I'm pretty sure I'll be blasted for giving my two cents, but each year when it comes time fir Dallas to play the Eagles, here comes the science-fiction story to garner sympathy for the lone Cowboy's fan and to make a monster out of the Eagles fan by exploiting the stigma.
Alright let's say the bar scenario is true, here's what I read ...
So last night I went to the bar with a few of my buddies and I'm decked out in my Dallas gear. I'm talking Jersey,hat,watch and Key chanin hanging out of my pocket.
This paints the picture of the die-hard fan (could be any fan; just happens to be Dallas which many of you will automatically relate to. So far it's all good!
So we walked to the bar and started to order a few pitchers. before our drinks got there a few other guys came from the pool room and they were wearing Eagle and Phillies jerseys.
At this point, the story-teller introduces alcoholic Beverages and fans wearing rival team attire (that just happens to be Eagles/Phillies attire); while Atlanta ...no Falcon attire mentioned ...hmmm. But that;s the way it is.
I looked at them and noded as if to say hi and did not recieve a responce just a glare. So our pitchers finally arrive and we headed to the pool room. As I was walking past those guys to make my way to the pool room one of them shouted "Dallas sucks and so do you" out of nowhere and all of them errupted into laughter like it was the funniest thing in the world.
Good guy - bad guy. This was obviously an environment of people who may/may not have been influenced by alcohol or encouraged by a wager between friends, etc
So I smiled and I simply said well I guess we'll find out sunday. As soon as I said that this drunken baffon walks up to me and proceeded to point in my face and list the reasons why Tony is a choke and how Jerry is just a glorifed PR agent and so on. now I haven't been drinking yet because if I was the conversation wouldn't have lasted as long as it did. Anyway I started to to call out McChoke and Westbrook on how they haven't played a full season in god knows when and the more I talked the more others in the bar started to laugh at this guy and that made him angry. He got up and flung his Bicardi and cola at me (ruining my brand new Witten Jersey) and started throwing punches.
You smiled? Listen, I don't care what franchise affiliation you belong to, under the circumstances that you purport, this isn't football, this is you being bullied, insulted and battered - enter the authorities or the bouncer or other concerned friends of yours (what happened to your friends?) You guys haven't even started drinking ...level heads prevail!
Perhaps your smiling was one of the wisest things to do when confronted by a billigerent "drunk."
So me and him and my friends got into it and the cops were called and I was arrest and stayed in jail for past 10 hrs over something as stupid as a football game.
You
YOU ...not your friends webt to jail because of a billigerent drunk that you should have walked away from ...but you stood in there like a noble fan defending your team ...please, this is just too unreal! But ok let's finish this scenario out ...
don't get me wrong I love my team but not enough to spend the night in the drunk tank.
Out of this whole mess, you are not interested in getting compensated from this guy and there were no witnesses (e.g., your friends, bystanders unaffiliated with football, etc). Ok, but how does "I Love my Team" come into all of this. I'll bet that there are Cowboy and other team fans that would have handled this whole situation completely differently.
By the way you said you spent ten (10) days in jail ...for what (fighting?)
Look, the Eagle fans already have a terrible record - I even know that! This little scenario only makes you look like the big-time fan to your franchise fans, while doing absolutely nothing to taint an already targeted Eagles fan base.
What's the point. There are a hundred of corrected via edit
sotries) stories in this city ...this was just one of them (Quote from Dragnet ...the TV series)
Good luck on Sunday, Cowboy fans ...just not as much luck as for the Eagles!
PT ...BTW ...I don't drink!