Browns’ Move Shows Loyalty Has Become a Real Dead-End Street

I feel sorry for every sports fan whose team did not win a championship this year. As a free agent fan, I naturally want to be associated with a winner and therefore make sure my loyalty goes to the ultimate winner.

I can’t root for a city because Los Angeles becomes St. Louis or Oakland, Cleveland becomes Baltimore. I can’t root for players or coaches because they move all the time (see Mourning and Riley to Miami). I can’t even cheer for the uniform, as the back-to-back champion Houston Rockets proved.

When the Braves and Indians are forced to change their logos and mascots, I won’t even be able to root for a name. No, the free agent fan will root only for who wins the championship. I haven’t quite figured out what to do when they cancel the championship, as baseball did last year, but I’m working on it.

P.J. GENDELL

Beverly Hills

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Sign of the times. The middle class, the hard-working, tax-paying, law-abiding are once again being paid for all their devotion--a big slap in the face and a see-ya-later by the Cleveland Browns.

Just another lesson to football fans and most young people:

Money isn’t everything--it’s the only thing.

ANDREW FROMM

Encino

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I can deal with the Fumble, the Drive, trading Bernie, benching Vinny and even going into hock for prima donnas like Andre Rison.

As a Southern Californian and an ardent Browns’ fan, a change to Baltimore presumably should not affect me. And, in a sports world where player allegiances are now meaningless, maybe it should be expected that team loyalty to a city and its fans should be nonexistent.

Get real. The heart and soul of the Browns and the work ethic they stand for is purely and simply attributable to the good people of the city of Cleveland. Shame on Art Modell for his lack of vision to address and resolve the issues long before now.

DAVE EADIE

Newport Beach

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Art Modell, while thinking of Cleveland fans and satisfying himself with Baltimore money, probably lay back and had a cigarette.

STAN KAPLAN

Garden Grove