Ah...Philly "fans"...gotta love 'em. They use their 'love' of their sports teams as an excuse to act like idiots.

Attaching your self-esteem to an external source you can't control is never a good idea.

ihatedumbpeople: Ah...Philly "fans"...gotta love 'em. They use their 'love' of their sports teams as an excuse to act like idiots.

Living in Philly can do strange things to you.

Hey. They didn't vomit on anyone. That's behaving.

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Hyperlinks, how do they work??

keylock71: rynthetyn: I've been to hundreds of NHL games and the only time I've ever seen fights in the stands is when the Flyers come to town.

I've seen plenty of fights, sucker punches and other nasty shiat from fans at lots of sporting events... Not to defend these Flyers fans, but this shiat happens all the time when you get drunk assholes in a group.

A few seasons ago, some Bruins fans put a Habs fan in the hospital after knocking the shiat out of him outside the Garden.

I saw a Chicago fan sucker punch a Bruins fan in Chicago after the Bruins won the game.

I love the rivalry between teams and the shiat talking as much as the next hockey fan, but anyone who gets into brawls and hurts people over a farking hockey game is a moron.

Boston fans are second only to Phillie for douche-baggery

/wheres the vid?

It's the beauty thing about going to see Wild games in St. Paul, you don't get jerk offs like this. Been to a handful of games up there and have never heard of or seen behavior like this - and after the shootout win my Blackhawks had over Minnesota last month, I was expecting something - maybe even a little jawing. Got nothing in return from Wild fans and I was deck out in Hawks stuff. If anything was said it was, "Hey that's a nice Bobby Hull sweater."

GAT_00: Some Bass Playing Guy: Not a "Philly" problem. It's a drunken jackass problem. Happens everywhere.

Also happens a lot more often in Philly than anywhere else.

Yeah go to a Dodgers game and get knifed by a mexican gang member for you say that.

WhiskeySticks: It's the beauty thing about going to see Wild games in St. Paul, you don't get jerk offs like this

I go to AHL games. The crowds are fantastic. It's either kids who love hockey, or absolutely hammered old guys who cheer everything.

lunchinlewis: rynthetyn: I've been to hundreds of NHL games and the only time I've ever seen fights in the stands is when the Flyers come to town.

Bet you've never been to a Caps game when the Pens are in town.

I've found the Pens fans to be fine. Only fight I've seen was with drunken Rangers fan at verizon center (maybe two years ago. It was when they retired Dale Hunter's number). A couple of people were being taken out of the arena by the cops, a few of them bleeding from the mouth or nose.

/During the number retiring ceremony the NY fans around my section started a "Dale Hunter beats his wife" chant.
//Maybe he married Pierre Turgeon?

This article fails so hard without the video.

rynthetyn: I've been to hundreds of NHL games and the only time I've ever seen fights in the stands is when the Flyers come to town.

You don't lie very well.

MugzyBrown: GAT_00: Some Bass Playing Guy: Not a "Philly" problem. It's a drunken jackass problem. Happens everywhere.

Also happens a lot more often in Philly than anywhere else.

Yeah go to a Dodgers game and get knifed by a mexican gang member for you say that.

Sometimes they just beat you into a coma, especially if you wear a SF Giants jersey.

Farking idiots (starting a fight over a sporting event) and pussies (3 vs 2). Someone on the Flyers should make a statement shiatting on these apes.

/Flyers fan
//Lundqvist has their number this year

Ah, Philly. This is why your football team used to have a judge and court on the premises, because your fans are douchebags.

/lives in Philly
//hates it

The graphic video shows three suspects wearing Philadelphia Flyers jerseys beating and kicking the two victims outside Geno's Steaks in South Philly at 7:15 p.m.

Do we know that Pat wasn't involved?

Nothing says hardcore badass more than ganging up on a father and son in front of a cheese steak place!

GAT_00: Some Bass Playing Guy: Not a "Philly" problem. It's a drunken jackass problem. Happens everywhere.

Also happens a lot more often in Philly than anywhere else.

Philly fans beating up fans of opposing teams? It must have been a day that ends in y. Philly fans are the rejected after-birth of major professional sports fans. It's an ingrained attitude built by years of repression and anger that they live in a shiatty town at the end of a river where the rich half of New Jersey dumps their sewage.

keylock71: rynthetyn: I've been to hundreds of NHL games and the only time I've ever seen fights in the stands is when the Flyers come to town.

I've seen plenty of fights, sucker punches and other nasty shiat from fans at lots of sporting events... Not to defend these Flyers fans, but this shiat happens all the time when you get drunk assholes in a group.

A few seasons ago, some Bruins fans put a Habs fan in the hospital after knocking the shiat out of him outside the Garden.

I saw a Chicago fan sucker punch a Bruins fan in Chicago after the Bruins won the game.

I love the rivalry between teams and the shiat talking as much as the next hockey fan, but anyone who gets into brawls and hurts people over a farking hockey game is a moron.

I went to a certain bar on Causeway St. to watch a Habs/Bruins game last season, and left the moment the game ended (Bruins won 6 or 7 to zip, there were a bunch of fights...) after my last beer was served in a plastic cup. I asked why, since all my other beers had been served in pint glasses. Bartender told me they don't serve anything in glass after Habs/Bruins games, because it might end up flying around the bar. She also mentioned that the troublemakers were usually Bruins fans.

I said "check please, I'm outta here..."
/Also watched the bouncers turn away 3 dudes wearing Habs jerseys, which I thought was pretty funny.

lunchinlewis: facisto: I've found the Pens fans to be fine. Only fight I've seen was with drunken Rangers fan at verizon center (maybe two years ago. It was when they retired Dale Hunter's number). A couple of people were being taken out of the arena by the cops, a few of them bleeding from the mouth or nose.

It's much better "these days", I should have qualified my comment. Go back 10 or so years when you could walk up on game day and get 400 level seats. When Pittsburgh was in town you would be up there with tons of their fans, and there were plenty of altercations.

I had a 10-game plan in the 400s (behind the ever-watchful eyes of Yvon Labre) for a few years back when it was the MCI Center and the Crapitals were turrible, I agree with your assessment. Philly and Pittsburgh were always fun games, and it felt like home during the Rangers games.

Malcolm_Sex: keylock71: rynthetyn: I've been to hundreds of NHL games and the only time I've ever seen fights in the stands is when the Flyers come to town.

I've seen plenty of fights, sucker punches and other nasty shiat from fans at lots of sporting events... Not to defend these Flyers fans, but this shiat happens all the time when you get drunk assholes in a group.

A few seasons ago, some Bruins fans put a Habs fan in the hospital after knocking the shiat out of him outside the Garden.

I saw a Chicago fan sucker punch a Bruins fan in Chicago after the Bruins won the game.

I love the rivalry between teams and the shiat talking as much as the next hockey fan, but anyone who gets into brawls and hurts people over a farking hockey game is a moron.

BostonMontreal fans are second only to Phillie none for douche-baggery

/wheres the vid?

phark Filly

Drunk a**holes fighting about sports that don't matter representing teams that don't care about them.

Surely this only happens in Philadelphia. By the Gods, won't somebody do something?

One of the victims was an off-duty Woodbridge, N.J., police officer, according to Woodbridge Township spokesman John Hagerty.

Uh oh, they are farked.

I've only seen one fight based on the jersey someone was wearing at an avs/wings game during the height of the rivalry. Wings fan got tired of being laughed at and punched a random avs fan walking by. Everyone pulled them apart before it got too serious.

I've seen hawks and sharks fans that needed to get hit in the face for talking smack to dads with kids and otherwise bystanders.

Did see two sharks fans get beat couple of years ago at the train station after a game, but one of them grabbed a girls ass and she sicked her brothers on him. So that would have happened, jersey or not.

Link to news article containing the video (new window)

People talk a lot of sh*t about how this town is bad, or that town is dangerous, or the other town is chock full of assholes. But, they don't hold a candle to Philly.

Should have gone to Pats. Better food too.

LineNoise: My favorite though was a friend who wore a devils jersey to a flyers\rangers game at the garden. He hadn't even made it to his seat before some guy beaned him in the head with a full beer. I think we can all agree, he had it coming.

I saw a guy wearing an Islanders jersey at a Devs/Rangers game at the garden, and everyone just made fun and laughed at him.

Rangers / Flyers fans have special animosity towards the devils because they're upstarts who've been way more successful over their short tenure than either two "classic" teams. Having said that, the last few times I've been to Pru, I've witnessed some very hooligan behavior on the part of Devs fans. All those kids I used to see at half empty Continental Arena in the 90's grew up to be some cocky bastards. I kind of saw it coming. I guess they're giving back what they got back in the day.

There is no excuse for physical violence to another fan based upon which rich man he / she chooses to further enrich by supporting his sports franchise.

/Devils fan

LineNoise:
My favorite though was a friend who wore a devils jersey to a flyers\rangers game at the garden. He hadn't even made it to his seat before some guy beaned him in the head with a full beer. I think we can all agree, he had it coming.

I've been that third-party fan myself, showing up at a Nationals/Brewers game in Cubs garb.

It turned out to be the Corey-Hart-hits-three-home-runs game. By about the 8th, my section had pretty much figured I'd suffered enough.

LineNoise: My favorite though was a friend who wore a devils jersey to a flyers\rangers game at the garden. He hadn't even made it to his seat before some guy beaned him in the head with a full beer. I think we can all agree, he had it coming.

I've never understood the need of people to wear a jersey to a game that isn't of one of the teams playing. I see it all the time at UAF games, too - Minnesota, North Dakota, and the game is UAF vs. Ferris State. It's dumb. Not as dumb as the guy who wore his Brett Favre Vikings jersey to a hockey game, but it's still up there.

keylock71: bottsicus: I went to a certain bar on Causeway St. to watch a Habs/Bruins game last season, and left the moment the game ended (Bruins won 6 or 7 to zip, there were a bunch of fights...) after my last beer was served in a plastic cup. I asked why, since all my other beers had been served in pint glasses. Bartender told me they don't serve anything in glass after Habs/Bruins games, because it might end up flying around the bar. She also mentioned that the troublemakers were usually Bruins fans.

I said "check please, I'm outta here..."
/Also watched the bouncers turn away 3 dudes wearing Habs jerseys, which I thought was pretty funny.

Sully's? That's where I always drink before Bruins' game. Definitely a Homer's bar (can't beat the prices, either).

They only turn away Habs fans, though. I've gotten shiatfaced in there with Toronto, Buffalo and Philly Fans without any major incidents before. Don't think I've ever seen a fight. Seen more than few Bruins' fans get tossed out for being dumbasses, though.

I'm ashamed to admit it was the Harp... Not sure I've ever been to Sully's, but I've got tickets to the Habs/Bruins game on the 12th...maybe I'll pop in.

keylock71: bottsicus: I'm ashamed to admit it was the Harp... Not sure I've ever been to Sully's, but I've got tickets to the Habs/Bruins game on the 12th...maybe I'll pop in.

Check it out. It's a little dive bar on Canal St. Amenities are basic, to say the least, but it's a good atmosphere before and after games. They fill up quick though and stop letting folks in.

I used to drink at the Penalty Box years ago, too. More of an old man dive bar now, though. Nice if you just want to have a quiet drink before the game, though.

...and yeah, The Harp sucks.

Got Loge seats for the Bruins/Devils game on Mar 1st from my Art Director for Christmas. I always sit with the poor folks up in the Balcony, so I'm looking forward to seeing how the other half lives. : )

Not a damn thing wrong with the Balcony! (But enjoy those loge seats!)

This treatment should be reserved for Leafs fans visiting Ottawa, and Sens fans that dare leave their frozen piss smelling shiathole.

/Habs

As a Rags fan, I really hate Philly. I really do.

But it isn't confined to Philly.

When I was at the Pru to watch the Rangers knock the Devils out of the playoffs in 07, my entire SECTION erupted into a drunken brawl. 60 year old guys, 20 year old women, even a 13 year old kid if I remember right. It spilled out onto the beautiful streaks of Newark (/sarcasm) and people were throwing other people into cars. Most ridiculous thing I've ever seen.

Now I live in SC so I don't get to participate in anything but the Rangers' AHL team being awesome at hockey.

It's a lot less ridiculous and a lot more fun.