The Browns played today's game with the Falcons as if it were a game of hide-and-seek. The Browns hid behind the door early and waited, waited and then waited some more for the Falcons to find them, but they never did. Oh, they walked by a few times, put their ear to the door once in a while, but they never turned the knob.

This reminded me so much of last year's Bears game, where we played 70 seconds of football and won. I think we had two long passes to Kellen Winslow and a TD pass to Braylon Edwards, and that was pretty much our offense for the day. We still cannot run the ball. However, the Falcons played a horribly misguided game on offense and give credit to the Browns defense. That may have been their best effort of the season. Plus, our excellent field position helped us in the first half. In the second half, we struggled to get a few first downs.

Three things that will get overlooked but shouldn't:

a) What were the Falcons doing kicking an extra point after their touchdown made it 14-9? That's a no-brainer to go for two to try and make it 14-11. Not saying they would make it, but you have to go for two points there. Sure enough, the Browns 4th quarter field goal made the score 17-13, ensuring that Atlanta needed a TD on their last drive.

b) Only the Browns could stop the clock TWICE when running out the clock. The first time was after the second down play where Charlie Frye got hit in the head. Why did we take a timeout? Just so Frye could hand the ball off? Our second stringer was ready to go in. But, no, we took a T.O. with 1:13 left. Amazing.

c) Letting the play clock expire on our last punt was an incredible mistake. Again, man, we are running the clock out. SNAP THE BALL! Even Romeo was muttering after that one.

The Browns were 2 out of 14 on third downs, had only 236 yards, and lost two fumbles. Regardless, the Browns won, 17-13. As I grab my coat to meet them at the airport.

Meal of Links

How to be funny. Number one, for me, is you have to be able to laugh at yourself. And try to find humor in...everything. Let's face it, Billy Joel driving his VW off the road into someone's yard is not funny. Billy Joel driving his VW off the road into someone's yard, while going to pick up a pizza, IS funny.

Physical appearance. It has something to do with symmetry. Or eyesight. Or something.

How women judge men. No mention of wallet size.













Looking symmetrical, what's in her wallet?

Exercise Yard

Hard to believe something could be more boring than the Browns game, but HBO had two snoozers on their boxing program last night. The first was a replay of Mayweather-Baldomir from last week. As we know, Floyd Mayweather threw a shutout, winning all 12 rounds on two of the judges cards. According to Larry Merchant, Baldomir was fighting "like a guy, walking around, looking for an address". Not the most eye-catching of bouts, it had some leaving, most booing by the end. Hey, I saw Pete Rose in the crowd! I thought HBO was rather unfair to Mayweather by saying he should have KO'd Baldomir. I thought he took him apart rather mechanically. All signs point to Mayweather-de la Hoya, however. It must happen.

The live action was the Klitschko-Brock match. Didn't think this was a tough one to call. One guy nicknamed "The Steel Hammer", the other, "The Boxing Banker". Well, who do you think is gonna win? Wladimir Klitschko had trouble getting anything going for 4 rounds. Then he realized, "Hey, I'm fighting Calvin Brock, the Boxing Banker." In the 5th, he rediscovered his jab and wallpapered Brock's face with it. In the 7th, Brock got hit with a jab, quickly followed by a straight right hand, and a visit from Mr. Sandman. Klitschko wants to unify the belts. I would anticipate those to be rather dull affairs.

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