Browns fans outside of Ohio
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Having moved to Chicago in the last 9 months it has been pretty awesome to see how many Browns fans there are here, we have multiple browns bars within the city of which the one I go to draws at least 200 people per game, hell it was packed for the draft too. I walk around with my Cleveland shirts on and people stop and ask me what I think about JFF and even a Houston Texans fan stopped and taken Ben Tate with me for a good 15 minutes on the L. Overall fans of other teams who talk Browns with me hope for them to turn it around.
Even though it has been tough all these years loosing, there is a bond with all of us where if anything good happens, whether it be a win or a good draft or FA get when browns fans see each other its like talking to an old friend...
Overall unless they are just trying to troll (walking back to the condo from the browns bar on draft night a group of friends and I who were rocking browns gear got heckled by Bills fans...fucking Bills fans haha) everyone respects the city and the fanbase and I think when that time comes when the Browns are competitive and making runs into the playoffs everyone without skin in the game will cheer for the Browns.
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To be honest, I meet a lot of americans that are generally passing through - on placement, internship, studying for 6 months or a year or so. Whenever I tell them I'm a browns fan, the general reaction is, "oh man, I feel for you" followed by "you could pick any team, why them?!"
To be honest, I meet a lot of americans that are generally passing through - on placement, internship, studying for 6 months or a year or so. Whenever I tell them I'm a browns fan, the general reaction is, "oh man, I feel for you" followed by "you could pick any team, why them?!"
it takes a special person to become a bona fide fan
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Misawa?
That would be correct. It's beautiful up here!
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Plus a video on the Manziel signing.
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Wow. It's very "school girl" to me that people are fans of a specific player, and so much so, that they become "fans" of the team he plays for, simply and only because he plays for them. So what happens when he doesn't pan out, or does pan out but moves on? Reminds me of the videos of the tweener girls crying uncontrollably because they just saw One Direction walk by on the way to their hotel........ Very weird to me, but I'm sure it's because I'm old.
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My wife and I have Browns helmet light strands strung out on our RV awning, and we have traveled all over the country. Lots of people have commented on how cool the lights are, and think its great we back our Browns through thick (and mostly) thin. I usually reference the '86 Browns team as my favorite, while preaching that Dixon & Matthews should be in Canton, and the prevent D prevented joy- In my mind we were the best team that season. Most sports fans I have met in other states are just indifferent about the Browns, no rooting interest either way.
Funny story, even if its painful- last summer we went to Ireland. A bartender asked me where I was from, and he said "the Browns suck." I asked him how he knew that, and he said a guy he knows is from Cleveland and always cries about the struggles. He also said he only knows about 5 teams... the 49ers, Eagles, Bears, Steelers, & Browns.
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My wife and I have Browns helmet light strands strung out on our RV awning, and we have traveled all over the country. Lots of people have commented on how cool the lights are, and think its great we back our Browns through thick (and mostly) thin. I usually reference the '86 Browns team as my favorite, while preaching that Dixon & Matthews should be in Canton, and the prevent D prevented joy- In my mind we were the best team that season. Most sports fans I have met in other states are just indifferent about the Browns, no rooting interest either way.
Funny story, even if its painful- last summer we went to Ireland. A bartender asked me where I was from, and he said "the Browns suck." I asked him how he knew that, and he said a guy he knows is from Cleveland and always cries about the struggles. He also said he only knows about 5 teams... the 49ers, Eagles, Bears, Steelers, & Browns.
Funny story, even if its painful- last summer we went to Ireland. A bartender asked me where I was from, and he said "the Browns suck."
the irish are really weird like that. very knowledgeable............yet they couldn't find food living on an island. potatoes? how about going to the shore and throwing in a fishing line?
DOH!
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Funny story, even if its painful- last summer we went to Ireland. A bartender asked me where I was from, and he said "the Browns suck."
the irish are really weird like that. very knowledgeable............yet they couldn't find food living on an island. potatoes? how about going to the shore and throwing in a fishing line?
DOH!
how about going to the shore and throwing in a fishing line?
Because potatoes make lousy bait...
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