Mike Polk Jr. has some thoughts on the start of the Cleveland Browns' season

Cleveland Browns fans are no strangers to booing our own team, and the Browns are no strangers to deserving it. When you’re as consistently bad as this team has been since 1999, booing might be considered tacky, but it’s far from irrational.

We booed the likes of Charlie Frye, Derrick Anderson and Deshone Kizer, and they all deserved it. Those were well-earned boos and I stand behind them.

We booed Tim Couch even though he didn’t deserve it. It wasn’t fair, but it was understandable. Those were boos of frustration aimed more at Art Modell and the NFL for stealing our competent team and replacing it with the Pet Cemetery Zombie husk of a team that returned with the same name.

But the boos yesterday felt a little different than usual, because it felt like some of them were aimed at ourselves.

As Browns fans, we’re used to supporting an incompetent team. But there was always a cleanness to it. We stunk, but we had the moral high ground. We were the lovable losers who deserved better, but couldn’t catch a break. --

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