Nobody hates the Browns.....yet. I used to root for the Red Sox just because they weren't the Yankees. Then they won and their fans revealed themselves to be typical Boston fans. Sorta same with the Cubbies. It's like......aww cute, look at them try. But the second they win their fans just turn into complete shit heels. So it's on Browns fans to not make people hate the team if they keep winning.I feel like nobody hates the Browns anymore. Or at least didn't for well over a decade until they just recently got their shit together. How could anybody "hate" the handicapped kid? I came of age in the mid-late eighties, when the old AFC Central was full of great rivalries. Browns, Steelers, Bengals & Oilers all had some measure of success and all HATED each other.
Browns-Steelers was one of the biggest rivalries in the NFL
Browns-Bengals was brutal...Sam Wyche, "You don't live in Cleveland!"
Everyone hated Glanville.
"The House of Pain"
"The Jungle"
Three Rivers
Playing in cavernous Municipal Stadium with brutal winds off of the Lake
Bernie
Warren Moon
Boomer
NOBODY has looked at the Browns as a rival for 25 years. They were just an expected "W."
And while I learned to embrace the comedy they provided, it's good to see quality football and a real team in Cleveland for the first time in 25 years. Hell, longer, really. 1994 was a good team, but it was a one-off. The last time they could be considered a consistent contender would be '86-'89.
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