Story: McNabb’s lawn burned with Cardinals cheers.
I say “brainless” for the reason the perps were eventually nabbed.
And then…
Oops!
Perkins and one of his co-workers also hung a Cardinals flag in a tree on McNabb’s property. The Eagles QB laughed it off and even left it hanging. The box didn’t bother him, either. However, the scorched earth that was once his pampered lawn forced the perennial underachiever to contact authorities.
Cardinals fans… adding incivility to injury one lawn at a time.
I’ve never been a huge fan of Donovan’s, but I like the fact he was willing to laugh off the first two episodes like a good sport.
Too bad the “pranksters” were jagoffs who had to keep pushing. A couple days in a jail will be a nice thing for them.
If the opposite had happened here–if Warner owned a home in Philly, and we did this to him–we would NEVER here the end of it. This, however, will be forgotten by the time the Super Bowl rolls around.
TP and eggs are just so high school. Burning stuff with diesel fuel is a MAN’s kind of team spirit.
:rolleyes:
BooHoo
I wonder what the fans would have done if the Cardinals had LOST the NFC Championship game.
Let’s check back in 40 years – if Cards fans spend that time building up the kind of rep that Eagles fans have earned for themselves and something like this gets forgotten quickly, then you’ll have a case.
Doesn’t excuse what these dinks did, of course.
Philly fans aren’t *that *bad, are they?
Philly fans booed Santa Claus.
They haven’t quite gotten to the level of booing puppies and kittens, but puppies and kittens haven’t been part of a half time show during a bad season, yet.
Try Googling “philadelphia fans are the worst”. Hell, kill the bias and Google “worst sports fans”. Go to YouTube and key in “eagles fans” for some prime examples.
A lot of people like to cite the Santa Claus incident (whoop – sorry Cheesesteak, your post came in while I was typing this up), the batteries, the snowballs, the booing of Michael Irvin – hell, the booing of anything that moves – the jail at the Vet, etc. Hell with that. That’s all history…I mean, people still harp on the Santa incident, and it was 40 fricking years ago. Gotta let that go.
My problem is simple – I can’t go to a game at the Linc. I’m “not allowed” there. The stadium is filled with douchebags who feel they must “protect their house” from people like me. I know I can take my wife and daughter to go see the Giants play in any other stadium in this country – yeah, we’re going to be wearing our blue and I’m going to get ragged on, taunted and booed, and that’s just fine. That’s just part of the experience. But we were to take that to the Linc, we’d get beer dumped on us, pissed on, and possibly assaulted. That’s the key to their reputation. I have no probably whatsoever with any ardent fan, but there are a load of people in that stadium who know where the line is, but take is as a personal challenge to see how far they can cross it.
To be fair, Flyers fans booed Palin, so Philly fans aren’t all bad.
It is a watershed type of incident, the booing of a beloved icon, but what gives it relevance is that the fans haven’t spent those 40 intervening years being good fans. They’ve spent those years continuing the tradition of being some of the most rabid and nasty fans in the States.
It’s also just kind of fun to needle them about a single decades old incident.
Were those even malicious boos towards Santa? 'Twas the night before Christmas, and 'twas all in good fun!
Yeah, like the time the Philadelphia fan father/son combo ran onto the field and attacked the unsuspecting first base coach. Or the time the Philadelphia fan threw the beer at the loose cannon basketball player and a riot ensued. Or the time when we–just last year–lost a game 7 to the Washington Caps in OT, and we responded by throwing the beer bottle at the head of a Capital.
Should I keep going?
Yes, please.
Unfortunately, I feel some people might miss the sarcasm.
Back in 2004 in Regina, Saskatchewan some angry fans trashed the house of a Canadian Football League kicker after he missed a short field goal in overtime of a playoff game.
Saskatchewan’s Paul McCallum missed an 18-yard attempt and the Roughriders lost the CFL West final to the British Columbia Lions 27-25 in Vancouver.
Within hours, eggs were thrown at his home and manure dumped on his lawn.
Police received the first call saying McCallum’s house had been pelted with eggs about an hour after the game. While his wife was out cleaning up the mess, a second vehicle pulled up in a neighbor’s driveway and dumped the manure.
I’m pretty sure it was Northern Piper… but that’s just me. 
Well, I think it’s safe to say that for how bad Philly fans are, they are tame compared to crazed soccer hooligans. Hell, Colombian international soccer player Andrés Escobar was MURDERED by an enraged fan after Escobar scored on his own goal in the 1994 World Cup.