Any ranking of owners that does not have Bill Ford at the bottom is patently ridiculous. Silver has never had the Lions ranked lower than third.

Dan Rooney has never, I don't think, ranked first– usually he's behind Jerry Jones and often Dan Snyder. Jim Irsay finishes ridiculously low, given his track record. And Wayne Weaver– not great shakes, but not terrible– is always near the bottom because Silver hates him.

But, except for the Bears, he nailed the pits this time. Make a list of the guys who have had the worst records, behaved irrationally things, done the most to embarass the franchise and the lest to reward the fans and the worst in the league are Al Davis, Mike Brown, Bill Ford, Randy Lerner and the Rosenblooms. One guy who's gone senile; four who've inherited their dough, and might be asking "Would you like fires with that, sir?" if they hadn't.

I'll give Randy credit on two small counts. I'm convinced that he doesn't care about the NFL at all– that he's just holding onto the team because he thinks its what his dad would have wanted him to do. But he has done a really good job with the sport he cares about, so he has some skill.

And he does hold down prices (for an NFL team, the Browns are a bargain) and he does spend money to the degree it is allowed.

It's a shame that he and Larry Dolan can't trade franchises– give the guy who's got a limited budget and good intentions the structure of the salary cap and revenue sharing, and the one with megabucks the team in the sport where money can buy happiness.

Do that and you might have three championship-quality teams, rather than one.