The Browns live in a state of perpetual war, endlessly convincing themselves that every scrap of information they possess is some kind of game-changing superweapon that will alter lives and transmogrify the culture. They behave like members of a corporate cult. Yet what do these cultists watch on the day of the draft? They watch ESPN. They log onto the Internet and scan Pro Football Talk. The comments they make about college prospects are roughly identical to whatever your smarter friends might glean from The Plain Dealer. I’ve never witnessed this level of institutional paranoia within a
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