Bob806 Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 48....first game I ever went to in person was Oct 1, 1972 (I still have the stub) vs. Cincy. Browns won 27-6, and I still remember the Bengals' Boobie Clark watching the ball bounce on the opening kickoff, not fielding it. The Browns recovered, the fans were going nuts....I knew this was the place I wanted to be!!! There is only one team I've never seen play at the old or new stadium- Carolina. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 more season Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 I don't want to start a "new thread" so here it is. Kind of funny. At least their not making fun of us http://staphmeal.com/2012/01/18/what-your-favorite-nfl-team-says-about-you-in-one-sentence/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Couch Pulls Out Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 I'm 22. I don't remember squat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miktoxic Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 just turned fiddy in december. don't look a day over 70 but act like i'm 47 (ha! zombo!). didn't get into the browns until the late seventies. remember meeting dave logan at hopkins airport. he was on his way back to denver after the raiders beat the browns in the afc playoffs and i was on my way to boot camp. he gave me his autograph on a cocktail napkin at some seedy airport lounge. don't know what holds more true today: my love for the browns or seedy airport lounges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 more season Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 don't know what holds more true today: my love for the browns or seedy airport lounges. Just like Larry Craig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miktoxic Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 that wasn't nice. no, you're thinking of seedy bathrooms. and why would that be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 more season Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 that wasn't nice. no, you're thinking of seedy bathrooms. and why would that be? Ha Ha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jibz Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 Not a big poster here but I am older then dirt at 56. Been a Browns fan since 1978... that year I lived in Old Brooklyn and bought a penny that was smashed into the shape of a Browns football with the words Kardiac Kids on it. I still carry it today on my key chain. Anyone Else get one of those cool pennys? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thaak Posted January 19, 2012 Report Share Posted January 19, 2012 40, been following the Browns since 1984 (family didn't watch football, so never really got involved in it until friends and school started talking), and never looked back. Kosar is one of my favorite players of all time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLEVELandMILIDH Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 27 and feel like I'm 80. All I remember is heartbreak,and not just the Browns. Its seem's to run ramped in Cleveland, looking forward to dementia....can't wait Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ballpeen Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 The Indians won the World Series a few months after I was born. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
USFBrown Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 This thread was a great idea. It can get negative in this forum at times and its nice to see everyone relive their early memories and remember how they became fans. Lots of generations of fans in here. Although I'm not a big poster in here I'm proud to be a member, proud to be a browns fan, and enjoy chatting with you guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halfbreed216 Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 30...Born and raised a Browns fan, why turn on them now. Left Cleveland and live in New Orleans now. Easy to switch to the Who Dat Nation, just doesn't feel right though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calfoxwc Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Well... I would have been 61 in Dec... except after I turned fifty, I started going backwards. I figure, that I'd rather be one year old, than 99, since I'd be just about as helpless maybe. So, I'm 39. And I really don't look it, even though I may have Kathy beat (I'm younger than Canton Mike, though! GGG) ...when people ask me my secret to youthful looks, I just tell them I'm chronically immature. @@ Anyways, my first Browns memory, is seeing the Browns play the Steelers in an exhibition game, at the U. of Akron Rubber Bowl when I was a kid. Leory Kelly was always my bigtime favorite player back then, and I didn't have any use for Jimmy Brown as a person. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tampadawgs Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 84 remember when we were good, eyes bad thats why I cant splel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoorta Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Not a big poster here but I am older then dirt at 56. Been a Browns fan since 1978... that year I lived in Old Brooklyn and bought a penny that was smashed into the shape of a Browns football with the words Kardiac Kids on it. I still carry it today on my key chain. Anyone Else get one of those cool pennys? You are not older than dirt. My mom who bless her heart is still with us and in relatively good health, can not only remember games Otto Graham played, but can recall the Indians winning a World series (1949), and the Japs bombing Pearl Harbor. My grandmother RIP told me about how terrible it was when the Titanic sank. I'm going to wax a little philosophical on you guys, about the funny perception we have about time. So to give you a baseline- yeah, I'm over 60 WAY older than dirt. One of my early childhood memories was sitting in the back seat of my dad's 1950 Ford, when news came over the radio that the last CIVIL WAR veteran had just died. Do you realize given the right time and place, there are people alive today that could honestly say they talked to a guy who talked to Abraham Lincoln? Given the right time and place, I could have talked to someone who fought in the Civil War? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hoorta Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 27 and feel like I'm 80. All I remember is heartbreak,and not just the Browns. Its seem's to run ramped in Cleveland, looking forward to dementia....can't wait You need to exercise more. shiite, if I could ever roll back the clock I'd stay that age forever. I'll give you a goal- climb this booger- you'll feel a lot younger. I did @ 28. Gannet Peak, Highpoint of Wyoming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joeturkeyj Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 I don't post a great deal (as evidenced by my count) but I do read daily. 47 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zombo Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 Well, let's see ... when I found this group of folks in 1997, I was one of the young guns at 33. Now, at 47, I am one of the old farts. 14 years ... 38% of my life ... posting about the Browns. I started "This Week in the AFC Central" in 1998 to have fun with the other teams in the division since we didn't have a team yet. Since 1999, I have done 208 "This Week in the AFC North", I have predicted 208 Browns victories and we have won just 68 of them. I have witnessed one playoff game, which we lost in horrifyingly heartbreaking fashion and the Christmas Tree ended up in the pool. I went from single to married to divorced. I went from poor to rich to poor. I've been a Browns Season Ticket Holder and a Browns Backer Chapter President. I have flown up to 12 different Browns games in Cleveland, only to see them win once. Can we get a real Quarterback now? Zombo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Gipper Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 You are not older than dirt. My mom who bless her heart is still with us and in relatively good health, can not only remember games Otto Graham played, but can recall the Indians winning a World series (1949), and the Japs bombing Pearl Harbor. My grandmother RIP told me about how terrible it was when the Titanic sank. I'm going to wax a little philosophical on you guys, about the funny perception we have about time. So to give you a baseline- yeah, I'm over 60 WAY older than dirt. One of my early childhood memories was sitting in the back seat of my dad's 1950 Ford, when news came over the radio that the last CIVIL WAR veteran had just died. Do you realize given the right time and place, there are people alive today that could honestly say they talked to a guy who talked to Abraham Lincoln? Given the right time and place, I could have talked to someone who fought in the Civil War? Hell, the last WWI Veteran died about a year ago....and that war started 49 years after the Civil War ended. http://articles.cnn.com/2011-02-27/us/wwi.veteran.death_1_frank-buckles-susannah-buckles-flanagan-veterans?_s=PM:US Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 This is my first post on this board but I hope to be around more. I'm 19 and from Strongsville, OH. I've been a Browns fan my whole life, so I've never really seen anything that great. I'm also an avid Wolverines fan and am currently an undergrad at the University of Michigan studying Mechanical Engineering. I'll try to bring a youthful, not as soul crushingly bitter point of view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Gipper Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 This is my first post on this board but I hope to be around more. I'm 19 and from Strongsville, OH. I've been a Browns fan my whole life, so I've never really seen anything that great. I'm also an avid Wolverines fan and am currently an undergrad at the University of Michigan studying Mechanical Engineering. I'll try to bring a youthful, not as soul crushingly bitter point of view. Some might say that you have shamed the name Woody by electing to attend that school up north....as Woody called it. I mean, it does look like you did have other choices, fair to say?: List of the Top Good Mechanical Engineering Schools School Name Distinction Location University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign Undergraduate externship program with 16 cooperating companies Urbana, IL University of Michigan - Ann Arbor New research complex broke ground in April 2011 Ann Arbor, MI Purdue University New LEED-certified wing being added to mechanical engineering building West Lafayette, IN University of California - Berkeley Offers a D.Eng to interested doctorate-seeking students Berkeley, CA Cornell University Features the Experiential Learning Laboratory Ithaca, NY Georgia Institute of Technology Offers the Frank K. Webb Program in Professional Communication Atlanta, GA Stanford University Highest-ranked mechanical engineering department in the U.S. with a part-time graduate curriculum option Stanford, CA Massachusetts Institute of Technology Offers several oceanographic and ocean-related degrees Cambridge, MA Princeton University Offers a program in laser technology Princeton, NJ California Institute of Technology Features the Jim Hall Design and Prototyping Lab Pasadena, CA Nevertheless. Good luck with school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choco Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 This is my first post on this board but I hope to be around more. I'm 19 and from Strongsville, OH. I've been a Browns fan my whole life, so I've never really seen anything that great. I'm also an avid Wolverines fan and am currently an undergrad at the University of Michigan studying Mechanical Engineering. I'll try to bring a youthful, not as soul crushingly bitter point of view. welcome! better get up to speed on Pro E and Solidworks if you plan on drafting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MLD Woody Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 I've got one semester of Solidworks under my belt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WRREBEL Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 I know this is a little bit weird but if you are a regular poster I would like you to comment and say how old you are. It helps me to know your age so I can understand your perspective, thought process, and history following the team. Thanks 12 teen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taco918 Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 I'm 24. I lived up in the Cleveland area when they came back into the league. I hated them at the time, due to them not being real great, but once I moved away from the area I came to the realization I actually missed watching them. Been a fan ever since. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLEVELandMILIDH Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 You need to exercise more. shiite, if I could ever roll back the clock I'd stay that age forever. I'll give you a goal- climb this booger- you'll feel a lot younger. I did @ 28. Gannet Peak, Highpoint of Wyoming. Haha It's not from lack of exercise, I run everyday. But that mountain looks like it would be a blast to snowboard down, thats the only way I go up that thing Cleveland has left me with many emotional scars, If we don't start winning bye time I'm your age I'm gonna be a very bitter old man. Nobody wants another Ghoolie or R4E on the board so we better get this thing turned around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choco Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 meh...ok. 32, born and raised in clarion county PA, an hour north of pittsburgh. my folks were farmers and not really interested in sports, so my uncle (lives in findlay) took me under his wing and made me a browns fan...sometime around 6 years old. my memories of early browns football are insignificant though, since living in stool country much of my life dictates who i watch on sundays. i actually enjoy being behind enemy lines....people around here generally dont talk football with me cause i end up knowing more about their team than they do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kshutchins Posted January 20, 2012 Report Share Posted January 20, 2012 even though I may have Kathy beat ... Uh. Nope. But you are a gentleman for suggesting that you might. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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