Why Can't This Team Just Find a Quarterback?: And Other Thoughts on Life in Browns Town

by Terry Pluto

224 pages, Paperback

Published October 23, 2025

About the author

Terry Pluto is a sports columnist for the Plain Dealer. He has twice been honored by the Associated Press Sports Editors as the nations top sports columnist for medium-sized newspapers. He is a nine-time winner of the Ohio Sports Writer of the Year award and has received more than 50 state and local writing awards. In 2005 he was inducted into the Cleveland Journalism Hall of Fame. He is the author of 23 books, including The Curse of Rocky Colavito (selected by the New York Times as one of the five notable sports books of 1989), and Loose Balls, which was ranked number 13 on Sports Illustrateds list of the top 100 sports books of all time. He was called Perhaps the best American writer of sports books, by the Chicago Tribune in 1997. He lives with his wife, Roberta, in Akron, Ohio."

Reviews

[Rich · Rating 4 out of 5]

A solid chronicle of the Cleveland Browns QB quest from their return to the NFL in 1999. It's a sad story but, as a Browns fan, we are very capable of handling sadness. Well worth reading if you want to be reminded of 25 years of pain.