Cleveland sports bloggers introduce you to a man behind the scenes at Browns stadium, dissect Peter King's prediction of a Steelers' Super Bowl win, respond to Mo Williams' comments on LeBron James and more.
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'64 and Counting: "For 10 home dates a year, the 51-year-old former safety for the Browns serves as one of the NFL's 32 official uniform inspectors, emissaries employed at each stadium to maintain the sartorial sanity. Wright has been the inspector at Browns games since 2001, but he also works the annual Hall of Fame Game, a preseason contest that marks the unofficial start of each season. He wandered over to talk to Ochocinco prior to kickoff last month and eventually managed to get him league approval for wearing the orange shoes just this one time. After all, the case to the league office went: He's only playing one series tonight. Then Ochocinco emerged from the locker room just before kickoff with gold cleats on." » Read more
Cleveland Frowns: "Look, it's not just that it only takes the mental capacity of the average goldfish to understand that the Steelers are in the throes of a steep and irreversible decline. Of course we understand that there's no such thing as a good or bad decision per se, but only good or bad reasons for making decisions, so [Peter] King might theoretically have been able to justify his absurdist stance here; given us something to really talk about in the check-cashing line." » Read more
Cleveland Reboot: "Speaking of more things expected – and depressing – the Browns will compete with the Lions for the league's 'team on the rise' billing heading into 2011. Which means that there probably won't be any football played in 2011." » Read more
No Logo Needed makes their game-by-game Browns predictions for 2010.
Cavaliers
Cavs HQ: "Yes, Mo Williams, your relationship with LeBron James is beyond basketball. That's why the only reason you had your deep, heart-to-heart talk with LeBron was because your plane was delayed and you happened to be at the airport at the same time as LeBron. I understand that you don't want to burn your bridges with the most powerful player in professional sports, but I don't know why you have to try to convince yourself and the fans that you and LeBron are good friends. You were co-workers. That's it" » Read more
Cavs: the blog: "The important takeaway is that it isn't really all that important whether Durant is or isn't all the good things people say about him (I think he is). It's that we've been down this road before, whether it was Tiger Woods or LeBron James or Alex Rodriguez or Pete Rose. And it's fine to praise Durant for doing everything right, which he has. It's when we get into 'this guy should be more like that guy!' when things get dangerous" » Read more
Land Loyalty: "Terrelle Pryor you have done nothing. You have not earned the right to tell anybody what to do, let alone Buckeye Nation. When you demand that Buckeye fans not boo LeBron James, it only shows how short-sighted and ignorant you are of the whole situation. When you tell the world that LeBron James is your mentor, it only shows how shallow you are as a human being and how mislead you wish to be." » Read more