These days NFL teams are becoming more and more secretive. Players respond in cliches and neutralities. Coaches provide disingenuous injury reports. Members of the media are stonewalled from locker rooms. Peter King doesn't get responses to his text messages. At these times, when even the most in-depth reporting can't uncover the story, Punting on First Down turns to the hardest-hitting, most deeply penetrative investigative journalist in the business. His journalism is so hard-hitting and penetrative, we have to maintain his anonymity for legal reasons. You can call him Dick Johnson. This week, our helmet-wearing reporter takes a deep look inside the disorderly Cleveland Browns.Sickness. The Latins had a word for it. Morbus. It means sickness or illness. Cleveland Browns owner Randy Lerner recently said that he was 'sick' about the state of the Cleveland Browns. Shortly thereafter, the Browns' now-erstwhile GM George Kokinis was "reportedly" "escorted" out of the building. Of course, none of this was reported by yours truly, Dick Johnson, so the veracity of these so-called "reports," if they can so be called, is suspect. Needless to say, I SUSPECTED something else was going on. So I drove my high tech, batmobile-esque, super car of mysterious secrecy to the scene - Cleveland Municipal Stadium. Here's what I uncovered.
