a career. But to warn of a lockout ! The Browns should get on their knees and pray for anything that stops play. As for missing football, NFL caliber football
has been missing for a long time concerning a team calling itself the Cleveland Browns.
What a stupid idea to have a sit out at kickoff when the best part of the team is playing. Isn't our Special teams one of the bright spots, if not the only one for our team?
Go to the game, get there early, stay in your seats, and scream like crazy! And protest this moronic boycott, because real fans don't miss kickoff. – http://www.realfansdontmisskickoff.com
i'm afraid you just don't get it
no one is missing anything – everyone will be at the game, everyone will see the kickoff, everyone will still root for the Browns, but it is a brilliant way to humiliate ownership without ceasing support for the team.
it's a harmless, yet effective way of sending a message – not one to the fan base, the players, NFL fans or anyone else that doesn't deserve a quick slap upside the head.
I think it's ironic that these two morons want people to wait a minute before sitting in their paid seats. Frankly, based upon the nonsense I've been reading from these two clowns, that Monday Night game is very likely one of the few times they'd actually have a reason to leave the house.
Yea this protest is silly. What is it going to accomplish anyways except further the embarrassment Cleveland already suffers nationally. Dawg Pound Mike is an attention freak who absolutely does not represent Browns fans as a whole. He must be stopped. PLEASE ESPN DO NOT PROMOTE THIS THING ANYMORE.
"They should just know that one day there might not be a game going on when it's supposed to be, so enjoy it now and take advantage of it. You never know what you might miss."
Oh, You mean like when Cleveland got the shaft from the NFL and Modell from 96-98. Been there, done that idiot. And no Jamal, I'm not going to enjoy and take advantage of this team fumbling, dropping balls, missing tackles, throwing interceptions, making excuses, not blocking, drafting subpar players, picking up and trading for over the hill Jets that Rex Ryan doesn't want. Win some games, then fans will stop b@%^&**$!!!!! Besides just because there is a game going on doesn't mean we should be happy to watch a crappy game.
As for the protest, who cares. If you want to do it, then do it. If not, go in a sit down.
Here's the perfect way to fill the seats for the next Browns game: fly in the Ravens Cheerleaders!
http://thetodaynews.com/blog/2009/11/05/cheerleaders-a-full-browns-stadium/
That'll work for me!
Who cares what Jamal thinks.
In honor of Jamal I think all fans should stutter step just before sitting down.
"… and there's not going to be some football probably, who knows?"
There hasn't been good football in Cleveland since the 1980's.
No football? Who cares?
Cavs. Many college games. Many restaurants who don't charge $6.00 for a beer. Golf. Church. Plenty of things to do on a Sunday… other than pouring our money into the cesspool that is the collection of dollar-grubbing mercenaries known as the Cleveland Browns.
Give us a good product. Give us a guarantee. Charge us $100 per ticket, and establish a sliding scale that refunds a portion of that $100 for games which are lost. Team goes 8-8? Refund $50. Team goes 1-15? Refund is $93.75. Team goes 16-0? No refund.
When I attend a movie, I know that I'll be entertained and receive good value for my money. What better reason could there be to reallocate our entertainment spend???
and the fans don't like lewis. i'm tired of hearing what a professional he is and how terrible it is that he said he's going to retire after this year. even if he is a consummate teammate, his tippy toes 2 yard per run does nothing to excite the fan base. let the fans boycott if they want, this team certainly has given us nothing except increased anticipation of the cavs this year. and if jamal is that unhappy about it, he can go back to brokering drug deals for his friends.
He's making $5.8 million *plus* his incentive pay for this season. To work 16 meaningful days in a 365-day calendar year for performance that doesn't warrant anything close to that kind of pay. Why in the world does he deserve any kudos for being a "professional?"
Hypothetically, if Lewis had been cut prior to receiving his $3.5 million roster bonus in March, I wonder just how "professional" he'd now be in relation to what he has to say about the Cleveland Browns. I sense he'd be perceived by the very same Northeast Ohio sports media as being a lot less than "professional." Just a guess.
Also, why hasn't anybody pointed out the fact that one of these two goofs, in their meeting with Lerner, actually tried to get himself hired by the Browns as their new marketing maven. Is that the very definition of chutzpah, or what?
Finally, who writes the headlines for these blog posts? Is it really a "boycott?" What kind of "boycott" entails folks still buying and paying full price for the product they purportedly are "boycotting?"
I think I'm going to boycott that McDonald's franchise at the corner. Instead of paying full price for the Big Mac at 1:00 PM, I think I'm going to pay full price for the Big Mac at 1:05 PM. That will teach them not to cheat me on the quality of the pickle slices.
Everything that has been said about the Browns has been said it seems. It is now rebuilding the team one player at a time.
The amount of noise regarding the Browns has become boring.