DEAR EDITOR:

An open letter to Jimmy and Dee Haslam:

“There you go again.”

Related to Art Modell?

“The Move” in 2025 and “The Move” in 1995 are twins-in-time.

Moving 13 miles to Brook Park is shorter than Modell’s midnight move of 376 miles to Baltimore, but when re-gutting a sport’s tradition, distance is irrelevant!

A $100,000,000 Band-aid for a blood-letting will not staunch the hemorrhaging.

Pilfering the team, Modell left the name. Squinting their eyes, fans see the real Cleveland Browns in Baltimore, cross-dressing as Ravens.

1964: Browns 27, Baltimore 0.

Since 1999, fans have been living a warm beer and rancid hot dog induced fever-dream, hallucinating a charcuterie board of 40+ quarterbacks and 10+ head coaches.

The Socrates of Sports, Yogi Berra, advises … Yogi, can Cleveland rein in owners?

“It’s like deja vu all over again.” (Owners will keep moving teams!)

“It ain’t over till it’s over.” (Do something!)

A subsidy reimbursement schedule based on percentage of games-won will work.

In five years, the Browns have won about 43% of their games; their reimbursement would be 43% of the negotiated contract.

Haslams, do the math……!

The Haslams demand productivity and measurable goals for their employees……so do taxpayers!

Yogi … ideas?

“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.” (Owners must travel transparency’s highways not socialism’s backroads.)

“If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” (Brook Park)

Haslam Sports Group … “pilot” your way through this incentive program.

Shame on your game face.

“Thank you for your attention to this matter.”

SHELDON FIREM

Chardon