I've been to a few games in Ohio. The stadium is an average stadium. Fans are chirpy if you wear your fins gear but I always ask how many superbowls the Browns have won and then there is almost instant silence.
Meanwhile, the Browns have won a lot more league championships than we have. It's fairly silly to confine it to the Super Bowl era. They had a dominant decade from the mid '40s to mid '50s, including considerable skepticism when they moved up to the big league. It turned into instant championships and appearances in the title game virtually every year until Otto Graham retired.
That may seem like long ago but we are 40 years removed. The Browns' most recent title was less than a decade earlier, 1964.
Eventually it blends, like college teams that count titles prior to the final polls being conducted after the bowl games. You could win a title then lose the bowl game.
Vince Lombardi certainly didn't become a legend based on Super Bowls, the '66 and '67 Packers. His legacy was cemented long before that, with 1962 considered his best team.
Anyway, I've been to that stadium, albeit for an exhibition game when it was brand new slightly more than a decade ago. It's a great location near the water but isn't really angled well so you can see the lake, or any type of nice view. Stupid compared to other examples, like Huskie Stadium. Everybody funnels out to the south, by necessity, because the lake is to the north, so exiting the stadium was a hassle. Overall it's a good basic design, certainly louder than ours. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not far away, along with a science and industry museum that's mostly for kids.
That summer I toured Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus, because they were major cities I'd barely visited and didn't know anything about. I haven't been back to any of them, if that says anything. For some reason I'm more drawn to Saratoga.
