Cleveland, Ohio Football Fans

Cleveland, Ohio has three major sports teams, one for football, baseball, and basketball. The fans in the area have always been supportive of all the teams, even in the worst of situations, and there has been plenty of situations. While it has been 52 years prior to 2016 since any major sports team has brought a Championship home to the city and the fans, despite many blown opportunities throughout the years, while the fans never stop believing that one day one of the teams would fulfill what every fan wants, a championship . Although many other sports teams throughout the country feel they have the most supportive fans, but no one can top the fans from Cleveland, Ohio who has supported all three of the major league teams - Browns, Indians,
and Cavaliers, despite the fans suffering years of heartbreak, embarrassment, and defeat, unlike any other fans. Throughout those five trying decades, Cleveland Brown fans have been the most passionate and loyal football fans in the NFL.
While an outside observer of the fans in Cleveland, may assume that they are crazy fans, but locals understand the love that is felt for the Browns here on the shores of Lake Erie. For instance, on any given Sunday during football season, fans line up early in the morning for tailgating party's despite the weather in Northeast Ohio, that can be awful thanks to cold temperatures, rain, snow or some combination of all three. When the fans flood into the stadium one may see some very interesting fans, as some fans will dress up in the traditional Browns colors of brown and orange some may wear dog costumes and paint their faces, and some men even go shirtless in freezing weather – all to show support and passion for the Browns. Once inside the stadium, the best area for a fan to sit , it at both ends of the end zones. These areas are called the Dawg pound - where fans will bark like a
dog, and scream at the opposing teams players, trying to get the opposition off their game. Considering all of the heartbreaks fans have suffered, including one but many incredible last minute loses, to having the original Browns being moved to another city, and then dealing with a below-average expansion teams is an embarrassment for Cleveland fans. It is interesting that the fans in Cleveland give names to all of the tragic events that have happened, Red Right 88, The Drive,, The Fumble, The Move,, and The Drought. Although most of these names have no meaning to other cities, the fans in Cleveland young and old know these names refer to extremely painful losses. And while the last 16 years the fans have been left with little to cheer for, the fans return week after week to continue yelling and barking to show their support and passion for the Browns. Considering how the Browns fans are a bit crazy, in comparison the Indians fans are more reserved, but just as passionate and loyal. While some fans dressed in Indian costumes, and their faces painted, it is not as prominent as with Browns fans. The fans of the Indians are more likely to wear simple shirts or baseball caps in the traditional blue and red colors with an Indian logo on it. While the Indians fans are just as vocal as Browns fans; they will chant or make a Indian war call along with the Indians mascots, Chief Wahoo and Slider, Chief Wahoo is a over-exaggerated Indian, and Slider a cartoonish pink bird. Some fans also bring noisemakers such as whistles, and there is always a least one fan that brings a drum. The beat of a Indian war dance always seems to get the fans excited; as fans will be clapping their hands or tapping with their feet to the beat. Even though the fans have had their heartbroken by the Indians in the last decade, one that is the most memorable is the Indians losing the World Series in the later part of the 1990s. It's important to mention that despite the Indians having the longest period of time since a championship of all the other Cleveland sports teams, their fans still continue to show their support by coming out to the ballpark. Though they are the newest team to the city of Cleveland, the basketball team, the Cavaliers.
The Cavaliers fan base has became the most spirited fans in the city of Cleveland. The Cavaliers fans wear their wine and gold team colors with a lot of pride, and this pride is growing thanks to the Cavaliers winning the NBA Finals this year. While the fans have had many disappointed on and off the basketball court before the 2016 season, the growing passions have happen over many years of the Cavaliers playing amazing basketball. However, the Cavaliers fans are not afraid to show their outrage with unbelievable losses that have happened, for instance when a hometown hero LeBron James left for another team. Every time James would return to play at Cleveland thefans booed and vocally made it very clear with other choice words the disapproval of James’s decision. Still when James returned to Cleveland, the Cavaliers fans showed great excitement, especially after the Cavaliers won the championship. The Cleveland fans flooded the streets on the night the Cavaliers fulfilled what the Cavaliers fans were dreaming of, winning the NBA Finals. Cavaliers fans old and young celebrated with high five to everyone with a hand raised, while some carried flags and banners, and other fans just walked the streets to be apart of the celebration. Within a few day after winning the Finals, the city held a parade where over a million fans lined the streets for hours just to see or touch one
of the Cavaliers players. For all Cavaliers fans, this moment helped eased the pain of previous losses and heartbreak, while also giving hope to all the Browns and Indians fans that just maybe it would finally be their team’s turn to bring a Championship home. Although the three sports team in Cleveland all play different sports and the fans may support only one team or all three, the fans show their passion and loyalty in many similar ways, though there are distinction between how fans of the Browns, Indians, and Cavaliers dress, behave, and celebrate. And while there is reasons for the fans in all of the team to just give up and stop supporting the teams, the fans have not. The fans passion and loyalty continues to grow and get stronger, even with the odds against their team. The fans never stop believing that just maybe, just maybe, it will be the Browns or the Indians turn, just as the Cavaliers finally won their first championship in 2016. While other sports clubs feel like they have the most supportive fans, none can top the fans from Cleveland, Ohio who has supported all three of their teams - Brown, Indians, and Cavaliers - despite the fans suffering years of heartbreak, embarrassment and defeat unlike any other fans. No matter what happens in Cleveland, the fan will always be there supporting and cheering their teams, win or lose!