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CLEVELAND BROWNS TAILGATING Tailgate with other members from The Browns Board. Com |
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MEET THE MEN BEHIND THE TAILGATE PARTIES:
Labeled: Cleveland Browns Tailgating 'Super Fans' by Reporter Peter Chakerian of "The Browns Fan's Tailgating guide"-published 2008
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ED (aka: Roachmstr) Ed's probably the nicest guy in the group, he'd throw out his back cooking for ya. If you want to know "What's Cooking?" Ed would be the guy to contact. Ed and Don take lead role in the food preparation. |
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STAN (aka: ATENEARS) Stan is the guy that can reel you in. If your a first time visitor or trying to find your way back, Stan will provide Map & Directions to the Tailgate. Once there, look for beer in hand and shit grin on his face and you've found, "Stan". |
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DON (aka: Sperk) This is the guy behind the scenes that makes it all a success. Don carefully selects the menu for the tailgates and has a major hand in it's preparation. Don works for Jello-shots and cigars, if he starts to whine about his duties just toss him another. |
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ABOUT THE BROWNS BOARD TAILGATE PARTY
We pride ourselves
at welcoming in the out-of-town fan for a full tailgate
experience. Our niche is in catering to the out of town
(Browns) fans and allowing them to get to know the regulars
through our
on-line message board
before they ever board a plane or head toward Cleveland. Our
local regulars prepare all the food and layout the entire
spread depending on the head count. We will even supply cooler,
ice, and ones favorite beverage if ordered ahead of time. A
donation can is placed out to help us maintain expenses from
one party to the next.
The patrons who visit
not only meet new people with like interest (the Cleveland
Browns), but many times result into long lasting friendships that
have them coming back each season. We have provided the game day
experience (many times for their first times ever even in the
city of Cleveland) for hundreds of visitors to our city. It is
not unusual for our guest to think they've traveled the farthest
from their homes in Arizona, only to meet other groups from
California who claim the title until folks from Vancouver British
Columbia start to count their travel miles against them before
all are trumped by a visitor from Ireland or England. In fact, we
went nearly three consecutive seasons with representatives from
our neighbors up North in Canada at every home game. It's truly a lot of fun and our group has grown as most come back year after year, if even for one select game. We have also become the landing spot for many season ticket holders who live out of state and only come in for a handful of games ... we can point to out of town guests who have purchased season tickets because they now know people in which to party with prior to games and sometimes even meet for dinner with or attend another event (Cavs, Indians, fundraisers, etc..) the night prior. See our Q & A page for more details on what we do and what we are all about. TheBrownsBoard.Com members are invited to join us for our tailgate party. Contact Ed & Stan |
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SCENES FROM THE TAILGATES
HOME TOWN FANS KEEP THE LIGHT ON FOR THEIR OUT-OF-STATE COUNTERPARTS
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LEFT: The Browns Board moved their
Tailgate Party near the Settlers Landing RTA Station (pictured, left) in
2008, do to major construction underway on top of their old original site.
The new site is under the white Detroit Superior Bridge in background. RIGHT: The Settlers Landing Station (shown bottom left corner of picture on the right) is located at the bend in the Cuyahoga River on the East Bank of the Flats in downtown Cleveland. |
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LEFT: The small yellow thumbtack
near the top of the picture (on left) is where our old tailgate Party use
to be. The Thumbtack a little lower is where we reside now. The stadium is
shown in center/top. RIGHT: The small yellow thumbtack points to the lot we moved to in 2008. See our Tailgate Map Page for more directions |
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LEFT: The Browns Board's initial
Tailgate Party in the new location for week #1 of the 2008 Season was
among one of the best ever. This picture was sent in by Keith who was
visiting from Ireland, and others in the pictures include a large group
from Canada. RIGHT: Several of the Browns Board members hooked up down in Nashville for a game. from left to right is; Flugels, Ozzie, Dave & Rich4eagle |
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LEFT: Week #1 during the 2008
Season, the Canucks stumble in hung-over as hell but they didn't let us
down, they made the party one of the best ever. RIGHT: Angelo says, "Don't worry we will be back again Next season!" |
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LEFT: Howard & Gareth returned from London England on November 21st, 2008. It was their second consecutive year attending a Browns game in Cleveland. Howie & the G-man took in the OSU/Mich game from the local bars downtown, then we all attended a Cavs game that night, tailgated as we know how in the morning, and watched the Browns fall lame to the Texans on Sunday afternoon. From left to right: Howard, Ed, HagII, Don & Gareth. RIGHT: HagII (Kathy) warms by the fire as others warm just off picture over a bottle of Black Velvet & some of that orange stuff that Hoorta brings. . |
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LEFT: The new Tailgate Lot is a spacious one. This picture was taken as we were setting up, and before most of the gang arrived. RIGHT: Don tends to the Kielbasa Kabobs. Ed & Don make a good team; Ed prepared those Kielbasa treats all day on Saturday and Don helps cook 'em for the gang on Game day. It's been 9 years since we we've been hosting these parties and it's still unsure what Stan actually does. |
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LEFT: Our resident wine-o (Hoorta) was
back in town for the Texans game (Nov 23rd, 08'). Hoorta looks out for the
rest of the group by sampling everything and anything that makes it's way
to the tailgate party in a bottle. RIGHT: It snowed and was just nasty all week here in the Cleveland area, but on Game day their wasn't a cloud in the sky and just traces of snow downtown as the welcomed mild weather was just another excuse the Browns couldn't use for a horribly lazy performance in a 16-6 loss to the Texan's in Week #12. |
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Howard & Gareth Tailgate Video
LONDON ENGLAND RABID DAWGS
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LEFT: Howard & Gareth traveled 3,791 miles from their homes near London England. It was their first Browns game in Cleveland. They became attracted to the Browns because of the teams rabid fan base. RIGHT: HowieDawg & G-man wiping the fixed smiles off their faces for a brief moment to appear to look tough in this photo with a Browns Helmet and football. |
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USELESS TAILGATE TRIVIA:
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LEFT (top): Tink makes his way in from Zanesville annually to hook up with the gang.
LEFT (bottom): Now we know why the Browns Defense is playing so soft, some of our regular tailgate crew have been putting freaking Whip Cream on their Jello-shots!!! Outrage!
Right: The MaGee's (Kathy & Bob, aka: 'Bob806') from Berea are part of the Mullin's Bus gang and have made the tailgate parties a regular stop for the 2007 Season. |
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LEFT: On Opening Day 2007, Cleveland's FEAST MAGAZINE visited our tailgate party to do a story on Ed & Don's lakefront cooking. Click on the picture for a larger version to read the article and bring pen and paper to the next tailgate for Ed & Don's autograph. RIGHT: It took one of our neighboring tailgate brethren, a man lift, and the consumption of alcohol to perform an exorcist on the lake front. The Browns never lost at home the rest of the 2007 season (7-0!). |
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LEFT: Stan, Ed & Don enjoy a beverage in week # 6. A needed break after the trio hosted a stretch of tailgate parties that included 3 Division Opponent Home games within the first 4 weeks of the 2007 season. RIGHT: TheUMX, danamal & Anvilhead took in the Miami Game on Oct. 14th, 2007. The Browns are 3-0 in TheUmx's first three tailgate parties, it's danamals first visit and Anvilheads second in as many seasons. |
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LEFT: The Next Generation; these two off-spring have a lot of pressure on their shoulders to continue the tailgate traditions long after we're gone. Ed's daughter Colleen and Don's son Dave. RIGHT: Constellation Brands, Inc. (Fairport NY), sent in 20 of their finest. The group came in for a team-building weekend and left drunken Browns fans. |
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LEFT: September 30th 2007 Tailgate Party prior to beating the Ravens, proved to be one of the biggest, as 20 traveled in by Motor Coach from Constellation Brands, Inc. (Fairport NY), A dozen Canucks from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, mixed in with Mullins Group, Ballpeen, Guardian, St. Louis Browns Backers, and groups from Tennessee, the Bronx, Dayton, as well as our regular crew. About 70 in Total. It was a hell of a party as Don and Ed fixed hundreds of pork on a stick and chicken on a stick for the gang. | ||||
| Scenes from THE BROWNS BOARD NIGHT OUT, Sept 8th, 2007 | |||||
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LEFT:
Guardian, his better half, HagII and Dave mix up the right ingredients for
week 2 as the Browns downed the Bengals in an epic shoot-out.
RIGHT: Don & Ed worry about preparations for the meal the night before Opening day. Meanwhile, Atenears is off having the time of his life without a care in the world! They'd fire him, if he did anything. |
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LEFT: Ed (aka: Rochmstr) flew solo for Opening Day 2007, as Don had to stay home and clean the house or something. Ed prepared Chicken Kabobs for the group and then we marched into the stadium and watched the Browns get their ass kicked. RIGHT: (from left to right) Zombo (Florida), Mimi & Jarrod (Dayton), Keith (Scotland) and Marko (San Diego) were just a few big name out-of-towners/country that were present for the first game in 2007. |
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LEFT: These are two of my favorite visitors of all-time. Rob (on left) bought his father Pat (on right) tickets for Opening Day 2007. They traveled in from San Diego, made their way to the Football Hall of Fame and attended TheBrownsBoard's first Night Out Party! RIGHT: The Browns Board Night Out (first official), was held on Saturday Sept. 8th, 2007 at Scoundrels in Berea. There's not enough space here to describe what a good time was had that night, see the link to more on this event (above). |
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LEFT: The Roacheck family is the Royal 'First Family of Tailgating'. Ed, with his father, son and wife. (I know I know, I'm surprised they aren't all wearing 'I Hate The Steelers' shirts too!) RIGHT: Brothers Jarrod & Shawn made the mistake of parking next to us a few years back, they've been hooked ever since. Intimidated at first by Ed, they somehow found comfort in the innocent look of Atenears (we never claimed they were smart). |
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LEFT:
'Janine' (center) was coming into Cleveland, to support her beloved Jets.
She needed to find a place to tailgate for her and her dozen friends. She
made one stop on the Internet, to TheBrownsBoard.com. The rest was a
legendary party! RIGHT: The Jets fans came to town (Oct. 29th, 06') 13-strong. They left with memories of some fine hospitality from our local tailgate crew, and a 20-13 loss sending them into their Bye week. |
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LEFT:
A group of Canucks, traveled in from Ontario Canada, as neutral fans of
various teams. They just wanted to see Cleveland Browns Stadium and party with
the die-hard Browns fans. TheBrownsBoard tailgate party fulfilled their
trip. RIGHT: HagII and friends huddle inside Atenears silver soccer-mom van to stay warm ... and whined endlessly about the early cold weather (Oct. 22nd vs Denver) |
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More Scenes from the tailgate Parties