A GREAT SEASON WITH GREAT ISSUES

By STEVE KING
What a dilemma for Browns fans.
They finally get what appears to be the team they’ve been waiting for, and they can’t go to FirstEnergy Stadium to watch it in any great numbers.
What a season this already would have been — and would continue to be — for fans streaming into the stadium to fill the place to overflowing watching this young, exciting team pull out win after win in Kardiac Kids style as it tries to make the AFC playoffs for the first time in 18 seasons. These home games would have been must-see events.
Yet only a limited number of fans can witness these contests in person because of concerns over COVID-19.
Ugh.
Why couldn’t the coronavirus have reared its ugly head in 2017, when the Browns were going winless at 0-16, or the year before that, in 2016, when they were only a smidge better at 1-15? No one would have complained about having to miss the nightmarish home games in those seasons. In fact, they might have celebrated not having to go to the stadium to watch that stuff. It was torture, incredibly painful. A root canal would have been more enjoyable. 
It’s the ultimate tease — it really is — but it’s one of a countless number of oddities — most of them like this one in being pretty bad — in this very strange and scary 2020. Long ago, everybody knew that this season, if indeed it ever got played, would be far from normal. Hardly anything was going to be the same. The only constant would be all the change, and then sometimes the change would change again, and again and again, making it even more bizarre.
So, then, it poses a great question: If the Browns win their first AFC championship and there is hardly anyone there to see it, does it still count?
Why, you bet it does!
In fact, it might make it more special than ever for Browns fans.