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Joe Simon

Browns fans hit new low on Sunday

December 1, 2008

If Tim Couch was watching the Cleveland Browns game Sunday, he probably would have understood the frustration brimming from quarterback Derek Anderson after the game. Some of the fans at Cleveland Browns Stadium cheered when Anderson was helped off the field and into the locker room after he suffered what appears to be a season-ending injury to his knee. Anderson said he heard the jeers, and he was understandably upset about it. He’s not the only one. I’ve been a Browns fan all my life, and I’ve never been embarrassed to admit it despite their sometimes pathetic play over the past few years. But on Sunday, I was embarrassed to be a Browns fan. Not because they lost, but because when I wear my Browns gear, I might be grouped in with these people (they don’t deserve the label ‘fans’) who disrespect players who just laid it all on the line for their team. ‘‘They were cheering the fact that I was hurt,” Anderson told reporters after the 10-6 loss to the Colts. ‘‘They don’t like me.

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Class of ’09 has had its share of adversity

November 9, 2008

YOUNGSTOWN

No one on Youngstown State’s football team would admit it, but I guarantee everyone on the Penguins’ sideline was as nervous as they’ve been all season Saturday against Indiana State.

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Grandma Martha, this one is for you

November 8, 2008

Some of you may be wondering what the outcome was in the Tribune Chronicle’s Fearless Football Forecast, the weekly high school football picks done by local members of the media.

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Saying goodbye to colleague and friend

October 31, 2008

I don’t think it really hit me until a week of work went by.

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Selfishness infecting Penguins

October 15, 2008

It’s becoming quite obvious to me that there are some selfish players on the Youngstown State football team, and I can’t take it any more.

The second different starting quarterback quit the football team Tuesday.

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No respect for YSU

September 23, 2008

Apparently Jim Tressel wasn’t all that left Youngstown State seven years ago.

Some national respect for the football team must be intrinsically attached to the legendary coach because it’s gone, too.

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