I wish I could be more positive!

Unfortunately, my teams are really pretty pathetic right about now and there's no good way to sugarcoat it to make it more palatable.

We suck!

My 8th-grade team came out like gangbusters yesterday and put up 20 unanswered points to start the game....

....then the other team woke up!

At the end, we returned the 20 points, and another 13 to go with them and lost 33 to 20.

Can you say "four quarters?" That's good! I knew that you could!

Today, our little 7th-grade team gave up three touchdowns in the first half and lost 21-0.

The score would've been worse, but the other team called off the dogs and put the 3rd or 4th, or maybe 5th team in.

They hadn't won a game until they came to our place!

Then, to top it all off, my beloved Browns looked a lot less like the team that WORKED the Giants and a lot more like the team that lost to the Bungles last year to lose out on a chance at the playoffs. Kellen Winslow worked his mouth when he should have been looking for a place to hide and got suspended for his efforts. Derrick Anderson looked like, well, Derrick Anderson, and Braylon Edwards looked like "Evil Braylon" instead of "Circus Catch" Braylon. You know what I'm talking about; Evil Braylon drops wide-open passes that my 2 year-old granddaughter could catch. EVIL Braylon couldn't catch a cold at the rhino virus hall of fame! Circus catch Edwards catches balls with one hand between three defenders, stiff arms the strong safety and runs in for a TD with three Defensive Tackles hanging on to him.

That's not the guy who played on Sunday, though. "Evil" Braylon showed up just fine, though.

This week, we play Jacksonville. Jacksonville has a very effective running game. Cleveland has a problem stopping anyone who has an effective running game.

Can you say 2-5?

I knew that you could!