Those of you who listen to The PosCast — a podcast I have been doing sporadically for nearly a decade with my pal Michael Schur, creator of NBC’s “The Good Place” — know that I have for a long time been trying to turn Mike into a Browns fan. My brilliant plan was based on two things I know about him.



Mike, like many of us, has been gradually losing interest in the NFL for myriad reasons.



Mike, by the quirk of birthplace, has been a Patriots fan all his life, which was fine for the first six Super Bowls and whatever but at some point, come on, what’s the fun in that?



And so I’ve been relentlessly pushing Browns fandom on him as a way to find himself — consider it a spiritual journey. The first time I convinced him to be a Browns fan, he lasted roughly two weeks. Too much pain was thrown at him all at once. The Browns were hopeless. Their quarterback was whichever Spinal Tap drummer hadn’t died yet. They...