The Cleveland Browns welcome the Baltimore Ravens to the Stadium on Sunday, and one way or another a streak will end.

The Browns are looking for their third consecutive home win. Baltimore quarterback Joe Flacco is 9-0 vs. the Browns. The Ravens are also looking to sweep the Browns for the fifth consecutive year.

Something has to give – but what?

Let’s see if we can find out.

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You’ll have to ask Pat.

From the President, right down to the players gutting it out on the field through the official half-way point in this 2012 season of Cleveland Browns football, Pat Shurmur must have all of the answers because all of the questions are being deflected his way.  However, my question might not be all that complicated.

According to my pre-season prediction, the Browns are ahead of schedule and over-achieving with two victories in their pocket and eight opportunities to add to that total.  2-14 only happens if they’ve put their winning ways behind them, and yes, I am referring to winning of two out of three as winning ways.  We all know that the bar has to be set low, and I’d say that the primary objective for the season, at least win a single game, was achieved on October 14^th.

Beyond getting into the win column again, how do we gage success in the second half of the season?

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Green Bay struggles at home against the Gabberts.  The Bears almost blow it vs. the Cams.  The only pick that everyone got right last week was the Browns in the home upset over the Riverses.  Thank you, crappy Cleveland weather and thank you, Robert Meachum.

As the days tick down to my wife's delivery day (appropriately "D-Day") and the end of sleep as I know it, the boys and I find ourselves at 55-62 (DJC), 54-63 (BT), and 53-64 (Me) after BT went 8-6 and DJC/Me went 6-8 in Week 8.  So, midway through the season, we are in a dead heat of mediocrity.  It's like watching Seth Rogen try to dunk.  Yes, boys and girls, it's that enthralling.

BT finished the first half with an Executive Lock record of 4-4, so even those "sure things" were as ordinary as a Steelers fan at a Golden Corral.

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As we struggle to survive another season with the new-era Browns, one way we can try to get through it (besides alcohol or heavy medication) is to look back at the best individual weeks of the Browns’ new era to remember times in recent memory when this particular week didn’t suck.

The vast majority of those of us able to access this type of column via the internet has absolutely no first-hand memory of seeing man land on the moon for the first time. We were either unborn, too young to remember it, or simply too young to fully appreciate its massive significance.

Consequently, we tend to take landing on the moon for granted, ranking it behind other, slightly more relatable generation-altering achievements like the internet or parachute pants.

Fortunately, the Browns’ blowout victory over the mighty New England Patriots two years ago gave the subset of that moon-landing-deprived group who are also Cleveland sports fans a general idea of what it must have been like to see Neil Armstrong do-si-doe across the sea of tranquility back in ’69.

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