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Did Hype Ruin the Browns? Blowout Loss at Home Worst Possible Start in Cleveland

At Caesars, the Cleveland Browns entered the 2019 NFL season with better Super Bowl odds than all but six teams. By far the losingest professional football team of the 21st century, they had finally gained respect in an offseason that was brimming with hype.

That's a word synonymous with these Browns: hype, hype, hype, hype, hype.

For those who followed the Browns closely this offseason, it was used enough to cause semantic satiation: a psychological phenomenon whereby uninterrupted repetition of a word causes it to temporarily lose meaning for the listener.