I’ve heard stories about drink spills and that sort of thing when you’d be cheering for a team other than the Blackhawks in old Chicago Stadium.
I do remember the fans in Montreal being very nice to us Flames fans back in 1989.
All of these are YMMV type things but this doesn’t even belong on the list. The bleachers are a tourist attraction. On any given day 30% of the fans are from the visiting team and as many as 50% aren’t really even Cubs fans, just folks there for the party and to check the item off the bucket list.
There’s a lot of drinking relative to the rest of the stadium, but it’s not especially rowdy and certainly not pointed at visitors. It’s also VERY heavily policed these days making anything like this a non-issue. In the 70’s and 80’s with the OG bleacher bums this was more true, but not for the last decade or so.
Sporting events in Chicago have gotten so ridiculously expensive that there isn’t much roughhousing at all to speak of except for at White Sox games, and that’s pretty rare these days. It only pops up during Cubs-Sox games on the southside (or in Wrigleyville bars post-game on the northside) with any regularity.
President Obama… is that you???
A guy I went to highschool with got jumped at an Eagles game for wearing a Redskins hat and there’s no way I’d wear a Nats hat at a Phillies game.
I think Philadelphia tops any list of towns that are unfriendly to visiting teams.
But as I’ve said earlier, if you MUST sit in enemy territory, Lincoln, Nebraska is a pretty nice place to be on a Saturday afternoon in October or November.
Nebraska fans are insanely devoted to the Huskers, BUT… they’re ridiculously nice, absurdly friendly, and will chat with you earnestly between plays. And win or lose, when it’s all over, Husker fans will shake your hand and say “Boy, that was a great game, wasn’t it?”
Feel free to wear your Wolverine or Buckeye hats in Lincoln… ASSUMING you can actually get a ticket.
Nothing in North America compares to the violent nature of sports rivalries in soccer in many (not all) parts of the world. In the Netherlands, for many games, away fans can only attend if they travel from their home stadium in specially arranged transports, chaperoned by a great many police and ‘stewards’ who are to keep them in check/protect them. They arrive at the stadium and are seated in a special, barred off section of the stadium, and at no point do they come in contact with the other fans. In some cases for what are called ‘risk games’, the abutting sections will be evacuated because there’s the risk of projectiles being flung across the barriers.
If you want to attend a home game, you have to have a special club card to be able to buy tickets. Of course, you can get a card for club A even if you’re a club B fan, and attend matches between A and B in A’s stadium seated with the home fans. But if you announce yourself (by wearing a jersey or by cheering/booing A) as a B fan, you’ll be escorted out of the stadium, so you’d better keep a low profile.
The cities that hosts these risk games spend untold amounts of money on police protection for all the fans (many of the games are on Sunday which makes it more expensive) and as a result some of the cities now no longer allow away fans into the stadium or into the city.
You immediately reminded me of the away section at a small Polish soccer stadium. I, for one, would love for the Chargers to make something similar for Raider fans. 
Really? I’ve been to a lot of Cleveland sporting events over the years - baseball, football, basketball and soccer - and have never seen anything other than gentle kidding of fans from “hated” rivals.
I lived just off the OSU campus in the mid 70’s and saw what happened to a car with Michigan plates trying to drive N on High St the night of the OSU/UM game. It happened at the intersection of N High and 12th Ave.
I kind of wonder if the more extreme nature of soccer fans reflects their need to supply the violence because they are not given enough of it on the field/court.
I mean, you watch NFL or NBA, there is some viscious physical contact. Why riot against some guys you don’t know when the players are dishing it out to each other at a level you could hardly dream of.
But then baseball might be a counter example. Does soccer have as many bench clearing brawls as baseball?
Wouldn’t work in soccer anyway. First punch thrown, they all fall down.
This year before Michigan State played in Lincoln, one of the players said they have to try to tune out all the positive comments coming from the stands. They say it’s quite unnerving to get all pumped up to play the Huskers and have all these encouraging words coming from the stands. Nebraska fans are by far and away the nicest fans in sports.
Ann Arbor and Columbus are like night and day before the game. I’ve experienced both cities, and while Ann Arbor gets a little rambunctious, Columbus had riot police lining High Street.
Here’s an article about a guy who dressed as a Seahawks fan and went barhopping in New Orleans the night before the game.