THE DAWG POUND DYNASTY: AN ALTERNATE HISTORY OF THE NFL ​

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Introduction ​

There are some teams that you just have to hate. They represent everything that is wrong in sports. They are too cocky. Too arrogant. They buy championships in free agency. And their fans…their fans just rub you the wrong way. They win a dozen championships and still they are not satisfied. They are like a virus, destroying the entire league to feed their insatiable appetite for glory. You can’t help but hate those teams, unless you are lucky enough to love them. Then sports become something different for you. An affirmation of everything that is right in the world. That no matter how bad a deck you were dealt in life, there is always a team that will prove the world wrong for you. That you will always be a winner as long as you remain faithful and true.

Some people love them. Most people hate them. They are the teams that are just too damn good. The New York Yankees. The Montreal Canadians. The Chicago Bulls when Michael Jordan was still playing. And the Cleveland Browns. Or as they are known to everyone outside of the State of Ohio, the Fucking Browns.

From the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary “The Dawg Pound Dynasty”

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You need to realize, the Browns Dynasty was a perfect storm of luck. Everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong. But due to fate, or the hand of God almightily, it worked out for them in the end. Randy Lerner may act like he knew he was going to turn an expansion team into a Super Bowl powerhouse overnight, but let’s be honest. He was lucky. If he knew then what he knew now, there is no way that his father would have chosen Carmen Policy and Dwight Clark as their President and VP of operations! But by the grace of God, Policy and Clark turned them down, and then Al Learner was left scrambling at the last minute for a President. And by the grace of God everyone in the league could see what a train wreck the Browns organization looked to be and turned him down. That was, until he made the call to former Detroit Lions head coach Wayne Fontes.

Jon Gruden on ESPN Radio (July 11, 2012)

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