Pittsburgh’s 93.7 The Fan Morning Show took time Friday morning to criticize Cleveland duo Ken Carman and Anthony Lima of 92.3 The Fan for their defense of Browns fans from the national media.
Carman and Lima defended Browns fans Thursday from what they viewed as attacks for fans wanting autographs from recently suspended quarterback Deshaun Watson, who the NFL found sexually assaulted massage therapists and had violated the league’s Personal Conduct Policy.
“I saw this morning that the morning show in Cleveland, they went off on this big tirade ‘you can criticize the organization but you can’t criticize Cleveland Browns fans’,” 93.7 The Fan producer Adam Crowley said. “The organization can’t be criticized enough. I’m sorry but if fans get dragged into that and criticized as well, they should because to me they said it’s the national media — these morning show hosts in Cleveland– ‘It’s the national media that’s making the suspension get wider because the league is going to kowtow to the national media’.
“It’s not just the national media. It’s the American (Massage) Therapist Association talking about how women are being abused,” Crowley added. “It’s not about the national reaction as much as it’s about there was wrong that was done here.”
“That’s the point,” host Dorin Dickerson said. “There was wrong that was done and whoever can get behind something that is wrong and evidently wrong, that’s wrong. I get what they have to do over there, I get what Ken Carman — and I forget the other guy (Anthony Lima) — have to do. I get that you have to salvage something. But rightfully so, people are coming at Cleveland Browns fans, the Cleveland Browns community, the team. Rightfully so.”
It’s the latest in barbs traded by the two Audacy-owned stations, as 93.7 The Fan afternoon host Andrew Fillipponi called out Cleveland callers for celebrating the Watson suspension length earlier this week.
