Time for Browns Fan Revolution?

by DallasDawgPounder on Nov 12, 2008 2:47 PM EST Comment 7 comments

Just read a story about the Cincinnati Bengals that has me inspired. Yes, you heard me correctly. A story about the Bengals has me inspired.

Bengals Fans Organize, Buy Billboards to Protest Ownership Failures

This has been reported by multiple outlets today that I have seen. Basically, Bengals fans have organized the WhoDeyRevolution and purchased billboards along with creating a website to protest their team's awfulness. Here is the site:

WhoDeyRevolution

I am honestly tempted to contribute because I think this is an AWESOME idea -- but, of course, I like it that the Bengals suck so I hope that these fans ultimately fail in their efforts to bring competent leadership to Cincinnati.

The reason I am posting is because, I wonder, is it time for Browns fans to do something similar? Whoever started Cowher09.com is on the right track. When have fans ever held the ownership of their teams accountable for continued ineptitude and poor play? Players are held accountable all the time, as are fans who have to watch putrid play and continued failure.

Could this possibly the first in a new trend of fans taking it upon themselves to not just talk and bitch, but to actually do something???

Perhaps we can use the comment thread to throw some ideas out there for what we can do to try to compel Browns ownership and management to remove their heads from their you-know-wheres and bring a winning team to Cleveland, as the city deserves.

Bengals fans, it is not often I can congratulate you. But today, I have to tip my cap.

Poll

Is it time for Browns fans to stage a serious, organized revolution and protest of their own?

Hell yeah!

13 votes

Who cares.

9 votes

22 votes | Poll has closed

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The correct link to the website.

Paul Brown = Che Guevarra (Hummmm)

"It's hard to win when you don't score." Cliff Lee, 9/28/05.

by Harry Doyle on Nov 12, 2008 6:12 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Yeah! Lets put Trent Dilfer in charge of it!

Oh The People You Meet When Your Out of Ammo.........

by Juannieboy on Nov 13, 2008 2:08 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

F this. I lived in Cincinnati for the last 3 years and Dayton for 4 years before that. The Bengals have some of the least loyal, bandwagon-type fans I’ve ever seen. Even the very intelligent football fans I know down there have mailed it in. Saying that they have no emotion left to invest into their team. They don’t care if they get to see the games, hardly care if they win or lose.

I hope our fan base never finds itself in this level of sustained indifference. We can show up and cheer; support the team and make our thoughts known. We are the best fans in football.

by Ryan Kelsey on Nov 13, 2008 3:16 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

To elaborate- It really is an interesting situation in Cincinnati. There isn’t that loyal of a fan base to start with, but those that want the Bengals to do well have a total lack in confidence that they can do well as long as Mike Brown is in charge. And not in the same way that Browns fans want a new coach or a new GM or a new QB in the past, this is on a different level.

As a good friend of mine put it (paraphrasing): “The Bengals need a GM in charge of football operations, the draft, etc., and they won’t win until they get someone in this position. They probably also need a new head coach. But, as long as Mike Brown is in control of the team, they will continue with the ‘three-headed monster approach’ (Mike Brown’s actuall words) for the GM- Mike Brown, his daughter, and Marvin Lewis. Mike Brown will never sell the team because he looks at it as his father’s legacy to him. He is very loyal to his coaches becuase that is what his father, scarred by the Art Modell situation, told him to be. So, the only way out of this situation, the only way for the Bengals to ever be competitive is if Mike Brown dies. I cannot root for someone to die, so I am simply done rooting for the Cincinnati Bengals; my football week ends on Saturday now when the Buckeyes play.”

by Ryan Kelsey on Nov 13, 2008 3:24 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

I totally agree WERES RANDY!

Anyone that thinks raising your voice to the almighty Randy Lerner to question why we have sucked pond water for 10 years is not a true Browns fan!.
I back my Brownies and love them to death! But Ive been a season ticket holder for 10 years and never felt like I do this year. I feel like we all are getting the shaft and I’m tired of it!
  I Wrote Mr Lerner the other day with my tickets from the Raven’s game telling him I was done unless things change this year! When I say change I mean hire a freaking Experienced head coach all ready! Someone with a winning record. No more assistant coaches or college coaches!!
  We all love this team but the honeymoon is over! Were is my Jump Art! sign.. I need to change the name!
  OR BETTER YET I LIKE THIS!
Everyone make a sign and take it to the next game:
   WERES RANDY!

were is our fearless leader? We need him to step up and make some changes..
Those loges will not sell themselves next year when they come up for renewal
my 2 cents…

by Locnar on Nov 13, 2008 3:28 PM EST reply actions 0 recs

Where

by Jayson732 on Nov 14, 2008 10:19 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

FANS should have the biggest say..We pay $100 for cheap seats, $8 for beer and $4 for peanuts…performance sets the mood of a city..the fans rule and need to be heard..there should be an election every year-who stays and goes…but we’re fans and only “think we know”..yeah right.

by raven on Nov 15, 2008 5:37 PM EST reply actions 0 recs