If you're a Browns fan and you're around my age (33), you know that the picture above is Brian Brennan consoling Ernest Byner, post "The Fumble" in Denver. Just writing that still hurts.
Anyway, funny story today. I ended up looking for some information today about this particular photo, and found some information that actually led my to Brian Brennan's email address (trust me... I know it sounds creepy, but I'm really not like that). Continuing on, I just sent an email to him letting him know how much of a fan I was and how those years of watching the Brownies were incredible. Here's the amazing thing...He wrote me right back!
This is the guy who I used to like to pretend to be in the back yard, catching routes from my brother or from my father. The guy wasn't huge. He was 5 foot nothing, and 100 and nothing pounds, but he sure could catch the ball at the first down marker on 3rd and long. I loved that. He spread out the D (along with Ozzie Newsome), so guys like Langhorne and Slaughter could get open.
Brian told me today to send him anything and he'd sign it and return it properly.
I feel like I'm back in touch to when the Browns were a respectable franchise....at least for the moment.
Good stuff........
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