Viewers guide to a stress-free Sunday

By Don Delco
NoLogoNeeded.com Staff Writer

Hello, bye week. Typically, you are granted with disdain. You interrupt a well-established tradition of Sundays spent aggravating over the team wearing orange helmets. Still, you're embraced each and every fall Sunday.

Then comes the bye week. A week the Browns and their fans have off, allowing free time to spend with loved ones. Of course, that free time lends it self to trips to Home Depot and wearing holy sweat shirts covered in dried paint.

Uh-oh.

Those that are still allowed to watch football are treated to a day in which the best moments form the best games are at your fingertips.

So, here is a hand viewer's guide to Sunday's games.

9 a.m. Get up, go for a run. It's going to get ugly in the food department later in the day. Might as well try and break even between the calories burned the the empty ones consumed.

11 a.m. Turn on the NFL Network's pre-game show. It'll be at the midway point around this time and it saves you from listening to Chris Berman.

12 p.m. Switch back between CBS and FOX's pre-game shows. Both suck. Both are just background noise as you lament why you drafted Steve Slaton on your fantasy football team.

Until now, not much is changed from a typical Browns' Sunday.

Onto the 1 p.m. games:
Washington at Atlanta
Arizona at Chicago
Baltimore at Cincinnati
Houston at Indianapolis
Kansas City at Jacksonville
Miami at New Engalnd
Green Bay at Tampa Bay

Eh. Not the greatest slate of games. Of course, the one game closest to the hearts of Browns fans is Baltimore at Cincinnati. Are these teams as good as advertised? Might as well start the day by watching this game and trying to wrap you head around why can't the Browns draft a QB from Delaware who is good?

Houston at Indianapolis is another fun game to keep an eye on. Houston is an expansion team in which its first year was 2002. They are a solid NFL team. The Browns were an expansion team three years earlier, but still look like crap. Why not root for the Texans? Indy is quietly 7-0, but hasn't been impressive. This could be the biggest game in Texans' history.

As for the 4 p.m. games:
Detroit at Seattle
San Diego at New York Giants
Tennessee at San Francisco

Yeah, go outside. Check local listings, but it should be nice out.

Sunday Night Football
Dallas at Philly. Nothing is more annoying that the Cowboys being called "America's Team." Root for them to lose.

Monday Night Football
It's the Steelers at Broncos. After a relatively relaxing Sunday watching mediocre games, the Monday Night game gives Browns fans a chance to watch two clubs they despise. Yet, it's hard not to pull for Canton's Josh McDaniels. Plus, that stress-free feeling you had all Sunday will return on Monday after Jaws, Jon Guden and Mike Tirico gush over how great of a QB #7 is. All the while you know he's vastly overrated.

Just think, with the Browns on Monday Night Football on Nov. 16, this is only the first of two Browns-free Sundays. After what has happened in the first eight games this season, mid-season relief is spelled B-Y-E.