Thought it was an interesting read:
https://theringer.com/mary-kay-cabot...346#.ohnjdga0y
"I feel sorry for these poor people,” says Mary Kay Cabot. “I really do. It’s heartbreaking to me.” She is gazing forlornly out the press-box window, at all the Cleveland Browns fans.
It is early Sunday afternoon, and the worst team in football is hosting the Cincinnati Bengals at FirstEnergy Stadium in snowy, frigid, inhospitable downtown Cleveland. Should the home team falter today, its record will drop to an unsightly 0–13. It’s getting ugly. Recently, some jokers ran an EA Sports full-game simulation that had the Alabama Crimson Tide beating the Browns 34–0; other jokers closer to home are threatening to throw a parade should the boys achieve perfection and finish 0–16. “It’s disrespectful,” lamented veteran cornerback Joe Haden to reporters the week before. “We’re literally the laughingstock of every joke.”
Cabot is among the longest-suffering and highest-profile of those reporters. For many, she is the official Bearer of Bad News, the Goat Whisperer. She’s put in 20-plus years at hometown paper The Plain Dealer (online at Cleveland.com), along with regular radio and TV gigs, local and national. This stretches back to before the team’s first iteration bolted for Baltimore in the mid-’90s. The Browns’ head coach when she started? Bill Belichick.