3 Cleveland Browns takes: Baker Mayfield, celebrity softball legend

No one wants to wish the summer away, but the games can’t get here soon enough for the Cleveland Browns and their fans, as the franchise seeks the team’s first Super Bowl title.

Here’s four takes as the team embarks on mandatory minicamp, fro June 15-17.

1. What will it be like if Cleveland Browns win the Super Bowl?

The Cleveland Browns don’t own a Super Bowl championship trophy, yet, but the team and its members have to lead the NFL in hype videos.

Whether it’s OBJ running on a treadmill or Myles Garrett dunking on an accountant, Baker Mayfield has now contributed to the “Things that really aren’t that important but everybody loves to go insane over” category.

Mayfield was the co-champion of the home run derby at Jarvis Landry’s celebrity softball game Sunday night. One of the home runs–I assume an important one, saw the already frenzied crowd go nuts, while Mayfield played it up for the sold out crowd, bat flip and all.

The celebration is hilarious for only one reason: If everyone’s going this nuts for a home run in celebrity softball, what’s it going to be like if the Browns actually win the Super Bowl?!

OK, the rain cloud that occupied the space over my head is gone. Landry’s event is for a good cause and it brought people out as the world continues to get closer to normal.

Mayfield was a power hitting first baseman as a prep star at Lake Travis High School in Texas. Considering he’s a professional athlete in the best shape of his life, I would hope he could still mash.

But dang, I don’t know how Mayfield tops this celebration  if the Browns were to play in February. Brownie the Elf better be on standby by with a bat to flip.