Hilarious, Philly fans rule. I keep half an eye on any major sporting or entertainment event that happens in that town, Philly will turn real ugly on anyone in a heartbeat and it is always a treat to watch it all unfold.
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The greatest heckling that ever took place in Philly was what Bill Burr did to the crowd in Philly. Just google 'bill burr Philadelphia incident' and buckle in. Won't even link it, as it is mega NSFW.
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The greatest heckling that ever took place in Philly was what Bill Burr did to the crowd in Philly. Just google 'bill burr Philadelphia incident' and buckle in. Won't even link it, as it is mega NSFW.
So awesome! I could quote that one all day
One bridge having POS city that no one give a #### about
Standing backstage for 3 hours to get boo'd by this GED stupid ass ####ing crowd, ####ing losers
One bridge having POS city that no one give a #### about
Standing backstage for 3 hours to get boo'd by this GED stupid ass ####ing crowd, ####ing losers
The Rocky part was my favorite.
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F-ing Rocky is your hero. The whole pride of your city is built around a an F-ing guy who doesn't even exist. You got Joe Frazier from here but he's black so you can't F-ing deal with him, so you make a statue for some 3ft Italian you stupid philly cheese eatin F-ing jackasses!
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It has been said. Eagle/Flyer fans boo'd Santa. That is just bizarre.
But this she said no is quite the heckle by the crowd to get under the opponent's star player.
Yeah, throwing bananas at Africans, and giving the Nazi salute are perfectly acceptable behavior......
Really?
Engaging in a bit of banter at sporting events unavoidably leads to racist and fascist chanting? After chanting "You're Practically Welsh" to the Reading fans yesterday, I don't recall them making monkey sounds at me or any of our players with African heritage. No wonder the Dome can be such a library...
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Does anyone know if it's been said that Philidelphia sports fans boo Santa Clause and safe landings at the airport? I won't know until fifteen posters have stated it in this thread.
I personally think the Philly cynicism is frikking hilarious. Such a bunch of grumpy, mad at the world a-holes. They are like the anti-city, hyper critical of anyone or anything.
I would love to see one of these new age amateur soccer games where there's "no score and everyone is special" attended by a bunch of Philly fans. They'd probably be chucking batteries at the kids when they were being awarded their participant ribbons.
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I'm okay with this. To be a little more correct they should be saying she said she said no.
But in terms of gold digger v rapist I'll got with the statistics. The notion of innocent until proven guilty applies to losing your freedom and is set up to let guilty people free so less innocent people go to prison. This is a good thing. However innocent until proven guilty does not protect you from jeering in sporting events
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I'll save you some time and cash for the future - if you ever travel to Europe, do NOT go and watch live sport. Your jimmies gonna get rustled. Australia too. Actually...everywhere in the world outside of Canada.
We went to a football game in Brazil, and were asked when we bought the tickets which team we were supporting. I said, "I dunno, home team, I guess" since we were just going for the spectacle/experience.
And it was a spectacle. The home fans were all in one section, yelling, singing, passing banners, etc. Then there was a giant fence, and two empty sections of seats with nobody in them except armed guards, and then another giant fence, and then the section of the stadium where the visiting teams fans were.
I would suggest Philly has nothing on that. The concierge at the hotel and the cab driver both strongly suggested we leave early, so we did. Although the thoroughness of the pat down on the way in suggests to me you'd have to be very, very motivated to get a weapon into the stadium.
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Philadelphia's nickname may be "The City of Brotherly Love," but sports fans in that metropolis are notorious for a lack of fraternal affection: According to reputation, Philadelphia fans love a winner (who doesn't?) but will mercilessly turn on any players or team that don't live up to expectations, no matter how brilliant their past performances. No single image sums up that reputation more succinctly than the claim (as expressed in the examples cited above) that fans in Philadelphia once booed and pelted with snowballs that most inoffensive, beloved, and benevolent of figures, Santa Claus himself. The claim is true, although the potentially mitigating circumstances under which the incident occurred typically go unmentioned.
Fans in Philadelphia once booed and threw snowballs at Santa Claus
"That's when the booing started. At first, I was scared because it was so loud. But then I figured, hey, it was just good-natured teasing. I'm a Philadelphia fan, I knew what was what. I thought it was funny."
When Olivo finished his run down Santa Claus Lane, he got into range. A fan in the upper deck threw the first snowball. As Santa hit the south end zone, one turned into ten, then into 100.
"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.
"Oh, I got pelted," Olivo says. He remembers being hit by several dozen snowballs, which suggests that many of the upper-deck denizens were more accurate passers than [the Eagles' quarterback]. "I didn't mind," he says. "I started kibitzing with some of the people throwing the snowballs."
Still, he had his limits. "When I finished, Mr. Mullen asked if I wanted to do it again the next year," Olivo says. "I told him, 'No way. If it doesn't snow, they'll probably throw beer bottles."
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Engaging in a bit of banter at sporting events unavoidably leads to racist and fascist chanting? After chanting "You're Practically Welsh" to the Reading fans yesterday, I don't recall them making monkey sounds at me or any of our players with African heritage. No wonder the Dome can be such a library...
It's quiet convenient of you to leave out the post I was responding to, so the reader is left to guess what context it was used in...
Philly fans are known to get vocal and be ruthless during sporting events but I don't think anyone surpasses Vancouverites rioting after a loss and literally trying to burn down their downtown core.
Vancouver fans are definitely the worst fans I'd say and it's even worse because it's a documented pattern with them that spans a different generation completely when they did it in 94 and then again in 2011! Many rioters in 2011 were under 10 years old in 94!
I personally think the Philly cynicism is frikking hilarious. Such a bunch of grumpy, mad at the world a-holes. They are like the anti-city, hyper critical of anyone or anything.
I would love to see one of these new age amateur soccer games where there's "no score and everyone is special" attended by a bunch of Philly fans. They'd probably be chucking batteries at the kids when they were being awarded their participant ribbons.
I became an Eagles fan when I was 14 and visiting Philly. Back then I wasn't the massive NFL fan that am now, so I didn't really have any awareness of the reputation that Philly fans had. Anyways, I was sitting with some fans at the Vet and Eagles botched a play pretty badly and almost on extinct, I just started booing....and I pretty much fit right in. The whole stadium was just booing the #### out of the team when they left the field at halftime. Like the loudest booing I've ever heard at any public event.
