COLUMBUS Browns Customized Color Rush Jerseys , Ohio (AP) — The Columbus Crew has new owners and management, and the team plans a summer groundbreaking for a $230 million downtown stadium.The Save the Crew movement gained momentum last year after the team owner, Precourt Sports Ventures, announced plans to move the franchise to Austin, Texas.The incoming ownership group includes Cleveland Browns owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam, and former Crew team physician Peter Edwards, whose family owns a Columbus-based development/construction business. "We think this about soccer. We think this about a team, but it really isn't," Edwards said Wednesday as new owners and management were introduced. "It's about a community. It's about having pride in our city, and it's about having pride in our team. All those things roll into the fabric of our community. For us to not have this team here would have left a hole in our city, and my family said that wasn't acceptable, and we were going to do whatever we could to figure out a way to keep this team."Caleb Porter, who won an MLS Cup in 2015 with the Portland, was hired as coach to replace Gregg Berhalter, who left to coach the U.S. national team. Porter said local enthusiasm for the team drew him to the job."When I saw all of you in this community rallying behind this club Cleveland Browns T-Shirts , that's the type of club I want to manage, a club that's relevant, a club that the people are proud of, a club where they're going to fight and roll up their sleeves to save it," Porter said. "I felt compelled to come back and jump on board with that movement to save the Crew — but not just save it but elevate it."The new stadium will be near Nationwide Arena, home of the Columbus Blue Jackets, and Huntington Park, where the Triple-A Columbus Clippers play. The plan also calls for redevelopment of the team's 20-year-old stadium north of downtown into a training facility and community sports park."One of the things we have to get going on is — because we want to break ground really quickly on the stadium — is doing the whole, entire comprehensive plan," Dee Haslam said. "We've done this so fast. I don't know that anyone has ever put a concept together (this fast), and we hope to be in the ground this summer for sure in order to make deadline. I think we're going as fast as we can go."Haslam promised a winning team."It's a big investment," she said. "We're committed to winning. It's so important to win for a community. We obviously have experienced not winning (with the Browns), so winning is so important. We get that message loud and clear." For the past two years, the only late-season “rooting guides” we could write about were ones that would improve the Cleveland Browns’ draft position (i.e. see Week 17 of the 2017 season). Even though 3-6-1 might still feel like a bit of a stretch to start thinking about the playoffs, we don’t care! It is fun as hell to fantasize about https://www.brownsfanshop.com/hats , and we like to paint an optimistic picture:AFC Standings Heading into Week 12The Browns are unlikely to win the AFC North, since the Steelers are four wins ahead of Cleveland in the win column. Therefore, the playoff scenarios we will discuss will focus on the final wildcard spot, which Cleveland is only two wins behind in the win column (note: if the Browns finish tied in wins with any team for the final wildcard spot, Cleveland would get the edge due to having one less loss*).*Unless another team gets a tie between now and the end of the season.Week 12 Rooting Guide Summary (Most Important Right Now)Quite simply, we want everyone in front of the Browns to lose. There are a lot of teams (six) that need to lose — it won’t all happen in one week, but the idea is that Cleveland builds a winning streak, and week-by-week, the Browns move up as a subset of teams suffer a loss.Cleveland Browns defeat Cincinnati BengalsOakland Raiders defeat Baltimore RavensPittsburgh Steelers defeat Denver BroncosHouston Texans defeat Tennessee TitansMiami Dolphins vs. Indianapolis Colts - Both of these teams are 5-5, and they each have relatively soft schedules moving forward. Therefore, it is a push on who to root for — but whoever wins this week, then we root for them to lose in the following week.These outcomes would allow Cleveland to move up to the 11th spot in the AFC. That doesn’t seem like much, but then a Week 13 win over Houston could put them in position to jump up as high as the 7th spot in the AFC in a best case scenario.Bonus Rooting (Help Take Other Teams Out of Mix)New England Patriots defeat New York JetsBuffalo Bills defeat Jacksonville JaguarsPlayoff SimulatorsESPN Playoff MachineNY Times Playoff MachineLet us know what crazy scenarios you come up with to show the Browns getting the sixth seed! Here is one for us, which even has the Browns losing one game and making it:
