What a time to jump onto the Cleveland Browns bandwagon.

As Thursday dawned, I believed that I may be one of that team’s newest fans, given their record, given their futility, given their injury situation, given their, well, everything.

Plus, it’s Cleveland.

My very first game loomed later that evening, as the 2-8 Browns hosted the division-leading Pittsburgh Steelers, the Steelers coming to town with their 8-2 record.  I’ll be honest here, it didn’t look the best.

I watched anyways, determined to be a stalwart fan, the kind that digs in through thick and thin, mostly thin.  Not a fair-weather fan, because, how could there be any prospect of fair weather with a team like this?  Plus the weather sucked.

The game, being in Cleveland, had the Browns wearing their brown over orange home uniforms, finished on top with the orange helmet.  And as much as it hurt to have that colour combination as the uniform of my new favourite team, I have to say that I liked them as soon as I saw them.  Sure, I’ve seen photos online, watched some video, and have even seen the Browns play — I think — on television before, probably while sifting through channels to find another game with better-dressed players.  But I liked them as soon as I saw them, in fact loved them.  That brown, and that dark, almost burnt orange.  Seal brown and safety orange to be exact, or RGB 49-29-0  and RGB 255-60-0 to be even more exact.  And man, do they pop.

They even look good in the snow.

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