LeBron James Admits to Brett Favre Similarities
December 7, 201012 Days of Cleveland Fan Christmas: Day 1
December 7, 2010
Who says Browns fans aren’t refined?
It sounds like some of them were looking to break the stereotype that football fans don’t have class.
Imagine thirty of them in Miami at Chef Myles Chefetz’ Prime Italian for a bite to eat. The decor inside is really modern and impeccable. The wall of wine overlooks the eclectic red chairs that surround the spotless white table cloths with enough silverware and glassware to take down a seven course meal. In between courses of food – perhaps a prosciutto aged 500 days and sliced to order served with artisan cheeses and a Kobe beef carpaccio served with 100-year-old balsamic – these Browns fans notice LeBron James is at the restaurant, seated at a different table.
It probably didn’t happen like this at all, but I created my own scene after reading the NY Post. According to the Post, LeBron James and Maverick Carter were having a celebratory dinner at the restaurant. Maybe LeBron was mid bite of his Kobe meatball on the way to a 30 ounce $68 bone-in rib eye when the thirty Browns fans reportedly saw him and started chanting “traitor” over and over again.
Of course they were asked to leave. But thankfully Browns fans didn’t break any more stereotypes this night.
The Browns fans in question reportedly went outside into the warm Miami night. Given that these are the same people who brave the snow, wind and cold down at the Muni lot on a weekly basis, I am sure it wasn’t much of a sacrifice for them to wait in the balmy Miami night for James and Carter to finish their meal so they could harass him some more. The NY Post article finishes that James had to “sneak” into his car to avoid a confrontation.
These Browns fans were rewarded for their efforts the next day with a hard-fought win over the Miami Dolphins. That, my friends, is one heck of a road trip for a Cleveland sports fan. Let’s just hope they got kicked out before having to pay their bill. That is about the only thing I can think of that would make this story better.
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Grown men, screaming at a spoiled athlete in a restaurant. Perfect match. Betcha they can’t wait to tell their grandkids about that, right after the one about spitting at Elway as he walks to his car.
And if you’re going to get yourselves bounced from a nice place, make it for a better chant. “Traitor” – just tells him you still ache for him. There’s other 2 syllable options even drunk guys can handle (“Game 5,” “Quitter”)
There is nothing “sad” about this. These guys are going to bat for their city. Now I think there could have been a much cooler, more subtle way of voicing their displeasure with James. Maybe they could have ordered them two appletini’s?
Don’t mess with Cleveland fans!
A Kobe meatball is the only thing named Kobe that Lebum can take down!!
Lame again we as fans take the low road! In case you didn’t watch last week he exploded on us for 38 points in our house amid chants of “de-lon-te” and “akron hates you”. We through all the negativity in the world at him and he didn’t even flinch. Plus the media gave him the perfect opportunity to take the high road with the fans and he did. Like I said, Lame. I most certainly don’t like him or appreciate how he left but I am over being associated with a bunch of losers, who will continue to lose because that’s all they talk about. Negative actions attract negative reactions. Look how well our Cavs have been playing since we brought our sorry negative a$$es to the “Q” last week. Get over Lebron, our voices are needed to cheer for champions not whine about losing somebody, who wasn’t one.