Posted on 09/18/2020 9:42:28 AM PDT by C19fan
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.
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