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cbs People always throw out weird stuff surrounding their death ("When I die I want blah blah blah") but you rarely see people follow through on it. Not Scott E. Entsminger, a Browns fan who died at the age of 55 on July 4. Entsminger "was an accomplished musician, loved playing the guitar and was a member of the Old Fogies Band." He was also, per his obituary in the Columbus Dispatch, a "lifelong Cleveland Browns fan and season ticket holder." The deceased wasn't just your average Browns fan: He apparently wrote a song each year about the Browns, which he sent to the team along with advice about how to run the organization. And he was such a big Browns fan that the family encouraged everyone attending his funeral wear clothes supporting the team. But here's the real kicker -- he wanted his pallbearers to be Browns as well. Why? Well ... "He respectfully requests six Cleveland Browns pall bearers so the Browns can let him down one last time." Oh, Browns. You even managed to get beat by the deceased.
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A sad public recycling of an old joke.
Browns is the Browns
... there goes Joe Thomas, the best there ever was in this game.
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at least the pall bearers have to lift him up before they let him down
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at least the pall bearers have to lift him up before they let him down
Pretty sure they do that in pre-season anyway...
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A sad public recycling of an old joke.
But this was a legitimate person who walked the walk by having it written in his obituary. RIP, I hope we see better times before I cash in my own chips.
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"He respectfully requests six Cleveland Browns pall bearers so the Browns can let him down one last time." -I LOVE that!!! 
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Funny and kinda sad at the same time.
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Hey did you guys know the FBI came in and stopped Browns practice the other day? Apparently they found a white powdery substance, but then resumed practice when they realized it was only the goal line and the Browns were completely safe from it HEY OH!
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I don't know whether to cry or laugh at this... I'm a little conflicted
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Tears will be involved either way...
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Maybe I should start a class action law suit on behalf of all Browns fans for providing a defective/inferior product. Jimmie will have to be at the court house anyway to defend the Pilot suit. 
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OK....just for fun...
Who would the best 6 pallbearers be?
Without too much thought, my initial 6 are:
Ernest Byner (The Fumble)
Brian Sipe (RR88)
Mike Junkin (Worst draft pick ever)
Dennis Northcutt (Why not catch that pass against Steelers?)
Dwayne Rudd (Helmet toss loss)
Mike Phipps (Paul Warfield or this guy)
I'm sure someone will have a much better list.
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Braylon Edwards
Greg Little
Dennis Northcutt
Colt McCoy
Ernest Byner
Brian Robiskie
So it would be 5 guys sans Robiskie who would be with the rest of the crowd watching, while the others dropped me down the stairs.
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Quincy Morgan should be in there too.
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Jeremiah Pharms
Braylon Edwards
Marty Schottenheimer
any member of the Modell family
and, just to make sure that noone found any of this funny:
Derek Anderson
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damnit.
Should I take Colt out. I only put him in because of his hilarious sack/fumbles.
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I wouldn't want them anywhere near my funeral lest it take me more than 60 years to finally reach the Big Show in the Sky.
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... there goes Joe Thomas, the best there ever was in this game.
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http://espn.go.com/nfl/story/_/id/9462342/cleveland-browns-customize-jersey-deceased-fan
classy move by the team:
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The Cleveland Browns have had a customized jersey made for the family of a fan who asked for six players to serve as pallbearers at his funeral.
Browns public relations director Zak Gilbert told ESPN.com that as soon as the Browns learned of Scott E. Entsminger's death they contacted his widow, Pat, to express their condolences.
"She told us that Scott's favorite player was Lou Groza, so we had a 76 jersey customized with Scott's last name," Gilbert said.
A representative from the Browns' front office will personally deliver it to Pat Entsminger at her husband's memorial service Tuesday afternoon.
Scott E. Entsminger, 55, of Mansfield, Ohio, died on July 4 at his home. In his obituary in the Columbus Dispatch, Entsminger, a lifelong Browns fan, requested "six Cleveland Browns pallbearers so the Browns can let him down one last time."
Entsminger's obituary also said he "wrote a song each year and sent it to the Cleveland Browns as well as offering other advice on how to run the team."
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.
Very classy indeed!
I guess the Zac guy was a good hire. Way to flip it from a national joke to a solemn expression of gratitude for being a fan.
Nice work! 
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I'd nominate Modell to be the corpse if he wasn't already dead
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OK....just for fun...
Who would the best 6 pallbearers be?
Without too much thought, my initial 6 are:
Ernest Byner (The Fumble)
Brian Sipe (RR88)
Mike Junkin (Worst draft pick ever)
Dennis Northcutt (Why not catch that pass against Steelers?)
Dwayne Rudd (Helmet toss loss)
Mike Phipps (Paul Warfield or this guy)
I'm sure someone will have a much better list.
That was a very good one, but I'd rather see players or coaches that have let the fans down in a game...especially an important game.
I'd replace Junkin with Shottenheimer because of his "prevent defense" that resulted in "The Drive", costing the Browns a Super Bowl appearance.
I would have replaced Phipps with Foge Fazio...the D coordinator whose D a 2002 playoff gamecollapsed vs the Steelers after the Browns built a 27-7 lead in the third quarter....but Foge is dead.
So how about a "guest pall bearer" like Tony Dungy? He had also let browns fans down in a very unique way.
Recall the Colts had made the playoffs and Dungy had sat his starters in the last game of the season. They of course lost... eliminating the 10-6 browns from the playoffs.
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Sipe
Byner
Marty
Northcutt
Rudd
Dungy (substituting for Foge Fazio)
Unless someone could come up with somebody else for Dungy
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Was anyone else aware that this guy was a poster on this board? Groza76? refs could probably confirm.
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Butch Davis
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I want Pat Shurmur to carry my casket. 5 yards at a time baby.
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Butch Davis
That's a good one because he just up and quit.
Quitting is the worst way to let fans down.
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I would also maybe add DA to keep anyone from getting funny. Nothing is funny at funerals.
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Was anyone else aware that this guy was a poster on this board? Groza76? refs could probably confirm.
Seriously? I remember him.
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Purp and I were just trading PM's back and forth, can't confirm 100%, but given the article stating it was his favorite player and a few mentioning that being his handle on browns board in the comments section...I'm leaning on the opinion it was. Sad if true
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I thought that he was older than 55 (in his sixties), and last I recall, he lived in the New Orleans area. I hope it wasn't, but if it was I'm greatly saddened  In any case, the name mentioned in the article does not match up to anything here.
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Why don't you just PM him? If he's alive and responds all good. If he's dead and responds then I'm putting all my money on the Browns to win the Superbowl.
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We can use him then for our punter, he can hit those coffin corners for us.
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It wasn't Groza 76. I meet him twice before and he was much older than 55
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