look... anyone who denies there are jerk fans everywhere is fooling themselves....
HOWEVER, anyone who denies there are a higher ratio of jerk fans in NY/NJ/Phila. is living in complete denial... it's well-documented to the point of legendary, and many NYers are rather proud of their intimidating aura they pose against visitors and their fans....
i've been to Fenway Park dozens of times, at least 5 times playing the Yankees... i've been to Yankee Stadium twice, when they've played the Red Sox... here's the difference, as i've witnessed:
1) at Fenway, there are Yankees fans EVERYWHERE... many, MANY of them make a pretentious effort to stand out; they hoot and holler and get really drunk and squawk and point and laugh at Red Sox' miscues, and generally overtly look to provoke and beat their chest like big dumb pea****s, even though they're at someone else's house...
2) at Yankee Stadium? Red Sox fans, generally, are quiet and reserved... Cheering respectfully at appropriate times... Mainly because they fear for their lives if they show too much passion....
if you think for one second that a visiting fan in New York who acts like a New York fan in their stadium would go home without a large object being thrown at their head, you must only sit in the luxury boxes and never witness it... and retaliation for taking a bottle in the coconut? forget it... You'd be in the morgue... there is a mob mentality at New York sports venues like NO OTHER place... i assure you... not even Detroit...
If you doubt this, consider the accounts of how Dolphins fans were treated at the Meadowlands over the years... then treat yourself to a Dolphins-Jets game in Miami... tell me if you notice a striking difference... Tell me who you see initiating antagonization time and time again... Tell me if you see many Dolphins fans doing anything about it... Ask yourself what the fate of the same kind of obnoxious Dolphins fans would be up in New York...
Look, this is a city that allows fans to throw D batteries at right fielders in the Bronx ... yes, i know this was more documented in Philly, but it happened in New York as well... This is a city that made Jeffrey Maier a regional hero for interfering with a baseball playoff game...
http://www.flowonline.com/archives/1996/1196/baseball2.htm
i can't quite put my finger on what it is that seems to give so many New Yorkers (not all, of course) such an elitist, cruel approach to life... perhaps it's the "we're biggest, we're best, we're richest" mentality... But it's very, very hard to dispute that they aren't revered down south, out west, and certainly NOT in boston... And i gotta tell ya, it's NOT because we're all jealous...
As soon as i hear that accent, and that coarseness, i immediately know "it's on now."
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