Whoever wins tomorrow's Presidential election won't make a bit of difference to my poor Cleveland Browns NFL football team. We have one of the largest fan bases in the league. The Browns have been around since 1950 and only won the top spot once, before the Super Bowl era. That was the 1964 NFL Championship which they won in old Cleveland Municipal Stadium against the old Baltimore Colts. (Interesting fact: Both of these teams bolted to other cities when their owners couldn't get a new stadium financed by the taxpayers. The Colts slipped out of Baltimore one night headed for Indiana and the Browns moved down to Baltimore in the 1990s and became the Ravens, fondly known in Ohio as the "Crows.")

The Browns had the Ravens by the damned feathers yesterday, leading by one point late in the 4th quarter. But, alas, as fate would have it, a Browns player screwed up and got a penalty for something on a 3rd down and the Crows were awarded a first and ten. The penalty literally lost the game because the Baltimore team continued down the field and scored.

What's the difference? It's only a game, right?

HELL NO, IT ISN'T.