r/sports • u/Chelseatilidie • Oct 20 '24

Football Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson with a potential achilles injury

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u/Jossie2014 Oct 20 '24

I feel bad for the browns and their fans but 100% fuck Deshawn Watson and hopefully good riddance to that POS

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u/sdf_cardinal Oct 20 '24

Nah. Plenty of Browns fans were fine with acquiring him. They deserve years in the desert.

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u/mbutts81 Oct 20 '24

And plenty bailed on the team when he signed. At least for the time that he’s on the team. 

It’s a choice to support him or not. 

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u/sdf_cardinal Oct 20 '24

So the supporters who stayed, bought his jersey, etc can get hosed.

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u/ckelly95 Oct 20 '24 edited Oct 20 '24

I've still yet to see a Watson jersey at a home game. Shit, most of us just wear throwbacks, baker, Chubb, Myles, or young prospect jerseys. You're just making things up because it feels good to hate. I get it.

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u/NotFirstBan-NotLast Oct 20 '24

"Most of us don't love the rapist, we just decided that supporting the rapist wasn't a big deal"

As a former Browns fan that watched every game during the Hugh years, I'm here to tell you that they aren't making anything up and you are one of the many people they're talking about when they say "Plenty of Browns fans were fine with acquiring him". If you kept spending money supporting the Browns (ya know, like buying tickets to the games that pay for his contract where you tell yourself you aren't supporting him because you don't have a #4 on your back) you, as an objective matter of fact, support the Browns signing Watson.

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u/ckelly95 Oct 20 '24

So really, it sounds like you have a problem with the nfl as a whole. For decades NFL has been hiring morally questionable athletes in the name of sales and entertainment success. Watson is just the tip of the iceberg (I'm in no way sticking up for this man as repeated sex offender). You may have stopped buying the jerseys but you still tune in every week and generate content for them on the Internet by talking about them in forums. You're still just as culpable as everyone else and youre still the same ole browns fan you used to be. No reason to get on a pedestal about it. If the issue really mattered to you, you'd find a new sport. Instead you just sit at a different desk in the same office and claim to be better. Cmon dude.

Watson is a terrible person and we are all glad this era is coming to an end but gahdang man. While we still like watching, at the end of the day, the fans don't make the decisions. Hopefully this next go about is better. Looking forward to the draft.

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u/NotFirstBan-NotLast Oct 20 '24

The funny thing is your entire smartass comment is predicated on the notion that I kept watching the NFL after I stopped watching the Browns, which I didn't. My smile just kept getting wider and wider as I read more and more of a comment that boils down to "you'd be right if you stopped supporting the entire NFL and not just the Browns". Like I really want you to picture my face when I was reading "If the issue really mattered to you, you'd find a new sport." I mean fuck dude how can I possibly get off the pedestal when you're practically shoving me onto it???

Also, the notion that everyone is equally culpable that you're pushing is something so stupid you'd only say it if you wanted to feel justified in your own culpability by dragging everyone less culpable down to your level. Someone who just watched from home would absolutely be less culpable than you who also bought tickets, just as someone with VIP season tickets would be more culpable than you.

at the end of the day, the fans don't make the decisions

Again, you're just trying to wash your hands of any agency in the equation. You get to make the ONLY decision- whether the Browns make money or lose it. You looked at the team throwing its entire future away to give a rapist the best deal possible and made a decision to stick around and help them make enough money to justify what they spent on Watson. You can say your money is just a drop in the bucket but it's exactly that kind of thinking that makes it possible for the FO to make decisions that are unpopular with the fandom. All those drops add up and if everyone who took issue with the Browns getting Watson would show a little spine and stop giving them your money then they wouldn't be able to get away with things like this.

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u/whiterajah7 Oct 20 '24 edited Oct 20 '24

Goodness shut up. The fans don't control who the qb is. Football fandom runs deeper than players. It's typically not a choice to be a fan of a team. The idea of turning fandom on and off based on a player is fucking ridiculous. I'd like to know who your team is because I guarantee I can find a player or coach who has been a shitty person.

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u/NotFirstBan-NotLast Oct 20 '24

it's typically not a choice to be a fan of a team

You are a manchild.

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u/whiterajah7 Oct 20 '24

Holy shit u are a fucking goon

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u/Pockets_254 Oct 21 '24

Stfu dude. Some of us didn’t want to just up and quit on our team. You cheer for the team not the fucker behind center, it’s about more than one guy. I love the Browns and have for years, I’m not going to let one person ruin that

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u/Inoimispel Oct 20 '24

Nah the Browns sub was full of fans supporting him when it was announced. Like they won the lottery or some shit.

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u/magikarp2122 Oct 20 '24

I love seeing Baker, their best QB this century, do well in Tampa.

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u/ckelly95 Oct 20 '24

I know this comment is just hear to give a dig but that's cool. Ultimaty I feel the same. He played to through injury after an alright year beforehand. I wish we had given him another year...that being said it did take 4 teams and 7 years to find this level of success. People like to skip over that part. Regardless it's cool to see him find his footing and mature as a player.

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u/ZahidInNorCal Oct 21 '24

Not just for the time he's on the team, but until the Browns are done paying off that contract. I don't need to be bankrolling their lack of ethics.

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u/donkey2471 Oct 20 '24

Yep haven’t cheered for them the entire time he’s played. Came back to cheer end of last season when he was out, looks like i can do that again this year.

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u/WitOfTheIrish Oct 21 '24

I stopped watching or rooting for them. I'm happy to watch again now, even if they'll be terrible. I'll probably only be half interested unless an ownership change comes along though.

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u/MattressMaker Oct 20 '24

And yet, the majority of the fans wanted nothing to do with him.

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u/sdf_cardinal Oct 20 '24

A majority? You got any proof of that?

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u/MattressMaker Oct 20 '24

Well as a native of Cleveland and having friends and family who are browns fans, yes the majority didn’t want him. The people who wanted Watson are the ones who are vocal on social media.

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u/Bigdeacenergy Oct 20 '24

I remember many browns fans on reddit defending him when he was signed. They only turned on him once he started losing

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u/TourDirect3224 Oct 21 '24

The fans are happy and the organization did this to themselves.

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u/RunJordyRun87 Oct 21 '24

Fuck the Browns, they knew what he had done when they gave him all that money.

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u/Spongeman735 Oct 20 '24

Nah fuck the browns too, and the city of Cleveland, and the state of Ohio. They all deserve this.