Browns games, such as Sunday’s visit to Nissan Stadium to face the Houston Oilers-turned-Tennessee Titans, aren’t nearly as much fun to follow when the results are so negative, and have been for so long.

Fans are relegated to monitoring the progress of young, talented players, and also of the young, inexperienced team overall, rather than concerning themselves with whether the Browns win or lose. That doesn’t necessarily matter right now because this season was never really about winning, but fans are hoping that the scoreboard will eventually matter again at some point soon.

In the meantime, the football gods have thrown the fans a bone in providing them the opportunity to listen to perhaps – no, make that definitely – the best radio announcing team in the NFL in play-by-play man Jim Donovan and color analyst Doug Dieken. They do an outstanding job, and when you have the opportunity to listen – mostly painfully so – to some of the other teams around the league, you realize just how good the local guys are.

Their calls are enjoyable, interesting, informative and accurate. If you’re watching the Browns on TV and have the audio turned down with the radio turned up, then the work of Donovan and Dieken add so much to what you’re seeing. And if you’re without the benefit of a TV as you are out and about running errands or whatever, their calls paint you a great mental picture of what’s happening. You almost feel as if you’re there in the stadium viewing the action in person.

When the Browns get better – and they will, trust me on that one because this nightmare won’t last forever – then their calls will sound even better. But for now, you’ll have to balance out a bad team on the field with a championship one in the both. As such, Sundays are a lot more palatable.