Browns’ Super Bowl Week

HOW COOL WOULD SUPER BOWL WEEK BE WITH THE BROWNS INVOLVED?

By STEVE KING

It’s the beginning of Super Bowl week – or, more appropriately, Super Bowl Week with a third capitalized word , because it is indeed a seminal time of the year for even non-sports fans with the fact that the game and all that goes with it has become a national holiday – and the hoopla has started for the matchup next Sunday night between the New England Patriots and Los Angeles Rams.

All kinds of cool stuff is in store. It always is leading up to the Super Bowl.

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But that cool stuff, of course, has never been in store for the Browns, because, once again of course, they have never made it to the Super Bowl.

They were close three times in a four-year span three decades ago, including being extremely close the first two times following the 1986 and ’87 seasons, but it didn’t happen.

And so Browns fans have been waiting.

And waiting.

And waiting some more.

A year ago at this time, when the Browns were coming off an 0-16 finish and a two-year mark of 1-31 under head coach Hapless Hue Jackson, who was inexplicably invited back by team owner Jimmy Haslam for a third season, the waiting – and any hope – seemed hopeless. In addition to not having a great head coach, the Browns also didn’t have the other half of the most important duo in team sports, a great quarterback, or any kind of competent quarterback, really.

So an invitation to have a vested interest in any of the Super Bowl parties – or, more importantly, the Super Bowl itself – was so far beyond reality that it wasn’t worth thinking about.

But now the Browns have both a quarterback in Baker Mayfield and a general manager in John Dorsey who have proven they have what it takes to be big winners, and a head coach in Freddie Kitchens who, according to a lot of people, including those with no ties to the club or Northeast Ohio, has the ability to become the same.

It could happen with the Browns. There is legitimate reason to believe.

So, on these miserably cold days and with the Browns’ season having ended over a month ago, think about what might someday happen. It will warm you up a little – or perhaps a lot.

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