I’d have taken a dump.
From ESPN.
A Cleveland Browns fan posted a video on YouTube showing himself urinating beside Art Modell’s grave in Pikesville, Maryland.
The unidentified man in the video, titled “Browns Fan ‘Pays Respects’ to Modell,” arrives at the gravesite dressed in a Baltimore Ravens Ed Reed jersey.
He then pulls it off to reveal a Browns Lyle Alzado No. 77 jersey and apparently urinates on Modell’s grave out of the bottom of his pants leg using a catheter.
Afterward, he speaks to the camera.
“You know, Art, when you … tried to kill the Cleveland Brownie, you didn’t do so good, the Browns fans wouldn’t let you, you piece of shit,” he says. “I’m in rat land, and I’m going to use the words you used a few years ago.
“As far as pissing on your grave, I had no choice.”
When Modell moved the team to Baltimore in 1996, he said he had “no choice.”
Art Modell deserved every bit of venom he got.
I’ve been a loyal fan since 1964, when I watched Jim Brown, Lou Groza, and Frank Ryan take our team to the last NFL championship they had.
I was born in and raised around Cleveland. We live and die with our team every year. I’ve lived through the Dawg Pound, The Kardiac Kids, Bernie Kosar, The Fumble, The Drive, and the Modell and NFL betrayal.
I remember the Gateway Project that built Jacobs Field for the Indians and Gund Arena for the Cavaliers. Modell was offered a deal for a new stadium, but turned it down. When he attempted renovation at the old Cleveland Municipal stadium, he found that it was in such a state of disrepair, he would need a new stadium anyway. That’s when the blackmail started.
He wanted a new stadium and the taxpayers to foot the bill. We refused to be fleeced. The incompetent asswipe got a good percentage of the concessions and the parking fees, along with a rate of only $250,000 a year for the rent. What did he do with the proceeds? He built luxury boxes for his pals. He squandered his fortune, went broke, and blamed the fans; the same loyal fans who stuck with the team through thick and thin, bought the tickets, and packed the stadium regardless of how cold it was. Modell was a pathetic loser. If he lost as many millions of dollars as he claimed, he should have gotten out of the business of football. He ran the team’s finances into the ground, and Tagliabue bailed him out. He screwed us with a behind- the- back deal with Baltimore, but he wasn’t able to sneak out in the middle of the night like Irsay did with the Colts.
We hung tough to save the Browns name, legacy, and colors, until they returned in 1999.
Fuck Modell. If there’s a purgatory, he’ll spend a lot of time there.
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http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2011/11/07/classic-cleveland-browns-fan-rant/
http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2009/09/13/an-open-letter-to-the-cleveland-browns/