Zebra stripes and leopard spots

The Browns' home preseason game on Saturday against Detroit won't be blacked out. On Tuesday, the team brokered a deal with the TV carrier of its preseason games, WKYC Channel 3, to split the cost of the remaining unsold tickets.In Cleveland, this might actually be bad news for a fan base that was expecting so much more than what Eric Mangini's squad delivered in Green Bay last Saturday.It was one preaseason game, on the road, in one of the NFL's most intimidating environments for visitors, against a Packers team that is less than two years removed from the doorstep of the Super Bowl. But it meant so much more for Browns fans hanging over their television sets like starving dogs, ready to lap up any morsel of anything that could be construed as progress, anything that might show us that the organization is rising from the ashes of the Phil Savage-Romeo Crennel led train wreck of last season.What we got was a 17-0 beatdown that wasn't even that close. Outside of B...