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The Browns are stuck between heartbreak and immortality

After all Cleveland has endured — owner Art Modell taking its team to Baltimore; the Johnny Manziel Error; the 0-16, 1-31 Hue Jackson laughingstock — it deserves this moment in the Opening Day sun, when the rest of the NFL world cannot wait to tune in to find out whether what is unleashed from the laboratory is a raucous, rollicking band of brothers that might compel the great Jim Brown to sit in the Alpha-Dawg Pound … or Frankenstein’ s Monster, clad in brown and orange…

The hype machine hasn’t thundered along Lake Erie like this since:

  • The Jim Brown Browns upset the Johnny Unitas Colts to win the 1964 NFL Championship.