Close encounters of the football kind...

The weekend of 8/12 we headed to Cleveland with the whole family, as my wife was going to a friend's baby shower, and then we were staying to visit while we were up there. To kill time during the afternoon, Curt (mr. mom like me during baby shower) suggested we take the boys over to Browns training camp for some cheap entertainment. He's a Brownie fan, and I figure the boys are too young to be overly tainted at this point ( heh heh ) so we headed over. There I said it and I'm not proud...I went to Cleveland Browns training camp. :-)

I'm not sure that Patrick, Owen and Connor had nearly as much fun as Curt and I, but it was a lot of fun seeing training camp in person.

After practice, Joe Jurevicius came over, ducked under the rope and handed Patrick and Owen his NFL logo wristbands, and then signed Curt's football and said hi to Connor.
The boys thought this was very cool, and were thrilled to have their very own NFL logo souvenirs....

A few minutes later another player, Corey Mcintyre gave the boys an additional thrill by signing their new wristbands.

All in all, it turned out to be a pretty cool experience for them. They didn't care who it was, they were just happy to get cool stuff and see football players up close. I was impressed by how nice the players were to the guys, especially since we were just hanging back watching all of the autograph mania going on around us.

Now I'll just have to get them to come down to Georgetown to see the Bengals next year so they don't get too polluted at their young and impressionable age. :-)