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Wow, its been over 30 minutes since this was posted. C'mon...where's the outcry?? "Fights at almost every game", "noticiable increase during Cowboy games but management didn't increase security". Surely everyone here on the FBG's message board must be up in arms over such a revelation!!?? I got it! You're all onto it and I'm the naive one! This was posted by a wiley Eagles fan posing as a Redskin insider...well, I have egg on my face
I think you meant to say a wily Eagles fan posing as a Giant fan employed by the Redskins!!!!Wow, its been over 30 minutes since this was posted. C'mon...where's the outcry?? "Fights at almost every game", "noticiable increase during Cowboy games but management didn't increase security". Surely everyone here on the FBG's message board must be up in arms over such a revelation!!?? I got it! You're all onto it and I'm the naive one! This was posted by a wiley Eagles fan posing as a Redskin insider...well, I have egg on my face
scratch that.... and imagine yourself stuck in traffic at 135th & Lenox in NYC... you did nothing wrong and got carjacked and killed.... at least part of the responsibility is yours knowing that it was stupid to go through there... If in fact you know Eagles fans are rowdy, why provoke it??? A girl should wear a mini skirt, but not infront of an alleged rapist... stop trying to further the arguement... it isn't even close.
Condone it?? No. Getting tired of "only happens in Philly", yes.
what are we condoning? This?: "Vikings QB Daunte Culpepper's wife, Kim, apparently was the target of vociferous and profane heckling Sunday at Lincoln Financial Field."Not nice? No probably less than appropriate to swear at any woman for no apparent reason. The problem is I am certain that we are not the only fan base that "profanely heckles" at football games. The rest of this thread is speculation by people that have probably never been at a game in Philly, and is way off base.Edit: except for the cheesteak thing, thats why Philly cheesteaks are the best
Exactly - and don't condone all philly fans for the news worthy media hyped actions of a few.I'm a huge philly fan and love going to my few games. BUT I dispise the fans that abuse the vistors. Verbal abuse is OK as long as it does not cross the line - visitors usually retaliate when it's all in good fun and makes the game that much more enjoyable.Some people like to feel they are invincable, invisible and undetectable when they are being completely uncivil to a stranger - don't know them, will never see them again, therefore I can harass the hell out of them with no fear.Those people are deranged. Sick even.Those people are few, but they are what makes the news. Vistors will most likely find themselves in the same sections these few losers sit in, because the bought their single game tickets. Most of these eagle idiots don't have season tickets because they waste too much money on cheap beer and whippets.
See this is what I don't get...are there instances that are disgusting in Philly (and other cities, but I'm not belaboring the point for now that Philly may have more frequent instances) during games? YES.But you are literally out of your mind if you think that 25%, i.e., 17,500 of the people attending an average game are capable of and act in the manner you're suggesting. It's ABSURD. We're talking about isolated incidents that MAYBE involve a few hundred drunken idiots...and last time I checked that's a half of 1% AT MOST who would ever partake in such actions.How people make the leap from "a group of fans were berating Mrs. Culpepper" to 25% of Philly fans act violently and another 50% secretly condone it one of the, if not THE, most assinine statements I've read on this board in a long, LONG time.I've gone to just about every Eagles home game for the last four years, and on nearly every occasion we have at least one or two buddies come from out of town to root for the opposing team. Almost every time these guys wear the opposing team's jersey. Do they get heckled? ABSOLUTELY. Do they laugh about it and not take themselves seriously? YES. Are they smart enough not to incite drunken mobs of opposing fans by giving into the heckling? YES. In the four years, only once have we had anything close to a problem. And that involved a buddy of mine who was wearing a Darrell Green jersey getting hit in the head with an empty water bottle AFTER he stood up and turned around to our section and gave everyone the finger after the Skins scored a TD. Now, the guy who threw the bottle was immediately held back by his buddies, as was our friend by us, and the issue was squashed immediately.According to jwvdcw's magic "stats"...our entire section would've proceeded to scream for bloody murder and laughed hysterically as my buddy was beaten to a pulp for merely having the audacity to walk into the Vet with a D. Green jersey...instead we had one drunken ##### react to another drunken #####, and their respective friends calming things down immediately.Get real.
Sorry BigActionMike... I have got to "further the arguement" especially if you continue to come up with these lame analogies... Now you are saying that anyone who get carjacked is partly to blame for this??? And if a girl doesn't get verification from some guy if he is an "alledged rapist" in the bar and is raped - she should have known better??? Your arguements have no merit. You are trying to justify the actions of sports fans by trying to rationalize their attacks. But when you compare these actions to these horrific crimes you demean those who have suffered through these tragedies. Last time I checked, wearing clothing of an offensive nature does not give license to be attacked, whether it is on the street in some city or within the sports arena of that town.
Remain calm bro! Yes, this is sad to hear however you must realize that it is even fewer fans than even mentioned here. It's 20-30%.. it's more like 5%. My section has never had even a small scuffle in my 7 years of season tickets and most people that attend would say the same. Heck, I have a Browns fan that owns two seats next to me. He uses them for his clients mostly but he does come to a few games per year and he wears Browns' jerseys and roots against the Birds. We argue but he's never felt in harm's way.... maybe if the Browns were in town things be different, I dunno!
