Dragon Seats, the climate-controlled benches on the sidelines of NFL and college football games, were invented and manufactured in Cleveland.
CLEVELAND — Years ago, Frank Floyd was in the heating business when he had an idea to help the Cleveland Browns. His portable heaters would keep the players warm during those cold late season games. Floyd made a deal with the team in the late 1980s.
And when the Browns returned to the NFL in 1999, an equipment manager had a request.
“I like the space heaters, but I’d like my guys to sit on something,” recalled Floyd, the founder, president & CEO of Dragon Seats. “So I asked him for a piece of paper and I drew a bench. And the bench that I drew, I’m sitting on right now.”
And in that instant, Dragon Seatswas born. A bench that can be heated or cooled, designed to hold 300-pound football players. Floyd says it is about …