Dawg Pound Mike today called on those boycotting the Browns Monday Night Football kickoff to refrain from resorting to violence and physical attacks to make their point. Wonderful. I feel safer already.
No matter what Dawg Pound Mike demands of us, I’ll be there for kickoff. Count on it.
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Self-proclaimed “superfan” Dawg Pound Mike announced on SportsTalkCleveland.com this morning that his manufactured and pointless protest of the Cleveland Browns Monday Night Football kickoff will have 42,000 supporters standing in the tunnels of Cleveland Browns Stadium as the national spotlight shines on our city.
If Mike’s claims are indeed true (and we’ve got to believe he doesn’t really speak for 42,000 people, right?), we’ve got a bit more work to do. Even if his 42,000 followers boycott the kickoff or even the game, here’s hoping the other 20,000 plus can scream even louder. I guess it’s up to the rest of us to carry the weight and protect the legacy of Browns fans being the best in the NFL.
Rest those vocal cords friends. It’s going to be a long night.
Maybe Dawg Pound Mike and Mobile Dawg need to meet with Jamal Lewis for two hours this week too. The future Hall of Fame running back brushed off the duo’s call for fans to boycott the Monday Night Football kickoff in an interview with the Akron Beacon Journal this afternoon.
And now the talk that I hear about the fans not coming to the game and doing all this, you should just take a step back and look…
“What is that going to do? They should just know that one day there might not be a game going on when it’s supposed to be, so enjoy it now and take advantage of it. You never know what you might miss.”
Even the players get it. This boycott makes no sense.
Long story short, we think the protest of the Monday Night Football kickoff on November 16th is absurd. It’s not about sending a message, it’s about two fans seeking even more exposure than they (unfortunately) already get. Let’s counter that protest with a protest of our own. Let’s fill the seats and cheer as loud as we can. Because real fans don’t miss kickoff.
Ah… Another season in Cleveland, another fan grasping for the spotlight with a half-baked idea to “show” the Browns management that we’re fed up. Like the protests of the past, the freshly recycled idea by self-proclaimed superfan “Dawg Pound Mike” is doomed to fail. Why? Because it’s completely and totally stupid.
After years of lackluster play, Browns fans called on owner Randy Lerner to clean house last fall. He did. Fans screamed for Bill Cowher, but Lerner’s pleas were rebuffed. So, the owner picked what he believed was the next best thing – a head coach with previous experience (which fans also wanted) and a blank slate to change the culture and produce a winning team.
And seven games into Magnini’s first season, some fans have seen enough. And two of them are willing to lead us to the promised land.
Yes, “Dawg Pound Mike” – who is such a better fan than the rest of us, that he wears something brown or orange every day of the year – is calling on you to skip the kickoff of Monday Night Football Game against the Ravens (or at least hide in the restroom, the concourse, or outside the gates).
I say, bulls@#*!
I’m a Browns fan. So are you. And real fans know one thing.
Real fans don’t miss kickoff.
Be there early and cheer for the Browns. This team isn’t very good right now, but what the hell did you expect? Isn’t this what we all screamed for last winter? A disciplinarian as coach who would clean house and turn this organization around? Didn’t we scream for a consistent front office that focused on building the team from the inside out for the long term success of the organization? Give Lerner, Mangini and company a two-year grace period to rebuild and fine tune and, in the mean time, let’s enjoy the chance to watch NFL football (no matter how bad it is) live and up close.
And to all the self-absorbed superfans who think Sunday (or Monday) is about them, spare us. We’re fans too. And we bleed orange and brown. Watching this team hurts, but while we’re rebuilding, let’s suffer together and cheer for our team. In our seats.
At kickoff.
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