Browns New Uniforms Have Arrived! A Simple Fix

Browns new uniformsAmerican professional football player Jim Brown #32 of the Cleveland Browns runs with the ball towards the defensive line of the New York Giants, Municipal Stadium, Cleveland, September 16, 1962. The Browns won 17 to 7. (Photo by Robert Riger/Getty Images)

Posted By: County Sports Network April 15, 2020

Browns new uniforms have arrived! A simple fix

By Steve King

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This is not complicated. Rather, it is simple in every variation of the word.

Simply put, the Browns new uniforms, not surprisingly at all, have gone back to the future with the unveiling of their new/old look on Wednesday.

They circled back to their uniforms from 1946 through 2014 as they move forward to the 2020 season and beyond. It’s a simple look, but a classic, traditional and clean one.

The Browns – more specifically, the people calling all the shots in the organization and signing everyone’s paychecks, owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam – took a simple approach with the Browns new uniforms. They didn’t try to reinvent the wheel, as glib, clueless, former front-office executive Alec Scheiner talked them into doing in 2015, pushing fans into uniform purgatory for five – count ’em, five – long seasons of looking at something the pictures of which could have been put onto the side of a medicine bottle as the instructions to induce vomiting. Instead of torturing their fans any longer, they simply listened to them, to their clear and concise message of what they wanted.

The Browns – the Haslams, especially Dee – admitted simply that they messed up five years ago and promised these new duds would get it right. It was a clear and simple solution to a clear and simple problem. Although Fonzie of “Happy Days” TV fame so famously could never say he was wrong, the Browns did. Good for them in telling the truth. That took a lot of class, something that’s in short supply nowadays in pro sports hierarchies.

The truth doesn’t have to be a club with which to hit everybody over the head. It simply has to be the truth. The Haslams get that – fully.

The simple fact of the matter is this: The Browns never had to make the changes back in 2015 in the first place. There was nothing wrong. They stuck a wrench into the works of one of the few things – the uniforms – that were pleasing to the eye. If only they had spent as much time trying to make the team better as they did in attempting to fix something that wasn’t broken, the Browns wouldn’t be in this cycle of losing.

This new Browns regime of General Manager Andrew Berry and head coach Kevin Stefanski has made simple, common-sense moves in free agency in signing good players to fill obvious big holes. Add that to all the simplistic aspects of the uniform change, and you have to wonder if that will translate further to the soon-to-be-here NFL Draft.

That is, with such a huge void still existing at left tackle, will the Browns, with seemingly such a plethora of top-level prospects available at that position, do the simple and common-sense thing of using their No. 10 overall pick to fill it?

We’ll soon find out.    

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