Back in January of 2018, Cleveland Browns fan Chris McNeil organized the “Perfect Season Parade” to “celebrate” the team’s just completed 0-16 season, just the second such campaign of futility in NFL history.
Designed to be equal parts comic and cathartic, the parade’s downtown route looped in the shape of a zero (“the no victory lap,” it was dubbed). The 3,000 or so fans who came brought signs, flags and even tombstones with the names of failed Browns quarterbacks on them.
There was an ambulance. There was a hearse. There was an afternoon of emoting about what it's like to root for such a woebegone franchise.