“We did a lousy job at first”: Haslams accept they didn’t have much idea how to operate when they bought the Cleveland Browns
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The Haslams have made a public statement that they had absolutely zero experience before deciding to buy the Cleveland Browns. This might come as a surprise given that they were minority owners with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
However the Haslams have indeed accepted that their time with the Steelers didn’t prep them up for the Browns. The Haslams had bought the Browns in August 2012 in a deal worth about $1 billion.
Haslams accept that their time with the Browns was completely different to what they had at the Steelers
Jimmy Haslam has said that when they were associated with the Pittsburgh Steelers they were not the ones responsible for making the calls. This meant that they didn’t really have to make decisions and hence had little to worry about. However this was not the case when they bought the Cleveland Browns.
“You go, ‘That’s a model franchise. Just do it like them,‘” Jimmy Haslam said. “But you’re not the ones making the decisions, and the people were already in place. [General Manager] Kevin Colbert was already there. [Coach] Mike Tomlin was already there.
[The late Dan] Rooney was still there. So you had he and Art [Rooney II leading the organization].“It was smooth running. [Quarterback Ben] Roethlisberger was a young man. We joined in ’07. [Roethlisberger] was just coming into his own. With [Hall of Fame safety Troy] Polamalu, I mean, you go, ‘This doesn’t seem very hard.’
“We get Super Bowl rings before we even pay for our share. Listen, in business, the hiring cycle is different. There are usually people to train you. The NFL is great, but you’ve all heard us say this: There’s no primer.”
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