In the wake of last week’s removal of Tony Grossi from the Plain Dealer’s Browns beat, some folks tried to scare up the boogeyman of Art Modell’s induction into the NFL Hall of Fame. Grossi had been the leading advocate on the Hall’s selection committee for the righteous cause of keeping Modell out, so the line was that the Art Modell induction ceremony that had heretofore only been the subject of our worst nightmares would soon become a reality with Grossi off the beat.
This of course ignored the fact that the selection committee has to have a member from every NFL city, that Grossi would soon be replaced with someone else from Cleveland, as he was today with the PD’s Mary Kay Cabot, and that anyone from Cleveland who isn’t a complete raging sociopath would be just as successful as Grossi was in advocating for such a purely righteous cause.
Of course, anyone who isn’t a complete raging sociopath understands that Modell’s induction wo...
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