Which sport has the worst and/or rowdiest fans?

So the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Boston Celtics and there are some reports of riots. Last year there was a lot of publicity when there was considerable damage to public property after the Lakers won.

What sports and/or teams tend to have the worst or rowdiest fans? Have you seen it more in long-established rivalries or at upsets due to near impossible situations or bad calls? More during elimination/playoffs or finals?

well soccer has a bad rep

and didn’t El Salvador invade Honduras to get back for game?

  1. It’s known as the soccer war

Bingo at the Senior Center is pretty bad. Only their extreme physical limitations keep them from being up there with soccer.

I once read that the worst fans in baseball were not Yankee or Philadelphia fans.

The players said the worst were at Candlestick Park. Probably because it was so cold there, even in summer, so they drank more to stay warm.

Well, back when I was taking photos at 49ers games, the fans generally behaved themselves. Of course, this was at the tail end of the Montana/Young dynasty years. I think all of that relentless winning drove out the rowdies and brought in the see-and-be-seen crowd, people who are too busy being fashionable to raise much of a fuss.

Raiders games, on the other hand, were a completely different story.

Soccer. By far soccer. Soccer fans make Lakers or Celtics (which should have a hard “c” btw, stupid bostonians…) look tame.

Soccer fans have started riots, lit stadiums on fire (Israel v Bosnia) some regularly light flares up all over their seating section, etc.

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