Let me start off by saying that Philadelphia is the best sports city in the world. I truly bleed green, orange, red and black. I have been offered the chance to do some blogging on www.philly-sports.net/philadelphia. I would like to thank them for this opportunity. If you enjoy this article, please check out my website at http://www.marianosrealm.blogspot.com/
If you want to see something hilarious, go to http://www.youtube.com/ and search "cowboys suck". There is a small war going on between Eagles and Cowboys fans on this website. As of now, it is seemingly playful fun. What is discouraging is how fans from other cities only remember the bad stuff about us. Santa Claus, Jimmy Johnson and Michael Irvin, the usual tourist myths. I was pissed by the way Philly fans were described below. The following was written in the St Petersburg times in 2003.
"As hosts, Philadelphia sports fans have, well, outdone themselves. Years of fisticuffs and upturned beers and taunting -- even Santa Claus was bombed with snowballs during a halftime show -- have given them a well-deserved reputation for inhospitality and even violence toward rival fans. "
Give me a break, now a days security comes over if you call someone an asshole. Our fans come off as brash and in your face because of our desire to see our teams win. Ladies and gentleman, this is called passion. It is what makes us get excited every year in April for the Phillies, even though they haven't made the playoffs since 1993 and we swore we would never watch them again after last year. In October, even though the Flyers lost Game 7 to the Lightning and broke our hearts 5 months ago, we still turn on the tube and start the ride all over again. We can't help it.
The thing that outsiders do not understand is that we even boo our own players when they screw up. We recognize the need to let our players know when they are not doing their job. We make our players work and earn their paychecks. The formula to success in Philadelphia is simple: Come to practice, play hard, and execute. This is not rocket science. We are a hard working, mainly middle class, blue collar city. Our grandfathers were electricians and carpenters. We know all about hard work. It is in our blood.
"As hosts, Philadelphia sports fans have, well, outdone themselves. Years of fisticuffs and upturned beers and taunting -- even Santa Claus was bombed with snowballs during a halftime show -- have given them a well-deserved reputation for inhospitality and even violence toward rival fans. "
Give me a break, now a days security comes over if you call someone an asshole. Our fans come off as brash and in your face because of our desire to see our teams win. Ladies and gentleman, this is called passion. It is what makes us get excited every year in April for the Phillies, even though they haven't made the playoffs since 1993 and we swore we would never watch them again after last year. In October, even though the Flyers lost Game 7 to the Lightning and broke our hearts 5 months ago, we still turn on the tube and start the ride all over again. We can't help it.
The thing that outsiders do not understand is that we even boo our own players when they screw up. We recognize the need to let our players know when they are not doing their job. We make our players work and earn their paychecks. The formula to success in Philadelphia is simple: Come to practice, play hard, and execute. This is not rocket science. We are a hard working, mainly middle class, blue collar city. Our grandfathers were electricians and carpenters. We know all about hard work. It is in our blood.
In fact, we despise athletes who don't give 120%.
Take a look at #81 on Dallas. He implodes the Eagles 2005 season and then is lucky enough to get a good deal with the Cowboys. What does he do? He comes to Dallas and doesn't want to practice. He is on the job for one week, making millions of dollars and he can't practice because he doesn't want to run in the August heat. Those types of players don't last at all in Philadelphia, hence was the case with #81 during his second and final year here.
Our fans know a primadonna when we see one. Regardless of what people think of Philadelphia fans, I am glad and proud to be part of what I have coined " A Unification of Brotherly Love"
"ONE TEAM.. ONE CITY.. ONE DREAM.."
Quote that in the Times.
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