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Logan Ryan to the Cleveland Browns?

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The Cleveland Browns have shown interest in former New England Patriots and Tennessee Titans defensive back Logan Ryan.

Logan Ryan to the Cleveland Browns? It is not out of the realm of possibilities according to Mary Kay Cabot. Cabot reported that the team has shown interest in the free agent defensive back.

The Browns could use some help in the defensive backfield. Second round pick Grant Delpit suffered a season-ending injury and that leaves the Cleveland secondary pretty thin. This also puts the team in a position where some players are playing a larger role than they should be.

The interesting twist in all of this is that Logan Ryan recently hired a new agent, Joel Segal.

Something that Cabot mentioned in her report is that Segal also represents Delpit. This could play a factor in whether to not the two sides reach a deal.

Either way this would be interesting considering what happened when Logan Ryan leaped into the Dawg Pound last season.

Browns ban wrong fan over Logan Ryan incident

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The pressure to act swiftly and harshly has resulted in the Cleveland Browns banning the wrong person from their stadium.

It turns out the Browns fan who was banned from the stadium wasn’t even at the game. After Logan Ryan made the mistake of jumping into the Dawg Pound and throwing a hissy fit on twitter, the wrong person was banned. 

Eric Smith received a phone call from the Browns this morning.

Cleveland Scene had an article this morning about the ban.

See, this is the problem with this process. Logan Ryan had no business jumping into the stands as a visiting player. At that point he accepted the risk of something happening, even if it is a fan being an asshole. In a perfect world this doesn’t happen, but this is not a perfect world. Disney does not run everything. There is a quote that seems to ring true here.

Reality isn’t Father Knows Best anymore, it’s a kick in the face on a Saturday night with a steel-toe grip Kodiak work boot, a trip to the hospital, bloodied and bashed.

Jim Carrey as “Chip Douglas” in The Cable Guy

In this case reality just so happened to be a fan giving him a beer shower. Is the fan an asshole? Absolutely, no doubt about it. But trying to police something that happens more often than people realize is a waste of time. If anything more people will now turn to the method of giving a beer shower.

Attempting to control certain aspects of fan interaction just doesn’t work. Whether it is stopping beeramids or cup snakes at baseball games, it only encourages others to try their hand at that activity. 

Perhaps the urgency to react quickly resulted in this mistake.

Logan Ryan tweeting about the incident certainly didn’t help matters. Proper research must be done if a team is going to ban a fan and it obviously wasn’t done here. The Browns were put in the court of public opinion and were completely unprepared. They had to act even though they were unable to make an informed decision.  

The reality here is that any actions or public moves by a team to try and discourage this behavior almost always backfires. That could be the emergence of copycats or banning someone who wasn’t even at the game. Rather than acting quickly the Browns should have actually found out who the culprit is. Instead, the wrong person is banned and the Browns botched this investigation entirely.

UPDATE

The Browns have since come out and stated that the investigation is ongoing. However there are much more important things to spend time on rather than trying to identify one individual in a see of people who may not have been in that seat originally.

Logan Ryan is not too happy with Browns fans

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Logan Ryan of the Tennessee Titans decided to jump into the Dawg Pound after an interception returned for a touchdown and is not happy.

Logan Ryan can be mad all he wants. The reality is that he should know better than to jump into the stands while playing for the visiting team. Especially when you jump into the Dawg Pound of all places. 

Jumping into the stands of the home team never ends well. In fact it has been well documented that this is a bad idea. It does not matter the caliber of player jumping into the stands. If you are the visitor you are persona non grata in the stands. 

Maybe Ryan should be happy he didn’t play in the 80’s when a beer shower would be a nice alternative to the barrage of dog bones and batteries that would come flying out of the Dawg Pound.

Now onto the fans. Yeah, pouring beer on a player is an asshole move. The Browns played terribly and frustration obviously boiled over the few who decided to give Ryan a beer shower. But again, what did Ryan expect? Tennessee was winning big and he jumped into the stands. If you are Ryan you have to realize that this in the realm of possibilities. 

Logan Ryan is not the first person to have beer poured on him and he certainly will not be the last. This type of reaction happens in every stadium over the course of the season. This is not something that only happens in Cleveland. It happens everywhere.

In a perfect world fans would not pour beer or throw anything at players entering the stands. But this is not a perfect world and it never will be. If you enter the stands as an opposing player you have to realize what is likely to happen to you and that it will not be fun. Like it or not, that is just the way it is.