Rock Bottom

Browns Film Breakdown

Bleav

Cleveland, Browns, Football, Nfl Draft, Nfl Team, Sports, Nfl

4.8 • 553 Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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0-16. A Loser's Parade. A coach jumping into Lake Erie. In 2017 the Cleveland Browns winless season capped off the worst two-season record in NFL history. In a league designed for parity, how did this once-proud franchise end up so bad for so long? Most stories are told from beginning to end, but the story of the Browns' 20 years of football has to start here: Rock Bottom. Get Ready for Brownstown Live! Calling all Browns fans! In honor of Brownstown, Blue Wire is hosting a party by Browns fans FOR browns fans. Join host @AndreKnott and guests Josh Cribbs, Zak Jackson and go inside the unbelievable, and often hilarious, story of how the Browns stayed bad while a city and fanbase loved them anyways. Grab your tickets here! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you can hear this, the Browns suck.
0:21.8	I hate the Browns so goddamn much. You are a factory of sadness. I'm fucking tired. I'm fucking losing. Now hear me out. I'm Andre now. I was born and raised in Northeast Ohio. I was a pretty good athlete in high school. I ran the football for St. Vincent's St. Mary. Some people say I'm the second best athlete to come out of there.
0:29.7	St. Vincent, St. Mary, led by LeBron James. Like most people from Northeast Ohio, I grew up a diehard Browns fan.
0:35.7	I know everyone says they love the team where they're from. But in Cleveland, it's just different.
0:37.7	Football was founded in Ohio.
0:40.6	Ohio is the fucking bedrock of the game.
0:44.1	Canton, Ohio, pro football was born here in 1920.
0:47.6	That's why it's been so painful for the last 20 years.
0:52.1	The Cleveland Browns have been the worst goddamn professional sports team in America.
0:55.2	Here we go, Brownies! Here we go!
0:55.5	Woo!
0:59.4	In the 50s and 60s, the Browns were the model franchise.
1:03.1	The Cleveland Browns are the champions of all professional football.
1:04.6	They were legends.
1:09.1	Jim Brown, Auto Graham, the namesake, Paul Brown.
1:13.1	How in God's Green Earth did the Browns stay this bad for this long?
1:15.0	The NFL is designed for parody.
1:19.2	The bad teams are given the best chance to get better through the draft and scheduling.
1:24.7	And yet, the Browns have been a monumental dumpster fire year after year after year.
1:27.7	And through it all, the Browns fans stayed.
1:29.6	We Brown fans are nuts.
1:35.8	I will see you all right here when the Cleveland Browns win the Super Bowl.
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