Fight breaks out at Browns-Bengals game despite limited crowd

Yahoo ^ | September 18, 2020 | Cassandra Negley

[C19fan]

It all seems par for the course for Cleveland.

Baker Mayfield bounced back from a rough first week to lead the Cleveland Browns over the Joe Burrow-led Cincinnati Bengals, 35-30, on Thursday night. And approximately 6,000 fans were fortunate enough to watch in person when Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced earlier this month that 6,000 could attend despite the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Browns (1-1) prepared fans with a detailed video on their website that delved into social distancing and safety protocols for FirstEnergy Stadium. Everyone attending had to sign a “health promise” and had specific entry times and locations. There were even single-serve condiments to help prevent the spread of the disease.

What the Browns didn’t take into account is a fight breaking out. And that’s exactly what happened in the home opener.

[ADemocratNoMore]

For a few years in the early 60’s when I was but a callow youth of ten years or so my father had season tickets in the bleachers for both of us, on a truck-drivers salary no less.

Every summer there was a football doubleheader. I don’t remember if we always played Pittsburgh for those games, but whenever we did play them a lot of Steelers fans would come in by bus and the drinking started at the break of day, so, by the time they got to Cleveland they were smashed and then they drank through the six or seven hours at the games.

Crammed shoulder to shoulder with Browns fans in the bleachers resulted in a host of Steelers fans getting smashed for real, as well as getting an over-niter in the grey-bar motel located somewhere in the stadium.

Always good times at old Cleveland Stadium back then.