Author interviews, book reviews, editors picks, and more. Fumble : The Browns, Modell, & the Move Available from these sellers. False Start: How the New Browns Were Set Up to Fail The author is the former executive vice president- treasurer of Cleveland Stadium Corp, a company formed by Browns owner Art Modell, to operate the stadium under a 25-year lease with the City of Cleveland. The book "Fumble !" chronicles the difficulties that went with operating the aging and obsolete city-owned stadium, as the writer describes from the many diaries and transaction summaries which he maintained since 1975. Along with the interesting tales of the conditions of the building and the other interesting events held there, Poplar also weaves in 20 years of Browns football memories under five head coaches........ranging from Forrest Gregg in 1975 through the end of the reign of Bill Belichick in 1996. The book is sure to rekindle fond memories of those exciting Kardiac Kids finishes, and the not-so-memorable climaxes, including the "Drive"and the "Fumble", along with the terminations of those five head coaches.
During my tenure as an officer of the company, I saw how the local attitudes toward Modell slowly began taking a turn for the worse during the 1980's.After reigning as one of the top Dawgs in Cleveland for some time, I saw Art Modell slowly losing his grip on Cleveland. Modell's Stadium lease was being blamed in part for the failures of the Cleveland Indians by then-president Gabe Paul, and in some quarters the Browns' president was being accused of not living up to his obligations under the Stadium lease. I also witnessed Modell's victory in a lawsuit over a minority shareholder of the Cleveland Browns be overturned by the Ohio Supreme Court in 1986, and the profound effect that loss had on him. When City officials then rejected his plan to make yet further improvements to the Stadium at his own cost, Modell began to seriously ponder his future in the city and that of his Cleveland Browns. Amidst all this growing criticism, Modell tried even harder to field a winner. With the advent of free agency in the NFL in 1993, the team maximized its spending on available players, hoping to hit the right combination to provide the victories to get the Cleveland Browns to the Super Bowl.
But the costs were mounting faster than the victories, and eventually all Art Modell could say when asked why he was moving the team to Baltimore, was "I had no choice." Many of my friends asked me what Art Modell meant when he made that statement. There was no further explanation ever offered to go along with those words. That is what prompted me begin the process of writing this book It was written for those Browns fans who really want to know more about why this NFL team said it could no longer stay in Cleveland. Publisher: Cleveland Landmarks Pr (October 1997) 1.2 x 6.5 x 9.8 inches Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds #1,596,000 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) in Books > Sports & Outdoors > Football (American) 5 star55%4 star27%3 star18%See all verified purchase reviewsTop Customer ReviewsFive Stars|Great historical facts with financial lessons for every businessman.Not as enjoyable as I had hoped Most Recent Customer ReviewsSearch Customer ReviewsShop Team Byner »
Everybody Fumbles Autographed Book Welcome to a New Book from Earnest Byner, Everybody Fumbles, the book talks about amongst other things, the mistakes that are made which are often critical and how to recover from them. This book comes signed by Coach Byner and is now available. MVP #3: The Football Fumble (A Stepping Stone Book(TM))DetailsMVP #2: The Soccer Surprise (A Stepping Stone Book(TM)) FREE Shipping on orders over . DetailsMVP #1: The Gold Medal Mess (A Stepping Stone Book(TM)) FREE Shipping on orders over . David A. Kelly is a former Little League right fielder. These days, he can often be found enjoying a game at a major-league park. He is also the author of the Ballpark Mysteries series and Babe Ruth and the Baseball Curse. He lives near Boston’s Fenway Park with his wife, two sons, and his dog. Age Range: 6 - 9 years Grade Level: 1 - 4 Lexile Measure: 0580 (What's this?) Series: A Stepping Stone Book(TM) (Book 3) Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers;
Dgs edition (September 6, 2016) 5.2 x 0.3 x 7.6 inches Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) #41,009 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) in Books > Children's Books > Sports & Outdoors > Football in Books > Children's Books > Mysteries & Detectives in Books > Children's Books > Growing Up & Facts of Life > Friendship, Social Skills & School Life > Emotions & Feelings 45 star75%4 star25%See all verified purchase reviewsTop Customer ReviewsA chapter book for young readers.|WASHINGTON, DC— During a press conference today, Senator James Lankford (R-OK) released a federal government waste and solutions report. The report highlights examples of wasteful or duplicative spending, along with burdensome regulations but also offers policy solutions to each of the problems. Lankford’s report, entitled, “Federal Fumbles: 100 ways the government dropped the ball”, will serve as guide for his office to work with federal agencies and departments to turn the waste highlighted in the report to solutions over the next year.
CLICK HERE for high-resolution photos from the press conference. CLICK HERE to view the full video of the press conference from YouTube. CLICK HERE to clip the video from C-SPAN. On the need for the Federal Fumbles waste report: “The concern is that we are going to lose our focus on debt and spending. There are a lot of national issues that we’re facing right now. All of them are very important to us. The debt issue still remains one of those primary issues that has to be resolved and it can be resolved. There’s this belief, that it (debt) is so large it’s difficult to take on, and it’s not fixable. So, what I want to have is some way we can lay a plan in place and we can start to identify some of these issues. On our current pace, let’s say we are actually to put into place the budget we have and actually fulfill it. That means in ten years from now we’d be back to balance. We would go from, about $450 billion in deficit spending this year to balanced budget in ten years…
If we had a $50 billion surplus in the eleventh year, if we did that, we would have to continue to do it every year for the next 460 years to pay off our debt…Now, let’s just say we balanced it next year. If we balanced it next year then it’s only a measly 380 years that we have to have a $50 billion surplus. I think we’re losing track of how difficult this is really going to be long term and what needs to be done.” On the focus for the Federal Fumble waste report: “The fumble book that we have isn’t just waste. It’s also areas where the federal government has violated its trusted responsibilities: wasted taxpayer dollars; programs that are ripe with fraud; over regulating that raises the cost of goods and services; for the consumers and government processes that deceives taxpayers and adds to the family’s debt responsibility. With each of these issues, we also lay out a solution… We also highlight some examples where we think the government is already addressing some of these issues.
This is not just a matter of all complaints and no solutions. There are some things that are happening correctly. For instance, some of the duplication reports that the GAO has put out for several years, we have made some progress on that duplication. The Department of Justice, just in the past couple of years, has cut their conferencing budget by 2/3 and they are to be commended for that. So this is our to-do list. This is what our office plans to work on in the days ahead. This is not just us and what we're trying to do. We're encouraging every office to take this on as well. It’s find your own list and look for the common ground and let’s try to get some of these things done.” Examples from the report highlighted by Senator Lankford: “Some of these are obvious issues we’ve faced for a long time, like the earned income tax credit. It continues to be the largest area of fraud in the federal government year after year. It's almost $18 billion in fraud just for this year.
That year after year is on the high list of something we need to be able to evaluate as a government. The death master file is another one. Senator Tom Carper has laid out a bill saying: 'why can’t the social security administration be able to share this information with other entities?’ We have millions of social security numbers that are hanging out there that those social security numbers are then vulnerable for fraud, into waste, individuals voting on those, individuals getting jobs on those, individuals filing false tax reports on those. That should be resolved, that can be resolved but we’re losing billions of dollars in the process. Some of my other favorites that are out there: the National Park Service did a study on what do bugs do when you turn on the light in a dark rural place. Every person in rural Oklahoma can tell you what bugs do when you turn on the light in a dark place. Some of these are commonsense things we need to be able to evaluate.