Crain's editorial: Great expectations for the Cleveland Browns Print Spend even a little time in Cleveland and, even if you're not a sports fan, you'll understand this: The city is a Browns town. In good times and bad, people here are crazy for their football team. For most of the last 20-plus years, though, that passion has been unearned and unreturned, with Browns teams that were some variation of bad, very bad and worse. That makes it doubly satisfying, then, as the Browns prepare to open training camp on Friday, July 30, for the 2021 NFL season, that this team has the rarest of burdens: expectations. Big ones at that. On the field and off.