Chapter 1 Your Team Never Had a Chance It was a fall Sunday and I had no understanding of football.
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This led to a variety of poor decisions that haunt the franchise to this day.
The NFL hamstrung the new Browns from the beginning, and for very selfish reasons.
That should come as no surprise.
What has been the return on their investment? What have fans, who bought every ticket for every game since the Browns came back in 1999, received as a reward? Heartaches, headaches and frustration.
It\'s the story of how some of the best football fans in the country Were betrayed, abused, and finally stuck with an inferior product--but charged more for it. (Can anyone say Personal Seat License without reaching for the Tums?) This is the book the NFL really doesn\'t want you to read.
Money for Modell, and money for his lodge brothers in the NFL owners boxes.
Never forget that.
It was all about money.
And if it\'s unfair to the fans, so what? They\'ll just put an expansion team in there and make even more money in the process.
But Modell was one of the boys, a veteran owner, and the league loves to take care of its own.
And Modell never should have even considered moving the team when he had the perfect buyer sitting right next to him in his suite on game day--a man named Al Lerner.
The NFL never should have allowed Art Modell to hijack the franchise to Baltimore.
Browns fans need to know that about the reincarnated franchise that returned to the National Football League in 1999.
Zimmer Your team never had a chance. --Martin T.
Win or lose, they are always our Cleveland Browns.
Bill Nelsen to Paul Warfield over the middle. . .
His throwing me the football in our backyard while saying, Frank Ryan hits Gary Collins with the touchdown pass .
Our lying crossways across his bed listening to the Browns win the 1964 championship over the Baltimore Colts.
I will always have memories of us and our Browns.
My dad passed away when I was a high school senior. . . .
I was hooked.
From there, my dad told me about Jim Brown and the Cleveland Browns.
I asked my dad, How does he do that? My dad said, He keeps moving his legs. 32 running and several opposing players bounced off him as he carried the football.
I vividly remember watching a player with No.
I was ready to run back outside when he almost begged me to watch the game with him.
He was in his sofa chair, watching the game on our Sylvania black and white TV.
I remember running into the house to ask my dad a question.
Chapter 1 Your Team Never Had a Chance It was a fall Sunday and I had no understanding of football
