Cleveland Browns News 5/17: Schedule Reverberations, Berea Bulldozers, and Used Car Commercials
So, I’ve been messing around with video content. It’s all the rage, you know. People want to consume video on their phones, tablets, TVs, and whatnot, and it’s in demand. We already do several live shows every week and have added individual one-on-ones, which we put through our system and scatter into this article and others.
But still, there’s more demand. People want to see videos on Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, you name it, and so I’ve been messing around with phone-shot videos that are really short—one—or two-minute type stuff.
So far, it’s been a total disaster. I tried taking this newswire and running down the top stories of the day in under two minutes, throwing in a joke or two along the way, just shot from my computer. If you can imagine a heavyset 60-year-old guy talking fast at you about Cleveland Browns news of the day interspersed with clips from Twitter and browser screen grabs, you have a sense of what was developed. That may work for 20-something Youtube influencers, but with me, it basically comes off as the world’s sleaziest used car commercial, except Browns news.
It’s not me. I haven’t found a short format that works with my doofiness and less-than-informative tendencies. I mean, is there a market for 90-second videos of an old guy screaming at clouds about subjects like “if Michael Hall is anything like Michael Dean Perry, they better bring back that McDonald’s triple cheeseburger with bacon like they had for MDP?” Probably not. I’m not sure there’s anyone under 40 who knows who Michael Dean Perry was.
So, somehow, I have to find my “voice” in a format designed for people 40 years younger than me. Or I bail out and find someone 40 years younger than I am to do it. Either way, growing old has its challenges.
An unrelated challenge is finding LINKS OF MODERATE INTEREST now that the schedule has been released. It’s tough finding things that aren’t just schedule regurgitations from aggregators in my feeds this morning. But here’s what I found…
Within about thirty seconds of looking at the schedule, I had about ten thoughts running through my head about how it would impact the Browns 2024 season. I thought about how I liked the timing of the bye, noticed the back-loaded prime time games, etc. You probably did, too.
The difference between you, men, and the folks above is that they have an editor behind them tapping his foot and looking at his watch, occasionally murmuring, “Where are the takeaways?” So, they had to write down all these things and hope that there were some that their readers hadn’t already thought of. I’ve linked them above so you can decide for yourselves whether they (and your friends at the OBR) were able to come through with original takes on the schedule you hadn’t already had.
