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I hate to pick on Philadelphia fans but my son just showed me a video of Eagle fans jeering Viking fans as they were leaving the stadium, cursing them with the “F” word and giving them the finger.

Nice.
 
There are always the select few bad apples. They also were throwing beer bottles at them.
 
I just saw the some "Patriots" fan spent about $139,000 on 10 Superbowl tickets.
Now, the rumor going around ....:rolleyes2: ..... is that George is taking is loyal T.S. show helper and eight of his best customers.

Well, that's the rumor ....:p

--- LaRRy
 
jazzeum said:
I hate to pick on Philadelphia fans but my son just showed me a video of Eagle fans jeering Viking fans as they were leaving the stadium, cursing them with the “F” word and giving them the finger.

Nice.
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Philly has the angriest fan base of any sports city. I'm not exactly sure why, but it goes back decades. They even hate their own teams. Maybe a history of disappointment in almost every sport. In fairness, though, there are some bad eggs at any sports event where they allow drinking. You don't have to look too hard to find some real idiots.

btw: I just saw the video of the ref patting Tom Brady on the back after the Pats game. Given the penalty disparity in that game and some awful replay reviews in the regular season that went the Pats way, it didn't look too great. If Brady had fired the shots from the Texas School Book Depository, the review officials from those games would have taken a look at the Zapruder film and concluded JFK was not assassinated.
 
Combat said:
Philly has the angriest fan base of any sports city.
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Another police horse was punched by a Philly fan before the NFC championship game.........

Yes, I said "Another", as in it has happened recently before! {sm2}
 
all fan bases have their dark moments...
all of them...
my teams and yours...
all of them...
it's the mob mentality...
take one fool...
fuel in some alcohol...
coupled with 10-20 loudmouths backing you up...
and all fan bases have had those moments that get out of hand...
every team base is guilty of it...
but Philly probably has the worst reputation...
the footage of them pelting Santa Claus with snowballs is their crowning moment...
shockingly hilarious...
 
Any NY fan has no love for Philly: Giants, Mets, Rangers and Jets (0-10 vs Eagles), not to mention the Philly vs NY rivalry. Plus, the traffic is terrible down there ^&grin
 
And we hate New York. Philadelphians have been angry ever since the capital was moved from Philadelphia. It's only gotten worse.

But as far as booing our own teams goes, our relationship is like that of a big brother to a little brother. Sure, we give 'em all a hard time. But no one else can. We also praise them when they succeed. Yes, it's just that those times are few and far between.

And so, we throw snowballs at Santa Claus, and when there are no games scheduled in any sport on any given day, Philly fans go down to the airport and boo take-offs and landings.

I have to say, though, too, that the relationship between Philly and New York is mirrored in the relationship between Philly and the surrounding areas. We like the Philadelphia teams, here in the Lehigh Valley. But we hate the city. It's dirty, smelly, expensive, and overcrowded. There's no Yocco's. And they have a terrible accent. It's like fingernails on a chalkboard.

Also, there are good numbers of fans of other teams here. There are a lot of Yankees and Giants fans here. The Yankees fans started with Italians who moved from New York and northern New Jersey, back in the Thirties and Forties. They were followed by Hispanics since then. There are Cowboys fans, too, but I think they're mostly people who just like attention. And there are more Steelers fans here now, too, than there used to be. You can tell by the radio offerings. Where once we got the Phillies and the Eagles on the radio, now there are local ESPN and CBS Sports affiliates who carry the other teams. There are enough people here who support those teams, to make it profitable.

Prost!
Brad
 
Aside from the regional rivalry and sports, I like the Philly area. Before I retired, I used to travel regularly to our pharma HQ in St David’s (Radnor) and, when they moved it to Collegeville, to Collegeville. I like the area and liked it so much that I was thinking of transferring down there. I also did a few deals in Philly and liked it a lot. Some great restaurants and nice areas. Philly is a big city but has the feel of a large city.
 
Breaking News:

I hear Philly is bringing Richie Kotite in as a special Super Bowl victory consultant.
 
In the illustrious history of Eagles football there are only two players that I can name from memory. Tom Dempsey and Harold Carmichael. Dempsey held the record for longest FG for many years. Carmichael was a man among boys.
 
Combat said:
In the illustrious history of Eagles football there are only two players that I can name from memory. Tom Dempsey and Harold Carmichael. Dempsey held the record for longest FG for many years. Carmichael was a man among boys.
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You don't remember Chuck Bednarik, Ron Jaworski, or Tommy McDonald? Dick Vermeil (yes, not a player, I know)? Or the Eagles' Minister of Defense, Reggie White, leading the Gang Green defense?
 
jazzeum said:
Aside from the regional rivalry and sports, I like the Philly area. Before I retired, I used to travel regularly to our pharma HQ in St David’s (Radnor) and, when they moved it to Collegeville, to Collegeville. I like the area and liked it so much that I was thinking of transferring down there. I also did a few deals in Philly and liked it a lot. Some great restaurants and nice areas. Philly is a big city but has the feel of a large city.
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The area, sure, but not the town. Well, the museums are good, and if you get away from the main axes, there are a lot of nice neighborhoods.

Collegeville, "So named due to Ursinus College being located there", as it states on the PA state historical markers at each end of town. I went to Ursinus. ("A small liberal arts college, located 25 miles northwest of Philadelphia". Also known as "Harvard on the Perkiomen", after a line in some promotional material describing Ursinus as on par with the Ivy League schools.) Collegeville was and still is a nice little down, abutting the campus. But you might not recognize the area anymore. About ten years after I graduated (class of '86), the first of many new developments went up on the land between Germantown Pike (Old 422, as we called it), and the Route 422 bypass to the west. The pharmaceutical companies had established business campuses just off Route 422 as you probably know. Wyeth is out there, or was, and I think Pfizer, and some others. A lot of people moved there, too, and commute back to Philly, or down to Delaware, or back north and west, to Reading, or upper Montgomery County. I hadn't been back to Ursinus since about five years after I graduated, and I was struck by the change. Development is development. I do lament the loss of the dairy farm, Wallaby Farms, which made excellent ice cream. They supplied our dining hall with it, at UC.

I grew up about twelve miles to the east of Collegeville, in Harleysville, ("Named for Jacob Harley, an early settler") on the other side of Montgomery County. It was all still pretty rural, when I was in high school. In the years after, though, the same kind of development took place. A lot more people live in the area now, many of whom commute elsewhere.

Radnor is on the Main Line, where a century ago, wealthier families in Philly had their summer homes. The towns were rechristened by enterprising real estate agents, giving up their Pennsylvania Dutch names for names evoking Old England, or rather, Old Wales. A number of other small colleges are tucked away down there, too, as well as Villanova.

Prost!
Brad
 
I worked for Wyeth and then Pfizer after we were acquired. I like the area although I don’t know it like you do. Phoenixville seems like a great area. A lot of good restaurants.
 
theBaron said:
You don't remember Chuck Bednarik, Ron Jaworski, or Tommy McDonald? Dick Vermeil (yes, not a player, I know)? Or the Eagles' Minister of Defense, Reggie White, leading the Gang Green defense?
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Well, I know the Eagles once had Sonny Jurgensen before trading him the Redskins for Norm Snead. Also there was Norm 'The Ditchman' van Brocklin, Timmy Brown, Pete Retzlaff, and many other names I remember from way back as rivals of the Redskins. Long history to enjoy, so I am pulling for the Eagles as a fellow NFC Easterner. -- Al
 
lancer said:
Well, I know the Eagles once had Sonny Jurgensen before trading him the Redskins for Norm Snead. Also there was Norm 'The Ditchman' van Brocklin, Timmy Brown, Pete Retzlaff, and many other names I remember from way back as rivals of the Redskins. Long history to enjoy, so I am pulling for the Eagles as a fellow NFC Easterner. -- Al
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Forgot to mention Eagles back-up Qb/punter King Hill. I had a Math teacher named Hill when I was in Junior High back in the mid-60's who claimed he was related to King Hill (don't remember if brother, cousin, etc.). -- Al
 
lancer said:
Well, I know the Eagles once had Sonny Jurgensen before trading him the Redskins for Norm Snead. Also there was Norm 'The Ditchman' van Brocklin, Timmy Brown, Pete Retzlaff, and many other names I remember from way back as rivals of the Redskins. Long history to enjoy, so I am pulling for the Eagles as a fellow NFC Easterner. -- Al
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Norm van Brocklin. Now there is a name from the past. I just watched the 1951 NFL championship game on You Tube. LA Rams vs Cleveland Browns. Van Brocklin came in during the 4th quarter and threw a 70+ yd game winning TD pass to Tom Fears. The game was at the LA Coliseum. Almost spooky to see the Rams playing in the same venue over 60 years ago as today. They had the H-shaped goal posts that were placed right in the middle of the end zone but otherwise not much has changed. Toward the end of his life Van Brocklin had some type of brain tumor. He supposedly told the press he needed a brain transplant and was going to request one from a sports writer because he wanted one that had never been used.
 
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