Cleveland Vintage Blog — Football

As I watch the snow falling down in buckets, and the estimated snow totals continuing to rise to as high as 13 inches throughout Northeast Ohio, I find myself daydreaming of an alternate universe. No, not of a universe without snow. It's integral here. It's Sunday as well in this alternate universe, and it's the morning of the AFC Championship Game. In this universe — because there are infinite universes, I'm 99 percent sure this is possible in at least one of them — the Cleveland Browns are not only playing in the game, but they are hosting it. That's...

During his ten-year NFL career, Michael Dean Perry was a six-time Pro Bowler, two-time All-Pro selection, and was the UPI Defensive Player of the Year in 1989. But the most important and lasting impact of Perry's career came during his time in Cleveland (he played for the Browns from 1988 to 1994), when he ushered in the magnificent MDP, a triple cheeseburger slathered in bacon - and circular bacon at that! Now, the MDP is no more and hasn't been for nearly 30 years, but maybe it's time we did something right for a change as a society and brought it...