Eight-Year Old Apparently Tackled for not Being a Browns Fan...

"Not even I, the creator of The Drew Carey Show, can condone this affront to mankind."

... which I guess would mean 99.999999% of all the people in America outside of Cleveland deserve to be tackled as well? What, with Drew Carey now residing in California and all.

In all seriousness, it's becoming more clear every day why LeBron James wanted out and that whole spiel about signing with the Miami Heat because it gave him the best chance at winning a championship? A line, designed to not offend, because the truth: "Clevelanders tackle kids" probably would have landed him some horse manure on the lawn of his Akron, Ohio home.

We know not all Clevelanders are responsible for this reprehensible act, which saw an eight-year-old New York Jets fan get tackled in the parking lot of the Browns' stadium on Sunday following the team's 26-20 loss, but this is unfortunately a case of a few bad apples spoiling it for everyone, with "it" meaning the reputation of every resident of the city. It may not be right, but, c'mon, a dude hit a second-grader! What kind of behaviour, even drunken behaviour is that?

One would have thought that it would have been safe to assume that the line for overzealous, drunken fans was heckling kids, but congratulations, Clevelanders! One of your own not only crossed it, but ran so far past it the line is not even a dot in the rear view. The defense that the child should have known better than to wear a Jets jersey to a Browns home game is no defense at all. If it is ever uttered it would only go to show just how far off the reservation Cleveland Browns fans have gone. More proof? The fact that they're fans of the Cleveland Browns, a team that has yet to win a playoff game in the franchise's existence. Sure, the Browns won four championships between 1950 and 1964, but those were the Baltimore Ravens, weren't they? Does it still sting, Browns fans? Good. Now you know how the kid's scraped leg feels.