Randy Lerner’s Secret Browns Tattoo and Decoding the Rest of His Interview with Cleveland Scene Magazine

As many of you have probably seen by now, our good friend Vince Grzegorek had a chance to speak with Browns owner Randy Lerner on several occasions over the course of the last few months, and yesterday published an account of these chats in a profile of Lerner at Cleveland Scene. Doing just dandy, worry not(, cake-eaters). Of course, the billionaire rarely speaks with Cleveland reporters at all, let alone at such length and on such a wide range of subjects as he did with Grzegorek. Lerner explains himself that this Scene piece is part of a deliberate attempt to rehabilitate his image with Browns fans, which, thanks to the franchise’s historically embarrassing performance over the last decade-plus, as well as his father’s role in helping Art Modell steal the real Browns away to Baltimore, can be fairly said to be rightly in tatters. At first glance, Lerner’s strategy looks to have been implemented successfully here, because Grzegorek includes the following para...