Let's start with the pain and suffering of the Cleveland Browns, a very historic team rich with culture and football legends such as; Jim Brown, and Bernie Kosar, and future legends Joe Thomas, and Joe Haden. The last time the Browns won a championship was 1964, since then it's been nothing but pain from there, in 1988 Earnest Byner had the infamous "Fumble", in 1996 the late Art Modell relocated us to Baltimore (who has since won two rings), yeah sure we came back in 1999 but it's been down hill from there, it's very sad when the only good thing we have going in football is the Ohio State Buckeyes (2014 Champs), are you feeling sorry for us yet?
Baseball in Cleveland was on fire in the 90's, and it has been proven that if they put a good product on the field fan will show up, but we hear all the time that the Indians don't have money to spend. I can remember the great teams we had at one point with Bartolo Colon, C.C Sabathiea, Kenny Lofton, Omar Vizquel, Jim Thome, and Manny Ramirez, but just like the Browns the Indians are known for a infamous moment. In 1997 the Cleveland Indians made to the World Series in which we faced a team from Florida who was just in their fifth year of being a MLB team, going into the seventh game of the series Cleveland was up 2-1 going into the ninth inning, we sent out our closer Jose Mesa and he blew the game, giving up a run in the ninth sending the game into extras and we ended up losing the game. Talk about bad luck.
The Cleveland Cavaliers are a handful to deal with so let's start with the infamous shot, Michael Jordan tears our hearts away with a buzzard beating readjusted jump shot, sure he's the greatest of all time but this isn't about his greatness. So let's fast forward to 2003 where things are looking up and we draft Lebron James, and all is well right? No. In 2010 Lebron has the infamous "Decision" in tune to not 5, not 6, not 7. It felt like we had been stood up at prom, only Cleveland could lose a hometown star and the best player in the game at the time.
In closing I say isn't it time that Cleveland shines brighter than a ice sickle tree branch in the middle of January, can we as fans say it's our time, well fear not because the Browns finally have pieces in place and cash to spend, the Indians have a great coach with a Cy young winner, and MVP candidate, and as for the Cavaliers the king has returned home, so fans smile because we are about to turn infamous to famous.
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