HASLAM OUT

Cleveland has held up its end for seventy-eight years. Sellouts through losing seasons. Tailgates in weather nobody should stand around in. We're done asking quietly.

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FOURTEEN YEARS. THE MATH.

78-150-1

That is the Cleveland Browns' record since Jimmy Haslam bought the team for $1.05 billion on 25 October 2012.
A .343 winning percentage. Two winning seasons in fourteen. Nine last-place finishes. One playoff win.
Two of those seasons were 1-15 and 0-16. The 2017 Browns are one of only two teams in NFL history to lose every game in a season.
That is not a bad stretch. That is fourteen years.

SEVEN HEAD COACHES

THE CAROUSEL

Rob Chudzinski was given one season. Mike Pettine got two, and went 10-22.
Hue Jackson won three games in two and a half years. A .088 winning percentage. He was given forty games to do it.
Kevin Stefanski won AP Coach of the Year twice and was the first Browns coach to last six seasons since Sam Rutigliano. He started thirteen different quarterbacks. Seven of them in his final two years. He was fired the morning after winning his last game.
The reason given: "I don't think there was one breaking point... sometimes it's just time for a change."
The general manager was retained.

APRIL 2024

HE WAS IN THE BUILDING

In April 2024 the Browns hired Mike Vrabel. Akron native. Ohio State. Four straight winning seasons as a head coach in Tennessee.
Not as head coach. As a consultant.
He sat in that building through the entire 3-14 season of 2024. By the end of it he was filling in as the offensive line coach. His contract expired on 30 December 2024 and Cleveland let him walk.
New England hired him. In his first season there, he took them to the Super Bowl.

MARCH 2022

$230,000,000 GUARANTEED

On 17 March 2022, ESPN reported Cleveland was out of the running for Deshaun Watson. Atlanta and New Orleans were the last two standing.
Cleveland got back in and won, by offering something no rival would match: the entire contract fully guaranteed at signing. The previous largest fully guaranteed deal in NFL history was $84 million. Cleveland nearly tripled it.
They also sent Houston six draft picks, three of them first-rounders. One became Will Anderson Jr., the 2023 Defensive Rookie of the Year.
Nobody forced this. There was no bidding war left to win. They simply offered more than anyone else was willing to.

BROOK PARK

NOW THEY WANT YOUR SEAT BACK

The team is leaving the lakefront for a domed stadium in Brook Park. The City of Cleveland had offered $461 million toward renovating the existing one. The mayor called the decision to leave "frustrating and profoundly disheartening."
Confirmed on 10 March 2026: a personal seat licence will be required for every single seat in the new building. Including the Dawg Pound, which was exempt in the 1990s.
If you already own a seat licence, you have to buy a new one. Your credit toward it is $375 to $2,100.
A pricing survey sent to season ticket holders in late 2025 floated seat licences from $550 to as much as $193,650, median $4,475, before a single ticket. The team says those were research figures and that no prices have been set.
The seat licences are confirmed. The prices are not. Decide for yourself how that sentence tends to end.

WHO'S ASKING - AND WHY IT'S NOT A COMPANY

ONE OF US

I have been a Browns fan for more than forty years.
Here is the part people find strange. I grew up in New England. I had every excuse to pick a different team, one that wins, one that was right there. I never did. I picked Cleveland and I stayed.
I spent my own money travelling to games I could not really afford, in a city I did not live in, to watch a team run by people who have treated all of us like a renewable resource.
I do not go anymore. I do not give him my money anymore. That is not bitterness. It is the only vote I actually get.
So I made a shirt.
I do not think he is going to move the team. I think he is too far into that stadium. But he will own the building and the land around it either way. He could sell this team tomorrow, keep the real estate, and walk away richer than he started.
I would be delighted.
I am not a company. There is no warehouse and no investors. It is one guy, a shirt, and seventy-eight years of this city keeping its end of a bargain nobody on the other side ever signed.
If you have read this far, you are not a customer. You are the other half of this. Same city, same seventy-eight years, same bill coming due. I am not asking you to follow me anywhere. I am standing where you are already standing.

TWO SYLLABLES, TWICE

SAY IT OUT LOUD

A hashtag sits on a screen. A chant moves through a building.
At the stadium. Section by section, until the row behind you picks it up. At the bar. Third quarter, down two scores, everybody already thinking it. At your own television. Nobody's watching. Say it anyway.
HAS-LAM. OUT. It doesn't need a hashtag, a phone, or anyone's permission. It just needs enough people to start.