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

We’ve had a nice opening day and a half. The response to this effort has been very positive and I’m encouraged by the direction we’re headed. In the last 24 hours, we’ve added over 100 friends to our Facebook Group and had lots and lots of comments here at the website. Let’s keep it growing! While I think it would be great to have over 60,000 people as “friends” in our Facebook Group, I’m realistic. We’re simply not going to reach everyone before kickoff and it’s even less likely we’ll get them to join in. However, I’m sure a lot of us would love to top the alleged 2000 emails of self-proclaimed “superfan” Dawg Pound Mike. I’m pretty sure we can collectively invite 2000 people to join us on Facebook or Twitter or both.

Why will this effort succeed? Because of YOU. This effort isn’t about anything more than fans who love this team and the tradition. We’re sending a message that we might not be happy with the state of the team, but we’re certainly not happy with the calls to boycott them at kickoff.

Dawg Pound Mike said on WKNR yesterday, following his two hour meeting with Randy Lerner, that he doesn’t speak for the Browns fans. He’s right. He doesn’t.

We speak for ourselves.
And on Monday Night, November 16th, we’re going to speak louder than ever.

From our seats – no matter where they are.

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.

Read the post that started it all, then comment.

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What better way to reward “real fans” who come early and stay late then by introducing Bernie Kosar, on the field, as the new GM of the Cleveland Browns? Randy Lerner doesn’t even need to be on the field (but it would help). Hand him the microphone and let him get to work.

I hope it happens this way, but if it doesn’t, let’s still make the MNF kickoff special by packing the place and yelling louder than ever.

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.

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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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