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Originally Posted by Chiefburger
No but cheering every play does? You, the media and others here misrepresent the Philly sports fan because it's more convenient to think of them/us as the loud, crude bunch with a NY inferiority complex than as the passionate type who boo and cheer judiciously, and yes loudly. Helluva lot better than cheering blindly.
But then Phillie fans are at fault for generalizing Cards fans as the self-righteous, passionless type, so it's all good. Great series. Good luck. **** TLR.
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You've got to be kidding, right? Cheering when Craig almost got his face taken off is just the action of a passionate fanbase? To quote the GQ article: "Over the years, Philadelphia fans have booed Santa Claus, their own star players and, most absurdly, the recipient of America's very first hand transplant, whose crime was dribbling in a ceremonial first pitch—thrown with his freshly transplanted hand. Boooo! Admittedly, there are some things fans have cheered. Like Michael Irvin's career-ending neck injury and a fan being tased on the outfield grass. Things reached their nadir last season, when Citizens Bank Park played host to arguably the most heinous incident in the history of sports: A drunken fan intentionally vomited on an 11-year-old girl."
And let us not forget battery night at the ballpark. Seriously, there is a reason the entire country thinks the Philly "fanbase" is a first rate collection of douchebags.