Dave Dameshek

Makes sense in the AFC North, a.k.a.

the most incestuous division in our league.

And I'm not just talking about the old QB who's now gotten himself inside three quarters of the North.

Quick bit of history if you just started watching football somewhere between, say, five minutes and 30 years ago.

Long before the Browns made us all laugh by trading for Deshaun Watson on purpose, many moons before the current Bengals, Plum forgot to get an offensive line or a defense, there was a guy named Paul Brown.

If that name rings a bell, it's because the whole Cleveland Browns team is named after him.

He was the founder and head coach, a legend, revolutionized the whole sport, and believe it or not, the Browns used to be good.

Then in 1961, guy named Art Modell buys the team, and in 63, fires Paul Brown.

Brown's like, you can't fire me.

The team's named after me.

Modell's like, well, I just did.

So Brown heads to Cincy and starts up the Bengals in the AFL, made their get-ups look as much like the Browns as possible.

Why?

Because he's petty, and I respect that.

Jump to the end of the decade, longtime Cleveland Brown and son of Ohio Chuck Knoll gets hired as the head coach of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Spoiler alert, it worked out.

It worked out real, real nice, yens.

Ditto 35 years later when another son of Ohio, Ben Roethlisberger, moved across those same state lines.

Of course, the Browns could have taken Roethlisberger, but they went with Kellen Winslow Jr.

instead.