Why phillies fans are the worst

They didn't take it well. Olivo was booed, which is actually just how Eagles fans say hello, so fine. To add injury to insult, however, Eagles fans used their resources. Don't give Eagles fans resources. They pelted Olivo with snowballs, in what might be the most infamous incident outside of bottlegate for any fanbase in the NFL. This and batteries tend to be what Eagles fans are the most remembered for in general, fairly or unfairly.

Olivo seems to have taken the incident in stride. If you're an opposing mascot or superfan, don't go to Philadelphia. No matter what you think about Zema Williams or Chief Zee , the Redskins ' controversial unofficial mascot starting in , he didn't deserve to get beat up for being a fan. But, in , that's exactly what happened. Chief Zee went to Veterans Stadium in a game that the Eagles lost by 10 points.

He responded by taunting the Eagles' fans. They didn't take kindly to that. During the game, Williams was attacked in the stands. His clothes were torn and the feathers that he wore in his headdress were ripped out and tossed. In the parking lot, however, things escalated. Williams was attacked by four people -- the same two from the stands and another two -- and assaulted. They broke his leg and Williams was wheelchair bound for the year. Williams tried to go back to Veterans Field the year after that, but after a woman threw a beer at his face, he didn't return.

The moral of the story? Don't start a fan war in Philadelphia in the fall, I guess. Being a superfan is fine, but going into hostile territory and antagonizing a very angry, very drunk fan base won't always go well. None of this is to say that it's Williams' fault he was assaulted, mind you, but given the reputation that Eagles fans have, extreme caution should be exercised around them. The marketing for this game would not have flown today. There were wanted posters with bounty amounts for the Eagles vs.

Say what you will about the Eagles fans, they're equal-opportunity haters. This was in a game that the Eagles were winning The bad blood, of course, stemmed from Bounty Bowl I. Ryan, of course, denied the allegation, making light of Johnson's comments. Verne Lundquist's dry humor makes this clip, with him saying, "I gotta tell you what a joy it is to come to Philadelphia and stand here and dodge ice balls -- not snowballs -- but ice balls about 25 of which have been thrown into the booth in the last three minutes.

This is really fun. Lundquist added to his partner in the booth, Terry Bradshaw, that "I had an abscessed tooth and had a dental appointment last Monday that didn't last this long. Official Al Jury was knocked down when he was assaulted by snowballs, so he likely shares Lundquist's opinion. The Wikipedia page for this event is a treat. The Eagles' Jerome Brown was pelted by his own fans when he asked them to stop, and it later came out that a future Pennsylvania governor -- Edward Rendell -- was involved in the incident.

You know the hush that falls over a stadium when a player is lying still on the field? Well, that wasn't the case when Michael Irvin sustained an injury in a game that left him motionless against the Eagles. Irvin wasn't moving on the field, and it was later discovered that he had, in fact, suffered the spinal injury that would effectively end his career.

Eagles players talked to the fans and asked them to quiet down, but fans didn't oblige. The video goes on for an eternity, and there are two notable spikes in noise: When Irvin initially stays down, and when the stretcher comes onto the field.

It isn't uncommon for fans to cheer for a thumbs up or even a motionless player being carted off. But the fans' reaction to Irvin here was always seen as ill-mannered and almost excited. It's one of the uglier fan reactions to a player injury, and for such a promising if tumultuous career to be cut short in this manner is tough to watch. Irvin was no saint, but no player should get cheered for injuring their spine.

Keep in mind, that hatchet is apparently buried. Irvin is actually cheering for the Eagles in Super Bowl LII, in one of the craziest plot twists this year although that may just be to keep the Cowboys tied with the Patriots in rings. When he took the job as head coach, former Eagles quarterback Doug Pederson said that he'd be fine, because it couldn't possibly be as bad as his playing days when fans hurled batteries at him. I was spit at.

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The article in GQ does get pretty harsh as well:. More likely, these savages would have thrown the battery that cracked it. Pretty harsh, though I think Pete Rose should have kept that little nugget to himself, as there's plenty to be said against him. But can the actions of individual fans, such as the so-called "Pukemon," be used to lay a sweeping label across the entire fanbase?