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Cleveland Browns might wear brown pants for all road games during 2009 NFL season

Sunday, July 26, 2009
Tony Grossi
Plain Dealer Reporter
Will the chocolate-brown uniform pants have a new life under new Browns coach Eric Mangini?

The Browns unveiled the brown pants in the disastrous second exhibition game at Giants Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., last summer. That was the game in which the Browns fell behind the New York Giants, 30-3, in barely more than one quarter.

That national prime-time performance, punctuated by several major injuries, contributed to the bad taste left by the radical look of the brown pants. They have been locked up in the Browns' equipment room ever since.

But rumors have surfaced recently that Mangini intends to surprise everyone by dressing his team in brown pants for every road game this year.

A Browns official could have shot the rumor down. But when it was posed to Neal Gulkis, director of public relations, he responded, "No final determination has been made."

Gulkis went on to point out that pant colors - unlike jerseys - do not have to be approved by the league before the season.

"You can decide what pants you will be wearing as late as the day before a game," Gulkis wrote in an e-mail.

Teams must declare whether they wish to wear their dark or white jersey for each home game. The visiting team then must wear the alternate dark or white jersey. So if any of the Browns' opponents wish to wear white at home, the Browns would be forced to wear their brown jerseys.

Which then would raise the possibility of a brown jersey-brown pants combination. They would look like giant Fudgesicles.

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Which then would raise the possibility of a brown jersey-brown pants combination. They would look like giant Fudgesicles.

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Brown on Brown would be fine, but they have to have a stripe on the pants for it to work.

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but...this said on the road.


On the road = white jerseys/brown pants...thatd be fine

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Home team picks their jersey color, we have to wear the opposite.

I could see teams picking white just to see us look like turds on the field.

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um, hello, don't you wear yellow?

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They think it's not yellow,, but instead,, Gold?

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um, hello, don't you wear yellow?

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They think it's not yellow,, but instead,, Gold?

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Pretty sure that's where Iron City beer comes from ...

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Iron City Beer did make it's start in Pittsburgh.. But I was just in PA (in my hometown) over the weekend and I stopped by a local resturant for lunch. While there, I read an article in the local paper about Iron City Beer.

They made the last barrel of it last week in the old brewery that it's been made in for forever.

The canned beer has been made someplace in NY,, don't remember the city or the brewery. But the Bottled and Kegged versions have been made in Pittsburgh all this time.. Until last week.

The brewing of Iron City Beer and IC Light is being moved to Latrobe PA to the old Rolling Rock brewery.. Rolling Rock was sold to Anheiser Bush a number of years back.

I guess 80 or so folks lost thier jobs at the old brewery but they said it would take 12 to 15 million to modernize the old place and it just wasn't worth it.

That's way more info they you wanted.....

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Then again, I wouldn't mind if we scrapped the whole color scheme and start fresh...

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We could make them wear plain white helmets until they make the playoffs...

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I despise the orange jerseys. They make the brown pants look like things of beauty in my eyes. . .

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The thing most of us "traditionalists" believe is that a uniform change is not what was needed. A new uniform is not going to change the team from a loser. Football players and coaches do that.

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