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Wednesday, March 10, 2010
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.
