Born in 1972...my father is originally from Avon Lake. The day I was born, he purchased me two gifts: a Wilson TD football and a replica Jim Brown jersey.

I was born into a browns family so 1982,

I became a huge Browns fan during the Bernie Kosar era............

The first I've seen this thread...memories, memories...I remember clearly in the late 50's going to my grandfather's cottage on Lake (Pa.) Erie every fall and winter..old oil stove heated the place and we cranked up the B&W to watch the Browns...left early from home if the weather was bad just so we were never late...watched JB week after week...no Instant replay...the guy was absolutely incredible...many memories...I remember the Sunday they announced that Big Daddy (early 60's ?) was dead...I was very upset and confused and tried to hide it, I didn't want to cry...my grandma took me in the bedroom and explained things to me...a few years later I met Lou Groza at the local school...the man had hands like barn doors...feet to match...I remember thinking, man I'm glad this guy'll never spank me!!..he was huge!...I've lived in Nicaragua for 15 years now and I truely appreciate every one of your posts....thanks

since i was born ... in early 80's

I was born in 1942,grew up on the farm in Darke county ohio. I became a BROWNS fan in 1953-54.Whichever year we got our first tv.I always made sure I had all my work done before Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock.

I was born in 1973. when I was 5,6 years old I liked the cowboys. I didn't like the brown until the kardiac kids. and have loved them ever since. and the three years the browns were gone I didn't even have a favorite team. I barrelly even watched football the first year they were gone.

25 May, 1981. That was the day I was born, and the day that I had become a browns fan. Actually it was before that, the day I was conceived is the day that I became a browns fan. It was my destiny to be a browns fan, because that's what my old man dressed me up in from day one!

I was born in the 40's, but you can't be much of a fan before you are 9-10 years old, and that would have been in the 50's

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Originally posted by KosarForCoordinator:
25 May, 1981. That was the day I was born, and the day that I had become a browns fan. Actually it was before that, the day I was conceived is the day that I became a browns fan. It was my destiny to be a browns fan, because that's what my old man dressed me up in from day one!

All that sounds good, but the reality is you probably can't be much of a fan until you can sit down and read a sports section....and before you were born???

So, people aren't fans the day their born. They may be destined to be one, but they aren't the day they are born.

Born in the 70s, discovered football in 80s, became a Browns fan when I discovered football.

I live smack dab in the middle of Pukesburgh, Buffalo and Cleveland. Growing up we had a pretty even mix of fans for all three teams. Now it's mostly Pukesburgh fans. Makes me sick.

I was born in '93 and became a fan in the 2000s, even though I've gone to training camp ever year since we came back. I would say I became a Browns fan a couple years before I started going on the original Dawg Talk, which was the year before we got Winslow in 2004.

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Originally posted by TallyDawg:
Really...is it possible for someone to be born in Cleveland and not be a faithful?

Sadly....yes. There are plenty of Stooler fans in NE Ohio.

Anyway, I became a fan on 9/19/1991, the day I was born. I began following them when they came back in '99.

i was born nov. 9, 1987. i lived in dayton ohio(which by the way had a lot of bengals fans) from age 3 til 8. then moved to painesville, ohio. here is where i reside. i hated the steelers and bengals and when the browns team was relocated to baltimore i hated them as well. when 99 rolled around, i became a huge browns fan and have been ever since and will always be a browns fan.

I'd followed Cleveland sports since I was a kid (born 2/15/91), but really became a die-hard fan in '06. We lived in Cleveland when I was born, and moved to the suburb Brooklyn when I was about a year and a half old. I just went for the hometown teams, really. I always watched them as a kid, and wanted them to win, but only recently got seriously into it. I'm not sure why the sudden change, but I got to a few Browns games, and plenty more Indians games, and read quite a few books. I just started soaking up info, and I can pretty much recite the Browns' and Indians' histories.
I've got loads of memorabilia and clothes, and I go to as many games as I can... And it'll be that way for the rest of my life

October 1, 1950.

Daddy didn't get us our first TV 'til quite a bit later, howsumever the Browns were at HOME fer the first time t' the NFL ...agin the Giants.

You could recognize me; I was the snotty nosed brat pesterin' the dog t' the corner whilst Daddy an' Uncle Maynard listened t' the squawky radio somethin' powerful.

The Browns lost 0-6, howsumever, I got me a first class lesson in delicious words and phrases one should never say in polite company. T'would make the referees t' these boards have an apoplexy if'n I repeated out a single string of the adjectives Daddy and Maynard perorated that day.

I figgered t' mahseff: whatever it was riled them so much... well, it jest hadta be sumthin' GOOD!

From then on, fer the next couple years, Daddy, Maynard an' me would sit by the radio ever' Sunday. They'd whoop an' holler.

An' me... I'd store away the grandilorious ways one cain cobble together explitivatious terms when the Browns did sumthin' dumb. Or, mostly, when the refs did sumthin' unfair. Which was ALL the times when the refs flagged the Browns. But warn't NEVER when the refs flagged the evil-doers.

Gawd love ya, Dad an' Maynard!

An' Dear Gawd... doan never fergive the Browns!!! ... doan never fergive that they never played t' the SuperBowl when Daddy nor Maynard could see it live...

... ... howsumever, when the Browns do finally make their first appearance... whilst Daddy an' Maynard look on a'from their new locale... Gawd's gonna learn what a meager roadblock His Third Commandment is t' two true masters of the English Expletive.

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Hairdog ... hilarious! Thanks for sharing.

I became a "fan" during the Kardiac Kid days as a runt, but the Browns REALLY didn't start to ruin my life until the mid 80's Kosar Browns.

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Originally posted by FlapJack:
...but the Browns REALLY didn't start to ruin my life until the mid 80's Kosar Browns...

So I cain surmise you never purtended t' be Mac Speedie, Ray Renfro, nor Gary Collins... like yers truly...

...although in mah neighborhood, I was the only kid COULD THROW a football... so Gawd surely got all his laffs in... a'cause mah heart was set on CATCHIN' one.

'Cept'n fer December 27, 1964... purty much most Sundays of mah life have been ruint t' some degree or other by the Browns...

That must be why I LOVE 'em so much.

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Originally posted by Hairdog:
So I cain surmise you never purtended t' be Mac Speedie, Ray Renfro, nor Gary Collins... like yers truly...

'Cept'n fer December 27, 1964... purty much most Sundays of mah life have been ruint t' some degree or other by the Browns...

You surmised correctly.

I'm still waiting for my December 27, 1964 to come around. I know I will never have one of those days with my old man, hopefully I will with my kids will I'm still around. Gawd knows they are doing their time hearing vocabulary akin to your Maynard's from their pops.

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Gawd knows they are doing their time hearing vocabulary akin to your Maynard's from their pops.

To hep you out...

This MAY get by the board (bored?) refs...????

One of Maynard's favorite ways t' start his expletives centered around the the unnatural copulatory equipment and/or proclivities of various deities of vastly different religions....

Hairdog, You should write a screenplay about your life. Your stories are indeed very interesting to me. From what I have read thus far, I figure you could have about a 60-80 page treatment already. (Treatment being an outline of the plot.)

Have you every thought about writing? if not you should just remember that a good screenplay is a story and stories are critically important - they offer people equipment for living. Write about what is familiar to you and what you are passionate about.

Just a thought
Maybe we could talk about it more when I swing by for that drink.