Scores don’t matter.

Just wins.

There are no style points.

Just wins.

A team doesn’t get more credit for winning big.

Just for winning, period, regardless of the score.

Indeed, so the people who are complaining — still — about the Browns not winning by enough points over the Houston Texans last Sunday, and not looking impressive enough, can just be quiet. Now. This moment. This instant.

Do you think that Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are apologizing for beating the woeful New Orleans Saints by just one point on Monday night, and on the last play of the game?

No, no, no.

Brady, the greatest quarterback of the modern era, has had plenty of wins like that in his career. He hasn’t apologized for any of those, and he won’t, ever.

Through the Browns’ great run in the last half of the 1980s, they had any number of close calls. No one apologized.

Likewise, when the Browns played well and lost this year because they couldn’t make plays down the stretch to close things out, there was no consolation because there is no category in the standings for almost wins.

You either win or you lose — either way — by one point or 100, it doesn’t matter.

Just win, baby, as the late, great Al Davis used to say.

With all that, then, the Browns won last Sunday, so y’all just need to celebrate it.

Some people gripe when they win, just as they do when they lose. Sports are supposed to be fun, and what fun is that?!

Steve King