Bears will finish what Katrina Started

[BOSSHOG]

that and similar signs greeted Saints Fans at Soldier Field Last Sunday. According to accounts in the Gulfport and New Orleans Newspapers many Saints fans were verbally and physically accosted. Many feared for their safety. Some were pelted with yellow snowballs (Urine being the suspected color agent.) One man from New Orleans was asked whether his home flooded. He said yes, it took in 11 feet of water. A Bears fan said, too bad you didn't drown. Many from New Orleans said they will never return to Chicago for any reason.

[ProfessorGAC]

1. Sickening

But, there have to Bear fans that voted for Silverspoon, so there are idiots in every crowd.
The Professor

[Phredicles]

2. It can be scary being a fan of the visiting team at an NFL game.

I mean, San Diego is as laid back as a big city gets, but I've heard of some hair-raising stuff going on at Chargers games, and not just when the Raiders come to town either.

Of course, it's never taken as an indictment of the sport as whole the way it is when there's any kind of trouble at a soccer match.

[rinsd]

3. At the Giants-Chargers game last year, it was insane.

I got challenged to fight twice (one was more my fault for a beer spill) and a friend of mine in a wheelchair was told to roll his ass back to NY.

[LisaM]

4. Oh, there's an element of NFL fans that are that way wherever you go

Note I say an ELEMENT. Most are nice, but overall NFL fans tend to be a little rougher around the edges than fans of other major league team sports. Some NFL fans think it's part of the fun (I don't).

Add in the Chicago element, and there you go. I have found some Chicago fans to be personally rude, and you have only to look at the various antics their baseball fans (especially White Sox fans) have been involved in over the years to see that this is not unusual. The vast majority of their fans are okay, but the ones that aren't - PHEW! Over the top.

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

5. What exactly is the "Chicago element"???

This incident has been discussed on DU already but let me say one more time that the so-called Bear fan that brought that sign into Soldier Field on Sunday should have been told to leave the premises. That sign was totally disgusting and completely inappropriate. If it turns out that he is a season ticket holder, the Bears organization should demand that he give up his season tickets.

I wasn't at the game on Sunday, I watched it at home. In fact I've never had the privilege of attending a Bears game in my life. However, I do have friends that were at the game on Sunday and some of the New Orleans fans weren't exactly "saints" either.

Bottom line, every city, town, village in the US has people that don't know how to behave at sporting events. One idiot does not a city make.

[LisaM]

6. I was thinking of the White Sox fans

That father and son who ran out on the field to beat up an umpire, the fans that threw beer on a player, the fans that stole another pitcher's hat -- yes, it happens everywhere, maybe they publicize it more in Chicago. I am rooting for the Bears in the Super Bowl, BTW.

[MrSlayer]

7. This would be national news if it happened in Philly.

As it is it gets no play at all. I'm tired of being derided as the worst fan in the world when this shit goes on EVERYWHERE. The New York fans were horrible to the Saints fans last year but you heard nothing about it. I enjoy a little friendly trash talking with the opposing fans who come to The Linc but violence, threats and mocking the plight of others is not in my playbook. None of this is cool.

[BOSSHOG]

8. I've been to several Eagles games at the Vet

in the 70's and 80's. I was a proud member of the 700 Club, sat way up top with the riffraff and never observed more then verbal banter with opposing teams fans. A couple of Cowboy fans took shit for a whole game but not a hand was laid on anybody. No doubt somebody at some game got a head busted open by a drunk but that was the exception. I know its not national but the story had gotten big play in New Orleans.

[erpowers]

9. Sad

This is very sad. The person who said the New Orleans fan should have drowned went way beyond just having fun. I have been to a few sporting events, but never experienced anything like that. Maybe it was just because I did not have any team gear to indentify me.