They’re all upset up in Detroit over the Tigers changing the Olde English D on their home uniforms so that it matches the D on their caps.

For a team that is already carrying a lot of negative vibes with the fact it’s starting a massive rebuilding project and is probably going to lose 100 games this season, this just adds to it – a lot.

The fans aren’t happy at all. They’re waiting in line to get on the local sports radio talk shows to vent their displeasure.

The fans like the D the way it was. But there’s always some hotshot marketing guy who, in never having lived in the city where he’s now working, decides that a little tweaking of fan-favorite things would be a great idea.

Knuckleheads.

Alec Scheiner was that knucklehead – er, guy, in that I’m trying to be nice – with the Browns several years ago. Serving as team president, and with the firm belief that he was always the smartest person in any room into which he had walked, he decided to re-do the historic, tradition-rich Browns uniforms.

So instead of having just a bad team, the fans also had to look at bad uniforms.

Horrible idea. Really, really horrible.

Let’s hope the team gets better in a hurry. As to whether the uniforms ever improve is to be determined.

Just like the altering of the D in Detroit was a hush-hush secret until it was announced Thursday, timed perfectly so that it came after the Tigers had had their annual team fest so as to avoid a firestorm that might have forced them to change their minds, I am hoping that all of the marketing geniuses in Berea won’t someday sneak in a more radical altering of the uniforms, making them look worse than they already are, if that’s possible, and that they will also make changes to that plain orange helmet.

The helmet is the last tie to the great Browns tradition, which the deep thinkers in the expansion era have made less great with all the losing teams they’ve built.

I don’t trust them any farther than I can throw them, which, if I were Brock Osweiler, wouldn’t be very far, or straight.