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'Perfect Season 0-16' Watch: Radio Host Threatens to 'Mow Down' Parade Goers

ESPN Cleveland's Tony Rizzo threatened would-be attendees with physical violence if they actually show up to the parade.

CLEVELAND, OH - The Browns are now down to three opportunities to win a game this season. The team dropped its (not-so-lucky) 13th straight game this season to move to 0-13 after losing 23-10 to the Cincinnati Bengals. The Brownies now have three games left to avoid the "perfect season" and a mocking parade planned by a fan to commemorate the team's haplessness.

With the parade seeming more and more likely to happen, controversy has begun to surround the planning and execution of the event. ESPN Cleveland radio host Tony Rizzo went on a tirade against the parade over the weekend, saying, "If you're one of the people planning this parade, I will fight you."

Rizzo said he was outraged by the event and described it as the "loserest (sic) of all loser moves I've ever heard in my life."

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After then launching into an angry tirade where he again threatened to fight anyone planning the parade, Rizzo threatened to "mow down" parade attenders with a car. He also said he would use whatever political leverage he had to try and nix the parade.

His rant ended with him threatening to identify anyone that went to the parade on-air. He said he would then encourage people to send the attendees hate mail. Waiting for Next Year has the entire audio clip of the rant, and you can listen to it here.

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Chris McNeil, the parade's organizer, responded to the threats by tweeting the following:

Rizzo isn't the only high-profile Clevelander upset about the parade. Browns' cornerback Joe Haden did an interview with ESPN where he described the struggles of being on the "laughingstock" team.

"It's terrible," Haden told ESPN. "You're talking about an 0-16 parade. ... It's very, very tough. It hits you right between the eyes. Because I'm on the team, there's something I can do about it."

McNeil also trolled Haden by tweeting:

All of this comes after Stephen Colbert joked that the prospect of the 0-16 parade was one of the things helping him recover from a post-election sadness. He quipped that he hoped the Browns lose the rest of the way.

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