Things I've Learned from Watching the Browns

by Pluto, Terry

• ISBN13: 9781598510652
• ISBN10: 1598510657
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-11-15
• Publisher: Gray & Co

Summary

Pluto is without a doubt my favorite sportswriter! This book is a tremendous read about why Browns fans continue to be Browns fans even though there hasn't been too much to cheer about for the last twenty years. For anyone that has followed the Cleveland Browns for any length of time, this a very enjoyable book! I highly recommend picking up a copy!

Author Biography

Terry Pluto is a sports columnist for The Plain Dealer. He has twice been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors as the nation's top sports columnist for medium-sized newspapers. He is an eight-time winner of the Ohio Sports Writer of the Year award and has received more than 50 state and local writing awards. He was called "Perhaps the best American writer of sports books," by the Chicago Tribune in 1997. He is the author of 27 books, including Loose Balls, which was ranked number 13 on Sports Illustrated's list of the top 100 sports books of all time.

Table of Contents

Being a Browns fan is completely, utterly irrational. But you already know that	p. 9
The Fumble didn't cost the Browns a chance to go to the Super Bowl	p. 19
The Browns do have a rivalry with the Steelers, but not the kind you think	p. 27
Voices of the Fans: How I Fell in Love with the Browns	p. 39
Fans know the draft is important, which is why it often makes them scream	p. 45
Brian Sipe is still young in the hearts of most Browns fans	p. 59
The greatest Brown ever is a Brown, but his first name is not Jim	p. 67
Voices of the Fans: The Browns Are Family	p. 83
Red Right 88 was the right call	p. 95
The Drive didn't beat the Browns. It hurt. It drove fans to tears. It was almost inexcusable. But it isn't why the Browns lost to Denver.	p. 103
Voices of the Fans: Browns Fans in Exile	p. 115
The Browns almost didn't draft Jim Brown...	p. 119
Clay Matthews made the fans proud	p. 129
Fans still can't get enough of Bernie Kosar.	p. 137
Voices of the Fans: Why We Love Bernie Kosar	p. 153
Only the players and the fans could have created the Dawg Pound	p. 159
Art Modell is just not a Hall-of-Famer	p. 169
Voices of the Fans: Meeting Browns Players	p. 183
Old Municipal Stadium may have been a dump, but it was our dump	p. 191
The Paul Warfield trade wasn't that bad. Really. It just took eight years	p. 205
Voices of the Fans: Fan Favorites	p. 221
The Browns' best draft pick since 1999 wasn't drafted	p. 231
Loving the Browns doesn't make sense. But we just can't help ourselves	p. 241
Acknowledgments	p. 251
Sources	p. 253
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