The Cleveland Browns couldn’t wait.
To celebrate. To talk trash. To win.
They weren’t holding back. Not against this team. Not after nearly two decades of misery in Pittsburgh, where, until their 48-37 wild-card playoff victory on Sunday night, they hadn’t won a road game since 2003.
Not after Steelers receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster had apparently, as Michael Jordan would say, “added another log to their motivational fire” before the game. He had the gumption to — gasp! — say “the Browns is the Browns.