It is the general Mightier than thou attitude that the country walks around with towards SK that fuels us to back our team. Calgary is especially bad, last few times I have been there I am pretty sure most people I interacted with do not even poop they have their buts puckered up so tight.
actually the rest of Canada tries to pretty much ignore Saskatchewan, but Rider fans tend to make it difficult
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I'm honestly curious why it is that Rider fans are, generally, such d'bags. These are fans of a team that have won exactly 3 times in 100 years, in an 8 team league. The last time they actually won, every other team in the league had suffered a major injury to their QB, and the opposition in the "big game" was playing a QB who had never started before because their starter broke his arm in the previous game. And the Riders cheated on the salary cap then too.
The last time they made it to the big game, they embarassed themselves off the field by blowing a big lead, becoming a punchline by trying to cheat with 13 players on the field on the last play of the game.
These "fans" have caused a game to stop because they pelted the opposition bench with beer cans. They've dumped cow crap on their kickers driveway because he missed a kick (actually, his neighbors driveway because they're not that smart). Classy. They've had a player arrested for knowingly spreading the aids virus. They've had a player steal a wallet from another player. They once had a GM that was a black panther, and then had a GM that was a sexual predator.
Before the last few years when they were actually successful, they struggled to sellout their tiny run down dump of a stadium, when they are the only game in the whole province. They had to sell "shares" to the sheeple just to try to balance the books, and then had to rely on government funding year after year.
And yet still, the "fans" of this team seem to think their poop don't stink. I honestly don't get it...
Lastly, they still pile on Burris because he left, as a free agent, to a better team that offered him and his family more money and more security. Yet the funny thing is Burris has 2 Cup rings... the Riders, in 100 years, have 3.
Wow, you sound like a bitter Stamp fan. What happened, ex run off with a Rider fan?
I'm honestly curious why it is that Rider fans are, generally, such d'bags. These are fans of a team that have won exactly 3 times in 100 years, in an 8 team league. The last time they actually won, every other team in the league had suffered a major injury to their QB, and the opposition in the "big game" was playing a QB who had never started before because their starter broke his arm in the previous game. And the Riders cheated on the salary cap then too.
Ignoring all of the Troll bate that you through out there and getting to the real issue of why are Rider fans hated? First I question whether individual fans or hated or is it some obscure notion of what the fan base is that is hated. I am sure that you have never actually met and had a conversation with a Rider fan that you hated. The group hate is the MOB of rider fans that attend the game in mass.
I think the real issue stems down to Rider fans treat McMahan stadium and Commonwealth as home games. Take the flames for instance if the Oilers fans were able to get a hold of 8000 of the 20,000 tickets to Flames home games what would happen? Well all of a sudden oilers fans would treat those games like home games. There wouldn't be that filter that most fans visiting an arena have. They would cheer like its a home game, jeer other fans like they were the visitor, repsond to heckles like the other person is cheering for the wrong team. This offends home team fans who are not used to attending road games. Most fans never attend a game outside of a home stadium therefore when they heckle someone and get heckled back by multiple fans the situations escalate. Since both fan bases believe they are the home team their is no one to defuse the situation and hence you get problems.
Combine that with servers in McMahon that don't cut anyone off and you get the end result.
So when a fan gets that image of the rider fans in their heads all of a sudden they are the arrogent d'bags. It demographics combined with the passion that the rest of Canada follows thier NHL teams with.
As for being proud despite only winning 3 championships that has created a latent demand for success. Think of the bandwagon filling of for the flames so much failure for so long and all of a sudden it got a lot more proud and a lot more arrogent.
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Streets? This is Saskatchewan we're talking about here.
It was a euphemism for prostitution. The streets, the wheat fields, the corner gas station... it doesn't really matter where they're flat on their backs.
The biggest CFL fail belongs to who?
Where did it happen?
Who was there to see it happen?
How much money did people pay to see this happen?
I always like watching a team get as close as possible before fail and one can only hope for a repeat again this year. Too bad it isn't going to happen in Calgary so that we can get a small economic impact from those to the East of us who love to come here to visit but supposedly can't stand being here. Pilsner cowboy hats.....move along....
Ignoring all of the Troll bate that you through out there and getting to the real issue of why are Rider fans hated? First I question whether individual fans or hated or is it some obscure notion of what the fan base is that is hated. I am sure that you have never actually met and had a conversation with a Rider fan that you hated. The group hate is the MOB of rider fans that attend the game in mass.
I think the real issue stems down to Rider fans treat McMahan stadium and Commonwealth as home games. Take the flames for instance if the Oilers fans were able to get a hold of 8000 of the 20,000 tickets to Flames home games what would happen? Well all of a sudden oilers fans would treat those games like home games. There wouldn't be that filter that most fans visiting an arena have. They would cheer like its a home game, jeer other fans like they were the visitor, repsond to heckles like the other person is cheering for the wrong team. This offends home team fans who are not used to attending road games. Most fans never attend a game outside of a home stadium therefore when they heckle someone and get heckled back by multiple fans the situations escalate. Since both fan bases believe they are the home team their is no one to defuse the situation and hence you get problems.
Combine that with servers in McMahon that don't cut anyone off and you get the end result.
So when a fan gets that image of the rider fans in their heads all of a sudden they are the arrogent d'bags. It demographics combined with the passion that the rest of Canada follows thier NHL teams with.
As for being proud despite only winning 3 championships that has created a latent demand for success. Think of the bandwagon filling of for the flames so much failure for so long and all of a sudden it got a lot more proud and a lot more arrogent.
To me, that's not it at all. No one had a problem with Rider fans until about 5 years ago. It's not Rider Fans people have a problem with (there's a lot of intelligent Rider fans out there that care a whole lot about the CFL and the state of the interior league in general), it's the new breed of Rider Fan people (including most older Rider Fans) have come to loath.
This new breed of Rider fan is someone in the 20-27 demographic who has determined that the "cool" thing to do if you are from Saskatchewan is to get absolutely F'n bombed before, during, and after a CFL game and shout as abnoxiously as possible that you are from Saskatchewan the greatest place on earth (even though ironically they can't live there and sustain your line of work). They are straight out of the U of S, got their first 50K a year entry level job in the corporate sector of Calgary , and think their really important because of it. These aren't CFL fans, these are a bunch of drunken morons that would rather create a scene than enjoy a good football game. Older Riders fans are awesome, they've been through it all, been as low as you can get, seen their team on the brink of extinction, and stuck through it to the end. These new dults look at you like your lying when you ask them if they remember when Taylor Field was half empty and the Riders were on league life support. They are an embarassment to their team, the CFL, themselves, and more importantly the Province they seem to think in some twisted way they are supporting.
I know for a fact that in the midst of any Edmonton/Calgary rivalry it never got like this on either side. When a man I work with, a die hard Rider fan, refuses to bring his child to any game featuring the Riders you know something is wrong. Concidently enough, he has no problem bringing them to any other game of the year fully-decked out in their Rider gear. TSN can play up this "Great fan" BS for one of their key demographics all they want, but ask most fans in Edmonton, Calgary, and BC have had enough and their reputation is fast-spreading and it has nothing to do with the players on the field or their record either.
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Dude when it comes to the Canucks, it could be a team of Adolf Hitler, Pol Pot, Augusto Pinochet, Josef Stalin and Kim Jong Il and if one of them scores against the Canucks you take it.
Ignoring all of the Troll bate that you through out there and getting to the real issue of why are Rider fans hated? First I question whether individual fans or hated or is it some obscure notion of what the fan base is that is hated. I am sure that you have never actually met and had a conversation with a Rider fan that you hated. The group hate is the MOB of rider fans that attend the game in mass.
I think the real issue stems down to Rider fans treat McMahan stadium and Commonwealth as home games. Take the flames for instance if the Oilers fans were able to get a hold of 8000 of the 20,000 tickets to Flames home games what would happen? Well all of a sudden oilers fans would treat those games like home games. There wouldn't be that filter that most fans visiting an arena have. They would cheer like its a home game, jeer other fans like they were the visitor, repsond to heckles like the other person is cheering for the wrong team. This offends home team fans who are not used to attending road games. Most fans never attend a game outside of a home stadium therefore when they heckle someone and get heckled back by multiple fans the situations escalate. Since both fan bases believe they are the home team their is no one to defuse the situation and hence you get problems.
Combine that with servers in McMahon that don't cut anyone off and you get the end result.
So when a fan gets that image of the rider fans in their heads all of a sudden they are the arrogent d'bags. It demographics combined with the passion that the rest of Canada follows thier NHL teams with.
As for being proud despite only winning 3 championships that has created a latent demand for success. Think of the bandwagon filling of for the flames so much failure for so long and all of a sudden it got a lot more proud and a lot more arrogent.
Having "met" a ton of Rider fans on the internet I would say that individually Rider fans are by far the most obnoxious fans in the CFL and the reason the mob gets the reputation that it does is because of the individuals.
Having been to enough Rider-Stamps games I find the Rider fans tend to way overrate their effect and numbers at McMahon. I haven't had trouble with them there and haven't found them to be that loud or acting like it was a home game.
Having "met" a ton of Rider fans on the internet I would say that individually Rider fans are by far the most obnoxious fans in the CFL and the reason the mob gets the reputation that it does is because of the individuals.
Having been to enough Rider-Stamps games I find the Rider fans tend to way overrate their effect and numbers at McMahon. I haven't had trouble with them there and haven't found them to be that loud or acting like it was a home game.
Having "met" a ton of Rider fans on the internet I would say that individually Rider fans are by far the most obnoxious fans in the CFL and the reason the mob gets the reputation that it does is because of the individuals.
Having been to enough Rider-Stamps games I find the Rider fans tend to way overrate their effect and numbers at McMahon. I haven't had trouble with them there and haven't found them to be that loud or acting like it was a home game.
I sit in section I, and there is big problems at the bottom of Sections J and K every game they are here. It's all the same goddamn people too that are always in the same seat, taunting the Calgary fans, and if the Riders fall behind, the taunts generally turn from just demeaning slurs to physical aggression towards other fans. It blows my friggen mind that McMahon stadium doesn't just go down there before every game (picking them out from cameras from the game before) and kick every last single one of them out and hand them a trespassing warrant.
They'll be there Saturday, you can bank on it. The two guys with the Bobba Fett masks are usually right in the middle of it.
FUnny enough I did a quick google image for "Rider Fans" and a picture of a game comes up that has the two guys and the girl who are usually right in the middle of it. Read the title of the article, and you'll have yourself a laugh. How this crew (that whole bottom section) continually gets into McMahon is beyond me. I may print that picture off before Saturday and hand it to the usher in my section on the way in because i'm not putting up with it again.
Having "met" a ton of Rider fans on the internet I would say that individually Rider fans are by far the most obnoxious fans in the CFL and the reason the mob gets the reputation that it does is because of the individuals.
Having been to enough Rider-Stamps games I find the Rider fans tend to way overrate their effect and numbers at McMahon. I haven't had trouble with them there and haven't found them to be that loud or acting like it was a home game.
Going of fansites is a terrible way to evaluate fanbase. I wonder what you think of all the Cannuck trolls. Does that make their fanbase obnoxious.
Going of fansites is a terrible way to evaluate fanbase. I wonder what you think of all the Cannuck trolls. Does that make their fanbase obnoxious.
I'm no Canucks fan, and i'll say as much as I dislike their fans, they are not even close to being on the same level the new breed of Rider fans. I've never had a Canuck fan call me a fag in the bathroom at the Saddledome for having the audacity to wear my Flames jersey to a game in Calgary, i've had that experience a couple times at McMahon from a Riders fan.
