Browns Diary: The Goal Line

It is an odd thing to give up football. For the first 50 or so years of my life (and especially the first 30 or so years of my life as a sportswriter), football governed my autumns. Every fall weekend, I had to go -- physically go sometimes, yes, but more often mentally and emotionally go -- to Green Bay, Wisconsin, to Tuscaloosa, Alabama, to Foxboro, M…