E_Rocc

Jim's not a coach. He's kind of a consultant to the team and mentor to the players. His exact role isn't really all that well defined...except for the fact that he's the best running back to ever play the game and played his entire career for the Cleveland Browns. While I'm here, one of the local TV stations was trying to start a rumor that Randy was selling the Browns. He's categorically denied that to another station. A little bit of background: this station had the contract to cover Browns pre-season games. They are also basically the sensationalist sewer of the local media. When Randy's 5 year old niece was killed in an accident, they grossly violated the family's privacy and implied all sorts of shady modell about the incident. Randy bought out the contract and refuses to have anything to do with them. So of course they have a badly inflamed hemmorhoid about him and the Browns. This station is the local CBS affiliate. CBS is the network that embarrased itself in 2004 by running a story featuring some memos about President Bush's National Guard service that turned out to be quite obvious forgeries. One of their "reasons" for speculation was the amount of money Randy is spending on your team.

We're familiar with the breed. Indeed, I suspect that virtually all of us would agree that (at least) one of the major parties nominated one for the Presidency last time around. (For the record, we're a politically mixed group at the OBR, but based on our political board most of us seem to lean Republican). I can only really speak for the "right" side of the spectrum, but it seems to me that the UK is about the most popular other country right now. Poland and Australia are up there too. So any stupid comments would likely be seen as the ravings of a minority. Now if a Frenchman were to say such a thing, that might be a bit of a different situation. By the way, Condoleeza Rice is a Browns fan.