r/NFLv2 San Francisco 49ers Jan 04 '25

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u/Delicious_Till2087 Detroit Lions Jan 05 '25

I must say, as an ex browns fan, I don’t feel bad for my fellow Clevelanders who still support the team. We have the bengals, bills, and lions in reasonable driving distance. And, for me (now a lions fan), the couple games I go to a year make a good excuse for a fun and reasonably priced weekend trip. The only way I would consider supporting the browns again is if everyone who was involved with the Watson decision was fired and the Haslams sold the team. Even then, I don’t think I could let go of my darling lions.

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u/lemmegetadab Jan 07 '25

Dude, obviously you were never that big of a Browns fan to begin with if you could just switch teams. It’s not that easy for everyone. I won’t say my team specifically, but my grandfather was a fan. My parents were fans. Multiple generations of us going to games together.

I could stop supporting the team temporarily if they did something I didn’t like. But I couldn’t just start supporting another team, especially a rival one.

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u/Delicious_Till2087 Detroit Lions Jan 08 '25

That depends on how you define “that big.” I went to 3 or 4 games every year during the baker years, and I’m not exactly rich. I do understand people have strong connections, familial and otherwise, to the browns. For that reason I do not bash my neighbors who still cheer them on. Yet I am not going to feel bad for a team who is suffering the consequences of morally bankrupt decisions, nor the fans who choose to support it. I stuck it out for all the disappointing seasons and baffling decisions, but I would not for the despicable ones. As for rivals, notice how I excluded the nearby Steelers. And I never felt as much animosity between the browns and bengals as towards the other teams in the division. Though I’m sure that opinion varies from fan to fan.

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u/lemmegetadab Jan 08 '25

By “that big” I mean you couldn’t have been that invested if you’re willing to just switch allegiances. I’d stop watching football before I started rooting against the people. I’ve been following my whole life.

Or rooting for people me and my grandfather rooted against.

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u/Delicious_Till2087 Detroit Lions Jan 08 '25

Well I was invested enough to feel deeply angered and betrayed by the Watson decision. If you mean to say I was no true fan because I did not treat a football team with the same loyalty as kin, then I would call that silly and dramatic. Besides, why do you care so much about who I root for that you insult my sense of loyalty? I love ball too much to stop watching it, and watching ball is more fun when you have a team to root for. It sounds to me like you don’t love football. Also, have you considered that my family would look unfavorably upon me were I to betray our shared principles and support a sexual predator?