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Browns fans tailgate before Jarvis Landry’s charity softball event

Cleveland Browns fans missed tailgating so much that they started tailgating over five hours before Jarvis Landry’s charity softball event.

There were a lot of things missing from lives in 2020. For football fans, the lack of tailgating before games was one of them. Cleveland Browns fans certainly missed them especially during a season when the team was finally winning.

No “Muni Lot” shenanigans. No family get-togethers in a random parking lot. No “tailgate hopping” all around the stadium meeting new friends and seeing old friends born out of the tailgate experience.

As many of the limits from 2020 are lifted, Cleveland fans got an early start on getting back to their tailgating ways in advance of Jarvis Landry’s charity softball event.

A video posted this morning by the Lake County Captains, the minor league team that is hosting today’s event, showed a small parking lot starting to fill up with Browns fans tailgating:

 

To put this video in context, Landry’s event starts at 3 PM with the gates opening at 2 PM. The video, shot before 10 AM, shows a variety of tailgaters all set up and ready to go already.

At least five hours before a charity softball event, Cleveland fans were prepared to enjoy their time together. While there are a lot of great fans around the NFL, Browns fans may once again be showing why they are in the running for the top spot.

Cleveland fans rank in middle of the NFL pack in complaining about their team

Cleveland fans rank in middle of the NFL pack in complaining about their team

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Being a Cleveland Browns fan comes with certain trappings. A sense of proud history, of loyalty in the face of all adversity, and of embracing the players as family are all part of Browns fandom.

But it’s not always positive. Cleveland fans do complain, often about our shared collective misery and the litany of failed regimes of late. There are many other fan bases around the NFL who complain a lot more, however. In the perception of whininess and obnoxious behavior, the Browns fans wind up in the middle of the pack.

Cleveland checks in at No. 14 on the list from MI Bets, which surveyed over 5,000 fans around the United States.

From September 22 to October 8, 2020, we surveyed 5,103 people to determine which NFL players, coaches and fanbases complain the most. 57% of respondents were male and 43% were female. The average age of respondents was 36 years old.

Among the reasons cited for the complaints about other fanbases:

What drives people craziest about other fanbases? Most often, using a victim mentality, complaining on social media and “bad” officiating. Fans also cited the inability for fanbases to get over old losses and fans calling into sports radio stations to air their grievances as other ways that whining gets under their skin.

As a disclaimer, one of the respondents was a member of my extended family and is a Houston Texans fan.

The top five most complaining fan bases, of which you can probably guess three with your first four choices:

  • Dallas Cowboys
  • New England Patriots
  • Buffalo Bills
  • Chicago Bears
  • Philadelphia Eagles

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers were 32nd.

Report: Browns Backers told they cannot criticize the team on social media

The ban on negativity doesn’t apply to individual members or fans, as long as they do not publicly identify themselves as representing the Browns Backers. 

Members and affiliates of Browns Backers Worldwide, the official fan club organization sponsored by the Cleveland Browns, have been told to not criticize the football team on social media.

Per a report from Daryl Ruiter of 92.3 The Fan, official member platforms using any sort of designation of Browns Backers affiliation will lose their membership for posting negatively about the Browns players, coaches, team or ownership.

It’s an expansion of the goal of the organization, which is laid out in the very first paragraph of the Browns Backers official website, which is a subpage of the Browns’ own page:

The Browns Backers Worldwide is considered to be one of the largest organized fan clubs in all of professional sports with members and clubs established throughout the world. Browns Backers Worldwide exists as a non-profit organization to actively support and positively promote the Cleveland Browns.

The ban on negativity doesn’t apply to individual members or fans, as long as they do not publicly identify themselves as representing the Browns Backers.