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The Cavaliers have had a star-crossed history for their first 46 years of existence, going through periods of competitiveness and awfulness. They were a playoff contender in the late 1980s, only [[Big Bad|to play victim]] to [[Michael Jordan]]'s first (of many) career-defining game-winning shot in 1989. Most infamously, the Cavs lost LeBron James, their star player – who was ''a native of the region'' – back in 2010; ESPN even aired an hour-long special dedicated to his announcement. But [[He's Back|LeBron made an equally shocking return]] to the Cavs [[All Just a Dream|four years later]], [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|and the fans rejoiced]]. You [[Famed in Story|might also have heard]] of the 2016 LeBron-led Cavaliers [[We Do the Impossible|overcoming a 3-1 deficit in the NBA Finals]] against [[Impossible Task|a team that won 73 games in the regular season]] to [[Moment of Awesome|win a sports title of any sort by ''either'' the Cavaliers, Indians or Browns]]<ref>...and the long-defunct Cleveland Barons of the NHL...</ref> '''in 52 years'''.
And supporting its football team, the Browns,<ref>Before you ask what a "Brown" is, the team was named after its first owner Paul Brown, former Ohio State coach and a highly respected figure in Ohio athletics. It wasn't even his idea and he was against it at first, but later went along with it. Throughout his tenure as coach, the team embraced a [[wikipedia: Brownie|brownie elf]] as their mascot, which has been revisited from time to time by the team's ownership. For an animal mascot, dogs have long been popular due to the city's first pro football team, the Bulldogs.</ref> tends to be [[Butt Monkey
The city was named for surveyor Moses Cleaveland (the first 'A' was reportedly dropped so the name would fit on a newspaper masthead) and has no connection to [[Oop North|the English county of Cleveland]], or the [[Grover Cleveland|22nd and 24th President of the United States]] (who was only distantly related to Moses Cleaveland).
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* ''[[American Splendor]]'' – the underground comic memoir of Harvey Pekar's life; later adapted into an Oscar-winning feature film
* ''[[The Fortune Cookie]]''
* ''[[Major League]]'' – which took on cult film status in Cleveland because the Indians' then-status as baseball's [[Butt Monkey
* ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'' – whose one-time theme song is the [[Trope Namer]], used in full irony here.
* ''[[Funky Winkerbean]]'' – originally a gag-a-day newspaper comic about high school students that has since evolved into an episodic strip replete with recurring story lines about illness, death and other tragic events, takes place in the fictitious suburb of "Westview." Spin-off comic ''[[Crankshaft]]'' is also based in a similar suburb of "Centerville."
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