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Scathing Online Schoolmarm doesn’t know what to say.
George Orwell wasn’t referring to the 2012 [Cleveland] Browns when he wrote that progress is “slow and invariably painful.”
Orwell died in 1950. The Browns were good back then.
But the great writer’s words sure do apply to a franchise whose fits have far outnumbered its starts since it returned from NFL exile in 1999.
Watching the Browns’ attempts at improvement have been painful. Painful like gout, if gout also came with the flu, a bad rash and a nasty hangover.
There’s been nothing particularly not painful about it, not the turnstile of failed coaches, not the heap of discarded quarterbacks, not a soccer-crazed owner.
October 2nd, 2012 at 7:46AM
I am so thrilled to see anyone quoting Orwell that I will take anything from that writer. Wonderful, wonderful.
October 2nd, 2012 at 10:54AM
Hard to muster even two cheers for this team.