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What will be the Browns win total?


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I've said it before and I'll say it again.

It always irks me when people say "we" in regard to teams they're not actually employed by or a member of.


I also hate when people start out their posts with clichéd colloquialisms.
 
I've said it before and I'll say it again.

It always irks me when people say "we" in regard to teams they're not actually employed by or a member of.


I also hate when people start out their posts with clichéd colloquialisms.

Is it weird that I remember this about you?
 
I've said it before and I'll say it again.

It always irks me when people say "we" in regard to teams they're not actually employed by or a member of.


I also hate when people start out their posts with clichéd colloquialisms.

I found it liberating to remove myself from the Browns fan community, and I thank Jigo for that.
 
I've said it before and I'll say it again.

It always irks me when people say "we" in regard to teams they're not actually employed by or a member of.


I also hate when people start out their posts with clichéd colloquialisms.
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Try it. For one week, call the Browns they instead of we.

See how we feel.

Is it weird that I remember this about you?

I think I'm the only person that's ever said it and I'm a key locker room guy on this team, so it makes sense it would have resonated.
 
I've said it before and I'll say it again.

It always irks me when people say "we" in regard to teams they're not actually employed by or a member of.


I also hate when people start out their posts with clichéd colloquialisms.
So, the guy cleaning out the shitter after a Browns loss this Sunday is allowed to say "we" since he is employed by the Browns but we aren't? I personally don't usually say it but I understand why people would. Having a favorite sports team is a social unity in that they belong to a certain group. When one refers to the team as "we" not only are they talking about the team, they're also referring to that social group. Also, when a team is highly supported at home they have a better chance of winning. Especially in football when high amounts of crowd noise makes more difficult to exchange plays for the away team. Not to mention these billion dollar sports leagues wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the fans.
 
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So, the guy cleaning out the shitter after a Browns loss this Sunday is allowed to say "we" since he is employed by the Browns but we aren't? I personally don't usually say it but I understand why people would. Having a favorite sports team is a social unity in that they belong to a certain group. When one refers to the team as "we" not only are they talking about the team, they're also referring to that social group. Also, when a team is highly supported at home they have a better chance of winning. Especially in football when high amounts of crowd noise makes more difficult to exchange plays for the away team. Not to mention these billion dollar sports leagues wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the fans.

The guy cleaning out the shitter is probably the biggest brown supporter of all.
 
@The Oi -

Any Given Sunday. That's what can happen when we take the field.

There is no "I" in Cleveland Browns, but there is a "we" if you allow for word unscrambling. There is also an "are clowns", but that's neither here nor there, so stop it.

This is a stupid debate by you, as usual. They are my team and I am their fan, so WE are on that field, playing like Browns and yelling at the TV screen, drinking beers, eating brats, like Browns fans. So fuck off. And because of Any Given Sunday and what it implies, let me offer some other things that might happen as a fan:
"Yelling at the TV screen" - not watching the game and ultimately seeing highlights at 9PM while cleaning up the playroom. I would yell at that point, but I had already seen the score on my phone, plus I didn't want to wake up the children, plus there was nothing to yell about, more of a SMH type of moment. At least with the highlights, we lost quickly and I saw a JM touchdown.
"Drinking beers" - Drinking La Croix (grapefruit) mixed with diet minute made lemonade, on the way to Costco.
"Eating Brats" - Cooking marinated chicken thighs then making smores over the fire pit with 2 and 3 year olds. This fire was lit by striking flint into dryer lint to create the initial flame.

But next week we've declared a MUST WIN. Do you even get it? We are metamorphosing this entire butchered colloquialism into something altogether much more Browns, and it starts in week 2: EVERY GIVEN SUNDAY.

We will bring our laser sharp focus to the field, let by that bastion of credible consistency Johnny Manziel, because the future is now. We'll open up the playbook on offense and once this motivational snowball hits avalanche warning magnitude, once we are humming on all cylinders, once we are ball-hawking on defense and getting our blockers to the 2nd level on offense, THEN you'll come crawling back with one thumb up your balloon knot and the other stabilizing you because without a hand involved I wouldn't really call it crawling, and by then it will
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It always irks me when people say "we" in regard to teams they're not actually employed by or a member of.

Without fans, the Browns play in front of an empty stadium on Sunday. They rely on the fans to generate noise to give the team home field advantage. If we, the fans, don't purchase tickets, gear, beer etc. then the league folds and none of the players matter. If the city doesn't agree to help fund the stadium, it doesn't get built. The team, its people and city are intertwined.

I don't say "we" as though I'm part of the team, I say we because the fans are an enormous part of what makes NFL teams tick and we're invested in it too. How many companies do you know that can put out absolute dogshit for almost 2 decades and thrive?

Hell, I'd argue that some fans are more a part of "we" than even some players. Do you think the fan running a backers club, supporting the Browns year-round and pouring money into tickets and time/energy into the team is less a member of "we" than a player who signs here because it's a job and plans on bailing the first chance he gets because he hates Cleveland? You probably do, but you're wrong.

"We" doesn't have to be an elitist term, especially in the NFL where the league itself talks about how integral fans are to what makes the game special.
 
I've said it before and I'll say it again.

It always irks me when people say "we" in regard to teams they're not actually employed by or a member of.


I also hate when people start out their posts with clichéd colloquialisms.
The team you are rooting before has to be "we" and the other team has to be "they". If not, then you have to use "they" for every team, which is confusing.
 
I've said it before and I'll say it again.

It always irks me when people say "we" in regard to teams they're not actually employed by or a member of.


I also hate when people start out their posts with clichéd colloquialisms.

But aren't we all part of the Browns community?
 
You guys are so dumb for watching this.

I'm Borderline trolling and I apologize, but it's been two decades and the more this goes on, the more I don't understand how you can waste the time and energy.
 
You guys are so dumb for watching this.

I'm Borderline trolling and I apologize, but it's been two decades and the more this goes on, the more I don't understand how you can waste the time and energy.

Well I agree, but some of us still watch because we are fans. We know they suck, but I agree in a sense we should stop complaining about it when watching. Because this is what you're going to get.

I know going in it was going to be bad. Hell, I always do, and they usually seem to lower my expectations mostly.

Last year was one of those years they showed growth, and were competitive at least.

NFL opening day is by far the best in all of sports IMO. Love it way more than basketball, hell, for baseball I don't even watch.

Browns kill that excitement every single year within two Qs.
 
Well I agree, but some of us still watch because we are fans. We know they suck, but I agree in a sense we should stop complaining about it when watching. Because this is what you're going to get.

I know going in it was going to be bad. Hell, I always do, and they usually seem to lower my expectations mostly.

Last year was one of those years they showed growth, and were competitive at least.

NFL opening day is by far the best in all of sports IMO. Love it way more than basketball, hell, for baseball I don't even watch.

Browns kill that excitement every single year within two Qs.


na complain like a motherfucker.. I cant understand how you get to the point of watching the games.. if you can do that, you earned the right..

ill tone it down, because im genuinely interested..



Im 28, I had one good season to watch while growing up (1994) and then the team moved. etc. etc. etc.. I personally cant find any interest in this, even though its by far the most popular sport in America. I adopted the buccaneers for a few years, but watching a team thatdoesnt represent your hometown can only last so long.

How do you guys stay excited? NFL is by far the most popular sport, but how can yo uwatch when your home team loses literally more than twice as much as it wins? When the cavs became a d league team, I still followed the roster changes and standings, but I couldnt watch it.. Its just mistery... I was already stressing out about how much time I missed and things I could have done better at bc I watched the cavs instead, and we almost won the whole thing.. I couldnt imagine sacrificing that for a team that consistently cant get it together..

Also, you cant deny the fact that its a slow game.. for every 120 seconds real time, theres maybe 10 seconds of play time.

basketball is the perfect sport imo. Always running, something always happening.. hundreds of points a night.. its soccer but on steroids..
 

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