Our Cleveland Browns put themselves right back into the AFC North Division championship hunt with a scintillating 12-9 win in OT over the Baltimore Ravens. It was the Browns first victory on a Sunday since 2015.
Move over Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys, Baker Mayfield and his Browns are now America’s Team.
I kid you not. When I was in Denver the previous Sunday following the Rockies 14-0 win over the Nationals in Game 162, my son took me to a sports bar right next to the historic Union Station in the heart of downtown Denver. Since we’d been drinking we of course were ubering the rest of the day. All you young Brownamaniacs…do not drink and drive. It’s not worth it.
The Broncos weren’t playing when we got to the bar, but that bar was full of Cleveland fans wearing Mayfield jerseys and T-shirts which said- ‘We Love Our Cleveland Browns’.
I was wearing my OU football hoodie and those Cleveland fans took notice and treated me like royalty after I told them I was Baker’s uncle there from Texas to watch the Rockies. I told them I had Baker’s cell number just to lead them on and pretended to text him several times during the game.
What a frenzied feel it was in that bar even after the Browns got hosed by the replay official on a fourth down mark and eventually lost to the Raiders in overtime.
So—when Jim Rome and other national scribes now refer to the Browns as America’s Team….don’t laugh. These young Browns have captured the hearts of America much like the Thunder did in those early days with Durant, Westbrook, and Harden. I now have a ‘We Love Our Cleveland Browns’ T-shirt and look to add a Dog Pound fuzzy hat before next weekend’s game against the San Diego Chargers in Cleveland while the entire nation watches to see if ‘our’ Browns can climb to 3-2-1 for the season.
LET’S GO BROWNS!