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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Mar 17, 2011 12:15:34 GMT -5
I agree with #1 and #2...............which is why I hate those teams the most.
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Mar 17, 2011 12:22:19 GMT -5
...Of course that's not totally true (chanting things about cocaine to Keith Hernandez, booing their own players who just won the World Series because they got swept in their first series of 2007, etc. etc.), but there are certainly a lot of stories of Cardinals fans being cool to visitors and whatnot. There's always black sheep in your family, but to be fair, Hernandez is a smug bastard. This is just my opinion, but I honestly think the Yankees' fanbase got on the list just because they root for the Yankees. Of course- note that he didn't list any specifics. There's a difference between being cocky about your team and actually stirring up trouble.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Mar 17, 2011 12:27:56 GMT -5
And once again, St. Louis Cardinals fans do not make the list. To be honest, I'm a bit surprised- we've got our non-Cub fan haters out there. St. Louis will never, ever make a list like this. There's the grand vision of the Cardinals fanbase as being the nicest, most welcoming in baseball, the "never boo your own players" types. ...Of course that's not totally true (chanting things about cocaine to Keith Hernandez, booing their own players who just won the World Series because they got swept in their first series of 2007, etc. etc.), but there are certainly a lot of stories of Cardinals fans being cool to visitors and whatnot. The list isn't really about hating a specific fanbase, it's about reported fanbase behavior, anyway, and there's no terrible stories of Cardinals fans lately. I've said it before and I'll say it again, when Philly fans started to finally go to Phillies games (they were never there during Mets/Phillies games until 2008, no matter how bad either team was), I forever had a dark spot in my fandom-heart for them when most of the stadium stood up and cheered when they thought Jose Reyes had a concussion...and then booed LOUDLY when they saw he was ok. Yeah, no. That's savage. A large number of them love being seen as violent savages, though. For some reason, they'd rather have opposing fanbases hate THEM rather than the team. Those types want you to feel threatened, and get off on it. I chalk it up to a raging inferiority complex that Philly will never be considered an important major cosmopolitan "city of the world" the way New York and Los Angeles are, and won't even be considered a second-tier city like Chicago or Boston. At least, that's the vibe I kind of get.
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Post by Hulkshi Tanahashi on Mar 17, 2011 12:28:58 GMT -5
This is just my opinion, but I honestly think the Yankees' fanbase got on the list just because they root for the Yankees. Of course- note that he didn't list any specifics. There's a difference between being cocky about your team and actually stirring up trouble. And, I especially "liked" his nickname for the team: Satan's favorite team. Though, to be fair, he had Red Sox fans ranked higher called them hypocrites for playing the underdog card when the Sox have pretty much become like the Yankees.
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Mar 17, 2011 12:30:52 GMT -5
And once again, St. Louis Cardinals fans do not make the list. To be honest, I'm a bit surprised- we've got our non-Cub fan haters out there. St. Louis will never, ever make a list like this. There's the grand vision of the Cardinals fanbase as being the nicest, most welcoming in baseball, the "never boo your own players" types. ...Of course that's not totally true (chanting things about cocaine to Keith Hernandez, booing their own players who just won the World Series because they got swept in their first series of 2007, etc. etc.), but there are certainly a lot of stories of Cardinals fans being cool to visitors and whatnot. The list isn't really about hating a specific fanbase, it's about reported fanbase behavior, anyway, and there's no terrible stories of Cardinals fans lately. I've said it before and I'll say it again, when Philly fans started to finally go to Phillies games (they were never there during Mets/Phillies games until 2008, no matter how bad either team was), I forever had a dark spot in my fandom-heart for them when most of the stadium stood up and cheered when they thought Jose Reyes had a concussion...and then booed LOUDLY when they saw he was ok. Yeah, no. That's savage. Actually, that's not what happened. I was at that game, and he wasn't booed because he was ok, the Mets training staff wouldn't get off the field when it was clear Reyes was ok. But Billy Wagner, who never understood why his choking ass wasn't loved in Philly, said they booed him, and then it's so. And that stadium has been filled since it was built, so your wrong there again. Was the Vet full. No, but the Vet was a toilet.
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Post by Tiger Millionaire on Mar 17, 2011 12:32:09 GMT -5
Ignorant sheep follow the national media. Cleveland throws bottles on the field. Fine. Detroit fans cause a riot at their stadium. Sure. Philly fans pelted Santa Claus 40 years ago. String em up.
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Post by darthalexander on Mar 17, 2011 12:50:18 GMT -5
Ignorant sheep follow the national media. Cleveland throws bottles on the field. Fine. Detroit fans cause a riot at their stadium. Sure. Philly fans pelted Santa Claus 40 years ago. String em up. Hey, it was Santa.
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Post by Cyno on Mar 17, 2011 13:03:49 GMT -5
A large number of them love being seen as violent savages, though. For some reason, they'd rather have opposing fanbases hate THEM rather than the team. Those types want you to feel threatened, and get off on it. I chalk it up to a raging inferiority complex that Philly will never be considered an important major cosmopolitan "city of the world" the way New York and Los Angeles are, and won't even be considered a second-tier city like Chicago or Boston. At least, that's the vibe I kind of get. I had a Phillies fan outright admit to me that it was because Philadelphia/South Jersey people have an inferiority complex to New York City and North Jersey. And Philly fans certainly love living up (down?) to their reputation. When I was in Hershey for Halloween a couple of years ago during the World Series, some Phillies fans (I'd say college age or a bit older) went out of their way to heckle a little kid wearing a Yankees hat. Real classy folk. Didn't see any of the New York fans do the same to any Phillies fans there (and there were more of them there, I'd say). Surprised he didn't really list any of the legit reasons to hate Yankees fans, though (and I say this as a big Yanks fan). Yankees fans can be incredibly arrogant and entitled to win championships every year. I guess you could cite the Bleacher Creatures, but I think of them more as lovable drunken bastards than hateful savages like Philly fans like to portray themselves as. Gotta admire the dedication of a group of fans going out of their way to learn some Japanese just to heckle Ichiro in his native language. ;D Surprised Jets or Steelers fans didn't make this list. They seem to be getting up there in bad rap lately. Also surprised the Lakers didn't rank higher since they're like, THE fair-weather fanbase. I swear people go to Lakers games to be seen rather than actually watch a basketball game.
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Post by El Hijo De Slapnuts on Mar 17, 2011 13:19:14 GMT -5
So happy to see the Cowboys on this list;their fans drove me up a wall at a game once. EDIT:and Duke,they're snobby to me,and I live in NC where College Basketball(cue Batista) is the state religion
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Post by HMARK Center on Mar 17, 2011 13:31:17 GMT -5
St. Louis will never, ever make a list like this. There's the grand vision of the Cardinals fanbase as being the nicest, most welcoming in baseball, the "never boo your own players" types. ...Of course that's not totally true (chanting things about cocaine to Keith Hernandez, booing their own players who just won the World Series because they got swept in their first series of 2007, etc. etc.), but there are certainly a lot of stories of Cardinals fans being cool to visitors and whatnot. The list isn't really about hating a specific fanbase, it's about reported fanbase behavior, anyway, and there's no terrible stories of Cardinals fans lately. I've said it before and I'll say it again, when Philly fans started to finally go to Phillies games (they were never there during Mets/Phillies games until 2008, no matter how bad either team was), I forever had a dark spot in my fandom-heart for them when most of the stadium stood up and cheered when they thought Jose Reyes had a concussion...and then booed LOUDLY when they saw he was ok. Yeah, no. That's savage. Actually, that's not what happened. I was at that game, and he wasn't booed because he was ok, the Mets training staff wouldn't get off the field when it was clear Reyes was ok. But Billy Wagner, who never understood why his choking ass wasn't loved in Philly, said they booed him, and then it's so. And that stadium has been filled since it was built, so your wrong there again. Was the Vet full. No, but the Vet was a toilet. I was there, too. That was the game where I had hands put all over me for committing the crime of wearing a sweatshirt that said "Mets" on it. It was the only time I was at a sporting event and ever had to hit somebody because they were coming after me. I've also been to plenty of Mets/Phillies games in New York, and I don't see that happening to people in red...and I sit in the cheap seats. And that's not at all what happened at that game, and even if the training staff was "taking too long", deal with it, it looked like a possible concussion; plus, I have never in my baseball-watching life (which means about my entire life) seen or heard of a freaking training staff being booed for doing their jobs. The fact remains that Reyes wasn't moving for a few seconds and a loud and clear CHEER came up from the crowd, loud enough that the commentators on both radio and TV mentioned it. As soon as Reyes stood up and nodded his head, boos rained down. I don't care what team a guy plays for or what crap he's pulled, you don't cheer a possible head injury; I wouldn't even do that to Sean Avery, jackass though he might be.
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Post by Insomniac on Mar 17, 2011 13:37:56 GMT -5
This is just my opinion, but I honestly think the Yankees' fanbase got on the list just because they root for the Yankees. He didn't need to use any words to explain their presence on the list. All he needed to do was show this:
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Post by adamclark52 on Mar 17, 2011 13:40:17 GMT -5
The Habs' fans making the list is pretty funny. Usually we're pretty good. It's some idiots that decide to riot that cause the problems (many just showing up after the game to stir crap up). No Flyers fans? [glow=red,2,300]No Leaf fans[/glow]? FAIL! the article was about Worst Sports Fanbase, not Stupidest Sports Fanbase
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2011 13:44:38 GMT -5
And once again, St. Louis Cardinals fans do not make the list. To be honest, I'm a bit surprised- we've got our non-Cub fan haters out there. I'm a Cubs fan, and most of the Cardinals fans I've encountered are pretty cool. Usually any discussion of baseball just goes to the woes of the Cubs. Only encountered one that was a jerk, but he was a Cards fan at a Cubs game intentionally trying to get people worked up. Maybe I'm too easygoing though
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Mar 17, 2011 14:34:07 GMT -5
A large number of them love being seen as violent savages, though. For some reason, they'd rather have opposing fanbases hate THEM rather than the team. Those types want you to feel threatened, and get off on it. I chalk it up to a raging inferiority complex that Philly will never be considered an important major cosmopolitan "city of the world" the way New York and Los Angeles are, and won't even be considered a second-tier city like Chicago or Boston. At least, that's the vibe I kind of get. I had a Phillies fan outright admit to me that it was because Philadelphia/South Jersey people have an inferiority complex to New York City and North Jersey. And Philly fans certainly love living up (down?) to their reputation. When I was in Hershey for Halloween a couple of years ago during the World Series, some Phillies fans (I'd say college age or a bit older) went out of their way to heckle a little kid wearing a Yankees hat. Real classy folk. Didn't see any of the New York fans do the same to any Phillies fans there (and there were more of them there, I'd say). Surprised he didn't really list any of the legit reasons to hate Yankees fans, though (and I say this as a big Yanks fan). Yankees fans can be incredibly arrogant and entitled to win championships every year. I guess you could cite the Bleacher Creatures, but I think of them more as lovable drunken bastards than hateful savages like Philly fans like to portray themselves as. Gotta admire the dedication of a group of fans going out of their way to learn some Japanese just to heckle Ichiro in his native language. ;D Surprised Jets or Steelers fans didn't make this list. They seem to be getting up there in bad rap lately. Also surprised the Lakers didn't rank higher since they're like, THE fair-weather fanbase. I swear people go to Lakers games to be seen rather than actually watch a basketball game. Also if you beat the Eagles or Phillies, their fans will give your team zero credit for the win. It's either their team beat themselves or the other team cheated.
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Post by Cela on Mar 17, 2011 14:50:40 GMT -5
This is just my opinion, but I honestly think the Yankees' fanbase got on the list just because they root for the Yankees. He didn't need to use any words to explain their presence on the list. All he needed to do was show this: Christian Bale going full retard and a fat guy randomly saying f*** you?
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Mar 17, 2011 15:02:32 GMT -5
I had a Phillies fan outright admit to me that it was because Philadelphia/South Jersey people have an inferiority complex to New York City and North Jersey. And Philly fans certainly love living up (down?) to their reputation. When I was in Hershey for Halloween a couple of years ago during the World Series, some Phillies fans (I'd say college age or a bit older) went out of their way to heckle a little kid wearing a Yankees hat. Real classy folk. Didn't see any of the New York fans do the same to any Phillies fans there (and there were more of them there, I'd say). Surprised he didn't really list any of the legit reasons to hate Yankees fans, though (and I say this as a big Yanks fan). Yankees fans can be incredibly arrogant and entitled to win championships every year. I guess you could cite the Bleacher Creatures, but I think of them more as lovable drunken bastards than hateful savages like Philly fans like to portray themselves as. Gotta admire the dedication of a group of fans going out of their way to learn some Japanese just to heckle Ichiro in his native language. ;D Surprised Jets or Steelers fans didn't make this list. They seem to be getting up there in bad rap lately. Also surprised the Lakers didn't rank higher since they're like, THE fair-weather fanbase. I swear people go to Lakers games to be seen rather than actually watch a basketball game. Also if you beat the Eagles or Phillies, their fans will give your team zero credit for the win. It's either their team beat themselves or the other team cheated. Most Eagles fans will blame Andy Reid and his horrible time management skills when they lose.
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Mar 17, 2011 15:53:13 GMT -5
Don't know the colleges that well, but Raiders fans are worse than Philly fans.
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Mar 17, 2011 16:19:22 GMT -5
Also if you beat the Eagles or Phillies, their fans will give your team zero credit for the win. It's either their team beat themselves or the other team cheated. Most Eagles fans will blame Andy Reid and his horrible time management skills when they lose. I was being specific like 1993 World Series where they could never accept that the Toronto Blue Jays had a better team, which if you look at the batting lineup, it wasn't even close.
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Post by Koda, Master Crunchyroller on Mar 17, 2011 16:27:55 GMT -5
He didn't need to use any words to explain their presence on the list. All he needed to do was show this: Christian Bale going full retard and a fat guy randomly saying f*** you? Actually that was a guy who basically pulled a Steve Bartman in last year's ALCS, interfering with a Rangers player's attempt to catch the ball and thus scored the Yankees a run.
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Post by Seth Drakin of Monster Crap on Mar 17, 2011 16:31:13 GMT -5
Christian Bale going full retard and a fat guy randomly saying f*** you? Actually that was a guy who basically pulled a Steve Bartman in last year's ALCS, interfering with a Rangers player's attempt to catch the ball and thus scored the Yankees a run. Difference was.........Rangers still won despite that dirtbag.
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