What if the Browns were London's "Home" team?
by SpecialBrownie on Jan 27, 2012 6:00 AM EST
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PrintNow, let me speak. I'm not going Art Modell on you here. But think about it. The NFL has started to play games in London over the past few seasons. Now, the St. Louis Rams are going to have a home game there for the next three seasons. What if it were the Browns instead though?
I mean, I guess we don't seem pretty enough to even get one game over there, but if we were in the Rams situation, would you hate it? Or would you like to see our fanbase grow exponentially across the pond? Many don't like seeing the game move over to London at all, some think it's a great idea. But until they have their own team, the ones who like the game over there are going to have to piggyback. Would you like their pseudo - team to be the Browns?
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I love the idea when it’s someone else’s team going over there.
by Legoman0721 on Jan 26, 2012 11:58 AM EST via Android app reply actions
Would you be jelly if the Browns went?
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by SpecialBrownie on Jan 26, 2012 12:04 PM EST up reply actions
I dont want us to play over there as a home team. Ticket prices are high enough as it is with the home games we do have, I don’t imagine they’d get much lower with even fewer home games. Plus I feel like we already have solid support in the UK, for all that it matters.
I would like the Browns to play more games in Orlando or Tallahassee or wherever I may happen to be at the time though.
"It is unlikely that anyone has ever read Nietzsche or Derrida and has been inspired to open a soup kitchen"
I’ve heard the Browns have some of the lowest ticket prices in the NFL.
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by North Coast Flea on Jan 27, 2012 1:09 PM EST up reply actions
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
by pwndabear on Jan 26, 2012 12:50 PM EST reply actions 9 recs
Yeah…..
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by The New Kardiac Kids on Jan 26, 2012 4:00 PM EST up reply actions
Pbear should know to use a subject line for closing purposes.
by Brownie's Year on Jan 26, 2012 8:10 PM EST up reply actions
Didn’t he just announce that he’s back to Cleveland for the majority of his time or did I dream that one?
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by North Coast Flea on Jan 27, 2012 1:11 PM EST up reply actions
I want the Browns to be the best franchise in the world. If they have to go overseas to do it, so be it. Although it comes at a cost. Travel can be hard on a players performance and going overseas would probably affect them negatively.
I don’t think the Browns are ready for that kind of lime-light. Maybe after we’ve won a few super bowls.
Damn fog-breathers.
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by North Coast Flea on Jan 27, 2012 1:12 PM EST up reply actions
But they also gave us this.
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by Dawg Nuts on Jan 30, 2012 9:06 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
Only one REC? FOR SHAME, DBN. FOR SHAME.
by Off-the-Chain on Jan 30, 2012 10:21 PM EST up reply actions
Seeing as I can’t really go to most Brown’s games anyway playing a game in London would probably be pretty cool, if only for the fact that it would get great tv coverage guaranteed. If I was a season ticket holder, there’s no way I would want to lose out on one of only 8 home games. And, the best Dorito’s are clearly Sweet and Spicy Chili Dorito’s.
I voted for Cooler Ranch but my heart belongs to the super hard to find Fiery Habenero.
"We just lost to the Steelers 20 hours ago and that still hurts. I need to get home and eat a burrito." -Phil Dawson
I voted for Original, but yes, Fiery Habenero was amazing for that week that I saw them on store shelves.
Spicy Nacho are the best, but I would have voted for Ratty.
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by North Coast Flea on Jan 27, 2012 1:33 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Always.
"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools" -Hemingway
by notthatnoise on Jan 27, 2012 6:25 PM EST up reply actions
I don’t even like that Buffalo plays in Toronto so it’s a no for me.
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by The New Kardiac Kids on Jan 26, 2012 4:02 PM EST reply actions
Why?
"It is unlikely that anyone has ever read Nietzsche or Derrida and has been inspired to open a soup kitchen"
The puffs? Barf.
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by SpecialBrownie on Jan 27, 2012 9:17 AM EST up reply actions
Yeah, then we’ll wash it down with some Crystal Pepsi!
"We just lost to the Steelers 20 hours ago and that still hurts. I need to get home and eat a burrito." -Phil Dawson
Or “New” Coke.
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by North Coast Flea on Jan 27, 2012 1:34 PM EST up reply actions
Hey that stuff is great. Same with the pepsi and Dr. Pepper throwback. The real sugar tastes a lot better than corn syrup.
"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools" -Hemingway
by notthatnoise on Jan 27, 2012 6:26 PM EST up reply actions
I can’t stomach the real sugar in the drinks.
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by SpecialBrownie on Jan 27, 2012 6:43 PM EST up reply actions
It’s just shitty tasty Sierra Mist then
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by SpecialBrownie on Jan 28, 2012 3:57 PM EST up reply actions
It’s pop.
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by North Coast Flea on Jan 28, 2012 6:23 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
If you are from the South, it’s Coke.
Everything there is Coke.
by Bernie19Kosar on Jan 28, 2012 7:38 PM EST up reply actions
Whenever anyone gets into a spat about soda vs. pop I like to remind them that at least no one’s calling it Coke.
"We just lost to the Steelers 20 hours ago and that still hurts. I need to get home and eat a burrito." -Phil Dawson
Only the greatest region in the greatest country in the world calls it coke.
"It is unlikely that anyone has ever read Nietzsche or Derrida and has been inspired to open a soup kitchen"
That is simply not true. I know it isn’t true because no one in Cleveland calls it coke.
"We just lost to the Steelers 20 hours ago and that still hurts. I need to get home and eat a burrito." -Phil Dawson
by Adrock2099 on Jan 29, 2012 10:42 PM EST up reply actions 7 recs
Yup, we call it pop.
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by North Coast Flea on Jan 30, 2012 11:39 AM EST up reply actions
It’s pop and they’re jojo’s. Not potato fries.
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by SpecialBrownie on Jan 28, 2012 11:29 PM EST up reply actions
Damn, now I want some Chester Fried Chicken JoJos.
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by North Coast Flea on Jan 28, 2012 11:46 PM EST up reply actions
Another reason to hate Michigan. Any place that sells jojo’s calls them potato fries there. I almost threw down in a restaurant because of it. Michigan just does that to me.
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by SpecialBrownie on Jan 29, 2012 12:14 AM EST up reply actions
They call em potato wedges here.
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by North Coast Flea on Jan 29, 2012 10:40 AM EST up reply actions
we don’t serve litera cola.
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by North Coast Flea on Jan 29, 2012 10:41 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
We say that at my restaurant all the time.
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by SpecialBrownie on Jan 29, 2012 10:47 AM EST up reply actions
Just get a large, Farva.
I don’t want a large farva.
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by Heavysoviet on Jan 29, 2012 12:09 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
taco ones smell like nicotine.
Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
Fact.
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by notthatnoise on Jan 27, 2012 6:26 PM EST up reply actions
But they taste like heaven.
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by SpecialBrownie on Jan 27, 2012 6:43 PM EST up reply actions
They taste like meat, which is simultaneously awesome and gross.
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by notthatnoise on Jan 27, 2012 11:23 PM EST up reply actions
Should a Dorito really be any different?
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by SpecialBrownie on Jan 27, 2012 11:33 PM EST up reply actions
Good point.
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by notthatnoise on Jan 29, 2012 9:42 AM EST up reply actions
which is why I voted for them. Taco doritos need love too.
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OT question, Are we off topic here talking about the Browns to London or our favorite Doritos? Somehow I think the answer might be yes.
Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war
Maybe.
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by SpecialBrownie on Jan 27, 2012 7:28 PM EST up reply actions
Don’t pull a SB on me Golan. Care to explain why?
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by SpecialBrownie on Jan 27, 2012 9:19 PM EST up reply actions
Let someone else be the circus act over in London.
We need all the homefield advantage we can get.
by Bernie19Kosar on Jan 27, 2012 9:21 PM EST up reply actions
Those three are the purest forms of Doritos.
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by SpecialBrownie on Jan 27, 2012 9:19 PM EST up reply actions
If that were true Taco would be Spicy Nacho.
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by North Coast Flea on Jan 28, 2012 2:13 AM EST up reply actions
Taco came out 10 years before "original" flavor.
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by Adrock2099 on Jan 28, 2012 8:12 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
I think there’s quite a Browns following in England. I guess it’d be cool for them to see a game.
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If it counts as an away game for us, I love that idea.
by Legoman0721 on Jan 29, 2012 12:37 PM EST via Android app up reply actions
My cousin in England now follows the Browns and I’m becoming a Chelsea supporter. He also usually has an Indians sticker on his car just to get his mates to say, Huh?
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Handler is not.
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by SpecialBrownie on Jan 30, 2012 9:28 PM EST up reply actions
Meh. Not sure how I feel about this. As for Doritos… I love all of them, but you cannot go wrong with the original. My friend is convinced that they are made with cocaine, they’re so addicting.
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Well, MSG is basically flavored cocaine they sprinkle on food, so…
by Off-the-Chain on Jan 30, 2012 10:07 PM EST up reply actions
Is this why the Accent keeps disappearing out of my spice rack?
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by The New Kardiac Kids on Jan 31, 2012 8:50 AM EST up reply actions
Really guys? How does nobody else like the Spicy Sweet Chili Doritos? Those are by far the best flavor.
Obviously. I can’t believe so many people here haven’t seen the light.
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by notthatnoise on Jan 31, 2012 12:54 AM EST up reply actions
I don’t think it’d work (the Browns, not the Doritos):
I’m not aware of any real Browns following in London/ UK. The NFL took off in the mid 80s so the top teams tend to date back to the successful teams of that era: SF, Wash, Giants, Miami, plus Tampa Bay (the Brit factor there) and the Raiders & Dallas (very sellable image).
The Browns may have picked up some fans during the Kosar years but it’s a bit of a hard sell.
The other thing is the massive support the Browns have in Cleveland. One of the biggest home city fanbases in the NFL. It has to be an unloved franchise (Rams, Jags, Buffallo etc) that goes.
Though as I’m in Toronto now and in pretty close range of Cleveland for the first time as a fan, it’s probably *&%"@ inevitable it’ll happen.
....just need a guy called Byner to play RT...
there was a framed poster of Kosar and 3 other quarterbacks in my high school locker room when we didn’t even play football. Kind of noticed it just around the time I started watching the Browns.
by BuenosAires_Dawg on Jan 29, 2012 10:06 PM EST up reply actions
My uncle lives there. Never heard mention any limeys.
by Brownie's Year on Jan 30, 2012 11:55 AM EST up reply actions
They wanna come back to the US. So… no.
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by SpecialBrownie on Jan 30, 2012 1:30 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah. If our QB throws an INT he’ll get stabbed in the parking lot.
by Brownie's Year on Jan 30, 2012 1:41 PM EST up reply actions
Nickel beer night is like every night there.
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by SpecialBrownie on Jan 30, 2012 2:07 PM EST up reply actions
The south is weird.
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by SpecialBrownie on Jan 30, 2012 2:28 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
I enjoyed my trip down to San Antonio, everywhere actually has Dr. Pepper down there. It was awesome.
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by North Coast Flea on Jan 30, 2012 3:22 PM EST up reply actions
Not that it’s rare, just that only about 50% of businesses here carry it, it would seem.
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by North Coast Flea on Jan 30, 2012 4:55 PM EST up reply actions
Not a lot of places carry 7-Up based pops. Pepsi is just starting to gain a foothold in my area. One of the reasons why I love Taco Bell so much and why I freaked the hell out when KSU dropped Coke a year ago.
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by SpecialBrownie on Jan 30, 2012 5:02 PM EST up reply actions
KSU did for my Freshman and Sophomore years.
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by SpecialBrownie on Jan 30, 2012 9:28 PM EST up reply actions
Dr. Pepper and Mr. Pibb are friggin’ gross. But I don’t care. i haven’t drank a soda in like 6 years anyways.
by Brownie's Year on Jan 30, 2012 5:22 PM EST up reply actions
“Drink less pop so I can smoke more” kinda thing right? Bet that’s doing wonders for your health.
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by SpecialBrownie on Jan 30, 2012 6:17 PM EST up reply actions
"Drink less pop so I can smoke more" kinda thing right?
Who has ever thought those two things were connected?
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by notthatnoise on Jan 30, 2012 6:23 PM EST up reply actions
taking in the diabetes from corn syrup and the cancers that caffeine has ties to, I think the health difference isn’t huge. A few cans of pop a day is definitely pretty awful for you.
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No, I used to drink between 6-12 sodas a day.. My dad had kidney failure because he didn’t know he had diabetes. Luckily he didn’t die then. After that I cut off most of my sugar intake because diabetes is hereditary.
by Brownie's Year on Jan 30, 2012 7:06 PM EST up reply actions
6-12 can probably do as much damage long term as a pack a day. maybe more.
I probably need to start watching my sugar intake fairly soon because diabetes runs in the family (it can also be triggered by too much sugar too…)
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It goes both ways. I had blood work done a couple years ago and nothing turned up. So I’ll just keep doing what I’m doing.
Soda also eats the hell out of your stomach. There are many reasons not to drink it. You’re basically drinking a dissolving acid. Screw that stuff.
by Brownie's Year on Jan 30, 2012 7:19 PM EST up reply actions
Pop doesn’t eat away at your stomach. The acids found in pop are far less potent than those already naturally present in your stomach.
"We just lost to the Steelers 20 hours ago and that still hurts. I need to get home and eat a burrito." -Phil Dawson
Your stomach is millimeters away from eating itself everyday without the “help” of pop. Quit believing in false information. No need to be ignorant.
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by SpecialBrownie on Jan 30, 2012 8:47 PM EST up reply actions
Use this bind ignorance to get Lemichael. Not be an idiot on DBN
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by SpecialBrownie on Jan 30, 2012 9:29 PM EST up reply actions
Yeah, its not like pop can melt a small rodent. Oh, wait, it can? F&^%!
by Off-the-Chain on Jan 30, 2012 10:10 PM EST up reply actions
I advise you to scroll down slightly. Rodents are highly susceptible to what’s in pop. Nothing close to how we react.
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by SpecialBrownie on Jan 30, 2012 10:14 PM EST up reply actions
Still, it turned an animal into JELLY.
by Off-the-Chain on Jan 30, 2012 10:20 PM EST up reply actions
Rodents are highly susceptible to what’s in pop. Nothing close to how we react.
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by SpecialBrownie on Jan 30, 2012 10:59 PM EST up reply actions
I drink water and the occasional Crystal Light mix.
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That is definitely a large amount of soda. And here I thought my two can a day addiction to Diet Pepsi was bad.
"We just lost to the Steelers 20 hours ago and that still hurts. I need to get home and eat a burrito." -Phil Dawson
sweetener has been linked to increased rates of stomach cancer in rats. However, it is important to keep in mind that rats’ stomachs are especially sensitive to carcinogens (cancer-causing agents). In fact, in the same study sugar syrup was also linked to stomach cancer. The FDA still approves saccharin for consumption by the general public.
"We just lost to the Steelers 20 hours ago and that still hurts. I need to get home and eat a burrito." -Phil Dawson
And the sugar alternative Aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal, ect) is worse.
by Brownie's Year on Jan 30, 2012 7:57 PM EST up reply actions
I know, I just like using that gif when I can.
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by SpecialBrownie on Jan 30, 2012 8:49 PM EST up reply actions
Not to pile on the buzz kill here, but drinking alcohol is also terrible for diabetics or those prone to it.
Hope your Dad is doing well. My mother suffered from kidney problems.
by Bernie19Kosar on Jan 30, 2012 10:30 PM EST up reply actions
Probably.
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by SpecialBrownie on Jan 30, 2012 6:17 PM EST up reply actions
I’m really interested in what the “others” are.
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by notthatnoise on Jan 30, 2012 6:23 PM EST up reply actions
Purple drank*
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by notthatnoise on Jan 31, 2012 12:56 AM EST up reply actions
Chaser.
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