{"id":721378,"date":"2026-02-01T12:25:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T12:25:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/721378\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T12:25:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T12:25:13","slug":"cleveland-browns-news-2-1-pondering-a-day-without-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/721378\/","title":{"rendered":"Cleveland Browns news (2\/1): Pondering a day without football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Welcome to the Sunday of our discontent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That is because for the first time in months, there is no football on today. No Cleveland Browns game to stress over. No RedZone channel to watch. No prop bets to keep an eye on. Nothing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But have no fear, loyal readers, because we have a few recommendations if you need your football fix, although they are of the college variety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If you are looking for something to watch, Saturdays in the South: A History of SEC Football is well worth your time. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.secsports.com\/news\/2022\/08\/saturdays-in-the-south-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">eight-part, 12-hour documetary<\/a> from Emmy-winning director Fritz Mitchell traces the history of the best college football conference from its post Civil War beginnings up through Nick Saban\u2019s reign at Alabama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">If reading is more your style, then check out Jay Busbee\u2019s Iron in the Blood: How the Alabama vs. Auburn Rivalry Shaped the Soul of the South. The book chronicles the history of the Iron Bowl, with plent of familiar names along the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now that we have your day settled, let\u2019s turn our attention to the Cleveland Browns and the NFL in today\u2019s edition of the Sunday Dawg Chow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Welcome to the Sunday of our discontent. That is because for the first time in months, there is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":721379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2026],"tags":[1864,9919,7],"class_list":{"0":"post-721378","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-cleveland-browns-news","9":"tag-daily-dawg-chow","10":"tag-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115995366162375793","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/721379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}