Considering Franchise History, Who Has It Worse? Browns Fans or Panthers Fans?

[TheMostInterestingMan]

Cowboys fans have it the worst. They have to look themselves in the mirror every single day and live with that. 

[panthers55]

Really? Comparing the Cleveland Steamers to the Panthers is really insulting. Trust me, my daughter moved from Charlotte to Cleveland for her fiance but I guarantee that she would never be a Browns fan. He is a Browns fan but is glad he can root with her for a real team. He even went to San Fran with her for the super bowl.

[Smithers]

This topic is hilarious considering we are coming off 3 straight division titles and a super bowl appearance.  

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

1 hour ago, Smithers said:

This topic is hilarious considering we are coming off 3 straight division titles and a super bowl appearance.  

If the Browns had a coach and general manager that had done that they'd be worshiped in Cleveland.  Remember this was a fanbase that was fired up about Derek Anderson at one point.

[Khyber53]

The Browns are a rough spot for a really good city. I had always made jokes about Cleveland until I had the chance to visit there a couple of years ago. Beautiful place, nice people, so many cool things to see and do.

But the Browns... man, the NFL owners need to get together and force a change in ownership of that franchise. In a league reformed around the idea of competitive parity (over the long haul), the Browns have been an abject failure. Bad ownership, bad management and horrible coaching. Their scouts are terrible and the talent they bring there rarely seems to have any real desire to be there. 

We're on the upswing as a whole and have been up and down since our inception. We've had playoff years, two Superb Owl appearances, some HoF -to-be players developed here and have generally been a bright spot among expansion teams. If you take the Seahawks out of the discussion, we're the most successful expansion team since the AFL/NFL merger.

Atlanta? New Orleans? Tampa Bay? Houston? Jacksonville? Cleveland? Our history is better than Tennessee (Houston Oilers), Cincinnati, Philadelphia, the Cardinals (St. Louis/Arizona/Chicago combined), Detroit, and San Diego. And really, would you swap histories with teams like Minnesota, Buffalo, the Jets, and Kansas City? Heck, the Rams have a Superb Owl victory and we've still got a better resume than they do.

Look, once upon a time, the Patriots were the suck team of the NFL. And to bring this back around full circle, and then one day they hired this guy that got fired by the Browns. 

And that, right there, tells you why it will always be worse to be a Browns fan.

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

-franchise leaves town and then wins two super bowls over the next 15-ish years

-fire head coach in pretty shitty fashion (belichick was assured he'd be the head coach in baltimore but was fired like a week later) only for him to go to new england and put together a career that might result in his name being next to vince lombardi's on the super bowl trophy

-get your franchise back only for it to be the laughing stock of the league for its entire existence

[LA_Panther]

Not even close. Browns fans have been taking it up the a$$ for years. We've been to 2 superbowls in 20 years at least. They haven't sniffed a SB ever and they have a long history

[Ricky Spanish]

I swear some of you newer fans are so spoiled it's ridiculous. "WAAAAAAH we were bad one year after going to the playoffs 3 in a row and going to the super bowl, fire the GM, the head coach and Jerry Richardson they suck now because we didn't win this year, WAAAAAH"

Panther fans are the spoiled little rich girls who got a Toyota Camry for their sweet 16 then bitched about it not being the Sporty and cute Camaro that they really really wanted.

Browns fans are the starving children in Africa that don't have electricity and mine diamonds in slavery just to survive.

There is no comparison to who has it worse. Even implying that our fans have it worse is an insult to all Browns fans and starving African Children everywhere. 

 

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

we had a stretch of four years in the fox era where three of them were basically exactly like this season

these kids, man