The 25 biggest headaches for the Cleveland Browns since 1990 — #25: Gary Baxter

After Gary Baxter's 2005 campaign was cut short by injury, his 2006 season -- and his career -- ended abruptly on this play. (Source: Daylife.com) The past two decades represent a drawn-out, frightful voyage into deep wilderness for the Cleveland Browns franchise and its faithful. Fans of 31 NFL teams are left disappointed each season, but you’d be hard-pressed to name a more snake-bitten enclave than Cleveland’s. Their troubles are well-documented, from soul-crushing AFC Championship Game defeats to John Elway‘s Denver Broncos in the 1980s; to Art Modell’s splintering of the franchise and move to Baltimore in 1995; to the focused, passionate fight of Browns fans to keep the team’s colors and history tied to Cleveland. All of this happening BEFORE the team returned in 1999. Cleveland’s re-emergence on the NFL landscape was cited as a striking triumph for the city over the tentacles of greed tightening around pro sports. The victory trumpets w...