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[TheMalcolmConnection]

There's the select group of crazy fans, but the majority just blindly pledge their allegiance. Or at least it seems like that where I live. I try to talk baseball with both sets of fans and they really don't know what's going on. They're like, "Well, I was born here so I'm a huge fan!"

[PSUSkinsFan21]

Originally Posted by TheMalcolmConnection

There's the select group of crazy fans, but the majority just blindly pledge their allegiance. Or at least it seems like that where I live. I try to talk baseball with both sets of fans and they really don't know what's going on. They're like, "Well, I was born here so I'm a huge fan!"

Yah, I think most baseball fans are like that, but then again, most football fans are too. Outside of forums like these, most football "fans" don't know as much about their team as I do. At the lunch table the other day I had to educate about 4 Eagles fans as to who their top 5 receivers are. This past weekend, cousins of ours were visiting who grew up in and live in the D.C. area and are "big" skins fans. In talking with them, however, it became very obvious that they were fans, but didn't know half as much about the Skins as I would have assumed every Skins fan knows. And they go to almost every game.

On the flip side, my buddy is a huge Red Sox fan. He not only knows more about the Red Sox than anyone else I know, but he also knows more about baseball and baseball history than anyone else I've ever met.

Overall though, I do believe football fans in general are more passionate. Just look at those freaks at the Raiders games. When's the last time anybody ever got geeked up like that for a baseball game?

[ArtMonkDrillz]

Originally Posted by PSUSkinsFan21

Overall though, I do believe football fans in general are more passionate. Just look at those freaks at the Raiders games. When's the last time anybody ever got geeked up like that for a baseball game?

That could have to do with the fact that there are 160 baseball games a year adn only 16 football games. It's much easier to get all dressed up and whatnot a few weeks out of the year than it is to do it 80 times a summer.

You ever see one of those guys at a baseball game furiously keeping score/stats in their own notebook? That's pretty hardcore if you think about it.

[724Skinsfan]

Originally Posted by ArtMonkDrillz

That could have to do with the fact that there are 160 baseball games a year adn only 16 football games. It's much easier to get all dressed up and whatnot a few weeks out of the year than it is to do it 80 times a summer.

You ever see one of those guys at a baseball game furiously keeping score/stats in their own notebook? That's pretty hardcore if you think about it.

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[PSUSkinsFan21]

Originally Posted by ArtMonkDrillz

That could have to do with the fact that there are 160 baseball games a year adn only 16 football games. It's much easier to get all dressed up and whatnot a few weeks out of the year than it is to do it 80 times a summer.

You ever see one of those guys at a baseball game furiously keeping score/stats in their own notebook? That's pretty hardcore if you think about it.

That's a really good point. Although even during playoff baseball, you just don't see that absolutely rabidness in the fans eyes that you see on any given week in the NFL. I guess it's just hard to compare. You can't really behave at a baseball game the way you behave at a football game. If I went to a Mets game and started yelling as loud and jumping up and down as much as I do at PSU games, people would 1. Think I was retarded, or 2. Call security to have me escorted out of the stadium (or maybe both).

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by PSUSkinsFan21

That's a really good point. Although even during playoff baseball, you just don't see that absolutely rabidness in the fans eyes that you see on any given week in the NFL. I guess it's just hard to compare. You can't really behave at a baseball game the way you behave at a football game. If I went to a Mets game and started yelling as loud and jumping up and down as much as I do at PSU games, people would 1. Think I was retarded, or 2. Call security to have me escorted out of the stadium (or maybe both).

I think, in part, some of the intensity is because the game itself is a contact sport - played in the trenches. For the most part I think the fans, unconciously, are matching the intensity level and pace of the game.

[724Skinsfan]

Originally Posted by PSUSkinsFan21

That's a really good point. Although even during playoff baseball, you just don't see that absolutely rabidness in the fans eyes that you see on any given week in the NFL. I guess it's just hard to compare. You can't really behave at a baseball game the way you behave at a football game. If I went to a Mets game and started yelling as loud and jumping up and down as much as I do at PSU games, people would 1. Think I was retarded, or 2. Call security to have me escorted out of the stadium (or maybe both).

The only exception to lack of rabid, obnoxious fans at a baseball game would be the Cubs bleacher section.

[Mc2guy]

Originally Posted by 724Skinsfan

The only exception to lack of rabid, obnoxious fans at a baseball game would be the Cubs bleacher section.

Sat in the Wrigley bleacher section last summer for a July 3rd game against the Nationals. It's a day game on a Sunday the day before the 4th of July holiday and it's about 110 degrees in the direct sun in the bleachers so I figure the crowd is going to be flat nasty once the beers start flowing. To top it off, my wife and I are in full Nats gear.

The Nats ended up winning after a 12 inning marathon, and all I heard the entire game was a couple of under the breath comments about "those damn nats fans." No one even sent a harsh word directly our way...I was completely amazed. Cubbies fans were tame. I've seen worse at minor league hockey games.

The most rabid intimidation I have ever seen is at college basketball games...paricularly interconference ACC or SEC games. Kentucky fans are certifiably insane. I went to an Arkansas at Kentucky game with my friend who went to UA once. I thought the bus we were on was going to get tipped over and burned...that is how nutz they are out there over UK B-ball. Same at the last Duke v Maryland game I was at...there is some fanatacizm on display there.

[724Skinsfan]

Right, but it's hard to get pumped up 81 times a year versus only 8 times.