I don’t want to sound like, or appear to be, a curmudgeon, because I’m not.

I also don’t want it to look as if I’m holding a grudge, because I’m not.

And I don’t want to seem like I’m stuck in the past and can’t move forward, because I’m not and I can.

Getting mired in the past, holding a grudge and being a curmudgeon are all negatives. They’re not a good look. And I want to be positive and to look good, or at least as good as I can look.

But on principle — yeah, that’s what it can be described as, principle — I am not rooting, I can not root and I promise you I will never root for the Baltimore Ravens, including, and especially, when they host the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship Game at 3 p.m. Sunday.

I saw too many lives and professions disrupted and even ruined by the original Browns franchise’s move to Baltimore after the 1995 season to be re-christened as the Ravens. It just left a really bad taste in my mouth that hasn’t gone away after all these years, and won’t, ever.

I don’t have to do anything but die and pay taxes, so there’s no compelling reason to pull for the guys in purple. I’d root for the . . . Pittsburgh Steelers — I never thought I’d say that — before I’d root for the Ravens. Again, I will root for the Chiefs on Sunday, and for any other team that plays the Ravens in my lifetime. The bigger the game, the more I will root against the Ravens, so, with a Super berth on the line, I will really be pulling against them on Sunday.

I know The Move happened 28 years ago. That’s longer than many people today have been alive. As such, they may be only vaguely aware, or not aware at all, of The Move, and I can respect that.

But I remember it all too well, and that’s good enough for me.

You demand the truth in this space, on BrownsDailyDose.com, and you’ve just gotten it.

And it will likely be the only place anywhere that you see something like this today.

Steve King