CeeDee admits the Eagles have a more passionate fan base

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oy vey

You have very recently been very vocal about my comments. Any one of us can google past events of fans throwing objects in any sport around the world. Allow me to tell you the context of my previous comment that you have replied to twice.

Santa Claus is a fictional figure, who magically brings toys to good little boys and girls. He is right up there with the Easter Bunny and Tooth Fairy. These make-believe characters share an irrational but beloved place in human society. Here's the context:

People were aiming and throwing snowballs at Santa Claus. Why? Were they pissed off at him because they were (understandably) on his naughty list?

Your article describes angry fans trying to hit the referees. Yes or no? I do not condone their behavior and actions. I did not say I did either. However, the people throwing objects at the referees were pissed for what they thought was a good reason. Yes or no? Do you equate the target of their frustration for those refs (again) with someone dressed up as Santa Claus?

Fans were throwing non-harmful snowballs at a moving target who happened to be wearing a tattered Santa suit (and a red suit is an easy target for white snowballs), not unlike how the driving range golf ball picker is often targeted, even though the later (getting hit by a rapidly moving golf ball) carries far more danger. There was no malice in it, unlike fans throwing debris at players and refs. Fans were just cold and frustrated at the state of their team and had readily available snow. I'm sure after the first ball was tossed, it seemed like a fun idea to everyone else.

 

[dguinta1]

Yes and many of us had passion 10, 15, 20 years ago until Jerry and his micromanagement of all coaches and players stifled our playoff hopes to death. I can't believe any Cowboy fan has any enthusiasm left after the past 29 seasons. Certainly the fan base is the last place to look for a root cause of our 29 year drought. It's the man behind the curtain, the Wizard of AT&T (curtains open).

Bravo!!

 

[bottleKids]

We've been holding Jerry accountable for years. The problem is the GM isn't going to fire himself and his son is just as bad.

Ticket sales say otherwise.

 

[BotchedLobotomy]

He's 100% right on the fans that attend the games in person. Low energy for the most part.

 

[GMO415]

Thanks Jerry.

Take off the #88

 

[DallasEast]

Fans were throwing non-harmful snowballs at a moving target who happened to be wearing a tattered Santa suit (and a red suit is an easy target for white snowballs), not unlike how the driving range golf ball picker is often targeted, even though the later (getting hit by a rapidly moving golf ball) carries far more danger. There was no malice in it, unlike fans throwing debris at players and refs. Fans were just cold and frustrated at the state of their team and had readily available snow. I'm sure after the first ball was tossed, it seemed like a fun idea to everyone else.

uh huh. This is continually stretching out further than silly putty. Allow me to approach this from a different angle.

Let's assume there have been, say, 15,000 games that have ever been played in the NFL. Now, whittle that number down to around all games ever played during month of December. That's gotta still be in the hundreds, right?

Let's pause for a second. You responded to me earlier after reading me type this:

"I was not questioning whether your correction was accurate but did emphasize that human beings threw objects at Santa Claus. I would hope everyone, outside of Philadelphia, PA, recognizes that as abnormal behavior--even for sports fans."​

Normal (for most people that is) means conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected.

Abnormal means deviating from what is normal or usual.

Remember my pointing out those thousands of NFL games in the month of December? Great.

Can you locate a few thousand articles of NFL fans pelting Santa Claus? I mean, each article describing a singular event occurring in most or all NFL stadiums, illustrating a number of fans pelting Santa Claus with snowballs?

No? I wonder why?

Perhaps... it is because pelting Santa Claus with snowballs has not been a standard, usual, typical or even expected event in NFL stadiums. It is normal for anyone--even little girls named Virginia--to not throw things at Ole' St. Nick.

Throwing stuff at referees? Sure. That has happened many, many times. In all sports. At every level. Heck. People have thrown things at umpires at Little League baseball games. The behavior is completely wrong but can logically be described as normal abhorrent events than a rare abhorrent abnormal event.

Final time. It was and is abnormal behavior for NFL fans to pelt Santa Claus with snowballs. If this does not get us both on the same page, nothing will.

 

[mote]

If this does not get us both on the same page, nothing will.

You got one thing right.

 

[DallasEast]

You got one thing right.

I am not surprised.

 

[ClappingCarrot]

Too many casuals in our fanbase that enable the Joneses.

He's not wrong.

 

[EPL0c0]

jerry has turned the team into a gaudy, pretentious country club.

it's a culture REAL fans don't relate to at all

 

[KingCorcoran]

uh huh. This is continually stretching out further than silly putty. Allow me to approach this from a different angle.

Let's assume there have been, say, 15,000 games that have ever been played in the NFL. Now, whittle that number down to around all games ever played during month of December. That's gotta still be in the hundreds, right?

Let's pause for a second. You responded to me earlier after reading me type this:

"I was not questioning whether your correction was accurate but did emphasize that human beings threw objects at Santa Claus. I would hope everyone, outside of Philadelphia, PA, recognizes that as abnormal behavior--even for sports fans."​

Normal (for most people that is) means conforming to a standard; usual, typical, or expected.

Abnormal means deviating from what is normal or usual.

Remember my pointing out those thousands of NFL games in the month of December? Great.

Can you locate a few thousand articles of NFL fans pelting Santa Claus? I mean, each article describing a singular event occurring in most or all NFL stadiums, illustrating a number of fans pelting Santa Claus with snowballs?

No? I wonder why?

Perhaps... it is because pelting Santa Claus with snowballs has not been a standard, usual, typical or even expected event in NFL stadiums. It is normal for anyone--even little girls named Virginia--to not throw things at Ole' St. Nick.

Throwing stuff at referees? Sure. That has happened many, many times. In all sports. At every level. Heck. People have thrown things at umpires at Little League baseball games. The behavior is completely wrong but can logically be described as normal abhorrent events than a rare abhorrent abnormal event.

Final time. It was and is abnormal behavior for NFL fans to pelt Santa Claus with snowballs. If this does not get us both on the same page, nothing will.

You do realize this is an incident that occurred over 56 years ago, right? I get Cowboys fans have nothing other than the past to dwell in, but most of the people at that game have passed away. The guy in the Santa suit became a popular figure and fans at snow games subsequently enjoy talking about what happened back at a game in 1968.

Half the people at Cowboys home games are fans of the visiting team and would be the only fans there if it were snowing the day of a Cowboys home game.

 

[TheMarathonContinues]

Philly and their fans and media suck. Pure stupidity.

 

[DallasEast]

You do realize this is an incident that occurred over 56 years ago, right? I get Cowboys fans have nothing other than the past to dwell in, but most of the people at that game have passed away. The guy in the Santa suit became a popular figure and fans at snow games subsequently enjoy talking about what happened back at a game in 1968.

Half the people at Cowboys home games are fans of the visiting team and would be the only fans there if it were snowing the day of a Cowboys home game.

lol.

You do understand that time does not dismiss what happened, right?

Who else wishes to claim pelting Santa Claus with snowballs or any other imaginable object is normal behavior?

 

[KingCorcoran]

Philly and their fans and media suck. Pure stupidity.

Dallas fans and media would never turn their collective vitriol on the Cowboys. They will passively accept what they get, happy just to have a team in the NFL. They believe if they buy enough team replica jerseys and logo key chains the team will get to a Super Bowl. While Eagles fans are hurling wadded up paper cups partially full of $1.50 an ounce beer at their own team’s players for blowing a lead, Cowboys fans watching their team down three scores in the 4th quarter are sipping Chardonnay and enjoying a bit of Brie. Very dignified.

 

[bewp7]

every team does

cowboys fan are lame as a whole

 

[mote]

You do realize this is an incident that occurred over 56 years ago, right? I get Cowboys fans have nothing other than the past to dwell in, but most of the people at that game have passed away. The guy in the Santa suit became a popular figure and fans at snow games subsequently enjoy talking about what happened back at a game in 1968.

Half the people at Cowboys home games are fans of the visiting team and would be the only fans there if it were snowing the day of a Cowboys home game.

The sad (and somewhat ironic truth) is that, for all the "Philly fans are horrible people" comments, as I said above, there is a zero percent chance that a fans of an Eagles team owned by the Jones family would sit quietly on their hands at every game, even with the shininess of the stadium and the enormity of the big screen.

 

[Doomsday77]

And they weren't fooling around with Double AA's, they were tossing D's.

Funny, that's exactly what I did in my dating years...

 

[ElGatoGrande]

Easier to be passionate when you go into a season with a legitimate chance to make a run.

exactamundo,,, Jerry and Captain Choke drained all the passion out of us, we know better than to get our hopes up.

 

[KingCorcoran]

lol.

You do understand that time does not dismiss what happened, right?

Who else wishes to claim pelting Santa Claus with snowballs or any other imaginable object is normal behavior?

What other NFL fanbase is so emotional as to show their disgust in such a manner? For the record, it was chunks of ice from the remnants of snow that wasn’t 100% cleared.

 

[CowboysFever1973]

The leaders on our team are even turning on us. Without us there is no Cowboys!!!!