CLEVELAND, Ohio - Paul Brown was a curmudgeon when it came to NFL players doing interpretative end zone dances in the spirit of Muhammad Ali's two-word poem about himself.
The micro-couplet went:
"Whee!"
"Me!"
"Act like you've been there before," Brown counseled.
52 years
But what if it had been 52 years since you had been at a championship parade downtown?
What if all fans born after 1964 hadn't seen a single Cleveland major professional sports championship until the Cleveland Cavaliers overcame a 3-1 Golden State Warriors lead in the NBA Finals?