Eagles, Phillies top GQ list of 'Worst Fans in America'
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Eagles, Phillies top GQ list of 'Worst Fans in America'
Well, here we go again. Another national survey, another shot at Philadelphia sports fans.
GQ is the latest, and yes, the tired refrain of booing Santa Claus is mentioned. And as usual, the methodology is suspect, and there are tons of stereotypes. Maybe image is everything.
The Worst Fans in America list has Eagles fans and Phillies fans tied at the top. Our town is dubbed home of the "Meanest Fans in America."
Here is what the magazine says about Eagles and Phillies fans, and this saves you the time of flipping through the slides, and maybe even takes some web traffic away from GQ.
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-endi ng 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. The truth is this: All told, Philadelphia stadiums house the most monstrous collection of humanity outside of the federal penal system. "Some of these people would boo the crack in the Liberty Bell," baseball legend Pete Rose once said. More likely, these savages would have thrown the battery that cracked it.
Here is the Top 10.
1. Philadelphia Eagles
tie.. Philadelphia Phillies
3. West Virginia Mountaineers
4. Oakland Raiders
5. Maryland Terps basketball
6. Boston Red Sox
7. Penn State football
8. Duke basketball
9. New York Yankees
10. LSU football
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Let me start out saying that Philadelphia have the best fans in America. Football, baseball, hockey, soccer or basketball. This city and the fans care so much about the teams. I love every philadelphia team and all we want is to see our team win and win championships so this list is bull. They have Penn state football on the list so it is clear that whoever came out with this hates pennsylvania for some reason.— briandawkins20
Yeah, well... @#$% GQ.— Raggamonkey- As if we care.— riles1875
- Notice that all of the teams listed in the Top 10 are those with probably the most die-hard passionate fans in the country, whether you love or hate the team.— NJ X-man
- Whoever wrote that article is doing nothing more than regurgitating incidents that he's read about in other articles. Let people believe what they want to believe. Those of us who are Philly sports fans...do we REALLY care what GQ has to say? Didn't think so.— PatXMM
- Further proof that the only redeeming value to GQ is the hot girls. Certainly not the articles.— everydayguy
- Whatever what sports fan read that magazine anyway, they may have just said "all sports fans" top their list followed by "anyone else that doesnt read our magazine". I guess Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee, and Roy Oswalt didnt think it was too bad. They need some new material everybody cheers for guys that get tasered lol— MTust24
- GQ is still published?— AEPi71
- I am beginning to think that if we were NOT choosen the "worst fans in America" we would be disappointed. Personally I believe I will celebrate my love of the city's teams and continue to flip off anyone that bad mouths them!— unbelieveable!
- By their standards, the best fans to them would probably be the Pittsburg Pirates fans (the whole 12 of them). They show up at the games as though they have been hit by tranquilizer darts... Just show up at the games and be docile. What the heck do they have to cheer for? Raucous fans obvious have something to be excited for and I'll take that any day, call it what you want.— mrbean
- Whats a magazine? I think I remember hearing about things like that from my grandfather.
Wanna know why Philly fans really get a bad rep? It's one of the few places where the fans actually care about the outcome of games/seasons. When it goes wrong there is booing. In other cities the fans dont care enough to express displeasure.— HitsLikeAGurlBurrel - PSU fans are much worse than Eagles fans. I've seen two full on riots. Eagles fans are pieces of you know what (for the most part) but they don't commit grand criminal acts. I once saw about 20-30 students rock a streetlight from it's mooring and throw it down the hill, barely missing a drunk girl not paying attention to the potential doom above her. Fires, throwing bottles, jumping on cars, etc.— Murrayman
- I was there for two of them. We PSU fans do deserve a spot on this list. We are also the least welcoming fans in the Big 10. I've been to road games and there is no question that us and Ohio State treat road fans badly. — MattPSU
- WE'RE BACK BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOMEONE NEEDS TO SEND GQ SOME FLYERS TICKETS— Setdawgy
- BWAHAHAHAHA!!!! GQ what a joke. The magazine that can be blamed for the metrosexual. These are the clowns that drink white zinfindel at the football game...— StJames888
