It’s an exciting time for fans of the Cleveland Browns. The team has been aggressive this offseason building a squad capable of competing for a postseason spot under new head coach Freddie Kitchens, with the latest example of this coming earlier in the week, when the front office got Baker Mayfield a No. 1 target in Odell Beckham Jr.
The Browns aren’t exactly known for being an organization with a bright future, and their fans are hardly the most optimistic bunch. Perhaps that’s why one Clevelander had no idea what to do when she saw a neighbor sprinting up and down the street, screaming and flailing their arms around aimlessly.
This is the story of two people — Corita Jackson and Robert Stewart, who live across the street from one another in the Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights. Jackson was getting her kids out of the car on Tuesday night, at which point she heard a very high-pitched screaming coming from down the road. She looked and saw Stewart running around for reasons she did not understand, so she decided to call the police.
As you can guess, Stewart is a gigantic Browns fan and was just celebrating the Beckham trade. Here is a local news dispatch on what happened next.
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The cops eventually showed up, at which point Stewart, who is 17, explained why he was freaking out.
“‘Oh, we got OBJ!'” Stewart recalled saying to the cops. “And then we dapped it up. Everything was all cool and they went back on about their day.”
Jackson, as she tells it, isn’t a particularly huge football fan, but after the officers walked across the street and explained why Stewart was having an extremely good time, she offered up her congratulations. It’s generally hard for a story to be fun when someone gets the cops called on them, but thankfully this was a lighthearted misunderstanding. Anyway, I’d like it if the Cleveland Browns would go on and win the Super Bowl this year, because Stewart says he’s unsure how he’d react, but hypothesizes that “I might be flying.”
