Sports | Cleveland Browns Man Blames Cleveland Browns in Obituary He 'passed just before the Browns were prepared to turn the corner' By Newser Editors and Wire Services Posted Dec 30, 2017 1:39 PM CST Copied A Cleveland Browns fan reacts in the second half of an NFL football game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Browns, Sunday, Dec. 17, 2017, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/David Richard) An Ohio man's tongue-in-cheek obituary blames the winless Cleveland Browns for contributing to his demise, the AP reports. The obituary published in the Sandusky Register says Paul Stark died Wednesday at a hospice facility after a brief illness "exacerbated by the hopeless condition of the Cleveland Browns." The football team was 1-15 last season and 0-15 this year ahead of Sunday's finale in Pittsburgh. Even so, Stark's obituary included a nugget of the optimism voiced by some long-suffering fans. It says the 80-year-old Mansfield native "passed just before the Browns were prepared to turn the corner." Read These Next Actor Michael Madsen is dead at 67. Who added bill's proposed tax on clean energy? No one knows. Trump gives merch to hesitating Republicans. A teen pilot landed on his 7th continent and immediately got detained. Report an error