With no known staph infections in nearly two years, the Cleveland Browns now have another bug to contend with.
The flu.
Per Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, roughly a dozen players have it. As a result, coach Eric Mangini said that Wednesday's practice will be scaled back.
The affected players include Jerome Harrison, Alex Mack, Anthony Madison, Brodney Pool, Shaun Rogers, Robert Royal, Lawrence Vickers, Corey Williams, and Kamerion Wimbley.
Mangini said that the team is looking into whether the players have contracted the H1N1 strain, but he said that privacy laws might prevent the team from disclosing the specific virus.
The Browns host the Packers on Sunday.
Meanwhile, look for the players to show up on the injury report as not participating in practice due to a leg injury.
Flu bug invades Cleveland Browns
Posted by Mike Florio on October 21, 2009 11:58 AM ET
Nobody has polio ?
I'm sure the media will find a way to blame this on Mangini. They do with everything else.
Packers keep lucking out. Chicago comes to town, self destructs, and still almost wins. St Louis Bulger goes down. Detroit Stafford and Calvin Johnson down. Now Cleveland might be down half their team!
What would Green Bay do if a healthy team played a reasonably solid game against them? Oh yeah, 3-2 record with both losses being pretty convincing.
Mangini is a staph infection. Or is that STAFF infection?
It's called the Mangina Swine Flu. The only know cure is a coaching change and a public mea culpa from the owner.
Geez, what is it with this team? They always have nasty medical stuff going around.
If you look at all the players that are sick you'll notice not one receiver has the flu...that's because they can't catch anything!
Lucking out Sando? Contracting a H1N1 bug playing in a football game is lucky? Missed 44 yarder and a heave and a prayer wasn't lucky?
If you look at all the players that are sick you'll notice not one receiver has the flu...that's because they can't catch anything!
Boom!
Umm...and if Cleveland can't disclose their illness due to privacy laws, how come you were able to just throw their names out like that?
Uh Oh looks like I'll need to switch my pick from Cleveland to Green Bay! HAHA
Get healthy boys! I was looking forward to that D line shredding the Swiss Cheese O line!
Well it cant hurt the team...now if the get rid of the cancer(mangini) then all we be fine
You need a moon suit to enter the Browns locker room.
How can one place be so unhealthy?
Super:
It's called being a team of dsetiny.
i cant stand mangini either, but it is interesting that some players are now going on record as saying they like him. florio, ever stop to think that maybe this terrible team was loaded with pussies and mangini is weeding them out? i think he is going to succeed. seriously. if you look at his time with the jets, they were good 2 out of the 3 years he was there, and they would have one the division last year if favre didnt hurt his shoulder. funny how fast people forget things....
Sando:
Put the crack pipe down. The two losses by the Pack was 7-points in each game. Convincing is 10+ points IMHO. Get a clue.
Any cases of inflamed and swollen nut satchels?
That flu strain going around is highly contagious. Luckily it has a short duration.
Seriously, no one has been alleged to have the coxsackie virus, which really can ruin your day. Pretty bad that the sports lib drive by media needs any excuse it can get to piss on Cleveland's leg. Talk about having a projecting hard-on for the best town on the North Coast!
Sidebar: Only thing worse than this news and this soon-to-be-forgotten season is the metro/homo Obama cheerleader who continues to ruin the once-great Rizzo Big Show in Cleveland. That's what happens when you have an outsider who is an OSU hater infect your show's once greatness.
Sando,
go buy a Viking ticket so the team gets enough support to sell out their home games. 3 M and General Mills are sick of getting their arms twisted so the local population can watch the home games from their living room couch.
Oh, and get Kol Klink signed to some long range extension.
Did the flu play with the Jets before?
Mangini's fault right guys? Hold on, ask the NY media first, they are always right about everything. At least about Zack Efron and Paris Hilton that is.
I doubt the flu would make that much difference to the Browns, but I hope they didn't slobber on the Steelers.
Im curious if Jimmy has ever posted without the word Vikings, I know you love the team but pinching a girl cause you like her never works, same here. Just confess your love so we can all not have to read your blathering anymore.
Mangini is the least of their problems...He is trying to change years of inadaquecy. This team are bottom feaders in this league. It will take aother off season to put better personal in place. If you look at the better teams in sports. they were horriblle for 2-4 yrs in a row. That positions them to receive top picks, that is how great teams are typlically built to run for long periods. You can aquire bunch of veterans but your window is small
Sally2Toes says:
October 21, 2009 12:30 PM
If you look at all the players that are sick you'll notice not one receiver has the flu...that's because they can't catch anything!
thats funny stuff right there!
Also, I heard that when Sgt. Winslow's balls were swollen, they were so big not even Braylon Edwards could drop them.
JimmySmith says: October 21, 2009 1:08 PM
Sando,
3 M and General Mills are sick of getting their arms twisted so the local population can watch the home games from their living room couch.
Unless you can provide proof of the intentions of 3M and General Mills I’ll assume you are full of it?
LMFAO Rod Stiffington, I waswondering if the flu came from the Jets organization as well. Because we all know that Mangini is interested in anything that came from NY, New England, or NY through NE, hahahaha.
If the Jets or Pats fired a ball boy, Mangini would pounce on them.....
The affected players include Jerome Harrison, Alex Mack, Anthony Madison, Brodney Pool, Shaun Rogers, Robert Royal, Lawrence Vickers, Corey Williams, and Kamerion Wimbley.
The names of all the players that being getting blown off the ball, jammed at the line, and thrown around the field the whole season.
mrcmos:
Keep telling yourself the pack only lost by 7 to the Vikes.
Your team was shredded.
30-16 with 7 minutes to go. soft zone garbage time the rest of the way.
That's ok. It just means you think you have 1/2 a chance next time. This way, it will be even more of a bitter pill for you to swallow.
christ this team needs every break it can get and instead just piles the crap on. un-frickin-believeable.
Well Chcicken they had a bigger lead against Baltimore and if it wasnt for the pull would have lost the game. There was no garbage time in the Green Bay game. 2 possession game is never garbage time.
Come off it Super.
You are smarter than that...my bad. it was 30-14
Possesion 2 pt convert, convert onsides, possesion 2pt convert........obviously didn't happen.
You were smoked and you know it.
"we only lost by 7" lol
Game was over with 7:25 left in the 4th.
So was the Baltimore game. you dont necessarily need onside kicks with 7 miutes left.
well they tried 2...neither worked.
game was over at time listed above.
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