"The Browns will counteract Pittsburgh's Terrible Towels with orange flags given to every fan at the game, courtesy of AT&T." SIGH.... This is so incredibly lame. I offer the following...
Top 10 Ways to Counteract the Terrible Towel
10. Get Dennis Kucinich to organize a press conference either outside CBS or at the I-77 turnpike exit claiming that the Terrible Towel is offensive to... someone and represents a dangerous aggressive, war-like attitude that must be removed from the public discourse. This item is at #10 because, like all of Kucinich's press conferences, it will be entirely ineffective.
9. Give towel-waiving Steeler fans something to use their towels on -- themselves. There hundreds of Steelers fans cleaning up kethup, soda, and nacho sauce accidentally spilled upon them.
8. Send a Terrible Towel to Osama bin Laden and urge him to wear it in his next video.
7. Announce over the PA system that all "Towel Decorations" must be securely affixed to the towel owner. The only allowable towel-uses are as a chestplate, a cape, or a babushka. fans using towels for other purposes will be subject to prosecution.
6. Mop your kitchen floor with a Terrible Towel, then wave the stained-gray towel from the 500 level.
5. Call the Fan Tipline and report towel waving behavior as it is dangerous to bystanders and someone could lose an eye.
4. Show a PSA on the scoreboard from Danny Ferry (Cleveland's all-time greatest towel-waver from his days on the Cavs bench) explaining that if you are waiving a towel, you are implicitly acknowledging that you haven't quite made it in professional sports.
3. Browns fans should stand throughout the game, not allowing Steeler fans room to twirl.
2. Don't sell your ticket to a Steelers fan, thus no towels in the stadium.
1. Do nothing. When your team is represented by a bunch of Towel Twirlers, that is a sad enough statement.