Given the team’s dismal 4-7 record this year, it is probably unwise to watch the Cleveland Browns alone. No, one certainly needs the camaraderie of others when it comes to watching the goings-on at the Factory of Sadness. In New York, there is probably no better support group than the Union Square Browns Backers. An official Backers club, the group congregates to watch the game each Sunday at Brother Jimmy’s BBQ on E. 16th Street. The organization has its own private room with 12 televisions and gets special treatment from the restaurant in the form of half-price wings and $12 pitchers of beer. The 80+ members continue to grow in number as all one needs to do to join is show up.

This week the Browns are at home taking  on the hated Baltimore Ravens, who have a much better record of 8-3, so it is perhaps best to once again prepare for disappointment. Game time is 4:05pm.