Fan is short for Fanatic!

as a fan, i don't care what is said to me. but i have 2 rules, don't throw shit on me. and don't touch me. that's what makes eagle fans the worse in the world. there is no reason for any physicality over a football game
And that's why I don't want to go up to Philly for the game next week. Apparently one of my friends might be able to get free tickets and he wants to go up there for it but I think I'd rather just watch it on TV.

I go to enough football games that I don't feel like I need to risk life and limb (and balls) to see another one.

The thing the bugs me is the way the thuggery of the Eagles fans gets treated by many in the press as though it were "local color" on the same level as gumbo in New Orleans or crab cakes in Baltimore. "Oh those Eagle fans, ha-ha!"

Chief Z, who underneath his headress and other acoutriment is an elderly black man, was beaten within an inch of his life up there by those criminals. And too many people seem to think that it's cute.

The thing the bugs me is the way the thuggery of the Eagles fans gets treated by many in the press as though it were "local color" on the same level as gumbo in New Orleans or crab cakes in Baltimore. "Oh those Eagle fans, ha-ha!"

Chief Z, who underneath his headress and other acoutriment is an elderly black man, was beaten within an inch of his life up there by those criminals. And too many people seem to think that it's cute.

Good article from a few years back

Open Letter to NFL (http://www.creativecharter.com/Anatomy_of_a_City.htm)