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Why / How did you become a Browns fan ?

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  • The GipperT The Gipper

    @darren15 said:

    I am from UK originally lived in USA since 2005 .....when American football was first shown on TV in UK I loved the Kosar, Mack, Byner team that was around then ....been a fan ever since.....

    Kosar, Mack, Byner were in the 80s, not 2005. Did you mean 1985?

    @the-gipper said:

    Kosar, Mack, Byner were in the 80s, not 2005. Did you mean 1985?

    What I meant was I moved here in 2005 but been a fan since it was first shown in uk in the 80s .......

    The GipperT 1 Reply

  • Born in Cleveland but moved shortly after.

    Can thank my father for teaching me how to root for a bunch of losers.

  • Bourne and razed.

    "You planning on having a long relationship with that glass or are you going to drink it? Drink up, man. Maybe we can get another.” - Janis Joplin, 1970.
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  • My dad was born in Mansfield. He grew up as a Browns, Cavs, Tribe fan. My mom grew up in Washington outside of Pittsburgh and was a Steelers fan. Went with my dad's favorites lol.

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  • I had the bad luck to be born in cleveland, to a football loving family, and be a child at the precise time the browns were briefly good.

    Early man walked away as modern man took control. Their minds weren't all the same and to conquer was their goal. So He built his great empires and he slaughtered his own kind, and he died a confused man and killed himself in his own mind...
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  • Monday Night Football, October 14, 2008 when the Browns beat the undefeated Super Bowl Giants 35-14.

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  • darren15D darren15

    @the-gipper said:

    Kosar, Mack, Byner were in the 80s, not 2005. Did you mean 1985?

    What I meant was I moved here in 2005 but been a fan since it was first shown in uk in the 80s .......

    @darren15 said:

    What I meant was I moved here in 2005 but been a fan since it was first shown in uk in the 80s .......

    Hunky dory.

    Tour2maT 1 Reply

  • How did I become a Browns fan? I grew up when they were big winners.

    Raise your hands.....how many of you are old enough to remember the last Browns championship in 1964.

    I am one. Who else?

    Canton MikeC 1 Reply

  • WHY?? I have no fucking clue HOW?? I think I fell down the stairs of the short bus and landed in dogshit. Something along those lines.

    "We are Americans. We don't quit doing something because it's wrong. We just keep doing the wrong thing till it turns out right." Browns maybe the most American Football team ever.

  • Born and raised here. Still live here. Probably will die here.

    "And they don't really know even what they're talkin' about And I can't imagine what empty heads can achieve."

  • I became a Browns fan because I am a masochist.

    I'm awesome, and I fuck dolphins. Ghoolie 12/2/2012: I have absolutely no skills, training or pride

  • Born into it, in 1989. Went to a game as a child right before Modell moved us to Baltimore. Got a brick from the stadium.

    Was there when we got the team back in 1999. Watched everything since. moved to Florida and now LA and i'll still never miss a game.

  • I grew up watching the Browns, Reds, Ohio State and the Dayton Flyers in the 60's and have stayed with them.

  • Family is from Ohio, and as a boy, I loved the team that my father rooted for. It sickens him to even discuss the Browns now, and he doesn't understand how a team could be so inept for so long.

    I was about 10 years old or so during the good Kosar years, and some of Vinny's. I can remember picking up the newspaper on Monday morning and hoping to find a small paragraph written about the previous Browns game, hoping for anything that could get me by to the next week. Some of the happiest times I can remember was when my dad would take me to a family sports bar on Sunday afternoon and we'd sit with the Browns backers and bark at the screen. It was probably the last thing he wanted to do on a Sunday after working his ass off all week, but he would do it almost every Sunday. Back then, there was no guide or "on demand" listings. The bar had about a million channels they would look through in hopes of seeing the orange helmets. I can still remember a run by Metcalf at the end of the Raiders game that won it just about as time expired.

    Many people will say it's just a game, and they'd be right to a large extent. The thing is, so many of us tie the Browns to strong family bonds and good times. People that may not be with us anymore, or friends that have gone their own way. The Browns mean something to us, and that's why some of us lose our collective minds when we perpetually see a product that isn't even close to respectability. Rooting for a team was passed down to us by people we loved, and we went to the games with them, talked incessantly about the team with them, and no matter what differences you had with your family...you could still talk about the Browns.

    There is a generation of Browns fans that know nothing but losing. Hell, I'm almost one of them. Our fans are loyal, fierce, and dying for a winner. It makes me sad to be the butt of jokes around the league, and sadder still knowing that next year probably won't be much better. That being said, we all remember the tough years the Bengals went through, and they didn't seem like they'd ever get out of the cellar. We'll get there eventually, just like they did.

  • When the great betrayal of 96 arrived I started following the Browns from their return in 99. Didn't really follow one team before then, but was edging towards the Bills. The 96-99 period was the reason for me- a great club betrayed by its owner. Still makes by blood boil! ?

    Loyaultie me Lie. If I hadn't seen such riches I could live with being poor!
  • The GipperT The Gipper

    @darren15 said:

    What I meant was I moved here in 2005 but been a fan since it was first shown in uk in the 80s .......

    Hunky dory.

    Something I find myself asking more and more... Why, oh why, did I become a Browns fan?

    @the-gipper said:

    Hunky dory.

    Best Bowie album ever...

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  • Tour2maT Tour2ma

    Something I find myself asking more and more... Why, oh why, did I become a Browns fan?

    @the-gipper said:

    Hunky dory.

    Best Bowie album ever...

    David_Bowie_-_Hunky_Dory.jpg

    @tour2ma said:

    Something I find myself asking more and more... Why, oh why, did I become a Browns fan?

    Best Bowie album ever...

    David_Bowie_-_Hunky_Dory.jpg

    Used to be a good bakery in town here.

  • Dad has always been a Browns fan. I didn't really get full blown into football until about 2008 and I remember my dad liking the Browns and watching them, I remember loving the plain uniforms and helmets. And I've always been a fan of the underdog

  • Been a Browns fan since the early 70s, encouraged by my dad and grandfather. I moved away from Cleveland at a relatively young age, but followed the Browns thru the Sipe & Kosar eras and have become a die hard fan ever since. I thought losing the team in 1995 and sucking ever since would have been the end for me especially since I no longer live in the area, but I have become obsessed with seeing them turn things around. I may be old, wrinkly and grey before that ever happens. Crap...I just looked in the mirror.

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