Great Moments in Cleveland Sports History

Lifelong Browns and Cavs fan here. Occassional Indians fan (I really, really do not like baseball).

"We're not Detroit!" was hilarious. I also LOL'd at the guys they got to be the Cavs team, particularly Daugherty and Nance.

 

Try being a die hard Atlanta Falcons fan like me. We have never had back to back winning seasons and we have been around since the 1960's

 

What? Sura running short of cash?

(funny stuff BB)

 

I'm a charger's fan. 0 rings. 1 superbowl appearrance and we got blown out.


Now that we're good, we never live up to expectations because come playoff time, two of our best players are on IR (Merriman, LT) and we have the unfortunate matchup with the fututure superbowl champions, the steelers.

Sounds familiar? cough* rockets * cough

 

Weak sauce.

The Browns have only had 3 winning seasons since 1990. Not to mention having one of the most die hard fan bases in all of American sports only to LOSE YOUR DAMN FRANCHISE and then they go on to win a Super Bowl in their next town. We've had multiple #1 and 2 draft picks which have all busted. Needless to say, the Browns have never even been to a Super Bowl. I could go on and on.

 

Tim Couch, Courtney Brown

lulz.

My Raiders may be a laughing stock now, but at least we were consistently decent to good for a long time. Of course they haven't won a Super Bowl since I was born.


I mean Browns fan win. I could understand Saints fans possibly, but Cleveland is just a bad story. Those teams in the 80s were always among the best in the AFC and always found a way to muck it up when it counted.

Jeremiah Castille has got to be a name that invokes serious pain to this day. Probably even more so than Frank Reich to an Oilers fan.

I feel for ya brownies.

 

They could have asked me if Tim Couch was going to be a bust... I could have told them from his attitude.

If you don't have the gonads to work to get your degree, you don't have the gonads to work to keep your job.

Prof & Brooksball, I am sorry for the city of Cleveland's sport suckage.

If it makes you feel any better, Cincinnati hasn't been successful all that much recently either.

 

Thank you. Cleveland may never accomplish anything in this century...but I'll be damned if anyone tries to claim they've blown it harder than us.

One of my roommates at the time didn't really follow sports. He grew up in Miami. And he was an arrogant jackass in general. (First time my friends met him for all of one minute: 'He's an a-hole isn't he?')

We watch the World Series and suddenly he's a big Marlins fan, as if he had been cheering for them since he was born. He's laughing it up and literally pointing at me whenever something goes the Marlins way.

Heat fans telling me how great it was to see their team FINALLY win a championship in 2006.

And Magic fans two nights ago talking about how it's been so long since they've been in the finals.

GTFO.

 

Sounds like the Falcons except for you guys have had back to back winning seasons before.

 

http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-cavaliersplans&prov=ap&type=lgns
INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP)—Summer’s offseason arrived sooner than Cleveland general manager Danny Ferry had hoped, but it’s here.

And as he begins to evaluate the Cavaliers, a team that won 66 games in the regular season and 10 in the playoffs, Ferry will compare them to the NBA’s elite before reshaping the roster.

He’ll focus on two in particular: The Orlando Magic and Los Angeles Lakers.

They’re still playing. The Cavs aren’t.

“We’re going to have to look at who those top teams are and make some decisions based off that when we look at our roster,” Ferry said Monday. “That is part of the evaluation process that starts now and continues between now and next February (the NBA trading deadline).”

Still stinging from Cleveland’s loss to Orlando in a back-and-forth Eastern Conference finals, Ferry and coach Mike Brown met with the media to address the Cavs’ stellar season and its stunning conclusion, LeBron James’(notes) future and whether the MVP is a poor sport.

Sitting side-by-side in leather chairs inside the team’s practice facility, Ferry and Brown reflected on a season that ended short of the NBA finals.

“It’s extremely disappointing. It hurts,” Brown said. “You got a million thoughts running through your mind. You wish you would have done this, you wish you would have done that. But it didn’t happen, so now you try to regroup, refocus and take steps forward. At one point this summer, you’ve got to come back and revisit the series.”

Not yet.

Brown, who compulsively reviews video during the season, has yet to pop in the DVD of Game 6. He’s not quite ready to re-live the Dwight Howard(notes) dunkathon or see Orlando’s cadre of outside shooters drop one rainbow 3-pointer after another over Cleveland’s helpless defense.

“It’s a tough thing because we did not attain our goal,” Brown said. “We’ll get through it, and I’ll get passed it.”

In the meantime, he and Ferry will begin an extensive off-season review to figure out how to take the Cavaliers further next season.

One of the first priorities is James, who is expected to be offered a contract extension by the team as early as July 18. On Sunday, the All-Star was noncommittal when asked if he would sign the extension. He can also pick up a player option for the 2010-11 season.

Ferry, too, had little to offer about James’ impending contract status, something Cleveland fans are nervously keeping a close eye on.

“At the appropriate time will sit down with (agent) Leon Rose and LeBron, talk about our team, talk about the future, talk about his situation. Until that happens, I don’t want to talk too much about it. But at the appropriate time we’ll sit down. He knows he’s important to our franchise and to our organization and to Northeast Ohio.”

James has been widely criticized for walking off the floor after Game 6 in Orlando without shaking hands with Howard or any Magic players. He attributed it to his competitive nature, but that hasn’t stopped the backlash.

Ferry doesn’t think James acted inappropriately.

“I feel strongly that LeBron would never intentionally disrespect another NBA player,” he said. “It was a situation where he was pretty disappointed. We just loss a tough series. He has always conducted himself in a pretty high level both on the court and off the court.”


Cleveland Cavaliers head coach…

AP - Jun 1, 3:03 pm EDT
Aside from James, the Cavaliers will have other financial considerations this summer most notably with forward Anderson Varejao(notes), who may opt out of the final year of his three-year contract and become a free agent. The frizzy-haired Brazilian had a solid season, averaging career-highs in starts, points and field-goal percentage.

Varejao, who sat out a large chunk of the previous season in a contract dispute, said he wants to stay in Cleveland and the Cavaliers would like to keep him at the right price.

“Anderson is someone who had a very good year,” Ferry said. “He worked very hard coming into this year, his body was in great physical shape. We want him on our team next year.”

The Cavaliers will have to make other decisions on forwards Wally Szczerbiak(notes) and Joe Smith(notes), both unrestricted free agents.

Forward/center Ben Wallace(notes) may retire to finish his college degree and perhaps pursue a law degree. If the 14-year veteran does quit, the Cavs could save $14 million he is due next season. Ferry said he has not spoken to Wallace and probably will not for several weeks.

“I think it’s probably best to give it a little time,” Ferry said.

Time will help the Cavaliers overcome the pain of coming up short. Next, will be figuring out how to catch up with Orlando and Los Angeles, which went a combined 8-3 against Cleveland.

“Clearly, there is room for growth,” Ferry said. “I don’t know how many games we’ll win next year. There’s no guarantee as to what’s in front of us. I think we’ll find ways to get better. I don’t know how that will manifest itself. There will be ways we can find that we can make ourselves a a better team.”

 

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