Cleveland Browns head coach Hue Jackson vowed last season that if his team finished 1-15, he'd swim in Lake Erie. As fate would have it, the Browns are still bad one year later, and while Jackson could technically avoid the cold dip if his team finishes 0-16, he wants to prove he's a man of his word.
"I made that statement. I got to back it up. I got to," Jackson said, according to ESPN's Pat McManamon. "How? You just jump in. When? That's going to be at my convenience, and, hopefully, I can get a lot of people to come out. It'd be something that we're going to make special."
In taking the plunge, the second-year coach will collect donations to his charity, the Hue Jackson Foundation, which focuses on human trafficking in Cleveland.
Jackson has gone 1-30 in two seasons with the Browns. With a loss Sunday, his team will join the 2008 Detroit Lions as only the second team in NFL history to go 0-16.
"You can't sugarcoat it," he said. "There's no way around it. The record is what it is. This is where we are, so we got to find a way to climb out of this hole as fast as we can and get to where I think we should be."
