StanleySpadowski;1637289 said:
I really believe that two things have increased the boorish behavior at most venues.
First the internet. Stories of ill-treatment at the opposing team's stadium spread like wildfire on the internet whether they're almost always embellished or not. They treat us badly, we'll treat them badly.....
Second is the increase in ticket prices. Most would think this would improve the crowd behavior, getting a white collar and seemingly more well behaved crowd on hand but it doesn't. All that's really happened though is a more transient crowd. Instead of a couple of games a year, Joe twelve-pack can only afford one and ****** if he's only going to one game he's going to get liquored and enjoy himself, damn the consequences. Someone's more than willing to sell him a ticket because there's money to be made.
I hope the home of Cowboys never falls prey to the rabid jerkishness that's become the trademark of most stadiums in the north east.
I went to Notre Dame/Penn State and was appalled at the overall behavior in the stands. Language that would make a sailor blush chanted by parts of the crowd. I've always had positive experiences as a visitor to Beaver Stadium in the past and assumed that the home of a class act like Paterno would remain a bastion of civility. I was wrong.
good post. I dont mind it either way, people can be as rowdy as they want, as long as they dont ask me to move for them during a play...
I am curious how some judge fans...Apparently according to this thread the only real fans are the intoxicated ones who start fights and get in everyones face.
So I have a question for those people. There is a family that sits three rows down from me. The woman has to be in her early 70s and her husband too. They have about 8 or more season tickets. I talk to her now and then before games. She has attended every game at texas stadium and has had the season tickets every season texas stadium has been open. She stands up and claps and waves a towel and they cheer and get into it on third down. She is in her 70s, like I said. I see her talk to other teams fans all the time. She is polite, pleasant and dedicated to the team.
So I am curious, is she a bad fan. Or does she just not live up to this nonsense about how stadiums should be filled with fights and trailer trash yelling and having domestic disputes etc....
Its funny too, because I went to the vet a couple of times. 01 and 02 are the last times I went. I dont remember the vet as loud, not any louder as far as noise goes than texas stadium and their new stadium is not loud at all, in fact the cowboys players and sham and laufenberg constantly remark about how they lost that home field atmosphere and that intimidation of the fans since they moved into the link.
Alot of it is perception. I remember being at a red sox rangers game in sept of 97 on a saturday, there were about 17000 people there on a beautiful day. Does that mean red sox fans suck? Cause I am sure no one would say that now.
Perception and people saying this place is so much louder than another is at the heart of most of this. Some stadiums are exceptionally loud like the old buffalo, and fed ex. fed ex has 25000 more fans in there though, so that isnt really fair, especially since I recall 03 in the third quarter when we were shutting them out and the stadium was empty. Wasnt too loud then.
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