Cleveland, the second largest city in Ohio, sits on the southern shore of Lake Erie, facing Ontario in Canada across the lake—this was once a manufacturing center at the crossroads of canals and railroads, one of the major cities in the eastern United States; yet just like Pittsburgh and Detroit, Cleveland couldn't escape decline when heavy industry waned.
Cleveland is also a city that loves sports: Of the four major sports leagues in the United States, they have the Cavaliers in the NBA, the Indians in MLB, and the Browns in the NFL. However, this city with three teams was long deprived of professional sports championships.
Since the Cleveland Browns won the Super Bowl in 1964, this large industrial city has not been able to touch any championship for half a century:
