Canceled: Cleveland Browns 'Perfect Season' Parade 
 
 It has been a horrible season for the Cleveland Browns. If the team went 0-16, fans wanted to hold a perfect season parade. But the parade was canceled after the team won a game. 
 
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 Good morning. I'm David Greene. It's just so easy to make fun of the Cleveland Browns - but not this time. It's been a horrible season, and if the Browns went 0-16, fans wanted to hold a perfect-season parade to begin at the Factory of Sadness, local comedian Mike Polk's nickname for the stadium. But the Browns won a game, so the parade's canceled. The $10,000 raised to organize it will be donated to the Greater Cleveland Food Bank, and the Browns are matching that with another 10,000 bucks. You're listening to MORNING EDITION. 
 
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 After the Browns scored their first win of the season on Christmas Eve, the parade was canceled and event organizers announced that the money would be given to feed those in need. Cleveland Pizza made a donation and the total rose to over $8,000. 
 
 The food bank announced on Twitter Tuesday that the Browns were giving an additional $10,000 to match the donation. 
 
 Thanks to the Browns fans who donated $10k+ to the Food Bank! The @Browns have announced they're MATCHING with an additional $10k! #give10 pic.twitter.com/u0iW96ibUQ — Greater CLE FoodBank (@CleFoodBank) December 27, 2016 
 
 The GoFundMe was originally put in place to pay for security, restroom facilities and other necessities for the parade. The goal was to raise $1,999 but surpassed it quickly.
– Cleveland Browns fans were looking forward to a "Perfect Season Parade," though that "perfect" season was meant to be perfectly winless, reports NPR. But then the players had to go and ruin everything by winning their Christmas Eve matchup against the San Diego Chargers 20-17, leaving more than $10,000 sitting in the GoFundMe account created to pay for parade security, insurance, and facilities. The event's organizers recovered the fumble by making a charitable decision: to donate the money instead to the Greater Cleveland Food Bank, News 5 reports, which added its own surprise note. "Thanks to the Browns fans who donated $10k+ to the Food Bank! The @Browns have announced they're MATCHING with an additional $10k!" the food bank tweeted on Tuesday, bringing the total received to $20,000. Not bad for a sad season's work. (That win also ended a hairy situation.)