Identical to the Jacksonville Jaguars in week eight, the Cleveland Browns are having fun with their win over the Pittsburgh Steelers. They usually’re utilizing The Horrible Towel in a manner that is positive to anger Steelers followers.
As captured by Browns reporter Camryn Justice after the sport: CB Mike Ford threw down a terrible towel to a Steelers fan earlier than working off and wiping his butt with it as he jogged off the sphere.
Look.
Ford turns into the most recent in a protracted line of gamers to mock The Horrible Towel. To rejoice their week eight win over the Steelers, Jaguars gamers twirled Horrible Towels that they’d taken from the stands after selecting backup QB Mitch Trubisky. A brief ‘curse’ was positioned on their offense they usually fell flat in a blowout loss to the San Francisco 49ers after their bye, though they bounced again right this moment with a convincing win over the Tennessee Titans.
Ford is basically a reserve and particular teamer for Cleveland. He enters right this moment’s sport with simply 51 defensive snaps, with the vast majority of his work approaching particular groups. He completed with only one sort out on Sunday.
Lately, the likes of TJ Houshmandzadeh and LenDale White have desecrated the Horrible Towel after which introduced its “curse” upon themselves. It stays to be seen if the identical destiny will occur to Ford and his Browns, now 7-3 and in second place within the AFC North after right this moment’s 13-10 win. Pittsburgh will not get an opportunity to get revenge within the common season because it completes its season break up with Cleveland right this moment. The one probability the 2 might meet once more could be within the playoffs, though that will take loads.
The Steelers will look to channel their frustration from the loss and apply it to their subsequent AFC North opponent once they journey to Cincinnati and play the Bengals subsequent weekend.