In america i'd say raiders fans are the worst or at least a close second to philly. throwing ziplock bags of urine at guys who are wearing the visiting teams gear and stabbing each other in stands. really?
west coast gangbangers = raider fans
worldwide, has anyone ever been to an australia vs new zealand rugby match? holy cow
west coast gangbangers = raider fans
worldwide, has anyone ever been to an australia vs new zealand rugby match? holy cow
I agree England.
Only fight I was ever in at a sporting was at White Hart Lane watching Tottenham Hotspurs play WestHam Ham Hammers
Guy spit in my face because I had on a Tottenham touque.
Punched him in the face and the local fans took care of the rest.
Kicked the livin' shit out of him and his gang.
They all loved it, even the losing bunch.
CRAZY!
Alabama fans have an arrogance about them as if The Bear was still coaching and it was still 1970.
As a Gator fan, I can say that our fans can be "the worst" (depending on you perspective), but they can be the best also.
UGA fans need to get over the dressing up for a football game. They like to say, "Gator fans wear jean shorts!" And that's all they got! As if none of their fans own or wear them. They say it so smugly as if that instantly makes them "better" people than Gator fans (side note, I do not own or wear jean shorts).
Tennessee fans are weird....not "bad"....just plain weird! (side note 2, I have a lot of family from Knoxville...).
FSU fans are the biggest bandwagon fans in the country (just look at their empty stadium this fall...and go read how they can't dump their season ticket packages)....Miami fans are about as bad....and 97% did not attend school at "The U" (btw, "The U" is the most ridiculous nickname in college football....and why in the hell is a "U" on their helmet? They are freaking Miami. Unless a school is a "college" they ALL have a "U" in their official name, aka: The University of _____. "The U" is just stupid...and unoriginal)....
Ohio State fans showed up in Tempe 3 years ago with the most arrogance ever by a group of fans thinking the game was just a formality. 41-14 and 80 yards of total offense later there was a lot of crying!!
As a Gator fan, I can say that our fans can be "the worst" (depending on you perspective), but they can be the best also.
UGA fans need to get over the dressing up for a football game. They like to say, "Gator fans wear jean shorts!" And that's all they got! As if none of their fans own or wear them. They say it so smugly as if that instantly makes them "better" people than Gator fans (side note, I do not own or wear jean shorts).
Tennessee fans are weird....not "bad"....just plain weird! (side note 2, I have a lot of family from Knoxville...).
FSU fans are the biggest bandwagon fans in the country (just look at their empty stadium this fall...and go read how they can't dump their season ticket packages)....Miami fans are about as bad....and 97% did not attend school at "The U" (btw, "The U" is the most ridiculous nickname in college football....and why in the hell is a "U" on their helmet? They are freaking Miami. Unless a school is a "college" they ALL have a "U" in their official name, aka: The University of _____. "The U" is just stupid...and unoriginal)....
Ohio State fans showed up in Tempe 3 years ago with the most arrogance ever by a group of fans thinking the game was just a formality. 41-14 and 80 yards of total offense later there was a lot of crying!!
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<!-- end mod-article-title --><!-- begin story body -->PHILADELPHIA -- Those famously churlish Philly fans can't hide behind the urban legends. The truth is out there: They simply booed Santa Claus.
Frank Olivo -- the erstwhile Santa in question -- wasn't drunk, nor was his red suit in tatters that December day in 1968 when he walked onto the field for the halftime show, only to be met by a chorus of jeers and a snowball fusillade from Eagles fans.
But by all accounts, they had cause for an ugly mood.
"The fans carried on like that because the Eagles were horrible," Olivo said.
The antics at halftime of the Eagles' final regular-season game, beamed around the country on Howard Cosell's national sports show, helped cement Philadelphia's reputation for having rogue, rowdy sports fans.
"There's nothing that sounds worse than throwing snowballs at Santa," said sports radio host Glen Macnow of WIP-AM in Philadelphia. "It's like spitting on Miss America."
While the vibe in Philadelphia is decidedly more brotherly this year with the Eagles headed to the Super Bowl, the 1968 team, at 2-12, was truly bad. Quarterback Norm Snead threw for 11 touchdowns and 21 interceptions that season. Coach Joe Kuharich led the team to an 0-11 start, and fans flocked to old Franklin Field wearing "Joe Must Go" buttons.
One Sunday, the throng cheered as a plane flew overhead, towing a banner suggesting the coach leave more than just The City of Brotherly Love.
Of course, the Eagles were just good enough to give Buffalo the top pick in the next NFL draft -- running back O.J. Simpson.
Olivo, whose family held Eagles season tickets from 1958 to 1985, revels in his unlikely place in franchise history. The booed Santa affair merits an entire chapter in "The Great Philadelphia Fan Book," which Macnow co-wrote in 2003.
"I'll be dead and that book will still be at the bookstore or on somebody's shelf. That means something to me," said Olivo, 56, of suburban Media, who toiled as a barber, craps dealer and car salesman before health problems forced him to retire.
Still, he wants people to get the story right.
"They say, 'He was drunk. He had a rotten outfit.' They don't even remember. A lot of them weren't even here," Olivo said.
Gov. Ed Rendell, a longtime Eagles season ticketholder who attended the 1968 game, agrees that fans were venting their frustration not at the sad-sack Santa, but at the Eagles -- even though they had played to a first-half tie with Minnesota.
"Most of the time, they're not really as tough as they seem," said Rendell, who moonlights as an Eagles commentator for a local cable channel. "They boo players who don't make an effort."
The buildup to the bombardment of Olivo probably began four years earlier, when Kuharich took over and Sonny Jurgensen, who became a Hall of Fame quarterback, was traded for journeyman Snead.
By 1968, Olivo, then a skinny 20-year-old kid, had been wearing a Santa suit and fake white beard to the last Eagles home game for several years. As halftime approached in the game Dec. 15 against the Vikings, the Eagles' entertainment director asked him to replace a hired Santa stranded by the snowstorm.
As instructed, Olivo ran downfield past a row of elf-costumed "Eaglettes" and the team's 50-person brass band playing "Here Comes Santa Claus."
Thunderous boos erupted from a crowd of 54,535.
"When I hit the end zone, and the snowballs started, I was waving my finger at the crowd, saying 'You're not getting anything for Christmas," Olivo recalled.
He was startled at first, but later laughed it off. Local sports writers made scant mention of the episode until the Cosell broadcast.
"It became a thing that Philadelphia sports fans became famous for doing, and it will never die, I guess," Olivo said. "Look how many years it's been."
Kuharich, whose team lost 24-17 in what proved to be his last game with the Eagles, had been pelted with snowballs at halftime.
It's a tough town.
Philadelphia fans famously booed native Kobe Bryant when he came to town for the 2002 NBA All-Star Game.
Former Phillies slugger Richie Allen often thrilled fans with tape-measure homers at rickety old Connie Mack Stadium. Then he would strike out and be booed all the way back to the dugout.
Even the now-beloved Donovan McNabb, who has quarterbacked Philadelphia to four straight NFC championship games and this year's Super Bowl, was showered with derision in his infancy as an Eagle.
In 1989, even Rendell played a role in the misbehavior when he bet fellow fans in the rambunctious 700 level of Veterans Stadium that they couldn't reach the field with snowballs.
He lost, in more ways than one.
Rendell, then the city's district attorney, made good on a $20 bet, but later apologized when the story inspired bad press.
"I assume they used my $20 to buy beer," he said.
Macnow says fans everywhere have committed sins. The crowd in Cleveland -- infamous for raucous deportment in the "Dog Pound" -- once reduced its own quarterback to tears. And a visiting equipment manager was injured when disgusted fans at Giants Stadium threw frozen projectiles.
But the "Booing Santa in Philly" legend -- in all its forms -- lives on.
"It's become one of these great urban tales, handed down in sports from generation to generation," Macnow said
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Frank Olivo -- the erstwhile Santa in question -- wasn't drunk, nor was his red suit in tatters that December day in 1968 when he walked onto the field for the halftime show, only to be met by a chorus of jeers and a snowball fusillade from Eagles fans.
But by all accounts, they had cause for an ugly mood.
"The fans carried on like that because the Eagles were horrible," Olivo said.
The antics at halftime of the Eagles' final regular-season game, beamed around the country on Howard Cosell's national sports show, helped cement Philadelphia's reputation for having rogue, rowdy sports fans.
"There's nothing that sounds worse than throwing snowballs at Santa," said sports radio host Glen Macnow of WIP-AM in Philadelphia. "It's like spitting on Miss America."
While the vibe in Philadelphia is decidedly more brotherly this year with the Eagles headed to the Super Bowl, the 1968 team, at 2-12, was truly bad. Quarterback Norm Snead threw for 11 touchdowns and 21 interceptions that season. Coach Joe Kuharich led the team to an 0-11 start, and fans flocked to old Franklin Field wearing "Joe Must Go" buttons.
One Sunday, the throng cheered as a plane flew overhead, towing a banner suggesting the coach leave more than just The City of Brotherly Love.
Of course, the Eagles were just good enough to give Buffalo the top pick in the next NFL draft -- running back O.J. Simpson.
Olivo, whose family held Eagles season tickets from 1958 to 1985, revels in his unlikely place in franchise history. The booed Santa affair merits an entire chapter in "The Great Philadelphia Fan Book," which Macnow co-wrote in 2003.
"I'll be dead and that book will still be at the bookstore or on somebody's shelf. That means something to me," said Olivo, 56, of suburban Media, who toiled as a barber, craps dealer and car salesman before health problems forced him to retire.
Still, he wants people to get the story right.
"They say, 'He was drunk. He had a rotten outfit.' They don't even remember. A lot of them weren't even here," Olivo said.
Gov. Ed Rendell, a longtime Eagles season ticketholder who attended the 1968 game, agrees that fans were venting their frustration not at the sad-sack Santa, but at the Eagles -- even though they had played to a first-half tie with Minnesota.
"Most of the time, they're not really as tough as they seem," said Rendell, who moonlights as an Eagles commentator for a local cable channel. "They boo players who don't make an effort."
The buildup to the bombardment of Olivo probably began four years earlier, when Kuharich took over and Sonny Jurgensen, who became a Hall of Fame quarterback, was traded for journeyman Snead.
By 1968, Olivo, then a skinny 20-year-old kid, had been wearing a Santa suit and fake white beard to the last Eagles home game for several years. As halftime approached in the game Dec. 15 against the Vikings, the Eagles' entertainment director asked him to replace a hired Santa stranded by the snowstorm.
As instructed, Olivo ran downfield past a row of elf-costumed "Eaglettes" and the team's 50-person brass band playing "Here Comes Santa Claus."
Thunderous boos erupted from a crowd of 54,535.
"When I hit the end zone, and the snowballs started, I was waving my finger at the crowd, saying 'You're not getting anything for Christmas," Olivo recalled.
He was startled at first, but later laughed it off. Local sports writers made scant mention of the episode until the Cosell broadcast.
"It became a thing that Philadelphia sports fans became famous for doing, and it will never die, I guess," Olivo said. "Look how many years it's been."
Kuharich, whose team lost 24-17 in what proved to be his last game with the Eagles, had been pelted with snowballs at halftime.
It's a tough town.
Philadelphia fans famously booed native Kobe Bryant when he came to town for the 2002 NBA All-Star Game.
Former Phillies slugger Richie Allen often thrilled fans with tape-measure homers at rickety old Connie Mack Stadium. Then he would strike out and be booed all the way back to the dugout.
Even the now-beloved Donovan McNabb, who has quarterbacked Philadelphia to four straight NFC championship games and this year's Super Bowl, was showered with derision in his infancy as an Eagle.
In 1989, even Rendell played a role in the misbehavior when he bet fellow fans in the rambunctious 700 level of Veterans Stadium that they couldn't reach the field with snowballs.
He lost, in more ways than one.
Rendell, then the city's district attorney, made good on a $20 bet, but later apologized when the story inspired bad press.
"I assume they used my $20 to buy beer," he said.
Macnow says fans everywhere have committed sins. The crowd in Cleveland -- infamous for raucous deportment in the "Dog Pound" -- once reduced its own quarterback to tears. And a visiting equipment manager was injured when disgusted fans at Giants Stadium threw frozen projectiles.
But the "Booing Santa in Philly" legend -- in all its forms -- lives on.
"It's become one of these great urban tales, handed down in sports from generation to generation," Macnow said
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If you tune into Philly local sports talk radio at any given time... there are passionate opinions and debates. The talk NEVER EVER stops. After mindnite? No problem... there are callers working a late shift somewhere that want to talk about the Eagles or Phillies. It's really quite amazing. Walk into any sandwich shop and you could spend the rest of your afternoon talking eagles with the guy behind the counter or random patrons.
I have been living in san diego for 12 yrs now after 29 in philly. sure there are passionate fanes here in san diego... but you're more likely to find a large cross section of fans for other teams if you take any random sample of people here.
in philly... generations of fans are the norm. grandfathers, fathers, sons, and so on. sure there is the occassonal mis-guided idiot dallas fan in philly... but they are just stupid fcks that were influenced by the media at some young age and they can't snap out of it now. every school and/or office in philly has one or two jack ass dallas fan. the rest? they all bleed green just like me. always will
I have been living in san diego for 12 yrs now after 29 in philly. sure there are passionate fanes here in san diego... but you're more likely to find a large cross section of fans for other teams if you take any random sample of people here.
in philly... generations of fans are the norm. grandfathers, fathers, sons, and so on. sure there is the occassonal mis-guided idiot dallas fan in philly... but they are just stupid fcks that were influenced by the media at some young age and they can't snap out of it now. every school and/or office in philly has one or two jack ass dallas fan. the rest? they all bleed green just like me. always will
