Cleveland Browns Memories

For the second time on Sports Stories, my guest this week will be one with Cleveland, Ohio ties, this time it is the AAU’s Joe Gura...Every city has its own sports history, and Cleveland is no exception...The Indians and the Cavaliers have fans, but it is the Browns that have the heart of the City...I’ve attended five or so games at FirstEnergy Stadium with my friend Roger Goudy and his family, and am always amazed at the passion and loyalty of the Browns fan base… I wished I could’ve gone to at least one game at old Municipal Stadium, would’ve loved to sit in the old “dawg pound” with the locals, despite the heartbreaks they suffered…The most famous heartbreak, or infamous depending on your perspective, was John Elway leading the Broncos to the Super Bowl with “the drive” in 1986...I did get to attend one game that is put in “quotation marks”, the 2007 “snow bowl” game against the Buffalo Bills, which had a QB on its roster, JP Losman, that I taught how throw a ball when has a 2nd grader at St. Mark School in Venice...That “snow bowl” game had 13 inches of snow in one half, which was as much snow as an LA guy like me had seen in several years...With my Rams having left Los Angeles on some kind of spiritual journey from 1995 to 2015, it was those games watching the Brown Dawgs that filled the void of my NFL heart...Now the beloved Browns franchise just needs to get that guy out of the Kitchen...