“Nonsense. Bad fan behavior happens everywhere. A couple of notable incidents in Philly get repeated ad nauseum, and the template sticks. Lazy reporters repeat it, and the lazy public buys into it.”
HA!!!!! Good one.
No doubt there are some good fans. I know some. It is the lousy ones that are in force that are disgusting.
I’ve been there. Experienced it firsthand. It goes back at least 50 years.
Just three years ago, there was this...
http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/news/story?id=5098407
“According to an account in the Philadelphia Daily News, Clemmens and his friend were asked by the 15-year-old daughter of Michael Vangelo, an off-duty Easton police captain, to stop cursing and spitting. A short while later, Vangelo said, it started again.
“One guy started spitting ... first it landed on the back of my daughter’s chair. Then it landed on her hooded sweatshirt,” Vangelo said, according to the Philadelphia Daily News.
After Vangelo reported the incident to stadium officials, Clemmens’ friend was led out of the stadium. At that point, Vangelo said Clemmens said he would be sick and “put two fingers down his throat.”
He then “leaned forward and started vomiting on us,” Vangelo said, according to the Daily News.
“It was the most vile, disgusting thing I’ve ever seen. He has two fingers down his throat, he lunges forward and vomits on myself and my 11-year-old.”
Vangelo said he tried to push his children safely behind him, and Clemmens punched him in the face. Four or five fans in the next section rushed to help, Vangelo said. They held him until police arrived — someone punching Clemmens in the face as he tried to break free — and an officer was also hit with vomit, Vanore said.
I remember the story. That was one man out of over 40,000. What’s the percentage? And he was from Jersey anyway. Haha. I believe there actual gang members in the stands at Dodgers games. Should we impugn everyone? And what about Oakland? It looks like Mad Max there.
"Four or five fans in the next section rushed to help."
Sounds like it was 4-5 vs. 1. Good to see that this jerk was outnumbered by better mannered fans.