Ugly fan encounter at Eagles-Packers game

[Chef2]

Not to excuse the use of the c-word at all. Philadelphians normally start off their mornings by saying "Good morning, you c—t."

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

In 2096 I went to a bar at 10 a.m. to watch the Raiders and Chiefs play. My buddy and everyone else in the place were wearing Raiders colors while I was in my Chiefs shirt. Larry Johnson ran in a touchdown as the clock expired, and I was the only one hooting and hollering. Despite that being a heated rivalry, no one bothered me.

Post from the future!

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

I have a different and shorter version of what Dixie posted above:

I'm not interested in attending.

I don't care for the parking fees, the traffic, the fans spilling beers down my sweatshirt, and all of the rest. I don't even want to watch in the press box anymore. I can watch on TV and relax at home so that's where I will be, with my shoes off and my feet up.

 

[BTExpress]

I have a couple of nice orange polo shirts --- which I might wear to a bowl game but never at The Swamp --- but this 63-year-old's days of wearing his Heath Shuler jersey are long in the past.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

I have a couple of nice orange polo shirts --- which I might wear to a bowl game but never at The Swamp --- but this 63-year-old's days of wearing his Heath Shuler jersey are long in the past.

I have a Mark Brunell jersey in my closet … and I ain't even wearing that to the grocery store.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

I'm not losing any sleep over this guy losing his job. Play asshole games, win asshole prizes. It does make me smile to think about him having to sit down with his wife/children (if they exist) and explain what happened and why he lost his job.

What gnaws at me is the people with and around this asshole. As he's "dumb ugly c-ing" this young woman, shouldn't someone with him or near the situation have stepped in and said, "Hey, knock it off. You're over the line"?

But I guess that doesn't play into the "DON'T fork WITH PHILLY" mindset and reputation that many in that fanbase seem to embrace. That seems to be the underlying problem in many of these situations, people trying to live up to (or down to) these horrible stereotypes.

 

[wicked]

And it may make the next person think twice about it.

Nope, because 98 percent of these guys are totally tanked. Asshole + liquor = lethal combo.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

And who the fork are these cos-playing assholes dressing up in those garish costumes in camera range? GWAR called, they want their schtick back, and with less NFL-branded fake edginess.

I often wonder about those folks. Do they get front-row season tickets and then build their costumes? Do the costumes come first and they spend a couple seasons in the upper deck wearing them? Are they quasi-employees of the team - guaranteed prime seats because of the costumes?

 

[MileHigh]

I remember in 1990 a Steelers fan got beaten pretty bad (kicked in the head, etc.) at a Steelers-Raiders game at the Coliseum. Yup, Raiders fans.

 

[Huggy]

I remember in 1990 a Steelers fan got beaten pretty bad (kicked in the head, etc.) at a Steelers-Raiders game at the Coliseum. Yup, Raiders fans.

Before I went to work in the hockey business in 2000 I'd go to a couple of Bills games a year and by far the most violent one was when the Raiders were in. Almost like the fans there thought they were at the Coliseum.

As a Dolphins fan I went to one game there - Marino vs. the Super Bowl era Bills - and will never see them play there again. It's just not worth the hassles, and this was decades before social media and the whole Bills Mafia thing elevated the already heavy pregame drinking exponentially.

A guy I work with is a Giants fan, went to a game in Philly and said Beirut might have been safer.

 

[BitterYoungMatador2]

Went to the week 18 Giants-Eagles game, my first ever Eagles game, and it had the feel of a preseason game with the Birds playing their backups and the Giants being 3-13. I'll definitely go again but I'm going to be in home team colors and I'm taking the train in because no way in heck am I parking my car at ANY NFL game. I used to work at a building next to Heinz Field and routinely came out to beer cans on the roof of my car when I worked on the same day as Steelers games.

 

[BurnsWhenIPee]

Feels like we're moving more and more in the direction of "It's not worth it" for people to attend pro sports in person. Even without episodes like this, you have the time commitment, the price of everything, the hassle vs. sitting at home in front of the big-screen 4D TV, drinking my own cheap beverages and eating my own cheap food. Then when it's over, I turn off the TV, go upstairs and the commute home is done. Add in the assholes factor, and it's a very easy call for me.

To me, at least, the college experience is different and worthy of making a trip to a game or 2 every year.