The Browns and the NFL have teamed up to try to convince Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and state legislators to pay for a significant part of a proposed $2.4 billion domed stadium in Brook Park.

Browns owner Jimmy Haslam and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell met with DeWine and other leaders to lobby for hundreds of millions in state money to help fund the project.

We’ve stated previously in this space that we oppose the idea of Ohio taxpayers footing the bill for the proposed football palace 15 miles south of downtown Cleveland. That opinion hasn’t changed, but the Ohio House approved its version of a new state budget that included $600 million toward the project.

The Ohio Senate is now considering its version of a state budget that could provide money for new stadiums for both the Browns and the Cincinnati Bengals. Again, the answer should be a firm “no” in both cases.

Goodell told Cleveland.com that the Browns’ current stadium on the shores of Lake Erie isn’t up to current NFL standards. That may be true, but if we’re being honest, neither are the Browns.

Their track record under Haslam’s ownership since 2012 has included few highs and has been peppered with lows — some of them downright embarrassing.

If you count 2012 — when Jimmy and Dee Haslam took over as owners in midseason — the Browns have gone 73-138-1 in the regular season. That includes back-to-back seasons of 1-15 and 0-16, which somehow didn’t cost then-coach Hue Jackson his job.

In fact, the Browns didn’t have a winning season under the Haslams until 2020, when rookie coach Kevin Stefanski led them to an 11-5 regular season and their first playoff appearance since 2002.

The Browns’ only other winning season with the Haslams as owners came in 2023, when they went 11-6 in the regular season and lost in an AFC wildcard game.

But the wins and losses are only part of the story. The Browns have had a litany of coaches, quarterbacks and wasted draft picks since 2012. They drafted Johnny Manziel, one of the NFL’s biggest first-round busts in years. They drafted Baker Mayfield with the first pick of the 2018 draft and later gave up on him to pursue Deshaun Watson, who came with a lot of baggage and cost the Browns a guaranteed $230 million.

Watson, accused of sexual assault by dozens of women, flopped in Cleveland and appears to no longer be in the team’s plans after another season-ending injury. But the Browns are still on the hook for that ridiculous contract.

If the Haslams are bent on moving the Browns out of downtown Cleveland, where they’ve played since 1946, they should finance the new stadium themselves.

But we’re not exactly confident that Ohio’s leaders in Columbus have the collective backbone to tell Jimmy Haslam to take a hike.