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Title: On Being Brown: What It Means to Be a Cleveland Browns Fan by Scott Huler, Gray, Company Publishers ISBN: 1-886228-31-0 Publisher: Gray & Co., Publishers Pub. Date: 15 August, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.56 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Good and memories and thoughts while we wait for this season
Comment: I came upon this book by accident, but it turned out to be a little gem that was a joy to read. As I turned the pages and read what the author was feeling and reliving, I was taken back to my father, who loved the Browns and to the time I spent watching games with him and my twin brother, and to the 1970's when I was a season ticket holder. As I read ,I kept saying that I knew exactly what the author was feeling and what he meant. The author brought back so many memories of all the highs and lows that came from being a Browns fan, of memories at the hulking stadium on Lake Erie
( what the legendary voice of the Browns, Gib Shanley, called the "house of thrills" ), to the anger when Art Modell moved the team to Baltimore. It was true and is still true that it is Cleveland's Browns not the Cleveland Browns. Modell owned a football team, but he didn't own the Browns. This book is an absolute must read for Browns fans wherever they may live. While we all wait for the 2003 edition of the Browns and a season full of promise under head coach Butch Davis, fans should all pick this book up and read it.
Rating: 5
Summary: Football explained
Comment: Despite being continually disillusioned by the sport - by the drugs, the criminal element, the absurd salaries - pro football continues to hold a mysterious allure. After reading "On Being Brown," I think I now understand what that allure is. Huler does a wonderful job of explaining what it is about football that keeps our attention long after we should grow tired of it. He captures the special thrill of walking into an arena for the first time as a child, the sense of community, the sense of commitment and loyalty we develop - even the smells of an NFL game - and makes us realize why football remains special. This isn't a book aboaut the Cleveland Browns, it's a book about football that any true fan would enjoy.
Rating: 5
Summary: A reader in Berkeley
Comment: I am not a Browns fan but learned a lot about a special time for a boy, his dad and their team. This is a moving book about a kid being introduced to sports and his memories of it as an adult.
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Title: Kardiac Kids: The Story of the 1980 Cleveland Browns by Jonathan Knight ISBN: 0873387619 Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Cleveland Browns A-Z by Roger Gordon, Mike Pruitt ISBN: 1582612404 Publisher: Sports Publishing, Inc. Pub. Date: 04 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Cleveland Browns : The Official Illustrated History by Ron Smith, Sporting News Publishing Company ISBN: 0892046252 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Distributed Products Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: WHEN ALL THE WORLD WAS BROWNS TOWN by Terry Pluto ISBN: 0684822466 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 08 September, 1997 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The View from Pluto: Collected Sportswriting About Northeast Ohio by Terry Pluto ISBN: 1886228620 Publisher: Gray & Co., Publishers Pub. Date: October, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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