Comments on: First and 10: The season (finally) ends in Pittsburgh

By: alan t.

alan t. — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 22:31:45 +0000

I guess Cleveland's school kids don't get cancer. Not for another 30 to 40 years, anyways.

I always have a philosophically difficult time with the wealthy who give with one hand, and yet take with the other. On one hand what they do is noble, on the other hand what they do is disgraceful. It's also always tough for me to reconcile the hand that gives, but makes it a point or a condition that others know the name that was attached to the hand. A donation is every bit as tax-deductible if it is made anonymously. Those are the purest philanthropists.

By: larry d.

larry d. — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 18:42:45 +0000

Good point, terje. You can see Pat really took alan's post to heart.

By: terje

terje — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 16:07:18 +0000

man, it was pretty hard reading pat's article today after the one alan posted the other day about how much money the browns avoid paying in taxes. it seems that the browns aren't even close to squaring up on the good/bad chart. a city crumbling around a terrible football team hardly seems like a charitable act.

By: larry d.

larry d. — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:41:54 +0000

When are we going to get the inside dope on the time Windhorst slugged Betty the Ohio Travel Lady near Sheldon Ocker's cubicle. I heard she had slandered Pluto somehow but haven't got the full story yet.

By: EastSideJoe

EastSideJoe — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:02:29 +0000

I'm down with alan t. I don't think we will see Romeo et al stocking shelves at WalMart after the season ends. 0-8 against Pittsburgh is good enough for me. Imagine 0-8 against Michigan for an OSU coach. You'd end up at Iowa State or something. At least you still have a job.

No time to gamble on young coaches. Get the real deal.

By: alan t.

alan t. — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 02:33:06 +0000

I don't know about Josh McDaniels. The guy is almost young enough to be my son, and he's never been a head coach anywhere, pros, college, nowhere. I suppose he could be a good pro head coach, but when any organization is in disarray, it seems to be wiser to play the odds and get somebody with experience and success in putting Humpty Dumpty back together again.

By: Ron B

Ron B — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:35:03 +0000

No offense but how can you say that Brian Billick would be an excellent choice? One of the reasons that Billick was fired in Baltimore was because the inmates were running the asylum? So you want to replace a coach that has given his players a free run on this team, with a coach that got fired because he couldn't rein in the players on the team that fired him?

Please say you're not serious…

RAC should have been fired the day before Frye was sent packing after the Steeler opener in '07, (if you can't get your team up for your home opener against a team that's supposed to be your #1 rival? Then, you're in way over your head).

But having said that, as much as I dread the possibility or even the thought of it, I'd keep RAC, before I'd EVER take Billick, because the only difference between the two of them is that Brian as a much bigger ego and line of BS on him than RAC ever had.

By: alan t.

alan t. — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 23:21:43 +0000

Was that correct English? I think I meant Crennel is in the small minority of Americans who have a written contract with a term of years, not in the vast minority of Americans. Oh, who cares. All I know is that people shouldn't try to light their ass hair on fire when it's below 32 degrees Fahrenheit, and somebody should have had the courtesy to warn me.

By: alan t.

alan t. — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:24:26 +0000

Unlike an unemployed guy like me who's collecting $365 a week for 26 weeks, or for 39 weeks if this emergency fed thing pans out, I really don't feel sorry for folks like Crennel. Unlike NFL players, his contract is guaranteed. Indeed, he's in the vast minority of Americans, as he has a written contract with a term of years. Other Americans are just employees-at-will, here today, gone tomorrow, see ya, loser, and enjoy your life with no health insurance. So theoretically, this guy can sit around the house for the next few years staring at his wife muttering to herself while she vacuums the floor while he munches on bags of Cheetos, and he'll get paid far more with one lousy check than I'll ever get paid during my entire unemployment nightmare combined.

Nah, I'm not the least bit jealous. Now excuse me while I go light my ass hair on fire and jump off my roof.

By: Ron

Ron — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:22:09 +0000

Pat, I just hope the Browns get a hard nosed coach. We certainly do not need to try out another coach with no head coaching experience. We need someone man enough to get in these guys faces when they are not doing their job. Someone man enough to set down the superstars and least the superstars in their own minds, who do not perform. The Browns players need to grow up and be professionals week in and week out, in spite of the record. Losing to Cincinnati the way they did is unacceptable to everyone associated with the Browns and should be an embarrassment to the coaches and players, period.