What Lebron meant to Cleveland: The best Lebron-related column of the day
To be perpetually stabbed in the back by our heroes, to face continuous reminders of the seemingly endless string of painful losses in the most heartbreaking manner possible on the biggest stages, to having our most beloved franchise torn away from us only to watch it win the Super Bowl in another city just a few years later…..and through it all we have the resiliency to get back up and to do it all over again. We move on to the next hero who we will put our hopes in, and ultimately, probably be let down by again. It’s who we are and it’s what we do.
So no, we don’t deserve this. No, we don’t revel in this latest devastation. But we will get back up from this and we will persevere as Cleveland sports fans. LeBron James took a lot from us last night, but I ask that we not let him take away our passion. That passions is ours and is what makes us who we are.
And I know, I just know, that people are going to take delight in our misery and others will call us classless and will take Dan Gilbert to task for his letter (again, we’ll get to this later as well), but I’m sorry, unless you’ve been a lifelong Cleveland sports fan, you cannot possibly fathom what this is like.
Just read the whole thing. It sucks to be a Cleveland fan right now. It really, really sucks.
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“Loyalty in sports is dead. It’s been dead for quite some time, actually, but we’ve been too blissfully ignorant to open our hearts and let the truth in.”
Clearly this writer hasn’t taken a look at the star Celtics, Patriots and Red Sox players of the last 10 years.
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Well said. But Johnny Damon can suck it.
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That’s sad for Cleveland sports fans, I’m actually kinda sorta rooting for them now, even though I hated them no longer than 2 months ago when we kicked their sorry asses out of the playoffs =D
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In the meantime I’m not sure this letter is really on point as far as Dan Gilbert is concerned.
Gilbert ripped LeBron and the people that gave him too much room to do whatever he wanted, so that he ended like the spoiled child we’ve seen those past weeks.. but HE is one, if not the most prominent of these “all-enabling-because-he’s-our-franchise-player-and-I’m-too-afraid-he-tells-me-to-go-F-myself” figures..
Gilbert is one of the guys that helped make LeBron the egotistical attention whore he is right now in the mind of the Basket Ball World, he can’t get a free pass on that
And that whole “don’t quit on the franchise, continue buying tickets and merchandise” thing… err.. is that guy somehow someway a PR person for the Cav’s organisation?
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You make valid points, but I loved that guy’s passion and feelings. Cleveland is devastated.
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