University of Tennessee Grad Makes Browns worse

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Good article. I love to read about the inner workings of companies and large groups. It always amazes me how much money they make despite how dysfunctional some of them can be.

This passage cracked me up....

"Marketing executives wanted employees to see how fans were engaging with the Browns on social media, so they projected the Browns feed onto a giant wall at the facility. It was like broadcasting talk radio over the entire building, and one day in particular, it was worse than that. One of the marketing staffers entered a search for #dp -- for Dawg Pound. The problem was, that hashtag carried a few different meanings, one of which triggered an array of porn to be broadcast onto a wall for the entire office to see for more than 20 minutes, until a tech employee killed the feed."
 
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I also enjoy reading about companies and large organizations... I've read about multiple pro sports teams through books, currently reading about the inner workings of the USFL the rise and fall.
 

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I also enjoy reading about companies and large organizations... I've read about multiple pro sports teams through books, currently reading about the inner workings of the USFL the rise and fall.

I would be curious as to your thoughts on the USFL once you finish reading. I was able to do some radio coverage of the early days of that league since the NJ Generals were training in Orlando. They had Chuck Fairbanks as coach and made a huge splash signing Hershel away from UGA a year early.

Seems like they could have been successful as a spring football alternative but Donald Trump convinced other owners to move to a fall schedule to compete directly with the NFL (and hope to force a merger). That didn't work out so well. Maybe a spring pro football league could have had a long shelf life had they stuck to their original plan.
 

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Driskel & Co lost to the Browns.....twice.

That sucks even by Ohio standards.
 
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I would be curious as to your thoughts on the USFL once you finish reading. I was able to do some radio coverage of the early days of that league since the NJ Generals were training in Orlando. They had Chuck Fairbanks as coach and made a huge splash signing Hershel away from UGA a year early.

Seems like they could have been successful as a spring football alternative but Donald Trump convinced other owners to move to a fall schedule to compete directly with the NFL (and hope to force a merger). That didn't work out so well. Maybe a spring pro football league could have had a long shelf life had they stuck to their original plan.

So far it's an interesting read.... but I'm still in the set up of the teams, and the difference between the cheap owners and the ones more willing to spend.
 

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A UT Grad and The Cleveland Browns...... what could possibly go wrong? :dunno:



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