Will you tune in or out? - Browns Daily Dose

Will you tune in or out?

Are you going to watch any of the first-round NFL playoff games Saturday through Monday night?

Is your interest in the league, and these important games that are almost always wildly exciting, going to convince you to watch?

Or is your love of the Browns so great that their disappointing season and absence from the playoffs after a berth in the tournament seemed going into the year to be a foregone conclusion, going to keep you from tuning in?

When his teams of the late 1980s lost three times in four years ro the Denver Broncos in the AFC Championship Game, including twice in excruciating fashion, Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar couldn’t, and didn’t, watch those Super Bowls. He was too upset — too distraught — because he felt strongly that the Browns should have been there instead. It was like watching your significant other going out with someone else.

“No, I don’t think so.”

“No thanks.”

“No way.”

“Not in a million, billion years.”

I’m not sure what I’m going to do. I could go either way.

Sure, I’ll watch at least part of the games so as to keep up with how they went in order to be able to write about them effectively for the site.

But beyond that, I’m undecided.

I love football — I really do — so I can’t see watching only the minimum required for professional purposes.

At the same time, though, I don’t know if I can watch — or would even want to watch — all those games and spend time trying to figure out how the Browns — at least what the Browns should have been — would have done. That’s just punishing yourself, right?

What to do?

Nonetheless, whatever you choose to do, enjoy your weekend.

By Steve King