Cleveland Browns fans build Halloween QB graveyard
By John Buhler
A husband and wife who are also Cleveland Browns fans have hilariously constructed a quarterback graveyard for Halloween at their house with 22 headstones.
Since the Cleveland Browns returned from obscurity in 1999, the hapless AFC North franchise has gone through 22 starting quarterbacks in 16 years. A married couple of Browns fans decided to have a little fun with their misery by creating a Cleveland Browns quarterback graveyard in their front yard for Halloween this year.
It’s like the antithesis of the graveyard at Clemson University. Every failed Cleveland Browns quarterback since 1999 has a tombstone in the front yard of Tony Timoteo. Should the Timoteo’s run out of space, their neighbors have all agreed to allow further Browns quarterback graveyard expansion on to their adjacent properties.
From Tim Couch to Kelly Holcomb to Charlie Frye to Thaddeus Lewis to Brandon Weeden, all 22 Browns quarterbacks of the last decade and a half are all accounted for. The Timoteos even had to put the proper initials in front of the McCown Brothers (Luke and current starter Josh) to differentiate the pocket passing siblings.
Two new headstones were even added for quarterbacks still on the Browns active roster in Johnny Manziel and Josh McCown. Both have question marks for their inevitable demises. Manziel’s has a few dollar signs above his name.
There is a pair of gloved hands reaching out of the grave of former starter Brian Hoyer, as the Timoteos believe that the Houston Texans quarterback will one day come back to haunt the Cleveland Browns organization. Given that Hoyer looked somewhat competent for former Browns Offensive Coordinator Kyle Shanahan, that isn’t entirely impossible.
Should Cleveland and Houston continue their losing ways in 2015, this could become an annual rivalry for the Texans and Browns franchises. It would resemble the Colts-Patriots rivalry, but one of sheer ineptitude. The Browns are five games back of rival Cincinnati in the loss column in the AFC North, but don’t forget Cleveland did beat the Baltimore Ravens this year. Too bad the Ravens could see themselves as a 1-6 following a loss to the Arizona Cardinals on Monday Night Football.
Misery loves company, but the Timoteos are running out of space in their front yard. Can either Josh McCown or Johnny Manziel save the Cleveland Browns and the Timoteo’s front lawn? Probably not, but the married Browns are making some great lemonade out of the lemons the Browns front office continues to put under center on the shores of Lake Erie.