Posted on 01/03/2025 5:53:27 AM PST by Rummyfan
Jimmy Haslam confidently stepped through the halls of the Ritz-Carlton Las Colinas near Dallas on a Wednesday in December, unhurried but with purpose.
The 70-year-old Cleveland Browns owner wore orangish-brown slacks with an off-white blazer, a folder curled in his right hand, the contents of which are reserved for NFL billionaires. The league's owners meetings had just adjourned. Between greetings to the reporters and league officials scattered in the hotel hallways, Haslam, still on the move, was asked about the state of his team.
He acknowledged the three-win Browns had a lot of work to do. When asked what that work looked like, he chuckled slightly, an acknowledgement of the heavy lift ahead.
"Yeah, I mean, I think we have a lot of needs as a team," the Browns owner told ESPN. "We have to prioritize those. We went from 11-6 and making the playoffs to 3-10. So, it's a little perplexing exactly what happened."
Roughly 1,200 miles away at the Browns' training facility in Berea, Ohio, coach Kevin Stefanski and general manager Andrew Berry were preparing for that Sunday's matchup with the NFL-leading Kansas City Chiefs, trying to identify hope in a lost season and pondering some of the same questions Haslam cited. Stefanski and Berry will likely be at the forefront of an effort to turn around one of the NFL's storied but notoriously star-crossed franchises, moving the organization, now 3-13 headed into a Saturday contest at the Ravens (4:30 p.m. ET, ESPN/ABC/ESPN+), in the general direction of what would be its elusive first Super Bowl.
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70% have ZERO chance of reaching the Super Bowl.
There is not enough football talent - coaches, players, and executives - to go around.
The average player career is three years and five games.
You call her smart. I call her a whore. She has sold her body for money, plain and simple. That the money comes from one guy doesn’t mean she’s not a whore. Bill is just a well-paying john.
Not a lot different than Willie Brown and his whore, Kamala.
P.S. Are they married? I thought she was just his GF. Not even engaged, but I don’t follow these things closely.
A new owner and a move to San Diego would be another sign that you’re going to get serious
You expect Belichik to date a woman his age? Why would he do that?
Also, the Redskins have shown what a change in ownership can do....😃🎈
Yes,she is smart. And yes,she is a whore. Not all whores are stupid. I could be wrong but it seems very likely that when all the dust has settled in this “relationship” she’ll walk away much richer than she was the day before when it began.
He doesn’t have to date someone quite so young, or do you think that all older women don’t know how to please a man?
I didn’t say she was stupid. I only classified her as a whore. You are right. She is smart. We used to call these kind of women by a more polite term - golddiggers.
You claim to be a libertarian and yet post that "You can't trust blacks" ???
You call this the truth?
Just do a Mea Culpa, swallow your misplaced pride, and move on.
Every FReeper screws the pooch during a 20 year run, this ain't the first time, so don't be so prideful and foolish, eat a bucket of crap and go on with life.
To be fair, no one could have predicted that the trade for Watson would have turned out so poorly.
Oh, wait a minute. Everybody predicted it would turn out poorly.
You claim to be a libertarian and yet post that "You can't trust blacks" ???
You call this the truth?
Just do a Mea Culpa, swallow your misplaced pride, and move on.
Every FReeper screws the pooch during a 20 year run, this ain't the first time, so don't be so prideful and foolish, eat a bucket of crap and go on with life.
Or the Giants or Panthers...and this year, don't forget 'Merica's Team.
A very large percent of pro athletes are low-character, low-IQ hood rats, but there is a group of solid citizens and class acts that are worthy of appreciation, represented by all races.
BIGGGGGGG DIFFERENCE.
Willie never paid that bitch a dime, he just used his corrupt political influence, got her to give other blowjobs to other crooked demonRAT polis and she blew her way up the ladder.
{And Willie's wife knew it, and was OK with it... just who was the real whore?}
**Just do a Mea Culpa, swallow your misplaced pride, and move on.**
**To be fair, no one could have predicted that the trade for Watson would have turned out so poorly. Oh, wait a minute. Everybody predicted it would turn out poorly.**
I should rest my case but there’s more. Think :
1) Michael Vick and dogs. Don’t forget Marcus.
2) Steve McNair got himself shot-zipper.
3) Jamis Winston-grab ass player.
4) Kapernick-there’s one for ya.
5) JaMarcus Russell was given $31 million to throw the ball 100 yards kneeling.
Many that profess a love for everyone show their love by living in gated communities. How many of you out there ‘silently’ express their opinions?
Sure, there’s a difference, but to me, it’s about the same thing. Selling yourself for monetary purposes of one kind or another.
I don’t respect Bill, his granddaughter-aged sex toy, Willie, or Kamala.
Feel free to have a different opinion.
I thought that maybe your first statement was just a slip up, but you've proven me wrong, you are a flat out stupid racist and now you try to weasel around with this "gated community" bullshit.
I'm done with you, reply or not, screw you, you low life b*stard.
When was the last time you got laid?
Ask your wife and daughter, they have better memories than me.
If you paid more attention to your own sex life, maybe you wouldn't be such a stupid racist.
You are never gonna get past..."can't trust blacks" remarks, give it up.
Don't try to get down and mud sling with me, you are an amateur mud slinger, but still a racist.
Just apologize to the FReeper readers and move on.
You made a mistake, admit it, own it and you won't be known as the self professed Free Republic Self Proclaimed Racist.
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