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Anderson doesn’t go quietly
Derek Anderson never had all that much to say when he quarterbacked the Cleveland Browns. Teammates liked him and he had a devilish sense of humor, but being in front of cameras and microphones did not come naturally. He often mumbled.
So when he lashed out at the fans after being released on Tuesday, I wasn’t all that surprised he chose an e-mail note in which to do his lashing.
“The fans are ruthless and don’t deserve a winner,” Anderson wrote to the Lake County News-Herald, a suburban Cleveland newspaper that covers the team regularly. “I will never forget getting cheered when I was injured.”
He was referring to how fans treated him when he suffered a season-ending knee injury on Nov. 30, 2008. They behaved despicably that day, much as many had when Tim Couch suffered a concussion against the Baltimore Ravens a few years earlier and had to be helped from the field.
“I know at times I wasn’t great,” Anderson said in his e-mail. “I hope and pray I’m playing when my team comes to town and [we] roll them.”
Anderson is teamless at the moment, but the Seattle Seahawks and Arizona Cardinals are thought to be possible landing spots.
Given the Browns’ luck, he will take one of those teams to the Super Bowl, of course, and win it. Probably next season.
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By Lets Go Dawgs
March 10, 2010 5:57 AM | Link to this
Good Bye Derek, run to Seattle with the little Fry boy and when you do come back to Cleveland as that teams water boy, be sure to keep your helmet, if not one of those D size batteries will knock you out.
By Gary
March 10, 2010 11:15 AM | Link to this
The only way he’ll be playing when his team comes to town is if the 1st and 2nd string qauterbacks are hurt… he ain’t much more than a 3rd stringer…
By Emmett Thornton Beaver
March 10, 2010 11:24 AM | Link to this
you can count on him driving another team to the big one, that’s why Browns exist.
By I'll give you the current news
March 10, 2010 11:27 AM | Link to this
He also said this morning that he was caught up in the moment and has since apologized. Thanks Dayton Daily News for your regular day late news. Nice work! Hope the Bengals get him, I think he can be a solid QB.
By Jack
March 10, 2010 11:46 AM | Link to this
Halfway home Holmgren, now just get rid of Quinn and I can start enjoying watching the games again. The longer Quinn stays, it just allows continued controversey.
By Lil Ben
March 10, 2010 11:52 AM | Link to this
Ahh. The class of Browns fans. The corn-holing, mouth-breathing morons up North. I giggle thinking of them woofing and throwing batteries, anything to get their minds off of the fact that their lives are pathetic and horrible.
By KevinJ
March 10, 2010 11:53 AM | Link to this
Not an Anderson fan by any means, but cheering when any player gets injured is pretty low brow. The Browns still have an uphill battle and Quinn is not the answer. And I’ve yet to see any new acquisitions that will turn the team around. I will be happy if we can at least achieve .500 next year.
By Tony
March 10, 2010 11:56 AM | Link to this
Anderson is right…short of Steeler fans, Browns fans are the most disrespectful!
By mac
March 10, 2010 12:05 PM | Link to this
The Brown’s fans don’t act any different (better or worse) than the fans of any other team. DA showed his class (or lack of class)by his remarks.
By JDawg
March 10, 2010 12:37 PM | Link to this
I’m so sick of hearing that Browns fans cheered when players got hurt. Total BS. Was in the dog pound for injuries to Couch, Frye, and Anderson and it’s just not true. Browns fans either cheered for the player that got hurt (as is customary once you know he is not parlyzed or whatever) or they were cheering for the backup as he warms up and comes on the field. Maybe a few idiots morbidly cheered for the injury but not enough to justify the slander of the rest of us.
By JDAWG
March 10, 2010 12:40 PM | Link to this
I’m so sick of hearing that Browns fans cheered when players got hurt. Total BS. Was in the dog pound for injuries to Couch, Frye, and Anderson and it’s just not true. Browns fans either cheered for the player that got hurt (as is customary once you know he is not parlyzed or whatever) or they were cheering for the backup as he warms up and comes on the field. Maybe a few idiots morbidly cheered for the injury but not enough to justify the slander of the rest of us. DA had his flash in the pan. BYE BYE DA!
By Scott
March 10, 2010 12:48 PM | Link to this
Despite some tough years with our expansion version of the Browns, there some of the greatest fans in all of sports. The 4-time world champion Cleveland Browns will always be loved by me through thick and thin. Anderson was very bad, actually the worst numbers over 7 starts in NFL history last year.
By Joe
March 10, 2010 12:50 PM | Link to this
Here’s a link to the article that “I’ll give you the current news” was talking about; www.cleveland.com/browns/index.ssf/2010/03/derekandersonapologizes_for.html
By William
March 10, 2010 1:53 PM | Link to this
Cheering when someone is injured is absolutey classless. What a way to demnstrate the mentality of your community. No wonder people are leaving the city of Cleveland faster than anywhere else in Ohio.
By Lightning
March 10, 2010 2:46 PM | Link to this
Sean, your an idiot. And those of you fans just getting wind of this are idiots. This happened a year and a half a ago. Lil Ben - you are probably a fan of the sexual preditor Ben Roethlisberger. William - you are a loser as well. Keep up the crappy work Sean. We expect nothing less.
By Sean McClelland
March 10, 2010 3:30 PM | Link to this
Would love to know who “Lightning” is. Not because he called me an idiot. I’ve been called worse. But because he thinks something that happened a year and a half ago isn’t relevant. Guess that’s the beauty of anonymity. Hope it’s not someone I work with.
By dale1
March 10, 2010 3:56 PM | Link to this
The Browns fans think its a compliment when people say they are idiots. Everybody knows the Brown’s fans over-all (not all of them) have no class and are more of a blue collar team. I think the Browns will be better this coming season and showed some promise the end of last season. I am a Bengals fan but would take the Browns if they made a superbowl.
By Sean McClelland
March 10, 2010 4:20 PM | Link to this
How can you be a Bengals fan and root for the Browns “if they made a Super Bowl?” You can’t root for two teams and call yourself a fan of either. It’s like living in New York and saying you root for the Yankees and Mets. It’s ridiculous, just as it is to imply blue-collar fans don’t have class.
By Eric
March 10, 2010 7:42 PM | Link to this
Doesn’t matter your Brown s will be sitting in last place for many years.
By quantoid
March 15, 2010 5:18 PM | Link to this
But like Ben going to Pitt - will Quinn get the Broncos a Super Bowl win after the Browns looked at the quarterback so closely. You noted Sean that the Browns gave Ben the real once over before passing and I wonder if this is a repeat performance by Browns management.