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There are a lot of weird and gross things in the sports world we all sort of agree is ‘normal’ like how local taxpayer money goes into the funding of a new arena a stadium but I refuse to allow the Cleveland Browns get away with this nonsense. Not right now.
The Browns are looking to move downtown and build a $1 billion new stadium that will be publicly funded with taxpayer dollars.
It’s always been insane how we allow billionaires to take so many shortcuts. Every business move they make that will cost them a significant amount of money seems to always to funded by the government through our taxes yet those same billionaires can suddenly find hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars, to fund Republican political campaigns based entirely on demonizing poor people who desperately need the government to aid them.
The workers are lazy living off the system but the CEOs are geniuses who work the hardest and deserve free stadiums to help them make even more money.
We all have coworkers who think the economy is tanking because the government gave outa couple thousand dollars in stimulus checks. The checks we all needed while our jobs shutdown and we all had our income completely taken from us.
Yet, no one has a problem with all of the major corporations that received PPP loans. The loans were meant to help small businesses continue to pay their employees but most of the money was given to companies that have millions in the bank and did not need the extra money. The Los Angeles Lakers, for example, got a PPP loan.
Billionaires squeeze every free penny out of the government and then blame poor people for the state of the economy. Sports owners should have to pay for their stadiums. Not the locals. Especially when a majority of them will never step foot in these arenas.
But it’s even more disgusting for the Cleveland Browns who rushed to give Deshaun Watson a record-setting 5-year $230 million guaranteed contract despite him missing an entire NFL season while battling 22 active civil lawsuits because he could not stop taking his wee wee out during massages.
I know that Watson story doesn’t seem like a big deal for a lot of people but if you’re a local plumber in New Orleans and Drew Brees DMs you on Instagram saying he needs his toilet fixed, you’d be excited as hell to go.
And let’s see you got to Brees’s house and thought you did a great job cleaning his drain then at the end Brees takes his dick out and asks you for a handjob. He’s the biggest star in town and turned out to be a massive pervert.
You now see that 15 other plumbers have had the same nasty experience with Brees. And every time you tell people about what happened, they say ‘Nah, I would’ve punched him in the face’ or ‘you’re just lying for money’. Or ‘you knew what you were signing up for when Brees asked you to come over privately’.
A bunch of women gave the biggest athlete in Houston a massage thinking they were special and perhaps their career was going to explode from the exposure and the only thing that exposed and exploded was Deshaun Watson.
$230 million guaranteed. Dope. He’s won only ONE (1) playoff game in 5 seasons. He’s a sexual predator. And he has the biggest contract in NFL history.
We also have no idea how long the NFL is going to suspend him. That didn’t stop the Browns from giving him everything he’s ever wanted. Deshaun Watson didn’t even play a single game last season. The Browns rewarded one of the biggest assholes in the NFL with all the money in the world.
If Browns owners, Jimmy and Dee Haslam, have a quarter million to throw at a quarterback who could very easily never play in the NFL again, then they have enough money to buy their own fucking stadium without taking that money from the people in Cleveland who actually need it .
Deshaun Watson saw 66 massage therapists in 17 months and people in Cleveland—many of whom cannot afford a message let alone 66 of them in a year and a half—have to give money directly out of their paychecks to fund the building Watson works at.
Obviously, we can be mad at the Panthers and Seahawks and any other team that tried to acquire Watson but those teams didn’t give him the biggest bag ever. Cleveland did. Jimmy Haslam did.
The same Jimmy Haslam who is the CEO of Pilot Flying J trucking company that had 17 employees plead guilty to a fraud scheme worth up to $50 million a few years back and completely distanced himself by claiming he had no idea what was going on.
Here is what the Department of Justice said regarding Pilot Flying J’s scamming:
“Evidence presented at trial proved a scheme to defraud certain Pilot Flying J trucking company customers through false and fraudulent representations and promises of diesel fuel discounts that were intended to induce victim customers to purchase diesel fuel from Pilot Flying J rather than a competitor. The scheme resulted in victim customers being cheated out of their promised diesel fuel discounts. The evidence at trial showed that the scheme’s goals were to increase Pilot’s market share of diesel fuel sales over its competitors, maximize Pilot’s profits, and maximize the scheme-participants’ potential for profit- and commission-based compensation from trucking companies targeted through the scheme to defraud.”
If that didn’t make total sense to you, no worries. Here is what a former Pilot Flying J exec said in a privately recorded conversation from 2013:
“I wasn’t tryin’ to fuck the guy but we were doin’ the math. … And if his discount was gonna end up bein’ 38 cents? Shit, I’d make it 29 cents. … I was sendin’ him a check for fuckin’ $900,000 … does he know it’s supposed to be $1.2 [million]?”
Somehow, Haslam walked away from all this totally unscathed by claiming he didn’t know about what was happening in his own company.
In 2012, Haslam bought the Cleveland Browns for $1 billion. In 2013, his company was raided by the FBI. He faced zero consequences.
This asshole spent $1 billion of stolen money to purchase the Browns and is now planning to steal another $1 billion from Cleveland taxpayers.
His company steals millions of dollars: he doesn’t know anything about that.
Deshaun Watson harasses every woman he’s alone in a room with: Haslam gives him the most money ever.
The Browns want a new stadium: let the peasants—who my company robbed and my quarterback assaulted—pay for it.
For the first time ever, Baker Mayfield and I can agree on ONE thing: Fuck the Cleveland Browns.
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