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an ohio man’s tongue-in-cheek obituary blames the winless cleveland browns for contributing to his demise.

The obituary published in the sandusky register says paul stark died wednesday at a hospice facility after a brief illness “exacerbated by the hopeless condition of the cleveland browns.”

the football team was 1-15 last season and 0-15 this year ahead of sunday’s finale in pittsburgh.

Even so, stark’s obituary included a nugget of the optimism voiced by some long-suffering fans.

It says the 80-year-old mansfield native “passed just before the browns were prepared to turn the corner.”