Eagles, Phillies top GQ list of 'Worst Fans in America'
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Eagles, Phillies top GQ list of 'Worst Fans in America'
Daily News staff
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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Love how "Gentleman's Quarterly" throws the word 'savages' out there. Is this rag supposed to set some kind of standard for what a true gentleman is?...Didn't know false elitism was the equivalent of gentlemanly.— High Hopes- It's written by, edited by, and published by people who live in New York. What else do you need to know. And again they can't even get their facts straight. Fans threw snowballs at Santa Claus. Yawn.— andrewfrombrooklyn
- Funny how Phils and Eagles take the top two spots when the fans for both teams are the same.— lefty1117
- we're numba one - HEY! we're numba one - HEY! we're numba one - HEY!— bubba church & granny hamner
- GQ isn't relevant now and the Tonner's pretty sure it never was. It should have been put out to pasture with Studio 54.— hunglikeaton
- Whatever... Cliff Lee didn't think so!— landisj2
- What? Flyers fans not on the list? Now you know that this is a sham list!! Tie Domi just fell out of his retirement chair!! GQ is for putty cats!— mqmichael
- wow, the teams that continuously fill the seats have the worst fans? How about the Milwaukee Brewers whose fans show up in the 3rd inning drunk after drinking in the parking lot all day and leave in the 6th inning to go drink some more??— krazylegs
- Try coming here and see all the bandwagon fans that will cheer for anyone who wins. I am not talking about tourists. It is all the yankees cowboys and stellers fans. I have been seeing some Phillies stuff lately.— exphillyinvegas
- Go Philly fans...We're #1.......wooooohooooooooo— philligrl
- Well, consider the source. I'm sure the GQ lads are more at home at the ballet or Mummenshanz than they are at a sports event -- unless it is to admire the wave in Cole Hamels hair..............— BillyFortune
- Nose deaf. Everyone else thinks you smell but you have become used to the smell of your own stench you don't notice and actually think you are supposed to smell that way.
The same principle applies to your extremely bad behavior at sporting events. You may not think your a huge dbag but that is only because you have become nose deaf to dbag behavior.
10 bucks says Chase Utley gets booed at home week one!
— DodgerH8ter - I never heard of the hand transplant story. Epic.— dutynco
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