The answer to the above stated question is simple. I'm from northeast Ohio, and I know no other way. It's not something I chose to be apart of. I love sports and it's much easier to identify with a team that you can actually support by going to games and participating in other events that have to do with your team.
It's also much deeper than that. When I was born my parents bought me my first Browns jersey. I would go outside in the snow with my brothers and we would tussle it out in our make believe football game. It was always the Browns versus the Steelers with the Browns always blowing the Steelers out.
The life of a Cleveland and Ohio State fan is not one that is simple in any regard. With Cleveland, we are still suffering through one of the worst droughts in the sports world, having not seen a Championship since the Browns won one in the AFL in the sixties. For the Indians it's even worse having not won a championship since the '48 season.
My culture I am immersed in is no picnic, that's for sure and it's a struggle to make it through the entire season with out starting to question why you are losing so many games. Ohio State is the only true winner of the past and yet for most it is still not good enough. We need our pros to bring us home a championship. It is time that the guys that do this for a living bring us something back!
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