SEC (It just means more.. even its losses are wins)

[dragurd]

I've got the Browns. Though, I just watch the games. I'm not the guy to ask for a rundown of their roster. I don't sit on Browns message boards, and I couldn't tell you their record in any given year. But I sat through a 1-15 and then an 0-16 season. I'm looking forward to complaining about the "Browns fans" who were no where to be found during those years. But actually, I know a lot of people who have been Browns fans all this time.

Yeah my Dad is a Browns fan. We went to a few agames between the two as preseason games when Barry Sanders was still on the lions. And made 2 or 3 actual games though none between the two. Then when Stafford was a rookie we went to the Famous separated shoulder game which looked not fun to start but turned into an awesome game. Well awesome for me not so much him and my brother lol.

 

[Don Muenz]

the stuff we put in our whiskey?

Jest when I’m thinking these are reasonable folks, they ruin good bourbon with water.

The Germans say, “In beer there is strength.”

The Romans say, “In wine there is truth.”

The Italians say, “In water there is bacteria.”

 

[dragurd]

wait a minute?
you telling me there is an actual sport called hockey? that’s not just some made up shit for TV?

In the good ole days you'd get at least one bar fight out of a game too

 

[Don Muenz]

I went to a bar fight and a hockey game broke out.

 

[cincibuck]

Yeah my Dad is a Browns fan. We went to a few agames between the two as preseason games when Barry Sanders was still on the lions. And made 2 or 3 actual games though none between the two. Then when Stafford was a rookie we went to the Famous separated shoulder game which looked not fun to start but turned into an awesome game. Well awesome for me not so much him and my brother lol.

Yep, Sitting here in Super Cincinnati and going, "meh". I began following the Browns when they wore white leather helmets and Lou Groza was kicking 50-yard field goals. When Dayton and Columbus were suddenly told they were in "Bengals Country" I shit a brick.

 

[dragurd]

Yep, Sitting here in Super Cincinnati and going, "meh". I began following the Browns when they wore white leather helmets and Lou Groza was kicking 50-yard field goals. When Dayton and Columbus were suddenly told they were in "Bengals Country" I shit a brick.

Yeah my Dad grew up in Dayton. Is a Reds fan and Browns fan unabshedly cause they were good when he was growing up. But he stuck by them unlike most front runners. I became a Tigers, Lions, Redwings fan cause my uncle from up by Toledo had a big influence plus Barry Sanders\Cecil Fielder\Federov, Yezerman, Datsuk when I was growing up.

 

[Mike80]

Yep, Sitting here in Super Cincinnati and going, "meh". I began following the Browns when they wore white leather helmets and Lou Groza was kicking 50-yard field goals. When Dayton and Columbus were suddenly told they were in "Bengals Country" I shit a brick.

Columbus is a huge front-runner town. It literally swings with whoever is good. Last year there were Browns fans everywhere, now its Bengals. And if both are bad, there's an amazing amount of Steelers fans suddenly.

 

[pnuts34]

Columbus is a huge front-runner town. It literally swings with whoever is good. Last year there were Browns fans everywhere, now its Bengals. And if both are bad, there's an amazing amount of Steelers fans suddenly.

Isn't that most cities with next to no Pro teams in town, but with pro teams a few hours away?
I would figure a number of southern cities are front-runner towns(people in AL all of the sudden rooting for the Saints for example)

 

[dragurd]

Columbus is a huge front-runner town. It literally swings with whoever is good. Last year there were Browns fans everywhere, now its Bengals. And if both are bad, there's an amazing amount of Steelers fans suddenly.

So during the Manning years lot's of Colt fans? Or was that a bridge too far

 

[Don Muenz]

So during the Manning years lot's of Colt fans? Or was that a bridge too far

A market garden with rows too tough to hoe.

 

[Mike80]

So during the Manning years lot's of Colt fans? Or was that a bridge too far

Not really - the Steelers were good enough to keep the attention most of the time.

 

[Mike80]

Isn't that most cities with next to no Pro teams in town, but with pro teams a few hours away?
I would figure a number of southern cities are front-runner towns(people in AL all of the sudden rooting for the Saints for example)

I don't know - It tends to be more of a Cleveland-oriented town during baseball season unless the Reds are really good or the Indians really bad, in which case it's more or less neutral.

 

[pnuts34]

I don't know - It tends to be more of a Cleveland-oriented town during baseball season unless the Reds are really good or the Indians really bad, in which case it's more or less neutral.

Gotcha, I always wondered how that worked with Columbus being in the middle of the state. But most of the people I've encountered from Cbus(whether through partying at OSU or traveling to the city on business or personal) are from Northern OH, which we all know is quite different than Southern OH.

 

[CMic]

When I lived in C'bus (admittedly quite some time ago), it wasn't a front-runner town - people did not change their allegiance.
It was a fractured town: 50% Browns, 30% Bengals, 20% Pitts. If your team sucked, you were quiet.

 

[Zurp]

Columbus is a huge front-runner town. It literally swings with whoever is good. Last year there were Browns fans everywhere, now its Bengals. And if both are bad, there's an amazing amount of Steelers fans suddenly.

When I lived in C'bus (admittedly quite some time ago), it wasn't a front-runner town - people did not change their allegiance.
It was a fractured town: 50% Browns, 30% Bengals, 20% Pitts. If your team sucked, you were quiet.

That's the way I remember it. I grew up in Worthington in the 80s and early 90s. The friends I had who were Indians fans didn't talk about baseball. Reds fans were easy to find. Browns fans were easy to find, and outside of a couple of years, it was tough to find the Bengals fans. I moved to Cleveland for school just as the Indians were catching on, and the Indians fans started to make themselves known.

Maybe some people do go with whoever happens to be winning, but the specific people I hung out with had their teams, and if the other Ohio teams were doing well, it was more, "I guess that's better than Pittsburgh winning," than, "YAY! GO OHIO!!!"

Of course, some just wanted to be asses. These guys were Steelers fans on fall Sundays, A's fans in 1990, *ichigan fans on fall Saturdays, Hoosiers fans in the winter, and who the fuck cares who they rooted for in the summer.