On the national stage last Thursday night and in storybook fashion, the darkest of chapters in Cleveland Browns’ football history finally, mercifully came to an end. I’m not just talking about the winless streak of 19 games, or the 635 days in between those wins. I mean that this entire era of terrible, feckless, hopeless and ultimately depressing “professional” football is over. The Browns didn’t just notch their first ‘W’ in forever, they officially closed the Factory of Sadness.
I can feel your cynicism - both directed at me for being so foolish as to make such a sweeping claim and also because you just know that something is going to go wrong.