Fans of the Cleveland Browns now have an official meeting place to watch games in Bowling Green.

Campus Quarters Sports Bar and Carryout is the home for the Browns’ official fan club, the Browns Backers.

Joe and Lauren Kostelnik own and manage the bar together and hope its affiliation with the worldwide fan club of the Browns will bring in more fans and improve business on Sundays this fall.

The bar has seen good business on Sundays during football season, Joe Kostelnik said. The usual Sunday crowd consists of fans of various teams, but the majority are Browns fans.

“I think a lot of places in town try to cater to everybody,” Lauren Kostelnik said. “[Having] a larger group of people that are supporting the same team around you is always something that people are looking for when they go out to watch a game.”

The idea to sign the bar up as a meeting spot for the Backers came up when a former regular customer of the bar said he set up a club in his current city.

“I jumped at the idea,” Lauren Kostelnik said. “There’s a ton of Browns fans around here, and it would be a great spot for everyone to meet.”

In order to get approval to be an official meeting place for the Browns Backers, the Kostelniks had to get at least five members to register with them, and they said they had “up to 25 members.”

The Browns Backers club offers many benefits to Browns fans, Lauren Kostelnik said. Members of the club receive e-mail updates on the team including free-agency signings and rookie reports.

Campus Quarters will give Browns Backers from Bowling Green a local place to watch the games and have meetings. Before Quarters became a meeting place for the club, Backers would have to drive to Fostoria and Findlay to watch games with fellow members.

Mark Holtgreven, president of Findlay’s chapter of the club, said he has met many friends and former Browns players. Holtgreven, a member of the club for over 10 years, said he has “gotten more autographs doing this, than anything else.”

The Browns Backers also gives back to the community by hosting events and donating money to charity, Hotgreven said. His club alone has donated about $40,000 to charity in its ten years.