{"id":11261,"date":"2019-08-26T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11261"},"modified":"2019-08-26T02:00:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T07:00:15","slug":"the-fan-pairing-made-in-heaven-or-the-opposite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/the-fan-pairing-made-in-heaven-or-the-opposite\/","title":{"rendered":"The fan pairing made in heaven, or the opposite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Substitute the word <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theringer.com\/nfl-preview\/2019\/8\/22\/20827588\/browns-fans-pathetic-football-teams-heartbreak\">&#8220;Cyclones&#8221; for &#8220;Browns&#8221;<\/a> in the below, and it&#8217;s kind of concerning how well it works:<\/p>\n<p><em>To be a Browns fan is to regard any positive development\u2014such as a win, or for that matter a person on the internet writing that they might win a game at some future time\u2014with utter shock and immediate suspicion. It has to be a joke, a bit, a cruel setup for future humiliation. The Browns are supposed to be good\u2014perhaps even great\u2014this season. Maybe you heard about it. Maybe you don\u2019t yet quite believe it. Maybe you are, in fact, 15 percent excited and 85 percent braced for some newer, crueler, more public and prolonged form of total degradation. Maybe you are, in short, a Browns fan.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Current Iowa State coach Matt Campbell is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/nfl\/news\/browns-likely-to-reach-out-to-iowa-states-matt-campbell-whos-very-much-on-nfl-teams-radar\/\">lifelong Browns fan.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ISU football is ranked in the preseason for the first time in the existence of polling. Beating Oklahoma for the third time in my lifetime is considered &#8220;not implausible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it&#8217;s &#8220;Trust the process, or be processed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Substitute the word &#8220;Cyclones&#8221; for &#8220;Browns&#8221; in the below, and it&#8217;s kind of concerning how well it works: To be a Browns fan is to regard any positive development\u2014such as a win, or for that matter a person on the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/the-fan-pairing-made-in-heaven-or-the-opposite\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11261"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11262,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11261\/revisions\/11262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}