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I much prefer the old Browns to the new version. We lost our team and the fans somehow lost 20 football IQ points in the process.

The Browns weren't team futility before they moved to Baltimore. In the Super Bowl era through the move in 1995, they made the playoffs in '67, '68, '69, '71, '72, '80, '82, '85, '86, '87, '88, '89, and '94., and they only had nine losing seasons in that span. They made the conference championship game in '68, '69, '86, '87, and '89. Point being, the Browns are not a good example of being awful forever before they achieved "crapping the bed" level. They'd been crapping the bed all along which might be even worse.

Or the Ravens.

For those old enough... This is not a knock against you or your point, but why is it that we automatically give young people a pass on not knowing sports history? It wouldn't kill them to learn that Houston had a much worse collapse in the 1992 playoffs than the Lions did yesterday. Or that the Browns existed and were breaking the hearts of their fans in the playoffs well before 1999. If we make a reference that was "before their time" they can look it up and learn something. This concludes my get off my lawn speech.

Went into the weekend 10-0 in playoff picks. Thanks to the Lions, I'm now 11-1.

Red Right 88, the Drive, and the Fumble have entered the chat.

That's like being an Ohio State fan and a Michigan fan.

Hope is a cruel mistress.

Lions second half highlights...

The issue I have with Campbell going for it on 4th down is he didn't need to do it with a 24-10 lead. This isn't week seven against the Vikings. You're playing in the NFC Championship game, take every point you can get. Especially when you have a 14 point lead.

Accurate.

The clock has struck midnight and the Lions are the Lions again.

Accurate assessment.

I'm a Browns fan. The answer is yes.

So they've lost 11 and won 7 so far? Wow.

Agreed. You have to take the points off a turnover.

I hate old Scooby-Doo reruns. The ones with the Harlem Globetrotters are OK, but the rest of them.

You can say whatever you'd like to me in response. I don't let my personal feelings influence my mod duties.

Pull that giant stick out of your ass and Google goofing around. And change your username to "I care way more than I should" while you're it

Oh, for 's sake, are you really going to the mats over a joke post?

I'm probably ruining my 10-0 start with these picks, but I gotta follow my gut. Kansas City vs. Baltimore Detroit vs. San Francisco

Probably something like this. Plain ol' street hooker... $10,000 call girl...

Exactly. People are high on McCarthy because the media loves his "grit" (whatever the that means) and his coach pimped him like he was a $10,000 a night call girl. He was a good QB in the B1G, but I didn't see a thing from him that makes me believe he'd be a good QB in the NFL. He's a more annoying and better marketed Brian Griese.

List of successful NFL QBs who played at Michigan. 1. Tom Brady That's it. That's the list. Draft McCarthy at your own peril. I could see maybe taking a flyer on him in rounds 5-7, but anything before that is a wasted pick.