Westside Steve Posted February 15, 2019 Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 https://amp.si.com/nfl/2019/02/15/bill-belichick-firing-cleveland-browns-baltimore-ravens-art-modell-bernie-kosar#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From %1%24s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickers Posted February 15, 2019 Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 I already looked back.. Fuck Bill... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FairHooker11 Posted February 15, 2019 Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 The fans outside the practice facility, waving their anti-Belichick placards feverishly, wondered why Kosar fits in with Dallas but isn't good enough for the Browns. Belichick offered no answer. Instead, he wondered if the fans "spelled my name right." pretty good article - the 11-5 season ( 1 year or so before the announced move to Baltimore) wondering if Fart Modell even cared? then there is this BS the Belichick firing was now a baltimore decision Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob806 Posted February 15, 2019 Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 6 hours ago, nickers said: I already looked back.. Fuck Bill... Yeah, it's painful as hell. We fans that were around will never be able to erase the bitter taste of Modell and his shenanigans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion Posted February 15, 2019 Report Share Posted February 15, 2019 They moved away and THEN won a super bowl. The ultimate snub. We hated Bill because he cut Kosar....WHILE Testaverde was injured and thought might be out for the year. He inserted Todd Philcox. We watched Philcox play horribly (as expected) and lose while Bernie played the following sunday for Dallas....and won 2 of 3 games. We had a pretty good team. And it went into the sewer...while Kosar could've kept us afloat until Testaverde came back. - The cutting of Kosar was not in the best interest of the football team at that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canton Dawg Posted February 16, 2019 Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 Then we have ESPN spewing this annual nonsense once again. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted February 16, 2019 Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 2 hours ago, Orion said: They moved away and THEN won a super bowl. The ultimate snub. We hated Bill because he cut Kosar....WHILE Testaverde was injured and thought might be out for the year. He inserted Todd Philcox. We watched Philcox play horribly (as expected) and lose while Bernie played the following sunday for Dallas....and won 2 of 3 games. We had a pretty good team. And it went into the sewer...while Kosar could've kept us afloat until Testaverde came back. - The cutting of Kosar was not in the best interest of the football team at that time. Who moved away. The Browns never moved never ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted February 16, 2019 Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 1 hour ago, Canton Dawg said: Then we have ESPN spewing this annual nonsense once again. . . And technically I don’t think it was the Browns that fired Bill Belichick. It would’ve been the Baltimore franchise not the Cleveland franchise because he was still under that contract to Mod ell that got assigned to the new franchise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion Posted February 16, 2019 Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 1 hour ago, The Gipper said: Who moved away. The Browns never moved never ever. Technicalities mean nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoorta Posted February 16, 2019 Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 54 minutes ago, Orion said: Technicalities mean nothing. To guys like Trollie, who still claim the Ravens are the Browns... and Modell will still go down in history as the owner firing two HOF coaches... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted February 16, 2019 Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 6 hours ago, Orion said: Technicalities mean nothing. Except of course you win or lose On technicalities Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canton Dawg Posted February 16, 2019 Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 10 hours ago, The Gipper said: And technically I don’t think it was the Browns that fired Bill Belichick. It would’ve been the Baltimore franchise not the Cleveland franchise because he was still under that contract to Mod ell that got assigned to the new franchise Yep, the Browns franchise went away on February 9th, and 6 days later Baltimore fired him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutch Oven Posted February 16, 2019 Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 11 hours ago, The Gipper said: Who moved away. The Browns never moved never ever. Man, you've been extra Gipperish this week. Yes, the Browns moved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutch Oven Posted February 16, 2019 Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 8 hours ago, hoorta said: To guys like Trollie, who still claim the Ravens are the Browns... and Modell will still go down in history as the owner firing two HOF coaches... Here's the truth that Browns fans don't want to hear: Modell was right to fire both. There are quite a few Browns players on record that say the Browns would not have won the 1964 NFL Title with Paul Brown as head coach. And as great of a head coach Paul Brown was, Blanton Collier had the EXACT SAME WIN PERCENTAGE as head coach as Brown for the NFL Browns. (The AAFC years push Brown's win % way up). And Belichick himself said that he needed to be fired from the Browns/Ravens job if he ever wanted to become the head coach he is now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickers Posted February 16, 2019 Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 On 2/15/2019 at 10:20 AM, Westside Steve said: https://amp.si.com/nfl/2019/02/15/bill-belichick-firing-cleveland-browns-baltimore-ravens-art-modell-bernie-kosar#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&amp_tf=From %1%24s I read the piece... Bill was such an asshole while he was here... I remember vividly how I wanted to squeeze his throat and squeeze the living fuck out of his life!... I hate that mother fucker... call me bitter I guess.... EDIT: Seeing 'Metcalf up the middle' to no avail just infuriated me... It never worked... Then there was Steve Crosby.. a real piece of offensive genius..Complete buffoon... LOL!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted February 16, 2019 Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 2 hours ago, Dutch Oven said: Man, you've been extra Gipperish this week. Yes, the Browns moved. How much money you want to bet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted February 16, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 One of the first things Bill did after taking control of the Browns what is the cut back on the Press perks. Free food hanging out on the team bus or airplane etc etc. So you piss off sportswriters community and guess what happens to your coverage? WSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted February 16, 2019 Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 1 minute ago, Westside Steve said: One of the first things Bill did after taking control of the Browns what is the cut back on the Press perks. Free food hanging out on the team bus or airplane etc etc. So you piss off sportswriters community and guess what happens to your coverage? WSS So in other words he was a many and varied asshole Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Westside Steve Posted February 16, 2019 Author Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 4 hours ago, The Gipper said: So in other words he was a many and varied asshole Bernie Kosar was once a fine quarterback. So was Drew Bledsoe. WSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutch Oven Posted February 16, 2019 Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 3 hours ago, The Gipper said: How much money you want to bet Weird how every player on the 1995 Browns roster and every coach on the 1995 Browns were not in Cleveland for the 1996 NFL season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kvoethe Posted February 16, 2019 Report Share Posted February 16, 2019 This is like that thread looking back at the draft.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion Posted February 17, 2019 Report Share Posted February 17, 2019 6 hours ago, Dutch Oven said: Weird how every player on the 1995 Browns roster and every coach on the 1995 Browns were not in Cleveland for the 1996 NFL season. ......and then there are those that think the earth is flat....and we never landed on the moon....and the new Ravens were 'clones' of the Browns organization, while the originals were zapped into non existence by gamma rays. - The reality is, the Browns moved to Baltimore, and subsequently were told to paint themselves purple and call themselves something other than the Browns. (ok, I lied. they weren't told to paint themselves purple...they chose to paint themselves purple) - Then we got a stadium, so we could have a team, and so we could select all special teamers in the plan B expansion draft. We came back into the league as dummies and remained that way until a blind squirrel finally found John Dorsey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted February 17, 2019 Report Share Posted February 17, 2019 7 hours ago, Dutch Oven said: Weird how every player on the 1995 Browns roster and every coach on the 1995 Browns were not in Cleveland for the 1996 NFL season. I didn’t think I would have to educate someone like you like you were stupid Steeler fan. Do I really have to after 25 years now educate our own people. Those players had their contracts assigned to the new Baltimore franchise. The Cleveland franchise never left the Cleveland Browns never left. Now you owe me lunch at Al’s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D Bone Posted February 17, 2019 Report Share Posted February 17, 2019 14 hours ago, Dutch Oven said: Man, you've been extra Gipperish this week. Yes, the Browns moved. Don't even try..... He'll argue what the definition of is is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoorta Posted February 17, 2019 Report Share Posted February 17, 2019 11 hours ago, Dutch Oven said: Weird how every player on the 1995 Browns roster and every coach on the 1995 Browns were not in Cleveland for the 1996 NFL season. this time, I'll defend Gipper. as of X date- those players & coaches ceased to be "Browns". 2 hours ago, D Bone said: Don't even try..... He'll argue what the definition of is is. It's FYI the difference between "players" and "franchise". The players moved to Baltimore, the Browns franchise did not. The Ravens were an expansion franchise, filled with former Browns players. If you need any more proof, go look it up on the HOF website... The 1999 Browns were the original Browns franchise, filled with expansion players. Got it? There's a f**king huge difference... If you still don't understand the difference, try to get this through your thick heads. When Irsay pulled the Colts out of Baltimore- everything went with them- including the records and colors. Johnny Unitas' records now reside in Indy. Where are the Browns colors and records? You say in Cleveland? Congrats... Because it's the same franchise. Hell's bells, we had to deal with Balitmoron trolls for 10 years with this crap, and now Cleveland fans still swallow uninformed media BS. It's the same as saying that Deshone Kizer was a former Brown, now he's a Green Bay Packer. Sheeze...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nero Posted February 17, 2019 Report Share Posted February 17, 2019 If a franchise at any particular moment is not defined by its players, the heck if I know what a franchise is. We get that the Browns history, name, etc did not move from Cleveland, but the whole team moved, so it should be reasonable to say that there was a "move". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dutch Oven Posted February 17, 2019 Report Share Posted February 17, 2019 2 hours ago, Nero said: If a franchise at any particular moment is not defined by its players, the heck if I know what a franchise is. We get that the Browns history, name, etc did not move from Cleveland, but the whole team moved, so it should be reasonable to say that there was a "move". It's just silly. A team full of players, coaches, office personnel, trainers were being rooted on by myself, hoorta and Gipper in 1995 in Cleveland. The next season, I, hoorta and Gipper WOULD HAVE been rooting for many of the same people but strangely, Cleveland Stadium was empty on Sundays. The team we would have been rooting for was now playing their home games in Baltimore's Memorial Stadium. Now, none of their feats in '96 had any impact on the records of the Cleveland Browns, but lets just stop pretending that the team didn't move, regardless of technical semantics. Steve Everett didn't get fined by the NFL because he wore a CLEVELAND BROWNS bandanna on game days in 1996 for no reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted February 17, 2019 Report Share Posted February 17, 2019 10 hours ago, D Bone said: Don't even try..... He'll argue what the definition of is is. And I would be right Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted February 17, 2019 Report Share Posted February 17, 2019 3 hours ago, Nero said: If a franchise at any particular moment is not defined by its players, the heck if I know what a franchise is. We get that the Browns history, name, etc did not move from Cleveland, but the whole team moved, so it should be reasonable to say that there was a "move". I will not go into it now because I’m on my phone not on my computer but this goes directly to what is a legal matter. For this you have to understand franchise law a bit contract law assigibility of contracts etc. Let’s just say this franchise is not its players. It’s more the fans actually is in the players. Think of a franchise is something that has a deed. The owner of the franchise is the entity that owns and has his name on the deed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted February 17, 2019 Report Share Posted February 17, 2019 54 minutes ago, Dutch Oven said: It's just silly. A team full of players, coaches, office personnel, trainers were being rooted on by myself, hoorta and Gipper in 1995 in Cleveland. The next season, I, hoorta and Gipper WOULD HAVE been rooting for many of the same people but strangely, Cleveland Stadium was empty on Sundays. The team we would have been rooting for was now playing their home games in Baltimore's Memorial Stadium. Now, none of their feats in '96 had any impact on the records of the Cleveland Browns, but lets just stop pretending that the team didn't move, regardless of technical semantics. Steve Everett didn't get fined by the NFL because he wore a CLEVELAND BROWNS bandanna on game days in 1996 for no reason. It is technical semantics that you would lose your billion dollar bet on dude you get it you lose because of those technicalities if there was real money on the line I would have your money in my pocket. As it is like I said you just owe me lunch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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