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Cleveland Browns fan sends team one final request (1 Viewer)

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Cleveland Browns fan sends team one final request

By Gregg Rosenthal

Around The League Editor

NFL fans are usually fans for life. This can even include the afterlife.

Scott E. Entsminger, 55, of Mansfield, Ohio passed away on July 4. We'll include one of his dying wishes from his obituary in the Columbus Dispatch below:

"A lifelong Cleveland Browns fan and season ticket holder, he also wrote a song each year and sent it to the Cleveland Browns as well as offering other advice on how to run the team. He respectfully requests six Cleveland Browns pall bearers so the Browns can let him down one last time," it reads via CBS Sports.

Well done, Mr. Entsminger. May you rest in peace. (Although we'd suggest not asking Greg Little to handle the duties because he may drop it.)

In Washington D.C., Mark Lindamood tragically passed away of cardiac arrest last week at the age of 33. A lifelong Redskins fan according to the Washington Post, Lindamood was buried in his favorite player's jersey: Robert Griffin III. Funeral attendees were encouraged to wear their own jerseys, and much of his family wore Griffin jerseys.

Lindamood's wife Bridget, originally a Philadelphia Eagles fan, decided to honor her late husband by honoring what he loved: His team.

"Bridget doesn't care about what anyone thinks, how absurd it is, how casual it is," Lindamood's brother Bryan told Dan Steinberg. "She doesn't care. She's 100 percent focused on Mark. And she believes that he's upstairs grinning ear-to-ear at the fact that she's trying so hard to accommodate everything he loves."
 
I like it. It's good of his wife/son to express some humor while honoring his fandom, even during a tough time in their lives.

 
i bet joe thomas would do it he is from wisconsin and is probably a good guy with a good sense of humor who would do this and then buy a good blue collar rust belter a beer and talk about polkas take that to the bank brohans

 
If I was a Browns player I would do it. Hope it happens.
I don't know. The "respectful request" was really just a punch-line to an insulting joke. I'm sure he was an extremely passionate fan, and that this would be a nice way to honor that, and him. But it was couched in an insult, no matter how true.

 
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If I was a Browns player I would do it. Hope it happens.
I don't know. The "respectful request" was really just a punch-line to an insulting joke. I'm sure he was an extremely passionate fan, and that this would be a nice way to honor that, and him. But it was couched in an insult, no matter how true.
I would look at it like the last time Browns players let the fans down. It's not like they're ignorant of the team's history.

 
If I was a Browns player I would do it. Hope it happens.
I don't know. The "respectful request" was really just a punch-line to an insulting joke. I'm sure he was an extremely passionate fan, and that this would be a nice way to honor that, and him. But it was couched in an insult, no matter how true.
It's not like they're ignorant of the team's history.
Of course not. However, I doubt they're going to embrace it.

 
If I was a Browns player I would do it. Hope it happens.
I agree. It's the least they can do, the owner ought to send a couple representatives.

To tell you the truth, losing teams shouldn't resent fans like this they should make them stars, put them on the radio broadcasts, feature them at games, for goodness' sake the commaraderie and humor in tough times is one of the real beautiful things about major league sports and one of the best things about sports in general.

 
It would give me the heebee jeebees if I was RG3 and know that someone got buried in my jersey. Yikes! There's more important things in life than football. These people are insane.

 
Cleveland Browns give jersey to family of late fan

By Kevin Patra NFL.com

Scott Entsminger, 55, who died last Thursday, didn't get the Cleveland Browns pall bearers he requested for his funeral.

However, the Browns sent representatives to Tuesday's memorial service to present Entsminger's family with a customized jersey featuring Pro Football Hall of Famer Lou Groza's number 76.

The jersey was emblazoned with Entsminger's name on the back.

Entsminger's widow, Patty Colombo-Entsminger, told the Mansfield News Journal that her husband and his brother, Bill, attended every Browns home game together since 1999.

Follow Kevin Patra on Twitter @kpatra.
 

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