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Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Stallworth gets a month for killing a guy
The guy he killed was jaywalking, so this apparently had something to do with receiver Donte Stallworth receiving a mere 30-day jail sentence today in his DUI-manslaughter case.
Oh well. Maybe it’s good news for the Browns. Maybe they can still squeeze some production out of this guy. Certainly he gave them little last season, starting in training camp when he spiked a shoeless Braylon Edwards as they pranced around after practice.
Chances are NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell will have something to say about this. Expect him to come down on Stallworth with a healthy disciplinary action of at least a few games. I mean, a DUI with nobody dying likely would result in some league penalty, no?
Meanwhile, the Browns have been stocking up on mediocre veterans and promising rookies just in case Stallworth’s NFL career is over and/or the urge to trade Braylon Edwards (maybe to the Jets if they don’t get Plaxico Burress?) strikes the fancy of head coach Eric Mangini.
And make no mistake, Mangini is running the show with the Browns. The whole show. The general manager, George Kokinis, is merely the instrument through which Mangini communicates with the rest of the league on matters of trades and such. How this is different from the failed Butch Davis/Pete Garcia pairing is not readily apparent, but this is the direction owner Randy Lerner (who couldn’t even be bothered to take questions when Mangini was hired) has chosen to take.
IN THE COMMENTS SECTION, somebody made reference to the Browns’ Web site and how it’s filled with the real truth about the team, especially how the whole Mangini busing-the-rookies to Connecticut fiasco was supposedly blown way out of proportion. That site, just so we’re clear, is a house organ dedicated to writing whatever Mangini (or whomever) wants it to write. Somebody told me Butch used to assign stories to the writers on the site, and I don’t think the person who told me that was joking.
And that’s fine, but I miss the musings of Steve King, the veteran journalist who was terminated when Lerner decided to save a few nickels and fire a bunch of people. If you’re a Browns fan, you like hearing about the team’s history because, well, it’s usually so much better than the present. King was always there with a story about some player from the past, Milt Morin maybe, who you hadn’t thought about in a while.
King gave the site some credibility, if nothing else.
SO JIM BROWN thinks the Browns are headed in the right direction. Love listening to Jim, but this is getting old. He says the same thing every year.
A TRADITION DIED in May when the Browns Backers of Greater Dayton could not put on their annual banquet (traditionally emceed by Doug Dieken) due to shortage of funds.
