Eighty-Four Million, Seven-Hundred Fifty Thousand, Six Hundred Seventy-Six.

That is the base salary of the 2016 Cleveland Browns.

That is the salary that to this point, has yet to produce a single victory.

That is enough money to produce 18,032,058 individual humanitarian meals. Certainly these could go to better use than a team that has yet to prove anything on the field, and has given away several late-game leads. How is it possible that a league built on parity could produce a product so vile as the 2016 Cleveland Browns?

Possibly the only thing worse than Donald Trump’s future White House stint is the state of this sack of burning feces that is the Browns. I want to just stomp it out, but I feel like it might be better to let it just burn itself out. So far, we have rotated quarterbacks like a blind man with a rubix cube, and wasted the career of arguably the greatest left tackle of all time, Joe Thomas.

I am not of the opinion that athletes make too much money, not at all, especially in the NFL. They deserve every cent, and they earn it with pain and work. That said, I don’t understand how you can spend nearly ninety million dollars and have such a sad result. Who is fucking this up so badly?!

This may be the time to just take up soccer Cleveland fans. The European leagues are just hitting their stride, and The Champions League will keep you entertained until the Cavs are in the playoffs next Summer. I have been a diehard fan since the reinstatement in 1999, and I’m reconsidering whether I will watch at all next year.

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