The Greatest Letter Ever Printed On NFL Team Letterhead

In 1974, a Clevelander wrote the Browns complaining of the menace posed by the then-fad of throwing paper airplanes, and implicitly threatened litigation. The Browns' response is just about the most awesome thing ever committed to paper.


Absolutely Epic 1974 Letter From Cleveland Browns to a Fan [Cleveland Scene]
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"Patriotism means being loyal to your country all the time and to its government when it deserves it."-- Mark Twain

"Inter arma silent Musae"--when the weapons speak, the muses fall silent.

An't nanum hearm deth, doth hwaet ye willath.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished
unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. -Voltaire

Economic Left/Right: -3.88
Authoritarian/Libertarian: -4.36

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This is also a nice exhibit of print archaeology. They were both printed on IBM Selectric ("golf ball") typewriters, the first in Letter Gothic typeface and the second in Courier. Both were fixed pitch typefaces (an "m" or "w" took up the same line spacing as an "l" or an "i").

I owned one of these machines many years ago. Its most interesting font was Orator, in which characters were still 12 point in width but the upper case capitals were almost 50% taller. Although I can find no current confirmation on the web, we were told that it was designed specifically for President Eisenhower, who like most people of his age was long-sighted.

In sections of his speeches where he wanted to briefly take off his glasses and appear spontaneous, text was typed in Orator capitals. I used it for typing presentation cells that were subsequently copied onto plastic film for overhead projector slides for courses I gave.

Anyway, back to the OP: