Favorite Browns players, past and present?
I'm 22 ...
I wasn't much into watching sports as a child. I have to thank the media hype with Craig Krenzel/Maurice Clarett/Jim Tressel in 2002 and the Superbowl with the Raiders and Buccaneers. It's ironic that one of my favorite coaches Jon Gruden has been thrown out there as a possible pick to take the head coaching job at Michigan. ( Maybe that was on purpose since my dad is more of a steeler's and yankees fan than anything else ... He was born and raised in West Virginia.
I don't do well with favorites in the sense of picking a single thing. With me it's branches or more than one. For an example my favorite colors are both Blue and Orange. That being said I gravitate in my fanhood with the historical players of the team collectively... as well as the movers and shakers of the present.
However the man that was Paul Brown does stand aside in thought much of the time... I don't have any idols. Spiritually I am opposed to that. They just don't make coaches like Paul Brown and Vince Lombardi anymore.
To answer the question... my favorite players past and present on the Browns are those who played with passion and intensity that worked with the team around him and together produced success and a history to marvel at from such generations like mine.
The players of the past had to be tougher, or at least endure a lot more with a lot less ( especially in the wallet ) ... When you went out on the field you were like a soldier, but maybe it was more like an intense bar room brawl.
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What do you do for a living? Married? Family?
Honestly, I'm a miserable recluse cashing those crazy checks. It can be deduced from that, I would not be married... nor involved seriously with the opposite sex.
Family, yeah I have what is called family, but I believe family at least for White Western Occidental societies is in tragedy. It surely isn't what it used to be. I have older parents that were born in 1945 and 1947. On my moms side she had six other siblings and my dad had five other siblings so the family extends from those additonal branches. I have one sibling myselfl; One sister named Amber. We aren't really close and have very conflicting personalities. It could be why I look to the past so much having those old-timey references and stories. Biblically it makes sense as sin is here more, the conditions will only get worse and worse progressively... or should that be regressively ?
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what hobbies do you have?
I collected rocks, mostly from around the neighborhood, I bought a few starter sets and single pieces from the World of Science at Chapel Hill. Coins, stamps ... I have a modest collection, but at this point the rock/gem stone collecting is defunct... and I have a modest stampbook and a bunch of coins. My main interest while not finding American Football was Pro Wrestling. I probably have over 25,000 dollars invested in wrestling merchandise from the time I was 9 until I for the most part lost interest in it in the spring of 2004.
Many things, as with all fellow humans have many things that amuse and fascinate them. I really like the artistic expression and beauty in so many different things ... from sunrises and sunsets, felines, history to forensic science et cetera.
Interests and Hobbies are two different things, but yet one has to be had for the other to take root ... American Football would be included ... although the financial investment in it isn't there as with the pro wrestling.
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Favorite actor? Whats your favorite Movie? How about favorite food?
Actors and Actresses, those given great admiration and much of the time idolatry .. as we value them more than we do those which help to sustain lives within the follies of mankind... As it must.. it shows in the class bracket of money that's given to them. This is difficult to say. Life is a stage as it is said, and movies reflect society.
In movies that I have been interested in through the course of my life, actors such as Sean Penn, Deniro, Danny Devito, Bruce Willis, Christopher Walken, Matt Damon, Edward Norton... Mel Gibson, and even Orson Welles have penetrated my amusement. There's probably more I can't recall right now. Actresses - Kate Winslet, Liv Tyler, Zooey Deschanel, Natalie Portman, Julia Stiles, Neve Campbell ... a little bit down the road - Brooke Shields ... and even more Lucille Ball ... don't know what it is, but when watching a movie with her acting in it, it's infectious... have to stop and watch a least a bit. I have to include her in it if it causes that sort of entertainment to occur. etc etc .... I don't like all movies which include these Actors and Actresses.
There's so many movies as with music or art of another kind .... Birth of a Nation, Neverending Story ... and more recently Rounders and the Departed. Even though the historical accuracy is often at conflict I am greatly intrigued by movies that illustrate an event[s] based from the past, including movies like Titanic or Elizabeth etc ...
I'm definitely not in the league of Bruce Drennan and his movie blog when it comes to this. lol.
Favorite food ... I like Seafood ...I hope I never become allergic to shellfish.... or Tree Nuts.... or Strawberries. *ahem* I believe that answers it.
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How did you find Browns 24/7?
After week two and our amazing shift in fortune from the previous week, I was browsing topics in one of the forums at clevelandbrowns.com and a gif caught my attention. It was of Braylon Edwards and his diving catch sliding into the endzone. I inquired where it was from, the poster who beheld the image told me he forgot exactly the topic, but he had gotten it from a forum on Browns247.com ... I was just going to take the image but then in the course of my search found the Word Association thread and also more importantly the Pick'em threads. I was motivated to join.
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Do the Browns make the palyoffs this year? Why or why not?
I'd like to give a profound explanation like Jaws does with disecting plays on ESPN. I can't. The reference is from a short term fan watching the game as an average-below average fan and his perception. I get the perception from what is and has been reality and the results demonstrated from such and I have to say I get the feeling we have been lucky. The ball has been bouncing our way. I once heard a guy on sportscenter or maybe it was a local guy say to make the playoffs and have a winning team the group of guys, even if for one season must have a little bit of luck, get production from people not expected and no injuries detrimental to the starting group. It doesn't help me pick whether they will or not. Although the haunting ponderance perhaps psychotically vociferous in my mind says we have been getting too much luck and not enough efficiency.
Maybe the entrenched Cleveland Stigma of losing helps to create this disposition but ...
At this point, They haven't showed me something that I can really be optimistic about. Right now the Browns are a feel-good pretender not a probable contender, even though they are contending. As a fan it's difficult, but I can't be in denial about my personal feelings and outlook ... god knows and some here have gotten the gist by now probably hehe I have many other more pressing issues...I don't need that.
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Its your job to fix the Browns in the offseason...How do you do it?
Of course there is nothing certain, from my pure uneducated but observing viewpoint ... It's DEFENSE DEFENSE DEFENSE !!!!
I see our needs being as follows in order ... DL, CB, RB, LB. WR.
Which of those we get first depends on the free agency market. If there is a DB,RB,WR in free agency but a targetd DL/LB guy in the Draft of course we'll go after the former first.
Here's the difficult part - Brady Quinn/Derek Anderson.
Phil is going to make his money by improving the defense and this part of the offense. I would like to keep both for another year. I am one of those fans who wasn't that high on Quinn...neither was I Anderson that's for sure. I wanted Dorsey to get in there... and with Chud the O-Coord it would have been interesting having Dorsey and Winslow playing on the same team again.
My answer would be keep both Quinn and Anderson... but I don't know if we can financially and in the face of past trends do that. I'm not sold on Quinn like his many cultist-like followers seem to be, but I'm just amazed at this wave we are on with Derek Anderson ... but the previous two weeks it seems that wave could be going down.
I say hang on to them both until late in the summer ... even though the value for them might decrease, it might increase as well.
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If you can give some advice to people in general, what would that be?
Not to ask questions such as this to greatly confounded and deeply rooted pessimistic beings such as myself... I wish I could truthfully say something life live well, laugh much, love often... and maybe I should .. I did type it ... but I don't sincerely feel it.
I mean to paint a rosey picture and talk yourself up like that.. I don't know how people can motivate themsevles by that self-serving denial ... it wouldn't be that self-serving unless you're an habitual/obitual liar and wanted to serve that element of your psychology it seems to me. I know the operative word here was "general"... maybe it's more specific but I'm not a general type of person.
I agree more with the sayings/cliches - Life is like a battlefield.... We are all soldiers of some sort. Some men do have all the pain... other's all the luck.
How about some quotes, if you're still reading and reading this at this point with any amount of cognizance - then why not ? eh ....
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* When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind -
A First Century Roman Philosopher
*It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
*CANDY IS DANDY... BUT LIQUOR IS QUICKER - Ogden Nash
*I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority - E. B. White (1899 - 1985)
*The spirit, of course, is eager, but the flesh is weak. - The Gospel of Mark
*None of us, in fact, lives with regard to himself only, and no one dies with regard to himself only; for both if we live, we live to Jehovah, and if we die, we die to Jehovah. Therefore both if we live and if we die, we belong to Jehovah. For to this end Christ died and came to life again, that he might be Lord over both the dead and the living. - ROMANS 14:7-9
* Everybody loves free speech, until you use free speech. I am a window, a mirror that makes you look into your own souls, and you don't like what you see, you hate me because I reveal what you are. -J.B.L ( John Bradshaw Layfield ) Smackdown 6/17/04
* Let the corn be all of one sheaf,
And the grapes be all of one vine.
Lest our children's teeth are set on edge,
By bitter bread and wine.
-Kipling
*"It is hard to free fools from the chains they revere"
- Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
*Fundamental Principle of Justice, do not make equal what is unequal!
-- Freidrich Nietzsche
*Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
— John Ruskin
* There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth. - Agnes Repplier
*Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
Other Quotes that have no real recognized author... at least famous.. or quotes I didn't record the Author...quotes edited by me.
* Those who desert the desert get their just desserts.
* Bóna ná Coróin - Neither Collar Nor Crown
* Rap is the molestation of fine art. At a fair reflection, deemed fair by this perceiver, it is an imitator, a mocker of accelerated poetry and a great suitor of the decline in humanity, in what was cherished throughout time - THE ARTS Revision by me
* Amazing how they can recognize the severity of the injury and the need for treatment, but the danger of the act eluded them in the first place. Morons.- anonymous
* The only insane folk are those who can find happiness in human society. - "Undercast"
* At moments perpetual-metamorphosis, but at other times dynamic-lethargy. - Revision by ME
* "People are made up of energy and energy does not die. Your son's energy has been put back into the Earth and air. Those ashes were just his vessel and he doesn't need it any more, so if you want to keep some in a special place and let the rest go than do that and do it knowing it is okay "- The Poster LabRat 5/16/05
* Those who lose their sense of identity disappear from the pages of history; those who know who they are survive and progress.- UNKNOWN
* Your Diversity Is My Extinction - UNKNOWN
* How strange it is, our little procession of life! The child says, "When I am a big boy." The big boy says, " When I grow up." And then grown up, he says, "When I get married." The thought changes to "When I'm able to retire." And then when retirement comes, he looks over the landscape traversed; a cold wind seems to sweep over it; somehow he has missed it all, and it is gone. Life, we learn too late, is in the living, in the tissue of every day and every hour.
* ~ The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love ~* - Unkown
* I'm intrigued complexity, My name sits as the obstruction in your voice.- Unknown
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