The dysfunction of the NFL’s Cleveland Browns went beyond poor on-field performance with pornography being inadvertently broadcast at the team’s facility, according to a new story.
In a new feature, ESPN uncovered the relationships between team owner Jimmy Haslam, and the various coaches and general managers that he had sacked during his seven years owning the laughing stock franchise.
Prior to this season, where the Browns won seven games, Cleveland won just four games in three years including the second 0-16 season in NFL history.
In the midst of that run of losing and with the anger of fans rising, ESPN reported that marketing executives “wanted employees to see how fans were engaging with the Browns on social media, so they projected the Browns feed onto a giant wall at the facility.”
“It was like broadcasting talk radio over the entire building, and one day in particular, it was worse than that,” ESPN’s Seth Wickersham wrote.
“One of the marketing staffers entered a search for #dp -- for Dawg Pound. The problem was, that hashtag carried a few different meanings, one of which triggered an array of porn to be broadcast onto a wall for the entire office to see for more than 20 minutes, until a tech employee killed the feed,” he continued.
The situation in Cleveland is looking more promising with the Browns announcing earlier this month that interim head coach Freddie Kitchens was taking the role fulltime.
Cleveland, inspired by rookie quarterback Baker Mayfield, won five of its last seven games to end the season.
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