Browns owners Jimmy and Dee Haslam don’t need my input, but that’s too bad because I’m going to give it to them anyway.
With that said, then, if I were the Haslams, I would have made sure that the members of the team’s hierarchy – that includes the directors of every department in the building, along with head coach He Jackson and his coaching staff – had gotten together Tuesday night at Browns Headquarters in Berea and watched the telecast of Game 1 of the World Series between the Indians and Chicago Cubs. Attendance would have been mandatory, no exceptions. Failure to show up would have resulted in a heavy fine.
But this wouldn’t have been some kind of party. Instead, it would have been treated like a very important business meeting – which, in fact, it would have been.
The attendees would have been required to take notes of what they saw, what they thought and what they felt, and how it could be applied to the Browns. Then there would have been a long, detailed discussion about it.
Along with that, such an event would have offered hope and a pick-me-up to a group of people whose team is 0-7 and having all kinds of problems in terms of its performance, especially in last Sunday’s much-worse-than-the-score-may-seem-to-indicate 31-17 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals, and also in terms of injuries, which are now enough to choke an elephant.
Both the Indians and Cavs were once – and very recently, at that – where the Browns are now, down and out and unable to see any light at the end of the tunnel.
The Browns must keep in mind that if those teams, located in the same city as they are, can do it, then the football club can do it, too.
But of course, the Browns were no doubt too busy Tuesday night preparing to play the New York Jets watch a baseball game, even one in the World Series, and even one involving the local team.
Yikes!
Talk about failing to see the big picture.
