I don't understand the amount of steeler fans in Ohio! Blows my mind how can you not like the browns!! No freaking loyalty!

milkdog99 wrote: I don't understand the amount of steeler fans in Ohio! Blows my mind how can you not like the browns!! No freaking loyalty!

 Like a Michigan who spent their entire life in Columbus, they do it just to piss people off.

They are basically trolling us all in real life.

Don't feed the trolls.

what?!?!  

How about a guy from Ohio that roots for scUM AND the Steelers?  I work with one. Lord help me.

O2champs wrote: How about a guy from Ohio that roots for scUM AND the Steelers?  I work with one. Lord help me.

So, 2 negatives doesn't equal a positive? Fascinating.

TSUN and the Squealers? That takes real life trolling to a new level.

They are bandwagon fans, not real fans. They just like to root for a winning team instead of the Clowns or the Bungles. Kind of like half the fans on this board.

milkdog99 wrote: I don't understand the amount of steeler fans in Ohio! Blows my mind how can you not like the browns!! No freaking loyalty!

I'm not a steeler fan, but when you compare what that miserable POS Mike Brown has done with his father's business to how Dan Rooney has handled his father's business, its hard to be a Bungles fan. The only reason the Bengals are starting to make some progress is Brown is getting old and has turned most of the GM job over to his daughter Katie Blackburn.

Swimcat76 wrote: I'm not a steeler fan, but when you compare what that miserable POS Mike Brown has done with his father's business to how Dan Rooney has handled his father's business, its hard to be a Bungles fan. The only reason the Bengals are starting to make some progress is Brown is getting old and has turned most of the GM job over to his daughter Katie Blackburn.

I heard from a person who worked for the bengals daily that blackburn plays with the money, she'll get a deal and back out last second. whole family sucks.

milkdog99 wrote: I don't understand the amount of steeler fans in Ohio! Blows my mind how can you not like the browns!! No freaking loyalty!

There are more players from Ohio and former Ohio State players on the Steelers than the Browns or Bengals.

I've been a browns fan since I was a boy...I don't care if they are 0-16, staying with your makes you feel proud when they finally do it. Remember how proud you were when the bucks won the title..if you are over 50 I know it felt good
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I'm not a steeler fan, but when you compare what that miserable POS Mike Brown has done with his father's business to how Dan Rooney has handled his father's business, its hard to be a Bungles fan. The only reason the Bengals are starting to make some progress is Brown is getting old and has turned most of the GM job over to his daughter Katie Blackburn.

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Sigh...  I feel like I have to constantly explain this to Cleveland people and Central Ohio people.  I grew up in Ohio (Ohio Valley).  We were 35 minutes from Pittsburg, and 2 and a half freaking from Cleveland.  We played Pittsburgh high schools, we got Pittsburgh local news channels on TV, went to Pirates games in the summer, etc.  It's Steeler country through and through.  Daily life and family ties trump a line on a map.  Somebody from Steubenville or East Liverpool would rather die than root for the Browns.  Rooting for the Browns was pretty much an automatic ass kicking in the elementary school days.

Should all those OSU grads in California start rooting for USC?  Now for people born in Columbus, with no ties.. they're not real Steeler fans, and maybe you have a point.

WellEndowedBuckeye wrote: Sigh...  I feel like I have to constantly explain this to Cleveland people and Central Ohio people.  I grew up in Ohio (Ohio Valley).  We were 35 minutes from Pittsburg, and 2 and a half freaking from Cleveland.  We played Pittsburgh high schools, we got Pittsburgh local news channels on TV, went to Pirates games in the summer, etc.  It's Steeler country through and through.  Daily life and family ties trump a line on a map.  Somebody from Steubenville or East Liverpool would rather die than root for the Browns.  Rooting for the Browns was pretty much an automatic ass kicking in the elementary school days.

Should all those OSU grads in California start rooting for USC?  Now for people born in Columbus, with no ties.. they're not real Steeler fans, and maybe you have a point.

I'm not a Steeler fan but this is exactly right. I lived across the river from there in Wheeling for awhile so i would know

I'm from Pittsburgh and chose to go to school at Ohio State over Penn State (never applied to Pitt)....

is that wrong to choose the out of state school?

WellEndowedBuckeye wrote: Sigh...  I feel like I have to constantly explain this to Cleveland people and Central Ohio people.  I grew up in Ohio (Ohio Valley).  We were 35 minutes from Pittsburg, and 2 and a half freaking from Cleveland.  We played Pittsburgh high schools, we got Pittsburgh local news channels on TV, went to Pirates games in the summer, etc.  It's Steeler country through and through.  Daily life and family ties trump a line on a map.  Somebody from Steubenville or East Liverpool would rather die than root for the Browns.  Rooting for the Browns was pretty much an automatic ass kicking in the elementary school days.

Should all those OSU grads in California start rooting for USC?  Now for people born in Columbus, with no ties.. they're not real Steeler fans, and maybe you have a point.

Exactly, I was born in Eastern PA, raised in East Liverpool, now i live in Canfield.  Pittsburgh Sports and media run most of those areas along the Ohio River.  Youngstown is about 50/50.  It's a family thing.  Those same areas of Ohio are all Buckeye towns as well.  I grew up in a family that loved the NFL, my personaly love is for my Buckeyes, that I choose to watch and love growing up in the 80s and 90s.  My family didn't watch college football, but I did and I honestly would choose NCAA football over NFL anyday of the week. 

Once you move west of the counties that touch PA and WV, I see your point but even then there are plenty of people with PA roots living in Ohio like myself all over.

Quit trying to explain the obvious, some people are thicker in the head than a bull in the a$$.  I'm really not a big pro football fan at all (college is my game) but where you grew up and followed a certain team says a lot as to who you root for.

Brutusthepete wrote:

WellEndowedBuckeye wrote: Sigh...  I feel like I have to constantly explain this to Cleveland people and Central Ohio people.  I grew up in Ohio (Ohio Valley).  We were 35 minutes from Pittsburg, and 2 and a half freaking from Cleveland.  We played Pittsburgh high schools, we got Pittsburgh local news channels on TV, went to Pirates games in the summer, etc.  It's Steeler country through and through.  Daily life and family ties trump a line on a map.  Somebody from Steubenville or East Liverpool would rather die than root for the Browns.  Rooting for the Browns was pretty much an automatic ass kicking in the elementary school days.

Should all those OSU grads in California start rooting for USC?  Now for people born in Columbus, with no ties.. they're not real Steeler fans, and maybe you have a point.

Exactly, I was born in Eastern PA, raised in East Liverpool, now i live in Canfield.  Pittsburgh Sports and media run most of those areas along the Ohio River.  Youngstown is about 50/50.  It's a family thing.  Those same areas of Ohio are all Buckeye towns as well.  I grew up in a family that loved the NFL, my personaly love is for my Buckeyes, that I choose to watch and love growing up in the 80s and 90s.  My family didn't watch college football, but I did and I honestly would choose NCAA football over NFL anyday of the week. 

Once you move west of the counties that touch PA and WV, I see your point but even then there are plenty of people with PA roots living in Ohio like myself all over.

+1 to both.

Far Eastern Ohio has always been Pittsburgh Country. Especially in River and Steel towns like Steubenville, East Liverpool, Martins Ferry, Wheeling (WV) etc. It's ALWAYS been this way even before the Steelers started winning Super Bowls in the 70's. Just like there are Lions, Tigers, and Red Wings fans in NW Ohio.

People around here love the Buckeyes. ND is big but the Buckeyes still rule.

I never saw a Cleveland news station until I moved to Canton for college.

Nowhere on my Ohio Birth Certificate does it say that my Ohio citizenship is null and void if I don't grow up to be a Browns/Bengals fan.

milkdog99 wrote: I don't understand the amount of steeler fans in Ohio! Blows my mind how can you not like the browns!! No freaking loyalty!

Given your thinking every Browns fan should root for the Bengals as their second favorite team.

How many Ohio State or Ohio born players on the Browns roster? Where is that organization's loyalty to the home state.

College football is more about state pride. The players are our neighbors. They went to our schools. The teams bear the state name.

I'm a lifelong 9ers fan. Guess that makes me an Uber traitor . Most people choose their loyalties to a team at a very young age. & if people around you are not "local" fans , you will pick a team that catches your attention first. Iow , someone who is winning. Not too hard to figure out. I had no surrounding family to speak of who cared about the NFL , so i chose the 9ers as a young impressionable youth. I did however have a strong surrounding of OSU fans......so there ya go.

I was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio and I'm a diehard Buckeye & Steeler fan. I was raised a Steelers fan, all I knew growing up was Ohio State football & Steelers football. It's not like I live in Cleveland or Cincinnati and I choose to do so to become irritating. It's how I was raised. There are three very large football markets in Columbus because of the location. Pittsburgh is only about 3 hours away. It's not that unimaginable to me that there are a ton of Steelers fans in Columbus.