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Baker Mayfield: Fire The Cannons

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I'm sorry my office only has 40 people and I couldn't ask the entirety of the NFL fan base.
But no one hates the browns, because they have been irrelevant for 20 years.

Give me a reason for someone to hate the browns. No fan of an NFL team that is under 30 is going to give shit about them and the only real rivalry the browns have leftover is the Steelers and most Steeler fans don't care anymore. Is it a rivalry, of course. But it's like a brotherly rivalry in which one brother is 5 years older.

So give me a reason? Because of big mouth quarter back... give me a break.
Bengals fans hate us. Absolutely hate us. Far worse than the Steelers or Ravens fans do.

Both franchises have been bad for so long, they hate seeing the Browns take a turn.

All stems from being the Browns’ little brother, Paul Brown’s sloppy seconds.

The Steelers and the Ravens, we hate them worse than they hate us. For Cincinnati, it’s the other way around.

Classic inferiority complex, and despite being a middling team over the past 15 years while we were awful, they still couldn’t shake it.
 
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Maybe it's just my perspective because I think most social media is a cesspool- especially Twitter- but I think there's a tendency to overrate just how reflective social media is of actual public opinion. I just doubt there's this widespread backlash against the Browns anywhere outside of social media and certain media types.

And of course Steelers and Ravens fans are going to dislike us. We were two free wins a year for them, and those days are ending. Now they have to get nervous and apprehensive for us. That can't be fun for them.

I think social media and online activity is actually a truer reflection of someone's personality and opinion. The anonymity brings out honesty.

I'd say talking to people in person is where they put up their mask to conceal their real feelings and as a result are more friendly in general.
 
I think social media and online activity is actually a truer reflection of someone's personality and opinion. The anonymity brings out honesty.

I'd say talking to people in person is where they put up their mask to conceal their real feelings and as a result are more friendly in general.

I think you misunderstood him. We spend hours a week scrolling through douchebags on Twitter and use that as our window into “public opinion” or what the majority believes. That isn’t always the most accurate representation.
 
I think social media and online activity is actually a truer reflection of someone's personality and opinion. The anonymity brings out honesty.

I'd say talking to people in person is where they put up their mask to conceal their real feelings and as a result are more friendly in general.

I think you're misunderstanding his point. While social media activity might be more indicative of a particular person's true character, a team's social media following is such a small representation of the overall fan base. And usually a pretty unflattering representation.

Social media is often just a relatively small echo chamber consisting of the worst examples of a particular subset of people.
 
Seriously, take a peek inside Twitter/Reddit and you'll see that Ravens fans (more than any other team in our division) hate us.

I find it ironic that you suggested that bob must be living in a bubble when both of those places are quite literally bubbles of like-minded people.

There is just no way that the majority of Ravens or Steelers or Bengals fans hate the Browns most out of any team in the division when they've been a laughing stock of 20 years.
 
I think you're misunderstanding his point. While social media activity might be more indicative of a particular person's true character, a team's social media following is such a small representation of the overall fan base. And usually a pretty unflattering representation.

Social media is often just a relatively small echo chamber consisting of the worst examples of a particular subset of people.

I think a lot of the time people only get compelled to comment when they have something negative to say as well, especially on Twitter. If you read a quote you agree with, you're probably not gonna hop on Twitter immediately to say "cool," whereas a comment that angers you may inspire a response.
 
I think the Ratbirds' saltiness also stems from "muh history," as if stealing our team wasn't good enough for them, even if they didn't also get to keep the Colts history.

Baltimore lost the Colts because their syphilitic-ridden fans wouldn't support it. I lived in that area at the time, and remember fans actively trying to boycott the team because they hated Irsay. And they threatened to slap an injunction on him if he tried to move the team. "We're not going to attend your games, and we're not going to let you move." They had less than 30,000 seats sold for a game.

So, Irsay did the infamous "midnight move", and by the time the courts were open in the morning, all the physical property was gone.
 
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I think you're misunderstanding his point. While social media activity might be more indicative of a particular person's true character, a team's social media following is such a small representation of the overall fan base. And usually a pretty unflattering representation.

Social media is often just a relatively small echo chamber consisting of the worst examples of a particular subset of people.

I gotcha. I fully agree.
 
I find it ironic that you suggested that bob must be living in a bubble when both of those places are quite literally bubbles of like-minded people.

Those were just examples. Regardless, you're trailing off the point here.

There is just no way that the majority of Ravens or Steelers or Bengals fans hate the Browns most out of any team in the division when they've been a laughing stock of 20 years.

Strawman argument. I didn't say the majority of Ravens/Steelers/Bengals fans hate the Browns. I was arguing against someone who said NO ONE HATES THE BROWNS. I said Ravens fans hate the Browns more than the Bengals/Steelers, but that's just my observed opinion.

In terms of the division - I follow about 4 or 5 different Ravens/Steelers forums and 3 Bengals forums. I follow Reddit, and frequent all of their subs as well as r/nfl. I am on twitter. I am on footballsfuture, PSD. I have been following these platforms for years - I regularly converse with people who live in Pissburg. I have family that lives in Baltimore.

Yes, there are quite a bit of their fans (Ratbirds, Squealers, Bungles) that hate the Browns. I KNOW this as a fact - so I won't discuss it any further but I seriously don't think you guys understand how rapidly this hatred has grown just this offseason.
 
Bengals fans hate us. Absolutely hate us. Far worse than the Steelers or Ravens fans do.

trust me on this.
it's baltimore.
When we started to look good? John from Dundalk and Jeff from Germantown were nasty towards the city of Cleveland, and were belching out takes in between natty bohs about how much better Lamar Jackson is than Mayfield.


Cincy is a reds town. They hate what Mike Brown does and how much of a cheapskate his ass is.
 
Baltimore lost the Colts because their syphilitic-ridden fans wouldn't support it. I lived in that area at the time, and remember fans actively trying to boycott the team because they hated Irsay. And they threatened to slap an injunction on him if he tried to move the team. "We're not going to attend your games, and we're not going to let you move."

So, Irsay did the infamous "midnight move", and by the time the courts were open in the morning, all the physical property was gone.

This is the part of the story that is always forgotten.
I mean and christ good for Indy. A GREAT sports town that clearly was like "Alright. Let;s get this done".
It's funny how they always want to slurp up to Modell than through the world's biggest hissy fit when someone brings up Irsay.

"WOW IT WAS SO MUCH WORSE AND THEN THEY HAD A BAND THAT KEPT MARCHING"
 
I think a lot of the time people only get compelled to comment when they have something negative to say as well, especially on Twitter. If you read a quote you agree with, you're probably not gonna hop on Twitter immediately to say "cool," whereas a comment that angers you may inspire a response.

This is very true, and applicable in many spaces. I work in the leisure/travel industry and you see this all of the time with resorts, hotels, and restaurants. People take to Yelp and Google Reviews far more often to comment whatever pissed them off, whereas when they have a pleasant experience you never hear about it.

Same for Twitter, go look at any airlines twitter mentions. Its everyone bitching about delays or lost luggage. Never a thank you for landing this 600 mph machine safely on the ground.
 

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