i just saw this too. amazing! I hope the Cleveland fan base all buys into this idea. How great would it be for a Monday night game to have an empty stadium as a means of protesting a sub par organization. I think it sends a great message to all fans! as a jets fan and season ticket holder for 25+ years, i can relate
Browns fans to protest Found this on Yahoo! Will it work or are the Browns front office ignorant to the fact their fans care? Browns fans planning Monday night game protest 34 minutes ago Buzz up! 12 PrintBEREA, Ohio (AP)?One of the most loyal Dawg Pounders is done barking about the sad state of his beloved Cleveland Browns. It?s time to bite. Lifelong Browns fan and season-ticket holder Mike Randall, aka ?Dawg Pound Mike,? is encouraging other Cleveland fans to stay away from their seats for the opening kickoff of the Browns? Nov. 16 home game against Baltimore. Sickened by the nearly constant losing since the NFL team?s return in 1999, Randall hopes the sight of empty seats for the start of the nationally televised Monday night game will send a loud message to owner Randy Lerner and club officials that fans have had enough. ?We?re tired of losing,? the 39-year-old Randall said. ?We?re tired of the booing, of seeing fans leave in the fourth quarter. There are fans who have had tickets for 30 years who are turning their seats in because they can?t take it anymore. So many fans are fed up.? ADVERTISEMENT Randall and his friend, Tony Schafer, decided to go ahead with plans for the protest following last Sunday?s 31-3 loss to the Green Bay Packers. As they walked out of the stadium, they heard fans grumbling about how they?re wasting their Sundays and money on an inferior product that seems to be getting worse. Their hope is that fans stay outside the stadium, on concourses or in the restrooms for the start of the game. The Akron Beacon-Journal first reported the protest, which Randall and Schafer announced on the Web site www.mobiledawg.com. ?We don?t want to see fans with bags on their heads or booing,? Randall said. ?We love the Browns and will do anything to support them. But we?re not being heard. Our goal is to say to the Browns? organization, ?Hey, listen to your fans.?? Under first-year coach Eric Mangini, the Browns are 1-6 this season and have scored four offensive touchdowns in 81 possessions. Cleveland?s defense is the league?s worst. Since coming back as an expansion team 10 years ago, the Browns are 55-113 with one playoff appearance and appear to be on their way to their eighth season of double-digit losses since ?99. Randall, who sits in the front row of the Dawg Pound, the notoriously rowdy bleacher section, doesn?t know where to assess blame for the Browns? misery. He has met Lerner and appreciates the ultra-private owner?s attempts to turn the franchise around. He knows Mangini needs time, and Randall wishes general manager George Kokinis would let fans in on the team?s intentions. ?We have no one who talks to the fans,? he said. ?Randy isn?t out front. The GM is invisible and Mangini has said this was going to be a process and that things would improve. Well, nothing has improved.? Randall said there is no energy in the crowd at home games and that fans are still being told to sit down in their seats or risk ejection. He has spoken to Browns officials about reconnecting to the team?s past, but has met mostly with resistance. ?There?s nothing in the stadium that even shows the eight championships we did win,? he said. ?This team has lost generations of fans.? During last week?s game, Randall said a young fan approached him and asked, ?Will we ever win?? Lerner recently brought in former quarterback Bernie Kosar to serve as a consultant to the team. Although Kosar?s role with the team has not been clearly defined, Randall sees his addition as a positive. ?I love it,? Randall said. ?Bernie is an offensive mastermind and I think Randy is seeing we need to bring some of the former guys back. It?s a good first step.? When Art Modell took his NFL franchise to Baltimore in 1995, Browns fans fought to get their team back. Randall was one of the fans who helped jam the league?s fax machines and carried thousands of signatures to meetings, hoping to get pro football back in Cleveland. It worked, and Randall, who wears something shaded in Cleveland?s brown and orange colors every day, is hoping this protest helps the Browns get back to winning. ?We did this as a positive,? he said. ?We want to send a statement that the status quo cannot go on.?
what a protest, buy tickets and go to the game. well done, Cleveland, that will get your voice heard where it matters.
I doubt that Browns management isn't aware that the team needs improvement. Seems like a pointless protest to me, there's nothing they can do until free agency and the draft.
So what do they want? Mangini fired? The GM? The owner to sell the team? Seems pointless to have a protest without demands other than play better....
Holy shit, Ravens at the Browns on Monday night, it will be a slaughter. Who the fuck picks these lame monday night games?
As much as Mangini is a bad coach he coaches one of the worst teams in football history so its both mangina and the browns fault.
Billboards up in Buffalo, Cleveland fans protesting before MNF game, what is with the water in Lake Erie? I think something is leaching into the lake from Detroit.
I don't understand the point of it? Missing kickoff is supposed to make the browns play better? They need to show some patience and see what happens with all the draft picks they got stock piled.
