This guy is probably a tool who thinks since he has had season tix for awhile he is a badass Browns fan who can do whatever he wants. HOWEVER, there is a bigger issue here.
That "new" stadium sucks, it really does. I had season tix in the pound in 99 and quickly gave them up. They were upper deck and nothing like the old Pound, where I usually sat--and that is going back to seeing Turkey Joe bounce Bradshaw like a basketball when it was the bleachers. I sat all over the old stadium over the years, and even with poles and all I always had a blast at the games. I was at the last game at Muni in the front row of the Pound, too. In the new, upper deck Pound, there was a dude who looked exactly like Barney Fife telling people how to act---totally ridiculous and that was back when people were equating Lew Merletti to some sort of successful football team.
I loved going to Browns games from an early age and I seen shit I never, ever knew before. It did not scar me for life at all and it gave great memories. The Pound in the day was the shit, hands down, but now it sucks totally and isn't anything but bragging rights fodder. For those that listen to Chuck Booms, I actually agree with him. The pussification of sporting events anymore has pretty much ruined the live event. These parents with their kids think this is civilized behavior at football games, and guess what? It ain't. It never was. There are family sections in the stadium, so there shouldn't be kids (if you are worried about them being exposed to ludeness) in the Pound or a lot of other sections. There also shouldn't be 90 year olds going to games and sitting where things are rough, stay home and watch the game. There were some cool older women who sat where I used to in the old Pound and they loved it. They were not white trash, either, just normal older ladies who loved the Browns and the environment because they knew what it was all about. Seriously, how many people have never heard all the cuss words there are out there? Your kids, (who I guarantee already know most of these words) should be well enough parented not to say them just because they heard them at a game from adults. I saw weed and hash smoking for the first time at games when I was around 7 years old and also saw minorities that I wasn't exposed to back then where I was from. You can't even smoke there now, so they don't even see that stuff (for the most part).
This is typical societal behavior of telling people how they are supposed to behave. Smokers built that place and now they don't even let you smoke in a section, you have to go outside like a herd of cattle (and not da ich's kind) and miss half the game. Beers are friggen 9 bucks for a small draft, many of the fans are money people who are not true fans and the new crop of kids just go to the games to wear costumes and get fucked up. I don't recall complaints about the old stadium, and I have a theory: The reason was because those were the true Browns fans back then who were diehards. Nowadays, there are a ton of people there who are just attending a game, not because they love the Browns.
Standing is gay, you stand when the game dictates it, not because you are some badass best fan in the world---but if you want to get fucked up and be into the game, you should be able to carry on however you want, just like in the old days. Live sports are never going to be what they once were with me, I would much rather watch the game at home or in the comfort of a bar. Alo doesn't like Gabe using the term "Gestapo" to describe the security up there, but there is a term for it, I'm just not sure what it is.
I sound like a sap, but I do miss the old days of the Muni, there was nothing like it and the Browns were world renowned for their fans. Half that stadium now is full of fans who wanted to bandwagon a winner with the expansion era but never were all that diehard. Given that the team has sucked buffalo dick since the return, there are people there who are basically disinterested or other people that use their tickets as a form of entertainment. Winning would cure a lot of all this BS, but there is just too much of a discrepancy between crazyass diehards who get drunk and act primal and those that don't get what being a hardcore Browns fan really is. I used to get primal, believe me, and the camaraderie back then was special with other primates---especially in the Pound. Nowadays, I find myself high fiving some twenty somethings who are blasted out of their minds and can't name half the team.
Another issue is that tailgating has become way more the "event" anymore than the actual game itself. Don't get me wrong, folks have been tailgating at Browns games for years before the new Stadium, but it now takes precedence over the actual game itself---as evidenced by so many people getting to their seats late--they don't want to leave the gate until the last possible second.
Man, the old days were the shit and they will always be missed by us old diehards. Teams feared playing in the old stadium, and not just because of the rats and rusty nails to hang their uniforms.
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10-01-2011
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