Browns having bad luck? Let's not forget LeCharles Bentley going for more knee surgery.

Serious question: how is Dick Vitale still on television? This is an honest question. I would take 5 hours straight of Marv Albert, Bill Walton, Joe Buck and Katie Couric curling coverage over 15 minutes of Dickie V basketball. I will turn games off because he's announcing. Does anybody like the guy?

@quick: Yes.

Appropos of the Tommy Morrison thing, he's on Dan Patrick right now and is a total nutcase. Pretty much going exactly as I expected.

Dickie V? Whatever.

Meanwhile, back in Pittsburgh, we're all picking our days for the annual No Hope For A .500 Record pool. (If you haven't made your pick yet, be advised that every day in the months beginning with "J" have been taken. That includes January.)

@Fantastic Bellows: I guess no one in Pittsburgh can talk to DeShawn Stevenson.

@Mike Honcho:

I was listening to that and you are correct.

Morrison said he'd be a contender "in a month or two"

@Rob Iracane: For his announcing, I mean, not his importance to drinking games.

But anyway, just curious.

Morrison also said you can get a false positive from poppy seeds.

@Fantastic Bellows: I'll take May 10th. Plenty of time for the inevitable 3-18 start, followed by their annual May 'hope' surge of something like 12-2, which gets a nice Bob Smizik 'theyre on their way' column, followed by the typical take 1 game from every series for the rest fo the summer collapse.

Whats the over/under on times Dickie V mentions this talk for the next couple of months? 100, 200, 1000?

@twoeightnine: N-B-A?

@Chief Wahoo: LeCharles Spielman

You'll have plenty of time to blow your saves...when you're LIVING IN A VAN...DOWN BY THE RIVER!

Sarge, a chill just ran through me.

Kelly Holcomb completed 26 of 43 passes for 429 yards and 3 touchdowns

Maddox finished the game with 30 of 48 completions for 367 yards and 3 touchdowns

Remember when the Browns made the playoffs?

Remember when KELLY FUCKING HOLCOMB was out dueled by XFL MVP Tommy Maddox?

Still the most baffling stat line for a playoff game ever. Seriously Kelly Holcomb somehow threw for 429 yards and lost. That's how bad the Browns luck is

@Mike Honcho: -1 for saying the words "Bob Smizik" on this blog.

To the Dickie V Haters.

Met the guy at a Hooters promo event in Indy last year for the Final Four.

He had dealt with my cousin in regards to his work with Hooters, so I had a name to drop.

I approached him and told him who my cousin was. For the next hour he asked me every question under the sun pertaining to members of my family that even I had no idea about. He was about the best guy you could ever meet.

Plus his daughters go to Notre Dame, and anything is better than stomaching Jay Bilas and Billy Packer.

I have met Vitale several times now (I had first-row season tickets at Michigan State for 6 years). I don't always care for his announcing style and constant Coach K/Duke verbal fellating, but he is definitely a stand-up human being.

@Mike Honcho: ...which gets a nice Bob Smizik 'I'm a little pancake makeup away from being Krusty, but I already have his credibility as a sports writer' column...

There, fixed that for you.

As far as Vitale, he could be the nicest guy in the world, which I have no doubts about, but it doesn't make him a good announcer.

Seriously, Kelly Holcomb was the Shane Falco of the Browns for a year and a half...he even had a line of BBQ sauce and mustard over here at the time. You could live on it, but it tasted like shit...