"Play like a Brown"

[OldBrownsFan]

@texasag1969 said:

Well something has to change. I saw NFL Network do a program on top 10 snakebit franchises this morning. At least the Browns are #1 at something, no matter how dubious the honor.

The Browns have had more than their share of bad breaks but sometimes I think they get played up more in Cleveland. Just this last season I don't think anything the Browns ever did could match how badly the Packers gave away their play off game to Seattle. Then Seattle returned the favor with giving the Super Bowl to the Patriots with the interception at the goal line.

I think one of the things that needs to change is to quit looking back. I don't see either the Packers or the Seahawks dwelling on those losses for decades but putting those losses behind them and going forward. Pettine seems to be saying the same thing when he tells the players to break off the rear view mirror and look forward.

[Dste Ace]

I've always been partial to "Just win, goddammit."

[Tour2ma]

@wargograw said:

We don't have any lame slogans for our players. I didn't mention A&M. You argue against things that no one has stated.

What about "Farmers Fight"?

[The Gipper]

@baconhound said:

Look through the thread I didn't say that don't count just that for me what happened 60 years ago doesn't mean shit to me, sorry. I acknowledge that they exist.

I have said over and over and over again on here that the ONLY titles that "Count" ...that really mean anything to the current day are the last one and the next one. Everything else is just history. So, the fact is, the 2013 Seattle Seahawks championship does not count a cabbage farts worth more than the 1920 Akron Pros title.

So there is your lesson for the Day: Hail to the Champion Patriots. Now lets bring on the challenge to them.

[The Gipper]

@mld-woody said:

So people that like the phrase "Play Like A Brown"... what about phrases from other teams you may not like? (ex, Michigan Man)

Do you like the idea of both phrases, and what they stand for? Or do you just like the one that represents your team, and not the one that doesnt?

The most important Michigan Man ever....the guy that invented the phrase, was a Buckeye. Of course you knew that..

[The Gipper]

@gumby73 said:

A Quote from Vince Lombardi, " What the Hell's going on out Here" has been used by many of us for Years as Browns Fans. "Play Like A Brown" is well overdue.. I'll take it for Now. Things they are a Changing and Good QB play maybe our last piece...

The most applicable Lombardi saying to these Browns? "Its all about blocking and tackling"........and that is what the Browns drafted for...to be the best blocking and tackling team they could be.

And that's a good thing.

[The Gipper]

@oldbrownsfan said:

The Browns have had more than their share of bad breaks but sometimes I think they get played up more in Cleveland. Just this last season I don't think anything the Browns ever did could match how badly the Packers gave away their play off game to Seattle. Then Seattle returned the favor with giving the Super Bowl to the Patriots with the interception at the goal line.

I think one of the things that needs to change is to quit looking back. I don't see either the Packers or the Seahawks dwelling on those losses for decades but putting those losses behind them and going forward. Pettine seems to be saying the same thing when he tells the players to break off the rear view mirror and look forward.

OK, if the Seahawks and the Packers have had one or two "bad deals" that still does not compare to the litany of bad breaks the Browns have had. Not really.

[wargograw]

@tour2ma said:

What about "Farmers Fight"?

Just something fans say in the stands during games. Not comparable to "Michigan Man" or "play like a Brown."

[miktoxic]

name me the slogan where every player slaps the sign on the way out to the notre dame field of football?

[The Gipper]

@miktoxic said:

name me the slogan where every player slaps the sign on the way out to the notre dame field of football?

Win One for The Gipper

[Dste Ace]

Personally, when I first heard "Play like a Brown", I admit I rolled my eyes.

But I was recently thinking about George Allen becoming coach of the Redskins and the "Over the Hill Gang".

The grizzled vets recalled that at the end of the first day of training camp Allen suddenly shouted "Lets hear

3 cheers for the Redskins! Hip, hip...", and the vets looked at one another going What.The.Fuck.

Fast forward to the end of the season, the Skins had just rolled the Cowboys in the playoffs 24-3, and the famous

NFL Films video of Allen jumping up and down, clapping his hands, leading the celebration in the locker room. Allen

suddenly shouted, "Let's hear 3 cheers for the Redskins!! Hip, hip.." and the grizzled vets all responded with an

ear-splitting HOORAY!.

The point is, yeah, it sounds pretty corny to a bunch of professional athletes, generating major eye rolls.

But if the players buy into it, then amazing things can happen. It's about changing the culture of losing, hell,

the expectation that we're going to lose. Again. Break off the rear view mirror. What's behind us doesn't matter.

[Mark O]

@miktoxic said:

name me the slogan where every player slaps the sign on the way out to the notre dame field of football?

Play like a Champion Today

[Canton Mike]

@mark-o said:

Play like a Champion Today

Yep!

[miktoxic]

so this slogan thing isn't just some PR move........

[The Gipper]

@miktoxic said:

so this slogan thing isn't just some PR move........

I have a few things to say about that:

I've Fallen and I can't get up.

A Mind is a Terrible thing to waste

Plop Plop Fizz Fizz

Good to the Last Drop

Breakfast of Champions

Where's the Beef

It melts in your mouth, not in your hand

Gimme a break, gimme a break

The Best Part of Waking up

Don't Leave home without it.

Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't

Don't Mess with Texas

Virginia is for Lovers

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas

The San Francisco Treat

It keeps going and going and going

Pardon Me, do you have any Grey Poupon?

Be Like Mike

Got Milk

I coulda had a V-8

Hooray Beer

Just Do It

Stronger than Dirt

Porsche, there is no substitute

Let Your Fingers do the walking

I'm Lovin it.

Have it Your way

Finger Lickin' Good

Reach Out and Touch Someone

Fly the Friendly Skies

Share Moments, Share Life

The Happiest Place on Earth

Its GGGGREAT

What's in your wallet

The Best a man can get

Can you hear me now?

When you absolutely positively have to have it overnight

Like a Good Neighbor

American by Birth, Rebel by Choice

What can the fucking Browns do for you?

Deliver.

[OldBrownsFan]

Theme from Rocky works for me.

[calfoxwc]

Old timey redneck hillbilly sayings.

• Don’t take any wooden nickels

I’ll give you something to cry aboutI’m gonna knock you into next weekI’ve already forgot more than you knowGrab a cold tater and waitBurnt food makes you prettyIf you eat that your hair will turn red.It’ll cure what ails yaOh really Dick TracyOh really Chic TracyYou don’t sayL – I – B DangDrunker than Cooter Brown (I never figured out who Cooter Brown is)More than livers got pillsAin't that a hootLonger than a witches dreamColder than a well diggers bumHotter than a fire crackerBold as brassDon’t squat with your spurs on,dumb as a post,doesn't have a pot to pee in,this is a two biscuit day,when your nose itches, someone's coming to see you with a hole in their britches,that's where Tony throwed the mule,Katie bar the door,he's like a blister--doesn't show up until after the work is done,tighter than Dick's hatband,like talking to a fence post (or stump),like searching for hen's teeth,he's so dumb, if you moved his plate five inches to the left he would starve to death,Fuller than a tick on a dogs ear.Runnin around like a chicken with its head cut off.Hotter than a two dollar pistol.Sweatin like a whore in church.The door swings both waysAre you shining me or Stop Shining meYou’re a sight for sore eyesHe's a young shaverKnee high to a grass hopperLook what the cat dun went and drug inya come up yonder, we fix ya some vittles.you youngins getting on my last nerve.we got somein good to eat.that there girl yonder.

[The Gipper]

Thanks, Jed.

[nickers]

@the-gipper said:

I have a few things to say about that:

I've Fallen and I can't get up.

A Mind is a Terrible thing to waste

Plop Plop Fizz Fizz

Good to the Last Drop

Breakfast of Champions

Where's the Beef

It melts in your mouth, not in your hand

Gimme a break, gimme a break

The Best Part of Waking up

Don't Leave home without it.

Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't

Don't Mess with Texas

Virginia is for Lovers

What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas

The San Francisco Treat

It keeps going and going and going

Pardon Me, do you have any Grey Poupon?

Be Like Mike

Got Milk

I coulda had a V-8

Hooray Beer

Just Do It

Stronger than Dirt

Porsche, there is no substitute

Let Your Fingers do the walking

I'm Lovin it.

Have it Your way

Finger Lickin' Good

Reach Out and Touch Someone

Fly the Friendly Skies

Share Moments, Share Life

The Happiest Place on Earth

Its GGGGREAT

What's in your wallet

The Best a man can get

Can you hear me now?

When you absolutely positively have to have it overnight

Like a Good Neighbor

American by Birth, Rebel by Choice

What can the fucking Browns do for you?

Deliver.

We Have the Meats!

[The Gipper]

@nickers said:

We Have the Meats!

I gotcher meat right here pal!