California born and raised, but unfortunately it runs in the family
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From Utah, I’ve only been to Cleveland just this past summer
Being born, raised and living in NE Ohio most of my life, trying to shake the Browns from my thoughts has been near impossible. When they left Cleveland, I rooted for another team where I lived at the time (Carolina Panthers from 1996-1999), But once the Browns returned, back to the misery. I returned to NE Ohio in 2009 and have done my best to maintain the fervor. After 63 years, it’s too late to start over with some other team. I would no doubt choose a team that has been a perennial winner throughout it’s history, and as soon as I do, that team starts a decades long decline. So…..sigh..
Canadian Browns Fan here , will never forget my first sight of the orange helmets. I’m a lifer . Living on the Canadian side of Lake Erie we could tune our house antenna as kids to get the games .
Alabama fan here, have visited twice for Browns games. Love the city, love rooting for an underdog which drew me to the team in the first place…but that was in 2018 when we were at least likeable underdogs lol
Born into it (I resent my father)
Browns fan from Iowa, in 2017 I didn’t care about or watch football. I asked my buddy who the worst team was and he, without hesitation, said the Browns. So I said I was a browns fan for the bit. Got to college and started watching football and stuck with it. Now my life is hell.
St. Louis native. Instead of the 2000 Superbowl Champions and the Greatest Show on Turf I decided that Orange helmet was cool as hell and have suffered ever since.
I picked them when I was younger and they went 1-15 and 0-16 because I thought it was funny.
Australian Browns fan here, I have no idea why. When I was looking for an NFL team the Browns were on their way to an 0-16 season and my heart told me to support the loveable loser underdog team. That was like 10 years ago and I’m real tired boss…
No way, Californian here who has only been in Ohio once, for a funeral. Brother and I fell for the team in 86-87… ending in The Drive and The Fumble. You’d think we’d have learned our lesson(s), but alas, no.
Born in Louisiana and live in Texas now. Always been a fan of underdog teams and was told the Browns were the ultimate underdogs.
Australian Browns fan and confirmed idiot. Even travelled to the States to see me some Browns football.
From Uruguay, chose this team in 2018. Stuck with em. The thing about teams like the browns is that victory though scarce feels earned. The browns will eventually get again to a playoff seed and that feeling cannot be compared to anything deciding to be a chiefs fan would’ve given me
From Buffalo here. Was picking a team as a kid ~10 years ago and decided to go with one that was bad so I could see them rise and earn that success as a fan. I, uh, could’ve chosen better.
I’m at least an Ohioan, and I welcome all the outside fans to the Factory of Sadness. Though, I’ve never been to a game, and the price points of the new stadium means I never will.
Greetings from Denmark
Manchester UK 🫡 figured if I started supporting the worst team in the league it would be nice to watch them grow into a competitor again. It’s been 5 years, we must be close right? …right?
I have been attacked
Abs based, rp
NZ/Aus fan here. My last name is Brown. Found out there’s a team called the Browns? I’m all in.
No hesitation, no ragrets
Supporting all the way from New Zealand never even been to the States. I tell myself no one can ever accuse me of being a bandwagon fan
British Browns fan here. We started to get the NFL back in the 80s, so naturally I wanted a team to call my own. Was trying to decide when I got my first sight of the dog pound. Hundreds of guys in sub zero weather, shirtless and wearing dog masks.
That was it. That was my team. That bunch of lunatics made me realize I’d found my home.
Reading it back, that sounds a lot more homo erotic than I intended. There was none of that involved. Nope, not at all. What are you trying to insinuate?
40 years of heartbreak later, and I still think I made the right choice.
I’ve been playing fantasy football in a league for the last 15 years, I’ve always been the worst and always drafted a lot of browns players. Due to both reasons I’ve become attached to the team and identify with them now
probably the only Singaporean fan of the Browns HAHA
am a big fan of basketball (follow all teams pretty much), but one of my favourite players is K.Love so when he got traded here i simply supported the Cavs the most
when Lebron left the Cavs in 2018, and we started losing a lot, there was life brewing in FirstEnergy Stadium so i started to follow Browns games.
although i’ve never stepped foot in Cleveland, or in the USA for that matter, i fervently support everything Cavaliers, Browns and Guardians!
This is a little close to home.
Some people were born into the pain, others choose the pain!
Because one day! One day! We will make the Superbowl.
When someone get $10billion, buy the browns, fire all the coaching staff and actually start developing players…..
I’m across the lake in Canada…. I’m dumb….
Still smarter than Steelers fans in NE Ohio.
Jesus just call me out.
Being a Browns fan should be defined in a medical dictionary as a mental illness…. Ive suffered this since Sipe…
Edit: I was actually spawned in Cleveland, Ohio and raised in NEOhio.
Subscribed.
Dumb ancestors. Dumber me.
My father’s side of the family was from Columbus. He lived there until he was 10 and then they moved to Buffalo.
He had already embraced the Browns before the move to Bills territory. He passed this infected Browns fandom gene on to me and I have now passed that infected gene to my kids.
Never lived in CLE. Fan my entire football conscious life (I’m 50 now-so about 40 years). Had his family moved maybe 1 year earlier I may be a Bills fan now.
So close to less misery 🙂
German browns Fan here. Picked my team because of a bet with a good friend of mine who is a steelers fan.
Watched my first season in 2020 and had a heart for the underdogs. I made the joke that I’ll become a browns Fan if they win the playoff game against the steelers. The joke became a bet and the rest is history.
Who would’ve thought, that I joined on the absolute peak of this franchise in the last 25 years.
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From Utah, I’ve only been to Cleveland just this past summer
Being born, raised and living in NE Ohio most of my life, trying to shake the Browns from my thoughts has been near impossible. When they left Cleveland, I rooted for another team where I lived at the time (Carolina Panthers from 1996-1999), But once the Browns returned, back to the misery. I returned to NE Ohio in 2009 and have done my best to maintain the fervor. After 63 years, it’s too late to start over with some other team. I would no doubt choose a team that has been a perennial winner throughout it’s history, and as soon as I do, that team starts a decades long decline. So…..sigh..
Canadian Browns Fan here , will never forget my first sight of the orange helmets. I’m a lifer . Living on the Canadian side of Lake Erie we could tune our house antenna as kids to get the games .
Alabama fan here, have visited twice for Browns games. Love the city, love rooting for an underdog which drew me to the team in the first place…but that was in 2018 when we were at least likeable underdogs lol
Born into it (I resent my father)
Browns fan from Iowa, in 2017 I didn’t care about or watch football. I asked my buddy who the worst team was and he, without hesitation, said the Browns. So I said I was a browns fan for the bit. Got to college and started watching football and stuck with it. Now my life is hell.
St. Louis native. Instead of the 2000 Superbowl Champions and the Greatest Show on Turf I decided that Orange helmet was cool as hell and have suffered ever since.
I picked them when I was younger and they went 1-15 and 0-16 because I thought it was funny.
Australian Browns fan here, I have no idea why. When I was looking for an NFL team the Browns were on their way to an 0-16 season and my heart told me to support the loveable loser underdog team. That was like 10 years ago and I’m real tired boss…
No way, Californian here who has only been in Ohio once, for a funeral. Brother and I fell for the team in 86-87… ending in The Drive and The Fumble. You’d think we’d have learned our lesson(s), but alas, no.
Born in Louisiana and live in Texas now. Always been a fan of underdog teams and was told the Browns were the ultimate underdogs.
Australian Browns fan and confirmed idiot. Even travelled to the States to see me some Browns football.
From Uruguay, chose this team in 2018. Stuck with em. The thing about teams like the browns is that victory though scarce feels earned. The browns will eventually get again to a playoff seed and that feeling cannot be compared to anything deciding to be a chiefs fan would’ve given me
From Buffalo here. Was picking a team as a kid ~10 years ago and decided to go with one that was bad so I could see them rise and earn that success as a fan. I, uh, could’ve chosen better.
I’m at least an Ohioan, and I welcome all the outside fans to the Factory of Sadness. Though, I’ve never been to a game, and the price points of the new stadium means I never will.
Greetings from Denmark
Manchester UK 🫡 figured if I started supporting the worst team in the league it would be nice to watch them grow into a competitor again. It’s been 5 years, we must be close right? …right?
I have been attacked
Abs based, rp
NZ/Aus fan here. My last name is Brown. Found out there’s a team called the Browns? I’m all in.
No hesitation, no ragrets
Supporting all the way from New Zealand never even been to the States. I tell myself no one can ever accuse me of being a bandwagon fan
British Browns fan here. We started to get the NFL back in the 80s, so naturally I wanted a team to call my own. Was trying to decide when I got my first sight of the dog pound. Hundreds of guys in sub zero weather, shirtless and wearing dog masks.
That was it. That was my team. That bunch of lunatics made me realize I’d found my home.
Reading it back, that sounds a lot more homo erotic than I intended. There was none of that involved. Nope, not at all. What are you trying to insinuate?
40 years of heartbreak later, and I still think I made the right choice.
I’ve been playing fantasy football in a league for the last 15 years, I’ve always been the worst and always drafted a lot of browns players. Due to both reasons I’ve become attached to the team and identify with them now
probably the only Singaporean fan of the Browns HAHA
am a big fan of basketball (follow all teams pretty much), but one of my favourite players is K.Love so when he got traded here i simply supported the Cavs the most
when Lebron left the Cavs in 2018, and we started losing a lot, there was life brewing in FirstEnergy Stadium so i started to follow Browns games.
although i’ve never stepped foot in Cleveland, or in the USA for that matter, i fervently support everything Cavaliers, Browns and Guardians!
This is a little close to home.
Some people were born into the pain, others choose the pain!
Because one day! One day! We will make the Superbowl.
When someone get $10billion, buy the browns, fire all the coaching staff and actually start developing players…..
I’m across the lake in Canada…. I’m dumb….
Still smarter than Steelers fans in NE Ohio.
Jesus just call me out.
Being a Browns fan should be defined in a medical dictionary as a mental illness…. Ive suffered this since Sipe…
Edit: I was actually spawned in Cleveland, Ohio and raised in NEOhio.
Subscribed.
Dumb ancestors. Dumber me.
My father’s side of the family was from Columbus. He lived there until he was 10 and then they moved to Buffalo.
He had already embraced the Browns before the move to Bills territory. He passed this infected Browns fandom gene on to me and I have now passed that infected gene to my kids.
Never lived in CLE. Fan my entire football conscious life (I’m 50 now-so about 40 years). Had his family moved maybe 1 year earlier I may be a Bills fan now.
So close to less misery 🙂
German browns Fan here. Picked my team because of a bet with a good friend of mine who is a steelers fan.
Watched my first season in 2020 and had a heart for the underdogs. I made the joke that I’ll become a browns Fan if they win the playoff game against the steelers. The joke became a bet and the rest is history.
Who would’ve thought, that I joined on the absolute peak of this franchise in the last 25 years.