Open Arms or Not!?

My nephew has converted from a Browns fan to a Steeler fan.
Seriously, are there any guidelines to receiving a cleveland brown convert?

No. The browns suck, and he finally realized this. Who wants to be a fan of a team who has no chance to win the superbowl for the next 8 years.

Wow!

This is going to be tough and the Thanksgiving dinner table will be interesting to sit at nonetheless.

Releets wrote:

Wow!

This is going to be tough and the Thanksgiving dinner table will be interesting to sit at nonetheless.

Look at it this way. He's come over from the dark side. It doesn't matter when it happens it is a good thing.

If you go back to when the browns left town to move to Baltimore, there were a lot of conversions at Three Rivers Stadium.

Prior Browns fans were being baptized in Iron City to become part of the Steelers family.

I'd say a nice way to receive him would be for the Steelers to pound the hell out of the Browns twice more this year.

If he is still a Buckeye fan, you cant trust him. He will turn back to the factory of sadness the moment they get a decent QB.

stlrtruck wrote:

If you go back to when the browns left town to move to Baltimore, there were a lot of conversions at Three Rivers Stadium.

Prior Browns fans were being baptized in Iron City to become part of the Steelers family.

Good Point!

How old is he? If he is young enough it will be fine. I truly believe that once a fan always a fan unless you are a child OR have a child brain!

Sounds like a shaky bandwagoner to me if he is a grown man. Just pretend if johnny football lights it up next year and they win the division (WHOA) fans like that will go running back.

Releets wrote:

My nephew has converted from a Browns fan to a Steeler fan.
Seriously, are there any guidelines to receiving a cleveland brown convert?

Just don't mention you been a browns fan and no harm no foul right?

I think you should be able to jump ship once so long as you're not jumping on the bandwagon of whichever team happens to be winning at a given time, and doing it over and over again. I grew up idolizing Dan Marino, and was a Dolphins fan by default through my Dad. When Marino left, I lost all interest in that team. I got sick of the underachieving, I hated it when Marino left, and the team turned into a total circus.

The Steelers were always a favorite of mine because I liked watching the defenses, and I liked watching the bus steam roll over everyone. Been a die hard Steeler fan ever since. Feel like I found my true calling, and Steeler Nation feels like family to me. People approach me in stores and say GO STEELERS! Never had that happen once when I was younger, it was a rarity to even see a Dolphins fan here in Iowa. I came to a full realization of just how awesome Steeler Nation is when I attended the Chiefs-Steelers game in KC back in 2011 and it was literally a sea of Steeler fans. It was amazing. At that moment I knew I made the right decision, and I knew that I'd die a Steeler fan.

Releets wrote:

My nephew has converted from a Browns fan to a Steeler fan.

He was probably too young to be making important life decisions like that, and it's horrible to think some online Browns predator would take advantage of his naivety.