CLEVELAND — To Bart Flanagan, the tailgating playbook for a Browns game is pretty simple. Meet up with your friends in a parking lot. And start drinking.

So the possibility of luxury tailgating parties – at a cost of $20,000 or more – never crossed his mind. But that’s exactly what the Cleveland Browns are offering at Huntington Bank Field, where an expanding fleet of trailers sits near the stadium’s southwestern gate.

“Absolutely not. No chance,” said Flanagan, who works Downtown and walks by the stadium almost every day on his way between the office and the lot where he parks.

“You don’t need to spend $20,000 to have a good time,” he said.

But a growing number of pro sports fans are willing to spend quite a bit, according to professional services firm PwC. Seeing dollar signs, teams

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