2013 Team Retrospective: The Cleveland Browns

The Bills make us chuckle. The Raiders make us giggle. The Jaguars make us snigger, and the Titans make us go, “Who?” (Seriously, I never remember the Titans). But if you want the big laugh, the guffaw, the penultimate death-by-laughter effect, go no further than the Cleveland Browns. In a league full of bottom-dwelling joke teams, the Browns are the ones who bring the house down.

This season was no different. The Factory of Sadness played host to some lowlights and some lower lights this year, with glimmers of hope being dashed by metric tons of shit-soaked reality. At one time they were near the division lead, and it was later than Week 1. Then it all fell apart and they ended the season on seven straight losses.

But it turned out the regular season was just the opening act in this comedy of ineptitude. The real headliner would be the front office shuffle that had a first-year coach fired, a month-long coaching search being rejected by anyone with a lick of sense, and finally the general manager and CEO left the team, because they couldn’t stand the smell of the shitstorm they created. The Browns, like they have over the past several years, stands at a crossroads with no map, where most if not all paths lead to certain doom. Hopefully they packed a towel.

This is the Cleveland Browns retrospective.