Cleveland Browns
Being a Cleveland Browns fan isn’t for everyone. We mean that with absolutely no disrespect or irony. If you’ve spent a Sunday in the Dawg Pound watching them lose, then came back for more the next week, you know a special kind of dedication that most folks will never know. It’s that level of dedication that makes Browns fans some of the best people to buy for though. Because when you gift something for them, you’re not just getting them another thing. You’re investing in a tradition they’ve been upholding for decades.
The tough part has always been finding merchandise that actually celebrates that. The market for NFL gifts is massive and most of it is pretty rubbish. Team jerseys that are horrible replicas, mugs emblazoned with basically clip art logos. Any gift idea that immediately makes you think ‘yeah they like football, but I didn’t put much effort in there’. We wanted to skip right over that stuff.
For every NFL fans there’s truly garbage out there, we instead tried to find things that a bona fide Browns devotee would love. Not just another thing to get junked after December 26th, but something they’ll actually use or display. Something that shows you get why the orange and brown means what it does to them. Whether that’s greatness they remember firsthand, or abject terrible they’ve endured with vigour. The right gifts for Browns fans take that into consideration and let them show you why they care.
That’s who we had in mind when picking every product in this guide. The fan that watches Sunday no matter the owner’s recent delinquency scandals. The fan that could recite team history to you word for word. The fan that, quite frankly, you already know the colour scheme of by now. Whether this is for a birthday, Christmas, Father’s day or heck, just because you’ve seen something that reminded you of them. These are our recommendations and we stand by them.
Cleveland fans deserve more than the middle shelves of every fan shop. Here’s our best effort at giving them that. There’s no rushing out the junk stuff and dressing it up with team colours here. Every single thing on this list is something we wouldn’t hesitate to gift ourselves.