Lando 
Posted on 01/18/2005 4:55:50 PM PST by Lando Lincoln
Yeah! Like when they started that fight with the Pacers and the game ended early.
Oh wait.
I've been physically assaulted in New York and Cleveland simply for wearing the apparel of a visiting team. In both cases, my hosts (natives of each city) agree that I did nothing to provoke it. On the other hand, neither of them have been assaulted while wearing Mets and Browns apparel to games in Philly. Small sample size, yes, but it carries more weight than your unrealized media-driven fears.
Right. That title is reserved exclusively for teams filled with crack addicts who have a healthy appetite for strippers and prostitues.
You can have your team's CBS-manufactured moniker. Nobody else wants it anyway. This isn't the Olympics. Teams represent the cities they play in front of. The Dallas Cowboys represent every frontrunner who roots for whoever the tv tells them to root for.
What's a good Philly fan? I never heard ESPN talk about one of those. They can't be real.
Just waiting for the day a football jumps into the stands a la Artest...
don't worry - they'll be profiting off of our passion soon enough in the two weeks before February 6th, win or lose.
Culpepper is about the opposite of thug. He's a class act in my estimation. Truth is, in every NFL stadium, 10% of the fans think it's their God-given right to be on their very worst behavior, thinking that the price of the ticket means anything goes.
Culpepper himself has not done anything to make me think less of him. But let's face it - this is a third-hand account at best, and even if true, probably accounts for about 2 fans out of 60,000. Just your typical regurgitated lazy journalistic nonsense.
They won't profit from me. ESPN is persona non grata in my house (Sunday Night Football excluded). They have been pretty much since the NFL Countdown crew's sniveling, mass mea culpa over the Limbaugh blowup.
Thank goodness for NFL Network.
I have to agree with you.
I live in the Twin Cities and two years ago, a TV station heard stories about fans of other teams being pushed around and verbally abused at the Metrodome.
They went around with a hidden camera and sure enough, there was a lot of poor behavior on the part of Vikings fans. None of it rose to the level of fisticuffs or battery throwing but it was nonetheless obnoxious.
OTOH, it seems like this kind of stuff is happening at a lot of stadiums. Battery throwing, excessive verbal abuse and assault used to be the domain of certain east coast teams (as well as the Raiders)..but it has spread across the country...even to my beloved Lambeau Field.
Simple, absolute truth. Everything else is a media distortion.
Exactly what I meant. 10% of the fans, or perhaps a little less, at every stadium is a sociopath. It's not a very good gauge of a city's residents. It's like saying our prisoners are a little less violent than yours.
I agree, Philly fans are harder on their own teams than they are on visiting teams (unless they deserve the verbal abuse, however).
Do I detect a pissed off Philly fan?
I'll leave the research up to you, but there has been more than ONE article written about your fans out there.
I do agree with what you said (later post) about the Dallas Criminals Cowboys.
LVM
How was I baseless bashing? Are you disputing that Philly fans have thrown batteries?
Man did they ever give my Rams a world class thumpin'.
I was pretty much convinced that Vick was all hype, over rated media stuff.
After watching that game, all I can say about Michael Vick is........
HOLY CRAP!!!!!!!!!
I don't think the NFL has ever seen a player like him.
Good luck to the Falcons......I want to see Vick shred the Eagle defense.
LVM
only if you're disputing that Denver fans have done worse. of course, here, batteries were found near JD Drew and a conclusion was jumped to; there, a player required surgery from actual impact.
but no one knows about THAT one... why not? oh right, it didn't happen in Philadelphia, and a 2am internet search by a reporter that night didn't turn up any old events to copy and paste.
Lando
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