Let me preface this by saying I've watched football all over the country, been in bars and stadiums everywhere, and done some serious research about each and every team. And being a season ticket holder, I've seen the best fans up close and personal so the rest are being judged against the best. So without further ado, let the debate begin:
10. Dallas Cowboys
This fan base, which was really a bunch of band wagon jumpers during the Aikman-Irvin-Emmitt dynasty, apparently has transformed into die-hards. With fans in every city, "America's Team" is wildly popular. Simpletons flock to the star and seem to be enamored with it. Of course, the rules about cheering for a team you have no connection with is still a violation.
9. Chicago Bears
Where else can you not put any kind of offensive threat on the field for 20+ years and still have a packed stadium year after year. Bears fans come out regardless of the absolute crap management keeps rolling out there in Grossman, Orton, Griese, Benson, Salaam, Enis etc.
And, they brave the frigid conditions Chicago has to offer during December. The real test will be this season. After actually re-signing Grossman and probably sporting the worst offense in the NFL, will they come out and show their support?
8. Buffalo Bills
After all the heartbreak of the four Super Bowl losses and the rebuilding years since, these fans pack in every Sunday, usually in negative 10 degree weather to root on the Bills.
Yes you can argue they are on this list out of pure boredom (because what else is there to do in Buffalo), but people in Atlanta, Miami, and Arizona don't show up in perfect weather. The loyalty of a Bills fan can never be questioned.
7. Denver Broncos
Always in the top five of attendance, especially with the hazardous weather Mile High has to offer, Broncos fans also do quite a bit of traveling. I've seen stadiums in Broncos away game that are one-third filled by Denver fans.
That being said, they do have the dumbest "fan participation" since "The Wave." Whenever the opposing QB throws an incompletion, the crowd stands up and screams at the top of their lungs, "IN-COM-PLETE."
After about the fifth time you hear it, you start to question Denver's football IQ. Are they doing it because some of the fans are a little slow, or are they trying to annoy the other team's QB by razzing him with the dumbest response ever invented? Either way, lose it and you might climb the ranks a bit next year folks.
6. Pittsburgh Steelers
The "Stillers" fans are a very annoying bunch. If you ever encounter one and the subject of football comes up, all you'll hear about is how many rings they have. Whatever your argument is, they will counter with that. And, I didn't even bring up the extremely lame "Terrible Towels" that they swing around like they're in a Ricky Martin video.
That being said, they have Heinz field and sports bars around the country rocking on Sundays. They are very passionate about their football and it's completely understandable. Before Sidney Crosby, what else have they had to root for?
5. Green Bay Packers
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Shaun Ahmad 12 months ago
The Redskins have been sold out for decades and the season ticket wait list is first or second out of all teams. That's a significant note you left off.
Also, Oakland and Kansas City fans trump Eagles fans. Just because Philly has the most unruly doesn't make them the best.
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Matt Jacobs 12 months ago
They were under serious consideration except for the fact I went to the Eagles-Redskins game in Washington and it was like we were at a tea party. The 2000 Eagles fans were much louder than the 'Skins.....
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Jason Cottier 12 months ago
The Eagles fans are kinda notorious for hating on their team though.
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Shaun Ahmad 12 months ago
So true.
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Chris D'Aniello 12 months ago
Yea, we expect the 100% best and boo and throw snowballs at anything less. Also, I went to a Redskins game in my Dawkins jersey and no one threw anything at me, yelled at me, i even had a conversation with a guy in neutral colors. I thought he was a Birds fan but he was an Eagles fan.
At the linc, you come in a Skins jersey(or God forbid a T.O. jersey), bring a change of clothes... and some bandaids... and a lawyer.
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Chris D'Aniello 12 months ago
***I typo'd.. replace "he was an Eagles fan" with "he was a Redskins fan"***
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Jeff V 11 months ago
I absolutely hate how Eagles fans are proud that they like to jump opposing fans.
Congratulations, you and your ten friends in McNabb jerseys are able to beat up one fan from out of town!
Class Act.
Philly is a bunch of god damn soccer hooligans. The fact that the Redskins' fans aren't on this list is a joke.
If it wasn't for Cheesesteaks I would completely have no use for the city of brotherly (no homo?) love.
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Matt Jacobs 11 months ago
Seeing as I was at Washington's Poor Excuse for a stadium last year, and you could hear a pin drop because all the fans were dressed like women, I'm going to go ahead and say your brokeback fans dont deserve any spot on this list
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Seahawks fan 8 months ago
hawks are the loudest in the NFL but no one can admit it
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Gregg 3 months ago
The Packers have the longest waiting list to get tickets to any soprting event. The year on the waiting list is over 48 years and we have the longest sellout in all of the NFL. THey are the most royal fans to the game ever
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Joe Willett 12 months ago
You forgot a few names in the Bears list of bad offensive players...And by a few I mean a lot...a lot.
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Matt Jacobs 12 months ago
I know. Pretty much every offensive player other than Neil Anderson.
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Michoel Botwinick 12 months ago
Great article! It seems that in every list of the Top Ten Worst Fan Bases and the Top Ten Best Fan Bases that I find, the Eagles always end up pretty close to Number One. I guess it all depends on your perspective, then.
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Duane Burgen 12 months ago
In my "unbiased" opinion I would rank Denver #1, KC #2, Oakland #3, and San Diego #32. It's still sweet that 3/4 of the AFC west made your top 7. If only Charger fan would pull their collective heads out of the Pacific Beach sand, put their surf boards up from September to December, and pretend it's getting cold, they might start to move up the list.
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Bob Roberts 12 months ago
The raiders can't even sell out and they're #3?
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Bob Geist 12 months ago
I have lived in Kansas City for 8 years and they meay have the loudest stadium in the NFL, they truly have some of the worst fans I have ever seen.
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Brandon R 11 months ago
What? You're a retard? Oh, I'm a fan of the Eagles and I call them the loudest, smartest fans. I'm sure everyone will take me seriously. Even though Eagles fans are probably the WORST people imaginable. Who cares about booing santa...that just makes you guys retards. But makes you horrible people is cheering when Michael Irvin landed on his head and was laying there motionless possibly paralyzed...possibly dead. You dispicable sons of bitches cheered a man who was obviously injured. Never before in my life have I seen such behavior. There's a reason there's a jail in your stadium. Its because you're a bunch of classless thugs. I've heard horror stories of fans from other teams being assaulted, raped, and mugged at Eagles games. How does that make you guys the best fans? You're the first people to throw your own players under the bus and the first to claim supremecy after a win. Everything about you makes me want to vomit.
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Joe Johnson 11 months ago
I grew up around Philly my whole life. Almost everyone I knew was an Eagles fan. They have long desired to lay claim to the "best fans" title, when really they are just the most drunk, most obnoxious, and most violent. It is sad, but interesting, how they perpetually excuse assault and violent behavior inflicted upon opposing fans as "passion". Brilliant! Under the laws of the land, this "fan" should be convicted of assault, battery, attempted murder, etc., but b/c he is an Eagles fan, it's not a crime--it's PASSION! I wonder if that defense would hold up in court? "Your Honor, I didn't do anything wrong by beating the crap out of that guy. I'm just passionate about my hate for him!" So, I suppose the fan that, say, actually murders an opposing team's fan would be the most passionate fan of all? Maybe one day, Eagles fans will realize the absurdity of that rationale, the rationale that holds the following to be true: b/c we (Eagles fans) do not like individual x--b/c he is a wearing another team's jersey e.g.,--we have license to do whatever we want to him, up to and including bodily harm (or worse), and we are justified in committing any violent behavior against him or her with impunity (i.e., the law will not hold us responsible). I hope Eagles fans that so cherish this reputation TRULY understand what they are so proud of: being willing to be the most violent fans and delighting in others' pain and suffering. Claiming that as the basis for being the "best" fans is like claiming Nazis were the best citizens b/c they were so "passionate" about their country, or terrorists are the best practitioners of their faith b/c they are so "passionate" about their religion. It may sound extreme, but it is the same mentality--one that justifies savagely violent behavior toward another individual merely b/c you do not "like" who they are, or what they are wearing, what they represent, stand for, etc. If that is being "the best", then they are welcome to it. You would think there would be a higher/better standard for excellence.
Oh, and btw, Eagles fans are no where near the most knowledgeable. I've been all over the country, been to all different stadiums, and talked to all different types of fans. That's really just the author being a total homer. Of course he thinks his team's fans are the most knowledgeable.
The other sad truth is that for all their supposed devotion, when the Eagles suck, the area is DEAD for Eagles interest. Sports radio stops talking about them almost completely. Fans stop wearing their Eagles shirts/jerseys. People stop putting out Eagles signs/flags etc. It is only when they start looking good again that the fans start being interested again. Die hard my ass. It is SILENT when they aren't looking "great". They are also the first fans to turn on their own team and players--often for no reason, or b/c of the slightest, most insignificant thing. Once again, if that is "the best", it's all yours!
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D K 10 months ago
WHAT A JOKE!
The Eagles... pathetic team, moron fans. It's easy to be a supporter in the dead of winter with a ton of booze swimming around your belly keeping you warm... That my friend is why they have a jail. Not for passionate fans, but for a pack of drunken buffoons who wouldn't know a winner if it threw up next to them.
LOL! GOT FIVE? WE DO! Wanna borrow one? It's as close as an eagles fan will ever get.
STEELER PRIDE WORLDWIDE!
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arty lange 9 months ago
to D, steelers fan -
your mom is a dirty whore and pittsturd stinks.
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Donna Murphy 9 months ago
What about Pittsburg and Green Bay? I'm not a great fan of either one, but I know that they both have phenominal fan bases. What's the criteria for this list anyway?? Personally, I'm a Denver fan, and I know from personal experience that if you want season tickets from that franchise, once you get in line, you'll be lucky if your grandchildren get them. I also know that they are intelligent fans. Just because they have a quirky saying, (incomplete) one of hundreds used in the league by fans, doesn't make them stupid. I sat at "the fumble" AFC Championship game against Cleveland as well as other Denver/Cleveland games back in the day, and we liked to chant "BERRRNIE" to Bernie Kosar. As you might try to say, we didn't need to do that to remember his name, DAH. We did it to knock him out of his comfort zone, and we did it because it was fun. Sometimes it worked, but regardless, taking something that fans do to add to the enjoyment of the game and calling them stupid for it is what is really stupid. Worse than that, it's obnoxiously ignorant and arrogant. Unlike other fans, particularly Buffalo, they know and admit why their team doesn't do well when it doesn't. Their knowledge base for explanations expands far beyond the typical "bad weather" or "bad call" that you hear from so many other fans explaining the losses of their teams. Speaking of Buffalo, where are you getting your information? At least twice a season, Ralph Wilson has to buy up the remaining balance of unsold tickets for home games so that the games can be locally televised. Some fans. Only a moron would place them so close to Denver on the list. Can anyone make one of these lists?
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Seahawks fan 8 months ago
How can the seahawks not be on the list. The seahawks have the loudest stadium in the NFL and its not even a dome. We are as loud as a boeing 747. On the opening day tickets are available they are immediately sold out. Oakland can't even sell out a game and they have to share it with a baseball field. must suck. and just because the philly fans can beat up somebody doesn't make them the best fans.
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David B 5 months ago
Let me end this debate right here and now. I think the Eagles have a good organization but Eagles fans are a joke. I grew up in the Pittsburgh area and am naturally a Steelers fan. They are the best fans, bar none. Work and marriage brought me to New Jersey about twenty years ago. Around ten years ago I decided I wanted to get season tickets so I could go watch some NFL games plus my son was getting old enough and he wanted to go as well. Pittsburgh was too far to drive every other Sunday and there weren't any Steelers season tickets to be had anyway, so I focused on more local teams. I called the Jets ticket office to inquire about season ticket availability and they said there was a 10 year waiting list. I called the Giants ticket office. Twenty year waiting list. Then I called the Eagles ticket office. Their response was how many do you want. They were so anxious to sell them that seats in the 700 level at Veterans Stadium were going for a 50% discount from face value. I can't imagine that ever happening in Pittsburgh, or in many other NFL cities for that matter. 'Nuff said.
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Matt Jacobs 5 months ago
Seeing as there is a waiting list of 180,000 people for Eagles tickets.....and I do know that for a fact since my brother works for them.....I find your half assed story hard to believe. And please stop with your joke of a Steeley McBeam Team.
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David B 5 months ago
Sorry Matt, you're wrong. I've been an Eagles season ticket holder since 1999 and in 1999 when they were still shitty, there was no, repeat NO, wating list. They were practically giving them away. Sure there's a wating list now that they're a good team. Which only proves my point that Eagles fans are fair weather fans. Check with your brother and then get back to me.
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Matt Jacobs 5 months ago
Sorry, but you're wrong and stupid. Not to mention anyone from NJ has no credibility.
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David B 5 months ago
Real mature. Calling someone names doesn't obscure the fact that you are wrong. Was there a waiting list in 1999 or wasn't there? I can give you all the details you want. Where my seat was. How much I paid. I can call the ticket office myself and verify all that I'm saying is true. What are you going to do now, call me more names?
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Matt Jacobs 5 months ago
Actually, I have written proof and facts to back me up. You have nothing. See, when you write something of this nature, you have to do a little homework. I don't care that you called and magically got tickets. The facts and the numbers I have are more believable than some chump Stillers fan who buys tickets to another team's games and who has an agenda while writing his comment.
You have no proof, no credibility, and are now wasting my time. Go back to time out before I make you look even more dumb.
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David B 5 months ago
I should have expected this. I will repeat - when I called the ticket office in 1999, they asked me how many season tickets I wanted. It wasn't magic. Eagles fans were staying away from the Vet in droves. Remember the Rich Kotite years, the Ray Rhodes years. The only magic is that you ever got to write an article on anything.
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Matt Jacobs 5 months ago
Nice ammo. "I called once and got tickets in 1999".
I have factual evidence that you are dead wrong. Where's yours? Exactly.
Seeing as my brother works in premium seating and he sent me over real live PROOF, I'm going to trust the numbers that are on Philadelphia Eagles letterhead over some turd who made a phone call 10 yrs ago with an agenda to try and prove Stiller fans are better than Eagle fans.
Done yet? I could go on making you look stupid all night son. By the way, nice repertoire you've written....
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David B 5 months ago
I didn't just make a phone call. I've been a season ticket holder since 1999 as are a lot of my friends and in-laws. So your brother is essentially calling me a liar on Philadelphia Eagles letterhead. Sure would like to see a copy of that. Why don't you post it. I'm sure other readers would love to see PROOF of how loyal Eagles fans are through thick and thin.
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Matt Jacobs 5 months ago
Yawn.....you made one phone call. That's your proof? And now being a season ticket holder of a team you don't even like is supposed to prove to me....beyond the shadow of a doubt.....that I'm wrong?
I have proof that came from the organization itself....you have season tickets.....you must be right! hahahaha
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David B 5 months ago
Well then, let's see the proof. Post it for all of your readers to see. Was there a waiting list in 1999 or wasn't there?
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Matt Jacobs 5 months ago
Yes there was an it was over 100K people. You tell me where I can scan this in and post genius.
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David B 5 months ago
Then how did I get season tickets if I was never on a waiting list of any kind?
You know, Eagles fans remind me a lot of the way Red Sox fans used to be before they finally won a title recently. I lived up in Boston in the eighties and the games at Fenway were fun to go to but Jesus, the Red Sox fans were insufferable. They had such an inferiority complex about the Yankees, I almost felt embarrassed for them if it wasn't for the fact that they were so obnoxious. Because the Yankees had won 26 titles since the Red Sox had won their last in 1918, they seemed to go out of their way to tell anyone that would listen about what great fans they were and how great their ballpark was. It was like, I can't wait for you guys to win a title so you'll just shut up.
Same thing with Eagles fans. Look, Philadelphia is a great sports town. No question about it. It's a great baseball town. It's an even greater basketball town, historically speaking. But it's not a football town. Never has been and never will be. Pittsburgh is a football town. Get it. Not Philly. You got zippo Super Bowl titles, not to mention the fact that every other team in your division has a minimum of three. No major college based anywhere near Philly has ever won a national title in football. And as far as high school talent, forget it. Western PA has about 4 times as many home grown Hall of Famers as does eastern PA. You got nothing. Nada. Zip. It's like with the Red Sox fans. Just win a title for Christ's sake and shut up.
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Matt Jacobs 5 months ago
Hahahahaha after that completely incompetent paragraph, I'm done wasting my time with you. You're not from here, therefore, you don't understand this town. This is, and has been for the last 30 years, a football town first and foremost. Rings do not matter when it comes to what sport the fans of this city care about most.
You have no proof to back anything you say up.......and just keep repeating you somehow got season tickets. Fantastic argument Forrest Gump....fantastic!
Keep up the inbreeding in Western PA redneck
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David B 5 months ago
30 years a football town??? You seem to be a nice guy Matt but a little factually challenged, so I'll help you out. OK? This is right off the Philadelphia Eagles website. I'll even give you the URL address right here.
http://www.philadelphiaeagles.com/team/AttendanceInfo19802006.asp
If you care to check the attendance figures, you'll see some interesting statistics. Bear in mind these are reported paid attendance numbers. How many people actually showed up would be slightly lower. I'll even do the math for you. During the ten year period from 1980 to 1989, the average per game attendance was 60,912. During the ten year period from 1990 to 1999, the average per game attendance was 63,953. Over the entire 20 year period, average per game attandance was 62,432. Seating capacity at the Vet for football was 65,352. So for the twenty year period from 1980 to 1999. there were, on average, approximately 3,000 unsold seats per game. The numbers don't lie.
Just forgetting my own personal story for a moment, I don't there is a reasonable person alive that would conclude from these numbers that the Eagles had a waiting list for season tickets during this period. Again, this is from the Eagles official website.
What was that whoooosh sound I just heard. Oh, it was the air rushing out of your overinflated balloon. You've just been had in a major way, dude.
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Matt Jacobs 5 months ago
Wow you are truly a simpleton. Those are ATTENDANCE numbers. Much different than season ticket holder information.....which is what you originially claimed as your argument. Attendance numbers prove nothing!! Get some SEASON TICKET SALES numbers and then get back to me genius. Your "3000 seats" prove that they just didn't go to the game......
How embarrassing.....This chump can't even figure out the correct proof he needs to back up his inept argument! Hahaha....
It's like trying to watch a retard climb a hill. Hooray, he thinks he climbed it....but he' still a retard.
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David B 5 months ago
Wrong again boy wonder. The numbers are PAID attendance, which would include season ticket holders. And even if your arguement had any validity, which it doesn't, why are 3,000 ticket holders not going to the games. Why the empty seats if the Eagles fans are so passionate? You can't answer that one. You're just digging yourself a deeper and deeper hole, aren't you.
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Matt Jacobs 5 months ago
Simpeton, show me where it says PAID attendance. Oh wait, you can't. It's the number of turnstyles pushed.....know how I know that, I ASKED AFTER I FOUND THAT PAGE GENIUS!!!!
And, the reason is because how many times does the last game mean anything in a season? If the team is not a playoff team, why would you waste your time? If the team already clinched a bye and is resting players, why would you go? Now, could you possible understand why 50K would show up instead of 65K? Oh that didn't cross your uneducated simpleton mind did it?
In 2004, the Eagles were 13-1 and had only 45,000 people for the last game against Cincinnati. Why? Because it was a meaningless game!!
Any more meatballs you want me to knock out of the park genius? Btw, still waiting on any shred of proof you can dig up to back up your magical phone call for season tickets.
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David B 5 months ago
Why would you waste your time??? Are you kidding me? You just keep proving my point about Eagles fans being fair weather fans. I don't even have to work hard at this.
So if your team is out of the playoffs and it's a late season game, you question why one would bother. Here's your exact words from your most recent post.
"If the team is not a playoff team, why would you waste your time?"
You're an idiot if you think you have any credibility making statements like this one and then saying that Eagles fans are the best fans. I can't believe how contradictory those statements/positions are. How did you ever get a job writing about this stuff when you don't even seem to have the faintest concept of logical or cohesive thoughts.
Trust me lightweight, there are no meaningless games in Steeler nation.
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Matt Jacobs 5 months ago
So wait, I totally discredit your argument (and make you look ridiculously stupid while doing it) and you change the spin to your argument yet again? You're a joke. Can't you just stick to your original argument or are you just attention starved?
How can you possibly have any sort of argument about this when: 1) You haven't lived here your whole life against someone who has? I don't go to Miami and try and tell them about their fans. 2) You have not one ounce of proof, evidence, or anything to back up any of the statements you make. You make completely incompetent statements and then back them up with information that has nothing to do with the argument. Explain where the logic and cohesive thoughts are in that?
Trust me inbred, you have no idea about the best fan base in the NFL. Stick to your Iron City and mayo sandwiches and leave the football talk to us educated folks.
You can now have the last word attention starved child....
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David B 5 months ago
I'm just using your own words against you. My original contention was that Eagles fans are fair weather fans and you've basically proved it for me with your patently Philadelphian idea that why would fans bother going to a game if their team was out of the playoffs. You did say that, didn't you? Please explain how the best football fans in the world would have this attitude.
As far as your other arguments, I'd try and explain to you what an ad hominem argument is but I don't think you'd get it so I won't bother.
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Matt Jacobs 5 months ago
Yawn....it's over. I won every piece of this argument because you have nothing to backup any sliver of your opinion.
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David B 5 months ago
Naw, it's not over. I want to see you dig yourself in even deeper. You said in an earlier post:
"If the team is not a playoff team, why would you waste your time? If the team already clinched a bye and is resting players, why would you go? ..........In 2004, the Eagles were 13-1 and had only 45,000 people for the last game against Cincinnati. Why? Because it was a meaningless game!!"
So let me get this straight, your team is in the playoffs and in the final regular season game before the playoffs start, only 45,000 fans show up. (These are your facts, not mine, by the way.) Some send off all of you loyal Eagles fans gave your team.
Come on, be a man. Don't just call me names like some pre-school toddler. Give me a good reason why the supposedly best fans in the world (according to you) would stay away from the home game of a team that was heading to the playoffs.
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David B 5 months ago
Oh, minor technical point. You said the Eagles were 13-1 heading into their final game against Cincinnati. They were actually 13-2 heading into that game. Last game would be the 16th game of the season. 13 + 2 = 15, so the Eagles would have been 13-2. You seem to have trouble with numbers and are kind of making it up as you go along so I wanted to set you straight. No biggie, sport.
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Matt Jacobs 5 months ago
So I guess we're done talking about season tickets and how you magically got them by just calling the office and then trying to prove your point by giving me attendance numbers? Guess there wasn't anywhere to go with that since I smacked you down and layed my balls on your forehead.
Next, they were 13-1 and the last TWO games meant nothing. I'm sure the fans love watching backups play two meaningless games which are basically on par with pre-season games. There's nothing to be gained by going......which is why people don't go to pre-season games either genius (in ANY city).
Please keep this going....you just change point after point and try to jump around to anything else that could possibly give you any sort of an edge and I just continually knock all your crap out of the park.
Now listen here attention starved twat, go back to the J.V. league and leave the real writing to us educated folks who actually have facts to back up their arguments instead of just wildly stating incompetent opinions. I'm now done wasting my time with you. You're a joke and I'm losing interest in making you look THIS stupid. Enjoy your last word attention starved BITCH
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