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Philadelphia Eagles Article in Charlotte Observer

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Philly fans let the bad apples ruin the bunch
TOM SORENSEN

PHILADELPHIA - When their team loses, some people look at the sky and blame the Sports God. There is no Sports God. There is only a Sports Deity.

He is not affiliated with a particular religion. He works free-lance. His role is to favor those who deserve it and punish those who don't.

This explains why Philadelphia never wins anything.

Philadelphia doesn't deserve a championship in any of the major sports or hockey. I keep hearing about the long-suffering fans who give their hearts and souls to their team, and I kind of feel for them.

But the good fans allowed the bad fans to turn the Carolina Panthers' lopsided 14-3 victory at Lincoln Financial Field into White Trash on Sunday night.

I don't like to stereotype. Not every fan at the NFC championship was bitter. Perhaps no more than one in five was.

My wife, Sharon, sat with three other Panthers fans in a $105 (face value) seat. She had entire cups of beer thrown at her. Fans spit on her. And the only manifestation of her allegiance was her toes, which were painted blue and black and covered with layers of socks, foot-warmers and shoes.

Behind her sat a man who dared wear a Panthers cap. Before the game, an Eagles fan asked him what right he had to be at the stadium. The fan was serious.

Late in the game, a guy who had been taunting the Carolina fans, a skinny guy, hopped the security fence he had been standing behind, sprinted down the stairs, slapped the man in the Panthers cap in the back of the head and sprinted back up the stairs. It was a classic hit and run, something with which to amuse friends and family for years. Wait until the guy's parents find out.

So what you're telling me, son, is that you ran up, whacked him and ran off? We always knew you'd amount to something. The only thing that would make us prouder would be if you stopped spending your money, ours actually, on all things Eagles and get a job and perhaps an apartment.

The idea presumably was to entice the Panthers fan to chase the guy back over the fence, where friends waited. Security men tackled the whack-and-run guy before he could return to his seat.

Two Eagles fans in front of my wife fought each other. One of the guys was huge. To break up the fight, as many as seven security officials and police officers and a can of mace were required. To put this in perspective, Carolina running back DeShaun Foster did not break seven tackles on his 1-yard touchdown run.

Christy Burton, who is married to Carolina defensive tackle Shane Burton, sat near my wife. Burton is 6-foot-6 and 305 pounds. Christy is not. She, too, was treated to a shower of beer.

Fans above them threw quarters. The scariest incident was when a 10-year-old kid was hit from behind with a cup. Cups don't hurt much, but who knew what would be thrown next? Plus, kids lucky enough to have a ticket ought to have the right to feel safe.

It's fine to get your kicks vicariously through a team. But at some point you have to step back and, even though your heart might be broken, move on. If your team is the most important thing in your life, you might think about starting over.

You can lose yourself in Carolina's Super Bowl run, think about it every hour of every day. Charlotte has never buzzed and hummed like this. But if the Panthers lose, it doesn't mean the New England fan two rows in front of you no longer is entitled to wear his team's jersey.

Most of the fans at the Linc Sunday night were able to cheer for the Eagles without throwing beer or head-slaps at those who did not. Some even apologized for the behavior of the bottom-feeders, and went so far as to wish Panthers fans luck in the Super Bowl.

The bottom-feeders, meanwhile, were forced to return to their nasty little world without a football team to help them escape it.

There's a term for their predicament. It's called justice. Blame the Sports Deity. Or thank him.
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Originally posted by: Anubis
yess phily fans are the only ones worse then us boston fans

Philly shouldn't have made it past Green Bay.
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that is also true
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Actually I was at Fenway once wearing yankees jersey. My friends and I had people yell at us, but that was about it.
 
Originally posted by: Nitemare
Originally posted by: BDawg
100% deserved after the Philly article last week.
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Indeed

Can't you already hear the trash talking going on between the Pats and the Cats?



What you neither? Maybe the Pats aren't a bunch of thugs...
Charlotte mayor gets a beer shower
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He said he and his group had to be concerned about the 20 percent of the fans that he described as thugs.
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20%? I'm starting to think by "thugs" he meant "non-white people."
 
"Philadelphia doesn't deserve a championship in any of the major sports or hockey"

I guess hockey isnt a major sport these days.... :roll

 
Originally posted by: brentman
"Philadelphia doesn't deserve a championship in any of the major sports or hockey"

I guess hockey isnt a major sport these days.... :roll
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I didn't see a problem with that statement.
 
Doesn't sound as bad as some SEC rivalry games I've been to...

They throw cups of piss in the Swamp, and it would have been a "punch and rib kick" instead of a "slap and run".

 
This article doesn't tell us anything we don't know... Philly fans are diehard, and are the craziest fans in the NFL with arguably Raider fans. The Philly.com article had many people warn Panthers fans not to come to the game, and they did, and now Panther fans recant their experience as if they've seen a UFO. OMG, OMG, Philly fans were SO MEAN TO ME! I'VE NEVER BEEN TREATED WITH SUCH DISRESPECT IN MY LIFE!!!! Oh the HORROR!

Reality check for all of you who thought this was unbelievable behavior: my g/f is a teacher in center city, and over 2/3's of her kids are under the poverty level. She has to buy some of her kids school supplies b/c they can't afford their own and their parents don't give a sht. Half of Philly is under the poverty level (Philly is in the top 5 in population in the US), so add beer and football and a reason to act the fool... well I'm sure you get it by now.
 
Originally posted by: SP33Demon
This article doesn't tell us anything we don't know... Philly fans are diehard, and are the craziest fans in the NFL with arguably Raider fans. The Philly.com article had many people warn Panthers fans not to come to the game, and they did, and now Panther fans recant their experience as if they've seen a UFO. OMG, OMG, Philly fans were SO MEAN TO ME! I'VE NEVER BEEN TREATED WITH SUCH DISRESPECT IN MY LIFE!!!! Oh the HORROR!

Reality check for all of you who thought this was unbelievable behavior: my g/f is a teacher in center city, and over 2/3's of her kids are under the poverty level. She has to buy some of her kids school supplies b/c they can't afford their own and their parents don't give a sht. Half of Philly is under the poverty level (Philly is in the top 5 in population in the US), so add beer and football and a reason to act the fool... well I'm sure you get it by now.
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Your point is?

Philly deserved it.
 
Originally posted by: SP33Demon
This article doesn't tell us anything we don't know... Philly fans are diehard, and are the craziest fans in the NFL with arguably Raider fans. The Philly.com article had many people warn Panthers fans not to come to the game, and they did, and now Panther fans recant their experience as if they've seen a UFO. OMG, OMG, Philly fans were SO MEAN TO ME! I'VE NEVER BEEN TREATED WITH SUCH DISRESPECT IN MY LIFE!!!! Oh the HORROR!

Reality check for all of you who thought this was unbelievable behavior: my g/f is a teacher in center city, and over 2/3's of her kids are under the poverty level. She has to buy some of her kids school supplies b/c they can't afford their own and their parents don't give a sht. Half of Philly is under the poverty level (Philly is in the top 5 in population in the US), so add beer and football and a reason to act the fool... well I'm sure you get it by now.
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then why the hell are they wasting hundreds of dollars on tickets to an NFL game?
 
Originally posted by: SP33Demon
This article doesn't tell us anything we don't know... Philly fans are diehard, and are the craziest fans in the NFL with arguably Raider fans. The Philly.com article had many people warn Panthers fans not to come to the game, and they did, and now Panther fans recant their experience as if they've seen a UFO. OMG, OMG, Philly fans were SO MEAN TO ME! I'VE NEVER BEEN TREATED WITH SUCH DISRESPECT IN MY LIFE!!!! Oh the HORROR!

Reality check for all of you who thought this was unbelievable behavior: my g/f is a teacher in center city, and over 2/3's of her kids are under the poverty level. She has to buy some of her kids school supplies b/c they can't afford their own and their parents don't give a sht. Half of Philly is under the poverty level (Philly is in the top 5 in population in the US), so add beer and football and a reason to act the fool... well I'm sure you get it by now.
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Not diehard or crazy, just assholes.

People shouldn't be treated like this in any professional stadium, no excuses.
 
Philadelphia has the worst fans in sports. I'm not talking about how they support their teams, I'm talking about how they act in the stands. The 700 level at the Vet was a complete joke. THUGS(and I don't mean "NON WHITE PEOPLE") who would spit on people, piss on people, throw beer on people, gang up on opposing fans, it's sick. I remember a picture of 2 Flyer fans attacking this guy wearing a Devils jersey(not sure if it was at First Union or not, it was in Philly, not sure which arena), these 2 guys were in their 20's or 30's, and this guy had to be pushing 60.

Sports is about having fun, watching a good game, a great atmosphere. I go to sporting events routinely as an "opposing fan" and during the game I take some shots at the local fans, they take some shots at me, and after the game, win or lose, it usually ends up with a handshake and we both know it's all in the spirit of the game, and in good fun. In Philly, you're lucky to make it out without being attacked.
 
Originally posted by: SP33Demon
This article doesn't tell us anything we don't know... Philly fans are diehard, and are the craziest fans in the NFL with arguably Raider fans. The Philly.com article had many people warn Panthers fans not to come to the game, and they did, and now Panther fans recant their experience as if they've seen a UFO. OMG, OMG, Philly fans were SO MEAN TO ME! I'VE NEVER BEEN TREATED WITH SUCH DISRESPECT IN MY LIFE!!!! Oh the HORROR!

Reality check for all of you who thought this was unbelievable behavior: my g/f is a teacher in center city, and over 2/3's of her kids are under the poverty level. She has to buy some of her kids school supplies b/c they can't afford their own and their parents don't give a sht. Half of Philly is under the poverty level (Philly is in the top 5 in population in the US), so add beer and football and a reason to act the fool... well I'm sure you get it by now.
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Then how can these people afford to go to the football games?
 
Originally posted by: SP33Demon
This article doesn't tell us anything we don't know... Philly fans are diehard, and are the craziest fans in the NFL with arguably Raider fans. The Philly.com article had many people warn Panthers fans not to come to the game, and they did, and now Panther fans recant their experience as if they've seen a UFO. OMG, OMG, Philly fans were SO MEAN TO ME! I'VE NEVER BEEN TREATED WITH SUCH DISRESPECT IN MY LIFE!!!! Oh the HORROR!

Reality check for all of you who thought this was unbelievable behavior: my g/f is a teacher in center city, and over 2/3's of her kids are under the poverty level. She has to buy some of her kids school supplies b/c they can't afford their own and their parents don't give a sht. Half of Philly is under the poverty level (Philly is in the top 5 in population in the US), so add beer and football and a reason to act the fool... well I'm sure you get it by now.
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Oh and reality check: the poverty stricken people of Philly have nothing to do with dumbsh!t fans.
 
Originally posted by: GrumpyMan
Shouldn't they have been throwing beer at the team and not the Panther fans? Morons.
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They were probably trying to throw the beers that far, but they can only throw as well as the quarterback, so naturally they fell short.
 
Originally posted by: Jzero
Originally posted by: Nitemare
Originally posted by: BDawg
100% deserved after the Philly article last week.
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Indeed

Can't you already hear the trash talking going on between the Pats and the Cats?



What you neither? Maybe the Pats aren't a bunch of thugs...
Charlotte mayor gets a beer shower
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He said he and his group had to be concerned about the 20 percent of the fans that he described as thugs.
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20%? I'm starting to think by "thugs" he meant "non-white people."
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No way in hell a black person is going to waste a 7.50 beer.... 🙂 Them was white folks
 
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