Ahh the good old days.

Question:
What was your favorite thing about the old Cleveland Municiple Stadium?

Choices:
The Smells
Broken windows
the trofts in the men's rooms
no doors on men's room stalls
sitting behind a pole
Banging those old wooden seats
The stone age graphics on the scoreboard
Chief Wahoo on top of the stadium
The smell of Mary Jane in the air
The soda with the one floating ice chip
Foot Long Hot Dogs (preferbly cold)
A field without grass on it
Dog Bones scattered on the field
How cold the wind was on your face
Muddy side lines
Watching the Orange helmets starting to pop out of the first base dugout
The grassy hill up to the bleachers
Mean ushers
Your feet sticking to the ground in the bleachers
The sound the crowd would make after a good hit
The fact that fifty yard line seats were the farthest point from the field
People seemed more into the game
The fact you didn't have to listen to a commercial every time out
The Cleveland Browns fight song was played during kick offs
You knew everyone in your section
The Fights
The walk in where there was so much mud and stones you were sure to sprain an ankle every week
More parking around the stadium before the rock hall and science museum was built
You could smoke (regular cigarettes)
The way the dawg pound would react when Sipe or Kosar would come into the huddle when they were backed up in their own end
Your feet were cold
The electricity you could feel in the air on a Monday Night Game
You felt closer to the players
The big banks of lights that reflected in the browns helmets
Terry Bradshaw doll hung from the flag pole
Pittsburgh Sucks chants at nearly every game
You once waited 45 minutes to pee on a wall
Others list below

 

im sorry, but was there a "new" cleveland municiple stadium that im not aware of

it was a toss up between pounding the bleachers and chief wahoo on the stadium. Wasnt old enough to appreciate some of the other stuff.

Sorry to say I was never there

I was 4 when it went down.
Always wish I could have been there though. I'm sure the atmosphere, the electricity, would have been amazing.

for me, it was the cat walk that you had to walk on to get to the upper deck.

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Originally posted by NTSC_Dawg:
for me, it was the cat walk that you had to walk on to get to the upper deck.

I voted the sound, but the catwalk and other things on the list were awesome as well.

All of the above!

obvi the trofs

The fact that during an Indians game the pigeons out numbered the fans and they still wouldn't let you sit in the box seats

You are bringing back so many great memories! Thanks! As for the poll...I voted "Other: The BS Chant!"

I was half tempted to go with the trofts. I always remember the one Pittsburgh fan getting thrown in there when I was at my first game.

My parents took me to see a Cleveland Pittsburgh game for my first Browns game: at about age 6 or so. I was in shock when I first heard the "BS" chant at that game. I couldn't believe a crowd that size would get so involved in it. I looked up at my dad shocked and he just smiled and told me to go ahead and join in.

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I looked up at my dad shocked and he just smiled and told me to go ahead and join in.

see that how it should be. Not this sissy parental

"I dont want my kids around that stuff, so when I go bring my kids to a game, knowing that stuff goes on, I dont want you to do that stuff"

I was either 10 or 12 when I went to my first Browns game, it was a Monday night game against the dolphins and people around me were cursing, she just smiled at me and basically said, "yeah I know".

Just walking in that joint for a playoff game you could feel the electricity (or any game; but especially for a playoff game)...it's was really special...it's hard to explain to someone who didnt live it...
This is the Year of the Dawg

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The electricity of the fans--though I have not been to new Cleveland Stadium ( moved before it opened), I dont think I would like it much. In a way, I kinda dont want to go--I treasure those memories of sitting there in December for a playoff game, freezing, with my hot chocolate with alcohol in it (bet that aint allowed anymore) as I barked for the Browns. It was so sad to have the Stadium come down :-( But even sadder I think is this drive to sanitize the game into a Disney experience. I am not saying people need to be lewd, but there was nothing wrong with a good old BS chant or Pittsburgh Sucks or even a healthy brawl in the stands. When my parents to me to my first Browns game and a fight broke out between a Stooler fan and a Browns fan, my mom just shrugged and said "the action in the stands is even wilder than on the field".

Boy, I bet the "Jump Art", "Bill Must Go" and other related signs would be so forbidden these days.

I would trade the whole new stadium and everything in it for one more day to watch the 1987 Browns one fall afternoon in Municipal Stadium.

Taking the rapid transit to the Terminal Tower and walking to the stadium across that bridge

The Dawg Pound.

The new Dawg Pound doesn't compare.

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Originally posted by jtag:
All of the above!

The choices listed were hard to chose just one cause being there many times and experiencing all brings back




many memories. During one Tribe game when the pigeons actually outnumbered the fans WUAB was telivising,my lady friend and I werre sitting in lower reserved seats near third base and ole Passionate Dawg is coming up for some air and I spot the camera man smiling at us,giving us the thumbs up and keeps the camera on us. At one Browns-Pi__burp game we in right field upper deck and some Pi__burp partisan got really out of hand picking on some of the Dawgs in the section by the railing that they got him and held him over the railing while the guards and ushers watched then finally came and took the pi--burp fans away (Priceless!!).

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try using spell check when you start a thread..
Sheesh

I saw many games in the old stadium. No stadium ever had a better atmosphere. To this day I have two vivid memories: (1) Browns fans pelting Franco's Italian army with anything they could get a hold of as they paraded through the lower deck (sirca) 1972, and (2) the deafing roar that went up as Brian Brennen caught the pass that put us ahead of the Broncos, and the deafening silence as we filed out after we losing that AFC Championship game.

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Originally posted by Freddog:
I saw many games in the old stadium. No stadium ever had a better atmosphere. To this day I have two vivid memories: (1) Browns fans pelting Franco's Italian army with anything they could get a hold of as they paraded through the lower deck (sirca) 1972, and (2) the deafing roar that went up as Brian Brennen caught the pass that put us ahead of the Broncos, and the deafening silence as we filed out after we losing that AFC Championship game.

Freddog is right on as usual...i couldn't attend the '87 afc championship, as i was due back at college (after attending the divisional playoff vs. the jets, awesome!)...i'll never forget the feeling of believing we are going to the super bowl then it being taken away...never...
We need to exorcise the demons...

Wow Sullee, talk about bringing back some good old memories! It is hard to pick just 1!

as i stated in the thread "which loss is most painful to you?" I'm really too young to have gotten the full experience of the old stadium but I remember..in either 93 or 94..it was the year after the giants had beaten the bills in the superbowl..

the browns played the giants in the first game of the pre season... my mother and I went to this game and the browns were trailing late.. they marched down the field, ready to get into the end zone and win the game..the atmosphere was unlike anything ..I mean anything I've ever experienced.

the crowd was so loud, so deafening that I could not even hear my mother screaming and she was standing right next to me..you would have thought we were about to win the superbowl..