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By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor-in-chief

CLEVELAND, Ohio– After losing the first game of the regular season to the Kansas City Chiefs last Sunday 33-29, the Cleveland Browns will face off with the Houston Texans at 1 pm on Sun, Sept 19 at FirstEnergy Stadium for their home opener, and first hand tickets are all gone, even during a still raging pandemic.

FirstEnergy Stadium has a seating capacity of 67, 895 people.

Rob McBurnett, communications spokesman for the Cleveland Browns, told reporters that "we are excited to have a full sold out FirstEnergy Stadium for our home opener on Sunday against the Texans."

The cheapest tickets on resale websites sale for about $106 a piece, on average.

McBurrnet said that for those who could not get first hand tickets and are considering purchasing tickets from the secondary market, the Browns encourage people to go to the NFL Ticket Exchange because it is owned by Ticket Master and the tickets sold there are more reliable in terms of validity.

The Browns went to all mobile tickets in 2019, meaning that entrance to Sunday's game will be paperless and ticket-buyers must show proof of purchase through the Browns mobile app on their cell phones.

In spite of a coronavirus pandemic that hit the U.S. with a vengeance in March of 2020 and kept a majority of NFL fans home last season, fans are not slowing down as the 2021-2022 season gets underway, and they are going to football games in droves.

Sunday's upcoming game against the Texans will be the second game of the regular NFL season for the Browns, whose first game last week against the Kansas City Chiefs was played at in 90 degrees weather, a rematch of the 2020 AFC Divisional Round that brought thousands of fans to Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City. And while last Sunday's loss to the Chiefs was heart-wrenching for Browns fans, it was not all that surprising.

The Browns lost 22-17 to the Chiefs to end last year's season after making the playoffs for the first time in 18 years, and the Chiefs, the AFC champion at the time, went on to lose to Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at last year's Superbowl. One of the greatest quarterbacks of all time, Brady has since retired from the NFL and is now a television sports commentator.

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