Every once in a while on brownsdailydose.com, I write something purely personal.

This is one of those times.

Yes, they hit home with me, but I think that these purely personal musings also hit home with you, the great Browns fans who visit this site daily.

I grew up on this team – our team – the Browns, as I’m sure many of you did as well. This team means something – something special, something very personal – to me, as I’m sure it does to you, too. I got the great, and in a number of cases unprecedented, history and tradition of the club handed down to me like a precious heirloom from my father, who graduated from high school smack-dab in the middle of the Great Depression, then dutifully served in World War II and eventually came back home just in time to begin rooting for this start-up team, the Browns, in a start-up league, the All-America Football Conference.

As such, then, I think you can identify with me when say I’m sick to my stomach – no, really, literally sick to my stomach – when I see what has happened to the Browns in the expansion era. As wonderful as it was back in the day for the Browns when you and I began rooting for them, it has become that disgusting now.

To say it hasn’t been good is being kind.

I’m tired of all the jokes about the Browns. I’m tired of them being a national laughingstock. I’m tired of them being a punching bag.

I get it. The Browns deserve it. They deserve all of it, just as they deserved all the praise when they were so good for so long.

But it doesn’t lessen the impact – negatively so – on me of what they have become. It doesn’t mean I have to like it, or tolerate it.

I hope new Browns General Manager John Dorsey doesn’t just know all of this, but rather that he understands it and is bound and determined with every fiber of his being to changing it.

He’s the guy who will change it if it’s going to be change anytime soon.

Or not.

So he absolutely has to understand it.

What he has to understand, too – and I’m certain he does – is that he also has a stake in his now. His own job security depends on it – on transforming it, dramatically so, by 180 degrees.