We genuinely appreciate your time, effort, and kindness in publicizing our wish to bring a little bit of happiness to a child. Now, thanks to a man named Modell and a game called profit, Cleveland's heritage is being stripped away leaving fans of the Browns everywhere, in shock and dismay. Now, the fight truly begins. For those of you out there who haven't yet noticed, Clevelanders believe and believe and if you think we clapped and cheered during the victories, prepare yourself for the battles yet to come. Clevelanders never did and never will let go quietly.
Professional football is dead in Cleveland.
And it's never coming back, whether or not we ever see a new team. The league may not be be willing to admit it, but NFL football will never again be an institution in Northeast Ohio, the region where it all began. And the Browns will never achieve institutional status in Baltimore, an unfairly wounded and desperate city that irrationally thinks it's getting their Colts back. When the initial euphoria wears off and those people realize what they have paid to dearly for, the fizzle of the Browns' failure to captivate fans there will be audible. Art was smart to get his sellouts guaranteed up front.