In Defense Of Eagles Fans
Forget the Pro Bowl let’s talk about something worth talking about. Defending Eagles fans.
Yeah I said it.
So this topic has been on my mind all week and a little bit of discussion about it happened in the comments of the last comic, but I wanted to address it with a little more “officialness”, and if that is not a word it is now. After the NFCCG I ventured around the web reading forums and stuff because I’m always curious how fanbases are reacting to both losses and wins. I saw a lot of hate from Vikings fans complaining about Eagles fans. I read stories about rude Eagles fans. I saw uploaded videos of Eagles fans being dickweeds. I saw a lot of confirmation bias.
Eagles fans aren’t any worse than any other fanbase on any meaningful level. If you think they are, get your biased head outta your ass.
I take a lot of cracks at fanbases here. I dump on Pats fans, Hawks fans, all of them. I paint with broad strokes and make broad jokes. For the most part I think most people generally get that when I shit on a fanbase, I’m not really shitting on the entire fanbase. I’m shitting on the bad representatives of said fanbase. Frankly, most fans of every team are completely reasonable people. Eagles fandom is mostly completely reasonable people. My interactions with Eagles fans online and in-person have been the same as my interactions with all other fanbases. Most are fine. Some are assholes.
We tend to associate an entire fandom with the worst representatives of said fanbase. Videos of that Eagles fan crowd throwing beer cans at the bus, or wrecking property…other fans are using that to further stereotype all Eagles fans as the same group of rowdy jerks who threw batteries at a pitcher and boo’d Santa. The problem is nobody is uploading videos of the completely normal Eagles fans just wandering about or being a little fun or even friendly. I bet those fans didn’t even register to the Vikings fans crying about it. It reminds me of an argument I had with an old schoolmate. She would occasionally get on facebook and bitch about cyclists and how they were ruining the road and acting like the worst. As a cyclist myself, (and also knowing she was a hyper aggressive bad driver) I would politely let her know that she was letting the bad cyclists represent all cyclists in her brain. You don’t notice the good cyclists who follow the rules of the road. When you drive home after work, who do you remember? The hundreds of cars who drive normally like you? Or do you remember the BMW that cut you off? You remember the bad guy, and then use it to confirm some stereotype in your brain, like BMW drivers are all assholes. There is probably a psychology term for this phenomenon. Might actually be confirmation bias.
All the different fanbases are the same (even outside sports). They may have slightly different seasonings due to geographical location and team history or whatever, but ultimately all fanbases are the same. We’re all mostly reasonable people being brought down by the worst of us. When you see an asshole Eagles fan, remember that this person isn’t an asshole because they root for the Eagles. They are just an asshole who happens to root for the Eagles. If you see an asshole fan, chances are they are just an asshole. Lots of assholes like to use fandom and such as an excuse to get away with being an asshole. It’s like those stupid youtube dipshits who don’t really understand what pranks actually are, and just act like a dick to people and try to use the “It was just a prank!” to somehow deflect blame for being a dipshit. Fans who act like assholes aren’t “passionate”, they are just assholes. And they are the worst.
It’s always going to be a slightly blurry line between what makes an asshole and what makes a passionate fan, but generally my line is “do your actions harm another person, physically or emotionally, and you have no regrets about it”. Talking some smack? Fine. Hurts nobody. Putting a jersey on a statue? Hilarious. Throwing a beer can at someone? Asshole. Getting up in someone’s face when they don’t want you there, yelling at them, sticking your middle fingers in their personal space? Asshole. If what you are doing could be considered harassment in a neutral context, you’re a piece of shit. No one else deserves to be harassed because they root for a different team.
Making a “Fuck Millie” sign and parading it around? Fine. Although jeez, deciding that hating on a sweet 99 year old woman who just wanted to see the Vikings win the focus of your jubilant celebration is kinda weird to me. Like, celebrate the win, but ragging on the poor old sweet lady is bizarre.
It also must be noted here that this was the NFCCG between two starved fanbases, emotions and reactions here always going to run a little higher than average.
I would also like to note a lot of people who despise entire fanbases tend to live among or near the enemy herd. I have to imagine being surrounded by fans of a team you don’t care for constantly talking about them would get trying sometimes. I experienced this with Seahawks fans for sure.
So yeah. Eagles fans? You guys are basically fine. Sports and fandom make people stupid. I know most of you are normal and fun. I may wish your team nothing but hellfire, but that’s just the Giants fan in me. The person in me is actually happy for you, and I have delighted in watching the more amusing ways Eagles fans have celebrated. When I dump on you, it’s out of rivalry love, and I would gladly have a beer and talk football with most of you. The assholes? Fuck them.
Cowboy fans are all scum of the Earth though.
Leave it to a cyclist to defend the “fuck Millie” sign.
one of y’all put a vikings jersey on the Rocky statue. In OUR town. So yeah, someone made a sign. YOU started it.
Definitely comparable
Wow, I think conceding that only some of us are scum might be the nicest thing you’ve ever said about Seahawks fans.
Nah. Cities have personalities every bit as much as people do. And Philly’s personality is pretty much a bitter jerk. Seattle’s a holier-than-thou jerk. Portland’s a “We wish we were relevant like Seattle but cover up our insecurities with microbrews” jerk. Los Angeles doesn’t realize it’s a jerk. New York realizes it’s a jerk, but thinks they deserve to be a jerk because they’re better than everyone else. Boston also realizes it’s a jerk, but thinks they deserve to be a jerk because they’re better than New York and Philly. Oakland’s a jerk, but I mean… have you been to Oakland? They deserve to be.
Also: Pittsburgh’s fans are the worst.
Seattle’s holier than thou? That label has to be applied to Yinzers.
“puttsburgh fans are the worst”
first thing you’ve posted that makes any fucking sense, +1
rest of that comment sucks tho
In my experience Portland is just weird as hell. You’ll find all types of folks there, but most are weird
I know you don’t want to root for the Pats, but this is a stretch. Yes, every fanbase has it’s assholes. But some have more than others.
I’m a Patriots fan, and I know Boston fans can be assholes. But the Boston police didn’t have anyone criscoing up our lightposts. One asshole here might throw a beer, but thats not what happens in Philly
I mean, the event your comic depicts. That wasn’t just one beer thrown. There was a constant barrage, by multiple people. At least they weren’t throwing batteries I guess….
I mean, a dude got arrested that weekend for PUNCHING A POLICE HORSE at the game.
And it’s not like this is new. Booing Santa, throwing batteries, cheering injuries, this has been happening for decades.
And like I said…that is the video you see. You aren’t seeing the thousands of fans who didn’t throw cans and who didn’t act like douchebags. You saw the vocal minority, because that is what people paid attention to. Yeah, one dude punched a police horse. One. A single dude. I wouldn’t want some drunk asshole representing my fanbase if I was an Eagles fan.
The santa boo was a single incident. Throwing batteries was a single incident. Both were decades ago. Every single fucking fanbase has people who cheered injuries. Browns fans once chucked beer bottles at referees, yet I never see Browns fans getting the same stereotyping about that. Giants fans threw snowballs once, we don’t suffer the same crap. Pats fans don’t need their lamps crisco’d because Pats fans have been winning for 2 decades, now the jerks are a different flavor of jerk.
The most common thread I see with asshole fans is being drunk, honestly. Booze has no team.
I’m gonna throw a stone from a glass house here, but just because of the way that that pate fan clearly missed the entire message of your pose Dave.
Ahem.
“Pats fans, you once had 117 people arrested at a single game, the most in NFL history.”
So shut up.
Here’s a list of average arrests pf each team for the past few years.
https://twitter.com/MikeClayNFL/status/955520729612767234/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bleedinggreennation.com%2F2018%2F1%2F24%2F16930858%2Fboston-news-segment-eagles-fans-dumb-ignorant-animals-philadelphia-super-bowl-2018-patriots-video
Dave, I love this comic and post.
OK, Calzone. First off, your link doesn’t say anything about 117 pats fans being arrested in one game.
And do you want to go to arrests? I mean, I don’t think Gillette Stadium has a jail, unlike the Vet, witch had a court and a jail to process the eagles fans quickly.
The problem with Dave’s comic is that this isn’t an isolated incident. The Eagles, and in general, Philly’s fans had acquired a reputation for being awful. That’s not to say most Eagles fans are awful. But enough are and have constantly been awful that you have a reputation.
Actually – Booze isn’t the issue. It’s people who don’t respect the game or sports in general. True fans can see past the homerism. I mean, I can say for a fact if there was a way to hate someone to death, David Tyree would have died on Feb 3rd, 2008. But I respect how much of a balls to the wall catch that was.
*All* teams are Team Booze.
(Except maybe the Jazz.)
BTW – Dave you are right about Pats fans and Booze. Booze does take normal people and make assholes of them.
And winning has taken alot of the Asshole out of Boston fans, and made us much more insufferable.
But I can admit it. Not every Philly fans is a violent asshole, but they are a much larger minority than most teams. And their reputation isn’t built off of one incident. Decades of bad behavior here.
I mean, seriously, how can you be angry/violent towards Vikings fans? They are just nice people. I mean, as a Pat’s fan, I know I wear my teams colors at my own peril outside of New England. We’re assholes. But Vikings? They had to suffer through Prince’s fight song.
the put a vikings jersey on the rocky statue…in philly. They’re lucky vikings fans didnt end up hospitalized
Hahaha, what?
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/4180286
At least they didn’t throw any beer cans!
GO ASTEROID
While I think Philly does get a bad rap for that stupid Santa thing, the guy was drunk and it was mainly his friends throwing the snowballs, they are assholes. One of the local radio sports guys told fans to bring batteries into a baseball to throw at a former player, I don’t remember who. Just recently at both of their playoff games, a drunk idiot punched a horse that was part of a mounted division. I heard someone at work “great, now they’re 2-0 when punching a horse. Lets do it again during the SB.” all fanbases have those fans but fuck Philly.
Anything to do with batteries refers to the J.D. Drew incident back in the late 90’s or early 00’s. The Phillies had drafted Drew in the first round and he outright refused to sign, no negotiating, no anything. He eventually wound up with the Cardinals, and one of the first times he came back to the Vet, TWO morons threw TWO batteries at him. TWO. Not one single fan in any sport in this city has ever thrown batteries since then, because we know those suckers actually hurt. It just happens to be a running joke in the town since then. Nobody encourages throwing batteries in this town other than as a joke.
As for the horse punching… it’s clearly a joke. Lighten up, Francis.
No the horse punching isn’t a joke. One of the incidents was caught on film.
I mean the other people saying they’ll punch horses to keep winning. That’s a joke. For the incidents that actually did happen, I’d be shocked if other cities didn’t have their own Mongo going around when they won anything.
Oh yeah there are definitely many Mongos punching horses in great game of life:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SHuGha_bTo
For confirmation of my bias against Philadelphians, I just watched an episode of Parking Wars. Yup, they are ignorant savages.
Pittsburgh fans are fine. You just spend too much time on the internet where everyone is terrible.
No, Pittsburgh fans are pretty bad. They’ve all drunk the Kool Aid of the steelers being the best organization in sports.
An organization that employs Mike Tomlin is, by definition, a bad organization. But what can we expect from a city of mouth-breathing, sister-bangers?
Alabama?
Super Bowl winner. Been to SB twice. 2nd best career winning percentage amongst active coaches behind Belichick. Best career winning percentage amongst Pittsburgh coaches. 15th highest winning percentage in league history. Odds are your team has never had a coach as successful as coach T and if they have, they’re not your coach now unless you’re a Pats fan.
Steelers win in spite of Tomlin, not because of Tomlin. They blew it against Jacksonville by looking past them. Do you think a well coached team does that? He has Roethlisberger, Brown and Bell. He’s wasting their careers. He has terrible clock management. He allows thug culture. He is terrible.
Tomlin’s a fine coach. But the fans are awful. My impressions aren’t based on the internet, but real-world encounters with Steelers fans. They’re literally the only fanbase where I don’t even know one person worthy of respect as a fan (and very few worthy of respect as a person). On line, they are even worse (though the Pats might have the worst on-line fans, and definitely have my worst anecdotal representative among all teams).
But I have to re-stress my objection to the claim all teams fanbases are the same… they aren’t. Teams cultivate different attitudes and personas. Oakland has so many problems in large part because they have cultivated the attitude of the aggressive, rebellious rejects out to prove something to the world. Cleveland has problems, largely because they kind of have that attitude of rowdy, blue-collar, down-on-their-luck drunks (I might be projecting Cleveland as a whole a bit there). Fanbases *ARE* different. People groups *are* different. Anecdotes don’t reflect it, necessarily, but there’s a reason that Calzone’s linked article acknowledges that Oakland, San Francisco (read: SF lite), Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Philly are *always* on the NFL’s behavioral attitude. 4/5 of those cities take *pride* in their aggressive, combative nature (maybe 5/5; I don’t know enough about the Queen City to comment). (Pittsburgh and New York do, too– I think giving them a pass because of a zero tolerance policy is somewhat disingenuous). The only two teams that surprised me above Philly were San Diego (which, in retrospect, shouldn’t surprise me much– drunks, and high military presence), and Arizona (which I have no explanation for).
My family’s from Pittsburgh. I’ve been to a number of Steelers games and I’ve been to plenty of Steelers fan events, bars etc. and broadly speaking, it’s all been good clean fun. Most Steelers fans are fine. I think Dave is right: drunk fans are where all negative notions of fan bases come from.
Thank you Dave. The national media hate of Eagles fans simply exists because we are capable of being creative in our rowdiness. Nobody else is driving dune buggies on city landmarks, throwing snowballs at miserable representations of beloved childhood icons or climbing greased poles simply because our police forced basically dared us to. It’s easy for the media to attach us to these isolated incidents, and then use that to dump hate on us for doing things every other fan base does.
As an Eagles fan who has interacted with you on Twitter before, I feel the same about Giants fans. They may be rowdy at times, and use the Super Bowl argument more than they should, but they’re simply passionate about their team. And I understand the large contingent of Giants fans in the Philly area because the two cities are literally two hours apart. I have respect for local Giants fans far more than Cowboys fans, the fucking bandwagoners. Giants fans are more like frenemies.
Also, good luck with Pat Shurmer. 😉
I WILL SAY IT AGAIN, JAKEN RAMSEY IS GONE AND NFL IS RIGGING GAMES TO GET GOOD RATINGS!!!!!!!! DARN YOU GOODELL!!!!!!!
Sorry meant jalen
Exhibit A in the classic steeler fan stereotype.
Twelve past ten on Saturday and Pittsburgh is already drunk.
Exhibit B) classic confirmation bias… which is what the comic is about.
“Confirmation bias” is a tool of academia that is supposed to explain why stereotypes are not true. All those stories about about welfare abuse, leftist fascism and drunk and stupid Steelers fans are mere anecdotes.
Confirmation bias is using evidence to confirm what you already believe, rather than examining evidence to help you form your beliefs.
Nah. It’s a tool of the left to explain away inconvenient facts. You’ll know better once you’ve lived longer, unless you ignore life experience.
Cowboy fans still think it’s 1991 for some reason.
1993 thank you very much
Can’t tell you how many people I’ve run into now that are rooting for New England solely on the basis that “Philly fans are absolutely terrible and don’t deserve nice things.” I’ve never understood it. Eagles fans seem no different than any other fanbase, yet they get the most shit for being terrible fans. I’ve met asshole fans from everywhere that make me not want to cheer for their team. Hell, I wanted Philly to win because of a couple of smug ass Vikings fans who already proclaimed themselves Super Bowl Champs.
Shitty fans exist everywhere. Dunno why one fanbase has to be given the stereotype.
No one’s saying anything about someone in the top panel in far right? Who or whatever it is, probably a much better person than the guy who made the “Fuck Millie” sign.
> Cowboy fans are all scum of the Earth though.
Pretty much the only thing that Eagles, Giants, and Washington fans can agree with.
The main problem with the bigger jerk Eagles fans is that they’ve decided, that since there’s no way to ever convince the media or other fan bases about the “minority contingent” thing, they might as well embrace the stereotype. I mean, hey, the Vet had a jail and a judge in the basement for a reason.
I agree with this IN PART, but I feel like fanbases as a whole take on a certain character over time which influences how their fans tend to see themselves and how they interact with fans of other teams. Take the Raiders (please!). The “Black Hole”, the skull and crossbones imagery, etc. leads to a pretty toxic fanbase for those who really buy-in. They take it as a job to make other fans uncomfortable. Philly fans are historically beleaguered assholes who will never win and would rather tear everyone else down to their level than win. If you polled the Eagles fans in the stadium wearing facepaint whether they would rather hit Brady so hard he retires but lose or win the Super Bowl, I think it would be a close vote. That’s just Philly being Philly.
Dave, shame on you for even considering rooting for the eagles, giants fan first and football fan second
i agree. dave is fake
Hm?
I rooted for the Giants in both SBs.
Do you think Mets and Braves fans were rooting for the Yankees in ’03, haha?
Made that mistake in 2005, glad the Pats won that one in hindsight. McNabb probably wished he didn’t eat that chunky soup before the game.
Hey, Eagles fans rooted for the Giants in their SBs against the Patriots.
I agree with you wholeheartedly on most football fanbases (although I’d note that the fanbases of more successful teams do actually seem a bit more smug and obnoxious than the others; Patriots fans in the last decade have gone from being as annoying as anyone else to being smug pricks, and while it may just be bias as a Ravens fan, Steelers fans have seemingly been exceptionally awful to everyone else pretty much as long as I can remember).
As a lifelong resident of the DC area, I honestly have never met any Eagles fans that I’d call worse than the average Washington fan. Now, Cowboys fans… maybe it’s just because they’re everywhere, but they seem worse than normal, kind of like Steelers fans.
you guys just have not been exposed to the true garbage that rots in the eagles fanbase. Go to some bars in east Pennsylvania or southern jersey and you will see why people say they are the worst fans in sports.
if you think the internet is where examples of “bad eagles fans” are, thats just not true.
Eli Apple grew up an Eagles fan, right?
Dave has gone soft. Smh
I thought this way about Eagles fans until I attended the draft at Philly last year. The Philly fans were totally cool and it was a great time.
If you are going to examine the question of whether Philadelphia are fiends in human form, I think you do have to weigh the Bill Burr incident.
That was awesome!
Saints fan living in Vikings territory here — I wished the Vikings well all season, but after the divisional round, I hope the Eagles absolutely curbstomp the Patriots. You wanna talk about insufferable fanbases starved of a championship? Vikings fans are almost as bad as the Eagles, but with a veneer of “Midwestern nice” to cover it all up. I got heckled so much the week after the divisional round, and then those same people turn around and cry foul when Philly assaults them in the NFCCG. They’re always the victim and it pisses me off.
Eh. I had some really nasty experiences with Vikings fans too as a Packer fan living in Vikings territory this year, but I think Dave really hit the nail on the head not to judge a whole fanbase just because a vocal minority was spitefully gleeful because Rodgers went down.
I do though have to agree about the victimization thing though.
That fuck Millie thing is disgusting. I wish that eagles fan nothing but the worst. There’s a line between celebrating and insulting the people you just beat, and that eagles fan has just blurred it
I agree, that guy needs to bite the curb.
I support the Eagles and I agree. That was crass and shitty. Absolutely no need and not particularly funny.
I live near Philly and clearly they aren’t all sadistic blowhards, but when the fanbase regularly becomes known for incidents to the point where them being assholes has been given significant focus beyond just the typical drunk fans, there’s a point to be made.
Each fanbase has a large portion of assholes but just by looking at Philly you can tell it’s different. At least Patriots fans have something to be cocky about, at least Dallas won something before, at least bandwagoners make it painfully obvious to ignore them, Philly is just a different beast. It’s more than just the debunked Drunk Santa, it’s shit like the battery incident that gives Philly it’s name and the fact that a solid amount (compared to the usual fanbase) embrace being utter pricks. There is no defense for those people and saying that Philly is worse than the rest because Philly’s worst is on a greater magnitude of others’ is completely plausible.
As a philly fan, I agree with you. While it is unfair to call all philly fans scum because of a few assholes, is is true, and I wholeheartedly admit it, that the philly scum are on a whole different level of low evilness. I would like it to be known however, that the vast majority of philly fans dispose these people, and if you want further proof go onto SB nations eagles page and look in the fan posts, you’ll see lots of articles condemning these spurs of people.
Honestly, I think Philly football culture has been changing. Philly fans stereotypically hated everything. They hated their coach, their quarterback, themselves, their city, but they hated whoever Philly was playing more. Ever since McNabb returned to Philly as a Redskin and graciously received a standing ovation from the home crowd, I think Philly fan culture has been changing. It’s just not the same.
Still no word on that dog man?
Yeah, I was waiting for that Dallas punchline at the end and you didn’t fail to deliver! I also will not dispute you.
The last sentence basically botched the whole argument, but good points.
Also, it was pretty much true, on how you said people who hate entire fan bases tend to to live near or around the heard. Growing up in Pittsburgh, I was a Steelers fan, during my middle school years, I didn’t really root for any team. Then I began liking the Chargers in like 8th grade. It wasn’t until 9th grade that I saw that there was a surprisingly large amount of obnoxious Steelers fans. Yes, there were several normal fans, most of which were my friends. But what I saw in my family, at school, in the streets of downtown Pittsburgh, were some annoying fans. Currently I hate the Steelers, not the players or coaches, but just for the fans. I don’t want to be rooting for a team that 1) Has already won a Super Bowl. I want to see a team win their first one (RIP Packers fans), 2) Has so many annoying fans (Patriots, Steelers, Cowboys), that I am constantly getting wrongfully accused and have little to no representation for my team, and 3) A team that sucks, I love to root for these teams because you see them go from the bottom to the top, and you witnessed the whole thing.
When I meet someone new, I don’t stereotype right off the bat. Like in 9th grade, there was a guy in my classes that I would talk to time to time, and then eventually hang out with him (since we had same lunch). As time passed, he said he was a Steelers fan. I told him I was a Chargers fan. It started out fine, but then it just end rolled downhill from there. Now, a year later, we get into arguments basically every day. Sometimes it doesn’t even have to be sports, but I can’t even remember the last day we didn’t argue.
Another time was this year, I had met a Bills fan. He seemed pretty chill, not crazy like the ones willing to throw themselves off a roof into a table. He was super chill, and we talk basically every day. If I had stereotyped him from day one, I probably wouldn’t hang out with him, probably because I wouldn’t want to associate myself with crazy fans like that, mainly because I wouldn’t do that ever.
No matter what, I don’t stop talking to someone if they’re a Steelers fan, or a Pats fan, or even a Chiefs or Broncos fan. Everyone is different, and shouldn’t be judged based on their football preferences. Who knows, maybe someone who likes your rival could be your closest friend.
How the hell do you read that entire post and think that the last sentence was anything but a joke
that was the most obvious of jokes
“When I meet someone new, I don’t stereotype right off the bat.”
everyone does, to some extent, about something, so this a either an omission of ignorance or a lie to win an argument
You’re way off base here, Dave, and I say this as a Packer fan with no skin in the game in the NFC East. The last game I watched the Packers play in Philly, the fans booed literally every single time the refs called a penalty against the Eagles. I expect a certain amount of homerism from the home crowd, but most crowds have a bit of discernment between questionable and obvious calls. This crowd was booing for the sake of being am asshole, and I think that’s reflective of a culture that not only tolerates but encourages the more extreme assholes that end up on camera.
What?? The fans BOOED penalties against their team!!?? That’s just horrible! Clearly, they are the worst people in the history of sports! Every other fanbase is happy when penalties are called against their team. But, not those awful, ungrateful Eagles fans! Shame on them!
To bad I didn’t think to record and post a video. We were a little busy breaking Vikings fans stones while letting them drink from our coolers, drinking Jaeger Bombs, and eat our food at the tailgate. Guess that makes us scum of the earth now.
Drinking Jaeger Bombs before the game shows your sophistication and fine breeding.
I was at the game. I heard the normal booing and chanting of “asshole” when Viking fans walked by in their purple. I don’t engage in it or think it’s fun, but many Eagles fans seem to feel it’s an obligation haha. Yes, Eagles fans boo, a lot. They’re very fiery and passionate. In my opinion, it even bothers the players to an extent.
I didn’t see any beer throwing, but it obviously happened, and I find it disappointing. I think the Millie sign was sad as well. This obviously isn’t a defense of Eagles fans. They are who they are. They don’t care what outsiders think.
I will say that not all Eagles fans, however, are vulgar and violent. Not by a long shot. Here’s a short (boring) video of hundreds of Eagles fans leaving the stadium after the Vikes game. Seem like normal, happy fans to me.
https://www.amazon.com/photos/share/cqTsiXutdr5LKjDuO7g4Dlufgp9X1mRHz87PLPEI9MZ
Since nothing proves a point better than an anonymous anecdote:
I attended the Dolphins/Eagles game in Philly in November 2007. As one of the few Dolphins fans in attendance, I recall the crowd (and stadium crew) seemed to enjoy picking me out as “the enemy” — including the one drunk guy in the restroom in the 3rd qtr who yelled at the top of his lungs that I should be killed slowly and painfully.
Did I deserve that kind of treatment? I assure you I wasn’t doing much bragging. The Dolphins entered the game 0-9. Our quarterback that day was John Beck, making his first pro start. The team scored 0 points on offense. The Dolphins earned their 1-15 record that year, and that one win wasn’t in Philadelphia.
I can’t imagine how Philly fans treat people supporting quality opponents.
That said, I’m sure that there must be some great people who attend Eagles games. The law of averages kind of demands it.
Looks like I’ll take a wild guess since the dog man had to be a reference to something, just that I don’t know what it was.
I’ll say maybe the comic implies that eagles fans engages in bestiality?
Whoops apparently just posting a link doesn’t work. I was assuming you were joking but in case you weren’t this is the story: http://6abc.com/sports/eagles-dog-craze-now-includes-home-dogs-gonna-eat-t-shirts/2959753/
Thank you, thank you, thank you!! This is the best article I’ve read in days. I was raised by an amazing father as a die hard eagles fan. I lost my dad unexpectedly last February and as you can imagine, this has been a very tough season for me. It is bittersweet to say the least. Each time we win, it is as if my dad is with me. I am disgusted by the Eagles fans who acted awful during the last game but I am also disgusted that the media doesn’t show the majority of fans who were nice and welcoming to the MN fans. I feel like putting up signs in MN about throwing beer at eagles fans and booing the team is hypocritical!! The fact that they are basing their opinions about us on biased media posts about a small group of out of control people is an insult to me, my dad and the way I raised. Try looking for the stories about the nice Eagles fans that invited MN fans to tailgates before you lump us all together.
Again, thank you for this article!!!