We received our first photo of a banner from the game. This submission from Amanda in Section 506 is really pretty good. You’ve got to love the the way she’s improved her blanket and sent a message to DPM.
Please Note : I’m not able to update on Facebook, but I can post links. So if you’re looking for me there, I’m only going to be here for now. And Twitter.
Well, I’m down here in the Muni Lot (second lot almost to the end) in a light blue school bus and a wine colored canopy with Browns banners and flags attached. Open invitation to everyone to stop down, grab some hot coffee and a donut this afternoon. I’ll be firing up the smoker at 2:30 and the grill around 4pm. Please, stop on by and say hello – but don’t stay too long, because Real Fans Don’t Miss Kickoff!
It’s Game Day and we’ve now got over 1100 supporters following us on our Facebook Group. If you haven’t already joined, please send a message to the players and the world that there’s no way you’re sitting out THIS kickoff! Let’s see if we can get this number to 2,001 today!
Don’t let a select few speak for YOU. Be there early, be there loud, and be there proud. Then tell 10 friends about this website, our Facebook Group, and our movement to fill the stadium for kickoff for tonight’s nationally-televised Monday Night Game.
Learn more about the “protest of the protest” and why Real Fans Don’t Miss Kickoff. Click here.
Finally, participate in our “Real Fans Don’t Miss Kickoff” Stadium Banner Contest. Learn more here, or email browns@realfansdontmisskickoff.com
Here’s a third piece of art you can download and use to make signs, shirts, banners, blimps, vehicle wraps, whatever.
All of these downloads would be perfect for printing out on the copier at work, the office laser printer, or running them down to FedEx Office or your local sign shop to get some banners to display on the lower bowl or as signs to carry during the game. (Ken, thanks for the art! Great work!)
We’ve jumped from 770 friends on Facebook to 925 in under 24 hours. In fact, we may eclipse our SUNDAY goal of 1,000 by the end of the day TODAY. This would give us Sunday and Monday until kickoff to double the list and bring our ranks to 2,001 – a single voice larger than the list of alleged emails Dawg Pound Mike delivered to Randy Lerner a week and a half ago.
Incredible effort folks! Don’t forget to invite friends via Facebook and Twitter (plus use the hash tag #dontmisskickoff )
We’ve got two GREAT downloads from supporters both in Ohio and now Florida. These would be perfect for printing out on the copier at work, the office laser printer, or running them down to FedEx Office or your local sign shop to get some banners to display on the lower bowl or as signs to carry during the game.
Here’s the first one. Nice and simple, but very effective and right to the point. (and here’s the second one). These would be great either as large banners or as handheld signs in the Dawg Pound where the cameras are likely to be pointing at kickoff.
Here’s the second one from a graphic designer in Ft. Myers, Florida who wants to be a part of the action. It would be unbelievable if someone could get this on ESPN for him Monday Night. (Download the large version here)
We’re doing great, but we’re falling short of the goal of 2,001. WE NEED YOU! Join us and let’s make it 1000 by Sunday night, then double it on Monday to take it to 2001! By reaching the 2001 goal, we’ll surpass the alleged pile of email messages self-proclaimed “superfan” Dawg Pound Mike delivered to Browns owner Randy Lerner stating that they agree with everything DPM has been saying on his national media tour about boycotting the team at kickoff this Monday. Join our Facebook Group to get us to 2001!
Plus, follow us on Twitter – @dontmisskickoff – (and be sure to use the hash tag #dontmisskickoff today on Follow Friday!
Let’s pack the stadium this Monday night and support our team – AT KICKOFF!
We’re doing great, but we’re falling short of the goal of 2,001. WE NEED YOU! Join us and let’s make it 750, then 1000, then 2001! By reaching the 2001 goal, we’ll surpass the alleged pile of email messages Dawg Pound Matt delivered to Browns owner Randy Lerner stating that they agree with everything DPM has been saying on his national media tour about boycotting the team at kickoff this Monday. Join our Facebook Group!
Let’s pack the stadium this Monday night and support our team – AT KICKOFF!
We’ve now got 640 followers on Facebook and (probably) many, many more who don’t even know we exist. Our message is plain and simple – Real Fans Don’t Miss Kickoff!
And this Monday Night, we want YOU to bring your best creativity to the upper and lower bowl.
Remember back in the old stadium?…(insert time warp)…Banners filled the walls covering every square inch with bed sheets and tarps…”Siper Bowl,” “We (heart) Our Kardiac Kids,” “Bernie for MVP,” “NBC – Nobody Beats Cleveland”…
We had the spirit and the atmosphere.
It was REAL. It wasn’t manufactured.
And it wasn’t driven by a guy who wears a giant bone plastered with his website on his head.
This Monday Night, the REAL FANS take our team back. And we’ve got a little contest to help fuel your creativity. Introducing the “Real Fans Don’t Miss Kickoff Banner Contest!”
Here’s how it works (and keep in mind, we’re making this up as we go):
1.) You take a bedsheet, poster board, whatever, and paint or draw something clever. You MUST have “Real Fans Don’t Miss Kickoff” or at the very least, “Real Fans” on the banner.
2.) Take a photo – either at the game or before – and send it to us at browns@realfansdontmisskickoff.com.
We’ll post all the entries here after the game (probably Tuesday) and pick a winner. Entries will be judged by a handful of people (and if you’d like to be a judge, email me that as well). We’ll limit the number of judges to 10 and award the winning entry the distinctly worthless honor of being “Monday Night Real Fan of the Year 2009.”
If you are a business owner, or have something cool to contribute as a prize, please email browns@realfansdontmisskickoff.com and we’ll give you a free plug as part of the contest.
Again, this is all for fun – but isn’t that what it should be for?