Browns winning is a lot of fun

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Posted By: County Sports Network October 13, 2020

Browns winning is a lot of fun

By STEVE KING

As we’ve said here any number of times, you’re going to read on this website, things you won’t see anywhere else.

You may not agree with what I have to say all the time, but I think you will always find it different, interesting and thought-provoking.

And so it is today with this edition. It is a combination of unbridled joy, followed by tremendous sadness.

Here goes, starting with the happy stuff:

When it comes to calling NFL games on the radio, there’s no one better than — really, no one as good as — the Browns’ Jim Donovan. He is fantastic, and even more so now that the games he’s calling are suddenly, wonderfully, better, They’re easier on everyone’s ears. That’s what happens when the losing turns into winning and the 1-4 record of years past following the first five games turns into a 4-1 this season.

Donovan ended Sunday evening’s broadcast of the 32-23 victory over the Indianapolis Colts with this succinct but all-encompassing and oh-so-true comment: “You know, this winning is a lot of fun.”

Well, yes. Yes, it is.

The Browns winning games does not solve any of the world’s many problems, but it makes fans of the team so happy, putting a pep in their step, especially the day after. And that counts for something — a lot of something, in fact.

So, go ahead, Browns fans, and soak up all of this joy, because, as Jim Donovan said, “You know, this winning is a lot of fun.”

Now, for the other part — the sad part — of this combination story. It involves Donovan’s profession, NFL radio, and the team the Browns travel to play on Sunday at Heinz Field, the arch-rival Pittsburgh Steelers. It has been revealed that Tunch Ilkin, the former Steelers guard and now longtime color analyst on their radio network, has ALS. That is numbing, demoralizing news. He is a wonderful man, one who is very friendly and always smiling.

The team of Ilkin and longtime play-by-play announcer Bill Hillgrove is one of the NFL’s best. Yes, this is a rivalry — again — with the Steelers, but all that means absolutely nothing at a time like this. Our thoughts and prayers go out to him and his family.

It casts a little bit of a pall on Sunday’s game for me, and I’m sure many of you.

We’ll get back to the nuts-and-bolts football stuff — Browns-Steelers and that showdown game — tomorrow.

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