Finally! After four miserable games, we have seen last year’s team and it is good! Anderson was on target, Edwards was explosive and Lewis churned up the yards. And it was all against the Giants, the undefeated defending Super Bowl champions! We spanked them 35-14! God, it brought a tear to my eye!

For those of you who don’t know, I love my Browns. You cannot grow up in Cleveland and not be a Browns fan. It is not allowed. It is like learning to talk or to read. At age four, I told people “I want to play football for the Browns” when I was asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. And I was not even a boy. As a child, my walls were decorated with Browns posters (Leroy Kelly and Mike Phipps) and I slept on Browns sheets. Later, I barked and screamed and cried for the Drive, the Fumble and Red Right 88. Like all good Browns fans, I hate Art Modell and Bill Belichick. And I love Bernie Kosar—the greatest Brown ever. I bleed orange and brown.

Since the team returned in 1999, it has been so hard to feel the love I had–the team has been disappointing year after year. We lost so much in the four years we were without a team. Last year, it appeared that they finally had it together and fans have been primed for a winning season this year. But it aint happened–we were 1-3 and our sole win was against the absolutely wretched Bengals. Until tonight. How sweet this is!