Browns Deny Charges by Brown

CLEVELAND — Cleveland Brown President Carmen Policy denied Orlando Brown’s claim that Cleveland team doctors hid information about the severity of the eye injury that led to his release from the team in September.

“He’s either severely misinformed or his version of the facts are definitely clouded,” Policy said Sunday.

In a story published in the (Willoughby) News-Herald on Sunday, Brown accused the Browns of downplaying the severity of his injury. He also took issue with the club for not driving him to the hospital and said team doctors falsely claimed he passed his physical earlier this year.

Brown said the Browns did not properly respond when referee Jeff Triplette’s BB-weighted penalty flag hit his right eye during a game last December against Jacksonville.

“I should have been taken to the hospital in an ambulance right away,” Brown said.

He said fellow offensive lineman Lomas Brown drove him there.

Policy said Lomas Brown volunteered to take his teammate to the hospital to calm him down.

Orlando Brown said he was told at the hospital that if he had continued to play, increased pressure on his eye would have caused him to lose it.

A Cleveland Clinic spokeswoman declined comment.