I see what you did there. I like how that works out for you. I wonder, though, if that rule would have been proposed had it been since 1992 since the Giants won.
I would propose a different rule, actually. In a few parts.
You have to have been alive when they were won to talk smack with your team’s championships. That means that unless you’re an old man you cannot bring up Green Bay’s championships in the 1960s. If you’re 15 or younger and a Dallas fan you can’t talk on any championships whatsoever.
If you say “we” when discussing your favorite team you automatically lose the right to talk championship smack. And don’t give me the “12th Man” nonsense, you’re a fan, not a team member.
You cannot pull out the championship gambit unless your favorite team won more recently than the team you’re talking smack on or they won in the last 5 years, whichever comes first. For example, Dallas fans can’t talk championship smack on Redskins fans, because while it meets the first criteria it fails at the second.
Any cheesy phrases like the aforementioned “Sixburgh” or “Stairway to Seven”, unless clearly delivered tongue-in-cheek, cause you to forfeit your right to talk championship smack.
I think those are fair rules. I’ll be glad to abide by them.
Do grown men really act this stupidly?
I mean football is a GAME…that’s all! I never understood the whole football rituals-wearing team shirts, painting your face, getting drunk…this is fun?:smack:
And here, ladies and gentlemen, is the only thing worse than a Philadelphia sports fan… the person who is above it all and wants everybody to know it, that rare, brave soul: the anti-sports fan.
Congratulations, you are the only person on Earth we can all agree about in that no matter what team we root for we all despise you. Thanks for stepping up and carrying that burden proudly.
Above all, it’s the “tut tut…do the plebeians truly enjoy such tomfoolery” attitude that make this so pathetic.
I spent the greater portion of my life as a non-sports fan (long story, but I grew up so inundated with all sports that I rebelled against it). And that whole time, I still never pretended not to understand those did love the game. Douchey to the extreme.
This thread is tiresome, and I wish I hadn’t stumbled upon it - Philly isn’t the greatest city in the world, the Eagles aren’t the greatest thing to happen to football since the flying wedge was outlawed, and Mike Vick - despite any ethics violations - is one hell of a QB (I’ll grant that - he beat the Giants twice, largely on his own… and it sucked for me).
But, really, Philly fans are awful. THEY HAVE A FUCKING JAIL IN YOUR STADIUM! I’ve gotten in fights with 15 year olds at your stadium on multiple occasions - and none of us were wearing blue.
It’s a game. A game some of us get wrapped up in, but seriously - knives? And cheering for an opponent’s injury is just… juvenile.
Actually, it IS fun. I like football and hockey as well (well, as long as it’s Pittsburgh playing).
Tell me, ralph, what’s YOUR idea of fun? (BTW, you’re hardly one to call people “stupid”)
You know, I’ve rooted for Blue too. For a Long time. Back as kid, I spray-painted a red football helmet dark blue with two parallel lines of duct-tape on top. After the paint dried, I yanked off the tape to have my “Giants helmet”. I followed them when they were horrible, back when they never made the playoffs. I followed them when Wide World of Sports showed the famous game-losing fumble week after week. I was a fan during all those jokes about the Giants “shooting themselves in the foot”. I’ve done my best not to whine or bitch about the bad parts, and with few exceptions*****, I’ve really tried to never rub anyone else’s nose in their team’s failures. I may have teased that it would have been cheaper to level Veteran’s Stadium with 16-inch shells from the USS NJ. Mid-game. But I was only teasing.
(Do you know how Heavy those shells are to carry? Get real.)
I feel that how you follow your sports team is a lot like how you choose to live your life: You have to accept the good with the bad. You take your losses with grace & style, because being a hot-head gives you… nothing. You chalk up the jibes from other fans as their flaws, not yours.
I haven’t always been successful, but like any philosophy worth following or goal worth achieving, if you don’t succeed, you try again.
*****[spoiler] I’ve never been a fan of Dallas; something about running up scores always rubbed me the wrong way. But that was generic. I really didn’t find a specific dislike for any football team until 2007. And it wasn’t even Dallas. :eek:
In the Fall of 2007, through a series of close games, the Giants made the Super-bowl. New England made it there hands down, seeming to not break a sweat all season long. Now, I was good with being the fan of an underdog team; I knew my team would give their team a good game regardless of the final score.
Until.
A certain Boston Herald reporter (Jessica Heslam) wrote a nice article on how not only were the Patriots a better team, but that their Fans were better people. :dubious: There was even a thread on it here. Even if all of the original article(which some Editor green-lighted to print) is lost to [del]greed[/del] public view, I still remember some of her sweeter jibes: How their fans made more money, how they drove nicer cars, how they lived in nicer houses in better neighborhoods, how they raised better kids, contributed more to society, how they were better educated and in every measurable criteria that she could find, were just plain Better People. :dubious:
Well, I took that Personally. Kinda-Sorta.
And when their team lost, as any team can do when groups of professionally trained athletes get together to play a game on any given Sunday, I had no problem or guilt whatsoever in laying into some of the more vocal spoil-sported ‘Belichick-ian’ fans.[/spoiler]
