CLEVELAND, OH - NOVEMBER 27: A Cleveland Browns fan looks on during the second quarter against the New York Giants at FirstEnergy Stadium on November 27, 2016 in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)

BEREA (92.3 The Fan) – The Cleveland Browns are a joke.

No, seriously they are.

If you turn on Jimmy Fallon, Stephen Colbert or any of the late night talk shows you’ll see the Browns lampooned in monologues on what is becoming a regular basis as the losses pile up this season.

Thursday night Colbert did nearly 3 minutes worth of material on the winless team and the planned 0-16 parade by a group of fans. These are things that happen when a team is approaching an entire calendar year without a single victory. Sunday will mark the 364th day without a W for the Browns.

While the jokes have become a coping mechanism for fans, inside the Browns locker room no one is laughing.

“It’s tough, it’s super tough,” cornerback Joe Haden said. “I’ve never been in a situation like this where we’re literally the laughingstock of every joke. I can’t look at any sports net or anything and they’re saying, ‘At least he’s not going to the Browns.’ Stuff like that, it’s tough, it sucks and you’re hearing if from everywhere. Everybody’s giving it to you.

“There’s really nothing you can do but go win. That’s what I’m saying, there’s nothing that can change this but winning, there’s nothing else I can say if we go out there and lose again. Everything is all determined on winning and all determined on the scoreboard at the end of the game. Until we get that changed we’re going to be the laughingstocks.”

Haden has been through a lot since 2010 with the Browns – a suspension, injuries and a ton of losses – but nothing nearly as excruciating as this season has been and the fact that fans are prepared to celebrate the team’s futility should they not win a game over the final 4 weeks of the season makes it even worse.

“Oh, man, this is terrible. This is terrible,” Haden said. “You’re talking about an 0-16 parade. It’s very, very tough and it hits you right between the eyes because I’m on the team, there’s something I can do about it and that’s why I’m playing. But when you get all that talk…the worst thing I’ve ever seen is us getting beat 34-0 to ‘Bama. Once I’ve seen that, there was just nothing else to talk about.”

Earlier this week Bleacher Report played a Madden-like simulated game featuring No. 1 ranked Alabama and the Browns and broadcast it on Facebook Live. The Crimson Tide won 34-0.

“It’s a smack in the face,” Haden said. “It makes you very upset. That’s a slap in the face, it doesn’t make any sense. Alabama’s a great program, they’ve got amazing players, they’ve got players that are going to play in the nfl. We’ve got a team full of NFL guys. Comparing college team versus an NFL team is disrespectful.”

It’s been easy for fans to say that the players don’t really care or aren’t trying. The looks on players faces say otherwise. The reality is that there couldn’t be anything further from the truth and that is why, for Haden, this season hurts so much. Things have gotten so bad that Haden doesn’t even want to show his face in public anymore.

“Why would I go out? Everybody in Cleveland, they recognize me,” Haden said. “When it’s not the season, I’m hanging out, it’s just so much easier to be able to talk. But now it’s really nothing to say. We’ve got to go out there, we’re trying our hardest, I’m trying to get a win, I’m pushing, I’m fighting. But it’s tough. It is tough. It is tough. There’s nothing really to talk about about what’s going on.

“They ask you, the fans and stuff, you just want to give em victories. You want to win some games, man, but it just hasn’t come. It’s just a little tough. So I don’t really do too much of anything in Cleveland right now.”

Other than just win a game.