When I was 8 years old I watched Brian Sipe throw an interception pass that ended the Cleveland Brown’s chances of winning the AFC championship.

I spent the next three years waiting for “Super Joe” Charbonneau to help the Indians break a then-20 year slump.

By the time I was 12, Charbonneau had thrown out his back and left baseball and Sipe had disappeared into Donald Trump’s USFL never to be heard from again.

As a 6th grader I started to believe that Cleveland sports teams would never, ever be successful in my lifetime. And so far, […]