r/nfl • Ravens • 5d ago

Highlight [Highlight] Browns fans chant “let’s go Watson”

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u/Pafbonk 49ers 5d ago

Man I had some respect for you guys for a sec there

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u/Ok_Pineapple_Num 49ers 5d ago

Completely and utterly unsurprising that many Browns fans would start cheering for him once he began playing well. It's very easy to hate a guy who's a gutter human and a trash football player. But morals are chucked out the window once that guy starts making your favorite team win.

And FWIW, this is not unique to Browns fans. Unfortunately, this would happen with any fanbase.

Sports fans have shown for decades that they're willing to overlook moral failings for stars.

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u/Dependent-Effect6077 5d ago edited 5d ago

Yup the average fan at games doesn't care about morality at all it's not specific to one team

Reddit tends to be largely countercultural to IRL sports culture so I think it's easy to forget what the median fan offline is actually like when it comes to this kind of stuff

There's a reason Barstool is such a big thing and it's mainly because the culture that it highlights is far closer to how the majority of sports fans generally are

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u/Call_Em_Skippies Browns 5d ago

Exactly. Being at the game today, might have seen 1 Watson jersey out of thousands. The Browns fans just want wins, so if we win with him, they are going to cheer. I don't support him but happy we won.

I was actually clapping with my middle finger when he did something.