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I wake-up every morning to my bed stand Browns digital clock.

Almost identical to this:



Only problem is the Browns are only winning about 5% of the time.

That’s because the Browns’ score is the hours and the visitor’s score is the minutes.

So I make it a game to wake-up at 5 am every morning and get out of bed before 5:05 am. (5:06 Browns lose)

If the Browns win, my day starts right.

0-365 last year.

I have a whole room dedicated to my Browns paraphernalia.

Some of the slightly interesting (but cringe-worthy) items are:

Mike Phipps NFL rookie poster from when I was a child.
6pk (still in the package) Browns toilet paper.
Tim Couch bobble head.
Set of Browns votive candle luminarias.
Browns edition Monopoly game.
Ceramic Santa Claus in Browns uniform pointing at the sky.

Maybe I have a problem....

I only have a couple Browns T-shirt’s, two ball caps. These I wear regularly. I also have a hoodie that I never wear. That’s it for clothes. The only other Browns related thing I have is a signed photo of Otto.

Now, on my property I have a 25’x18’ outbuilding. It’s got a big built in brick fireplace and some cupboards and such. Out there I’ve got a Browns neon light, a flag in the rafters, a clock, and an old helmet clock that doesn’t work but the helmet stays on display. Over the years I’ve clad the interior walls of the place with old cedar fence boards, built in a bar, and last summer I finally got around to painting the cupboards.

I have a Tim Couch bobblehead doll from McDonalds.

Every game day, I have a routine. I have a 3'x 5' Browns flag on a 6' pole, and a wall mount next to my front door. I go out onto the porch, wave the flag through 3 figure 8's, then insert it into the wall mount. (I often have neighbors yell "Go Browns" as I do so.)

A few weeks ago I bought 2 different new flags Browns flags, still figuring out how to deploy them.

I used to collect Browns' media guides, which had profiles of the players and coaches, and was published every year. I have 2-3 from the 60's, just about all of the 70's and 80's, 2-3 from the 90's, and a couple from the 00's. I stopped around 10 years ago, because the good ones from the 50's and 60's became so expensive on Ebay, and the ones from after the return were full of guys you just knew wouldn't be in the league for long. Or maybe all the losing, post-return, took a toll, I don't know.

I have some old football cards, and some reprint Bowman cards of 50's Browns, like Graham, Motley, Willis, Groza, Ford, and a couple others. I think I have a Topps rookie card for Bobby Mitchell, but its a bad grade with noticeably uneven margins. I have a reprint Topps rookie card for Jim Brown, that isn't worth anything, except to me.

I have a couple old Gameday programs from 1963, autographed by Jim Brown, John Wooten, Lou Groza, and a couple others. They are pretty much falling apart because I never stored them properly in some kind of binder.

I have an intact 6-pack of something called "Browns Beer", including the plastic thingy that holds the cans together, which featured a 1986 match up with the Steelers. I think it was brewed by Iron City, so I was never tempted to drink one.

Somewhere in the house, I have a 90 minute cassette tape of Gib Shanley and Jim Graner's call of the '64 championship win over Baltimore. Back in the 90's, WKNR 850 (now ESPN-Cleveland) broadcasted it completely. Along with that I have an NFL Films DVD which has most of that game, along with some of the commercials from that era. I had never seen it, because the game was blacked out locally.

'64 championship win over Baltimore



1964 NFL Championship Colts at Browns 'Anatomy Of A Championship'

That's it - I remember scanning the crowd shots looking for my Dad, when I first saw it around 10 years ago. He was a Cleveland Policeman and he always worked the games - he had a sweet section every game at the 50 yard line in the upper deck of Municipal Stadium. I think it was section 32. He would bring my brother and me to games most of the time, but that game was SRO, and cops were told to leave their kids at home.

I'm gonna post some pics as soon as I figure out how to do it tomorrow, but the first Christmas my wife and I lived together, her dad made a wood carving of a guy in Browns colours diving over the goal-line with the ball outstretched. The helmet is orange with white stripes and old-school, no face mask.

The jersey isn't true-to-life but it's brown and has a bit of striping.

He's an excellent wood-carver, sold a carving of a bagpipe player for $400 last year, and has a creative mind: to 'make' the guy's football cleats, he used tiny pieces of matches.

It's unique, and tops my list of Browns stuff.

ok its apparel but I bet no one else has one.



It says "dog" in chinese

Does it taste good with soy sauce?

I have jerseys, pictures, autographed football, signs, on and on and on.

And the coolest Browns thing I have? The jersey I bought for my son when he was maybe 5, or 6? And when he outgrew it, I kept it. And when my daughter fit into it, she wore it on Sundays. She, as a 5-6 year old and beyond, would go to the window to watch me shoot off the shotgun when the Browns scored.

When she outgrew the jersey, my wife kept it, and several years later, she framed it and gave it to me on Father's Day. It hangs in the garage above the door I go out most days - amid the other Browns stuff, and Michigan stuff (wife's a michigan fan)............and every dang time I go out that door, I think of both of my kids, and them wearing that Bernie jersey.

On the old garage since 2013.

I've got a few autographs... abut 14 guys from I think 2014 team including colt McCoy, joe Thomas, joe Haden, and Phil Dawson on a football... I've got Myles Garrett and Johnny manziel each on a photo....

I also have a Browns potato head doll at work

I have...





The exact specifications and parts that the Baker wears. Not to mention his "sig"

I have a game used football signed by Butch Davis.

I have a signed Jim Brown HOF jersey...

I have an 07 signed Browns Helmet....

I don't have 5 hours to type it all out, but if any of you are ever in the area I will be glad to show you my Browns rooms.

I have a Browns toaster.

I also have a napkin signed by Joe Thomas and Dave Zastudil.

I have to take you up on that. You weren't in any shape for a tour when I was at your house.

just let me know when. I wasn't jogging to well the last time you were here

I have a large framed photo montage of many of the Kardiac Kids from the 1980 team that I received as a birthday gift from my son. All of the photos are autographed.

Where's the area? I'm on the west side, near W 117 south of Lorain.

Austintown Ohio Just West of Youngstown

When I first read your clock thing, the "clock" Browns were losing 31-7, yikes, play an away game.

As I type this they're losing 38-8. (8:38 am)

I have a 1970s 7UP bottle that commemorates the Browns. It has their old school 70s helmet and says "7UP salutes the Cleveland Browns"! I think it dates from 1971?

Oh, and I also still have my ticket stub (framed) from the Browns v Jets double OT playoff game in '86!

I have a Browns pennant clock. It works well, just ticks too loudly to actually put a battery in it. My brother sent me a Elf Garden Gnome a couple of years ago, I didn't even know he was drinking again.

I would have to rank this game as the best (most enjoyable) Browns game I ever saw.

Big foam finger

I have tons of autographs, photos, etc .. but one thing that I'd consider unorthodox:

Browns toothbrush signed by Metcalf, Bernie, and Slaughter

Lol just random

awesome!

Hats off to the Thundering Buzzard once again!

Some people say our fans are too subtle and nuanced.

Nah.

My Elf is hungry for some nasty winning.

Hey, now! Watchit.
This here's a family forum, you know?

My favorite non-apparel item is a birthday gift from my Pops In-Law. He handed me this nicely-wrapped box about the size of a paper grocery bag, large size. Thing weighed a ton. I almost dropped it.

I opened the package... and absolutely lost it. When I finally calmed down from LMAO and saying "Wow!!!" over and over, I asked him where he found such a unique item.

"Some guy here in town was selling them off his front porch."
My Pops In-Law, Steelers fan from Steubenville paid cash money to buy his son in-law... a cast cement doorstop.


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I have a Browns Tiffany lamp. Given as wedding gift. Clearly, my buddy did not consider my wife in this gift.

I have one, as well, Milk.
Is yours touch-responsive?

I forgot to mention - from about 1992, til they left Cleveland, a friend and I split 4 season tickets in the pound.

I had the 4 tickets for the last game played in the Muni.

Early in the 3rd quarter, the guy beside me (I didn't know him) whipped out a hacksaw blade and started cutting the seat. (where we sat in the pound, the 'seats' were 2X6 boards)

Took him a while, but he cut his seat out. We stood the rest of the game, as did most people. When the game was over, I decided to take my "seat" (board). Problem was, it was still attached to the metal stand at 1 end.

I got down on all 4's, crawled under the board, and lifted it up, and walked out of the Muni carrying a 2X6 by about 7 feet long, board.

It hangs in my office to this day.