Droughns Newest
Dawgwin Award Winner
By: CRS Staff
May 30th, 2006
As consistent as the losing
seasons and pummelings at the hands of division rival Pittsburgh, so too has been one other constant in the Browns rebirth
- at some point each year a player wearing the orange and brown will do something dumb off the field. Sort of like
the Browns' version of the Darwin Award (we'll just call it the Dawgwin Award), this annual rite of passage has seen players
arrested for drug possession (see 2001 Dawgwin co-winners Mike Sellers and Gerard Warren), get stabbed in the back by an angry,
revenge-seeking spouse (see '03 winner William Green), and flip over the handlebars of a newly purchased motorcycle (see
'05 winner Kellen Winslow).
So common has this become
that news of Reuben Droughns' arrest for domestic assault prompted the following email exchange with two of my friends, Tim
and Carmen (also long-suffering Cleveland sports fans):
Tim:
Can we just have one offseason without a Browns player doing something stupid? I bet Reuben really had to bear
down to get the best of Kellie.
Me:
The only thing worse
would be if he had run her over with a motorcycle. That would have been some juicy irony right there.
Tim:
That would just be irony. Juicy irony would be if he ran her over with a motorcycle, flipped over the handlebars, blew
out his knee, and while he is on the ground in pain Kellie stabs him in the back, and then Jim Brown shows up and saves Reuben
by slapping Kellie around, then flees with Reuben in a white Bronco.
Me: You
forgot to add "flees to Baltimore
in a white Bronco,
stopping only to pick-up Gerard Warren from Plaxico Burress' party in Pittsburgh".
Carmen:
The ultimate irony would be Reuben is caught from behind next January as he's trying to run for the playoff-winning touchdown
because of a stab wound to his knee, inflicted in revenge by his wife after his domestic violence charge. Not only
would we then have the pain of the loss to live with, we'd also have to add "The Stab" to "The Drive", "The Shot", "The Fumble",
and "Red Right 88" on the list of things that could only happen in Cleveland.
Yup,
only in Cleveland. And again, congratulations to Reuben Droughns, the 2006 winner of the Dawgwin Award. I'm
sure Kellen II is very proud.
