The sportswriter starts his diatribe mocking the death of Favre's father, a clearly low-rent, toilet-bowl-scraping thing to do.
Face it Lancey. You Philly fans have a reputation for gangsterism in your sports fans.
And that didn't just appear out of thin air.
No he didn't, sinkspur. He said that fans on talk radio were mocking the "angel on the shoulder" idiocy (which was propagated by other sportswriters and announcers). But that's an exaggeration anyway. I listen to Philly sports talk from time to time and the fans were not "mocking", they were just "give-it-a-rest-already"ing.
By the way, this paper is Philly's "Daily Trotskyite Worker" tabloid and they go over the top all the time. This piece is just a (partly) tongue-in-cheek attempt to get the fans riled up.
Regards,
LH
Some of that stuff is not true.
For example, when the fans booed Santa Claus and pelted him with snowballs? You should have seen that Santa Claus. He was skinny!! Well, Philadelphia sports fans aren't stupid - - they know that the real Santa Claus ain't skinny.
And the game where JD Drew allegedly had batteries thrown at him in center field? I was at that game, in those center field seats and there was only one small battery thrown. I think it was a double-A. Mostly, the fans were just throwing loose change. And nothing hit him anyway. However, you have to understand - - most of us went to that game to see Mark McGwire and he was taken out after one at-bat because of "back spasms". That didn't help the mood of the fans any, I'll tell you that.
And some of the other alleged incidents involving Philly sports fans are also exaggerated.