Most annoyingly smug fans in sports

[eyepaddle]

Yeah, we can all lustily despise the New York Yankees, absolutely LOATHE the Dallas Cowboys, but which team's fans have the smuggest attitude along the lines of "yeah, I know you cheer for your team--but that's only because my team isn't around. I know when you get the chance to root for my team in person I know you will. I mean, I just don't see how it's even POSSIBLE that somebody might not root for my team."

[hickman1937]

1. Coming from a family of die hard Lions fans,

we don't hear much of that Green Bay crap. I don't think they dare.

[eyepaddle]

2. Lucky you, you guys have a lake separating you and

your stadium's on the far side of the state. If the Vikings played in Moorhead there'd be a lot less cheese in the stands. Or if the Packers played in Hudson there'd be a LOT more purple there.

Tonight some Packer fan accused my friends' wife and sister of being on "the" boat. (basically called them whores). That was great.

[hickman1937]

7. Tell people you're a Lions fan and they just shut up.

I don't know if they think we're lunatics, or just armed.

[eyepaddle]

12. In Minesota if you told 'em you were a Lions fan

they'd pretty much know you were lying! ;)

Lions fans are just not that common around here, I guessing because Michigan is a LOONNNGGGGG drive from MN. About the only Lions fan I know of is the noon till two host of the local sports-talk radio station! (He's Dan "The Common Man" Cole, aka "Common") I haven't listened to KFAN since we got Air America, but Common was one f my favorites. Pretty progressive and very low key.

Early money is on Lions to take the North Skol! :toast:

[hickman1937]

17. I was mostly talking about my daughters experiences in Tennessee,

and my nephew in New Jersey. And my brother who travels all over the US for the military. They all tell about the same story.

[eyepaddle]

20. Despit their annoying habit of completely

humiliating the Purple about every four years, I've always had a bit of a soft spot for the Lions. They just seem snakebit, for no good reason (other than perpetual want of a qurterback).
Maybe this year is their year? The roar has been restored! :D

[hickman1937]

23. Winning has become irrelevant. It's the sticking with.

Or so we tell ourselves. Loyalty gives a certain comfort.

[driver8]

39. I am a die hard Bills fan, but have always had a soft spot in my

heart for the Lions and their fans. I had a roommate who was a Lions fan and he was LOYAL!! I always root for the Lions unless they are playing the Bills.

[hickman1937]

41. So many people with a soft spot for a once great team.

Sad, but kind of heartening in a way. Sometimes I wonder if people's "soft spot" for the Lions is actually a soft spot for Detroit, and well wishes for it to become great again. :shrug: Maybe not, but one can hope.

[liberaltrucker]

47. Mariuci(sp) is a helluva coach

just ask 49er fans. It'll take some time and $ by ownership, but the Lions will be a force to be reconed with in a couple of years.

[WeRQ4U]

58. It was supposed to be THIS year...............

How long are the putting it off now....another couple years.

Forget it. The Roar will NEVER be restored. It's a team of talented, yet injury-prone individuals. It's not a team.

I feel BAD for Joey Harrington having had to play for that team. They've been calling of his replacement before he ever stepped foot on the field.

[MarsThe Cat]

3. the Pack will be Back...

in my lifetime...

[DainBramaged]

4. just to pick at a sore

[njdemocrat106]

28. I respectfully disagree

[LeftyMom]

5. Raider fans

Sure Packer fans are a drunken annoyance, but Raider fans are both more fanatic in thier devotion and far more inebriated. Not a good combo.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. Sure, Raider fans are drunken berserkers

but Denver fans are the most annoyingly smug.

[Maat]

46. Ramen.

Denver fans are the most arrogant, as their beloved coach encourages hits that really should be prohibited.

This is just this Charger fan's humble opinion; I have season tickets. I have sat with them all; Denver's are the most annoyingly smug.

[Telly Savalas]

26. Since moving back to Oakland, the Raiders are 79-87.

What do they have to be smug about?

[LeftyMom]

27. Damned if I know

but it sure doesn't stop them.

It's the beer talking, I guess. :toast:

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

6. Bitter much?

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

8. I don't understand why you are so surprised to have fans of opposing team

in 'your' stadium. It happens everywhere that the home team can't fill a stadium and a team with a strong base comes to play. Everywhere across every sport.

Maybe if the Vikes were good enough to fill the stadium with their own fans it would not be as much of an issue. Seriously. I used the Lambeau/Wrigley field examples in other thread. Focus on some wins and you may edge out those 'obnoxious' fans.

[LeftyMom]

13. That's not true

We get drunken Packer fans in the seats near us at the 'Stick and there hasn't been an available ticket there in my lifetime. The damned cheeseheads buy 'em from scalpers, people who can't go that day (who hear about it later if thier guests make asses of themselves,) etc. It has nothing to do with fan base or lack thereof.

[eyepaddle]

15. Pssstt check the poll.

:hi:

[eyepaddle]

14. The Vikings have sold out 79 home games in a row.

Wrigley field is more of a picnic with a baseball game atttached, the only baseball stadiums with the kind of crazed intensity to match football are probably Boston and Philadelphia. If I went to a Chicago Blackhawks game and started jacking my jaw, I don't think I'd have the right to act surprised when it's not well recieved.

There are a lot of Packer fans who live a hell of a lot closer to the Twin Cities than Green Bay--they seem to be willing to blow astronomical sums of money on scalped tickets. There are many Vikings fans who largely pay for their season tickets by selling one game's ticket to a Packer fan. I wish it weren't the case, but money still talks.

For the record though, tickets at Lambeau ARE available--you just have to be willing to contact a broker and cough up some cash.

[KitchenWitch]

18. Not true

Vikings fans would be able to fill the stands without the Yakker fans buying up all the tickets.

The Vikings have sold out every game since like 1998.

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

19. OK ok.. I stand corrected. I still think it's easier/chepaer to get tix

in MN than at Lambeau. And I stand by my assertion that there are obnoxious asshole pigs at all sporting events... some root for the home team and some don't. It happens.

[KitchenWitch]

21. I agree about the asshole pigs at all sporting events

But I did want to point out that the Vikings have been a sellout for a long time...

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

22. And that's where I stand corrected....

[AussieDave]

10. So many choices - I don't know WHO to vote for......

[Arkana]

11. Add Eagles fans to that list.

:evilgrin:

[YellowRubberDuckie]

16. OU Sooners.

Try NOT being a Sooner fan in the middle of Oklahoma City and see where it gets you. The things that come out of people's mouths over a stupid football team will surprise you.
Duckie

[ovidsen]

24. It's a GAME, dammit!

It seems there are only 2 kinds of fans at too many sporting events:

1- The fanatic who threatens anyone who even THINKS about cheering for the visiting team.

2- The fanatic who goes to away games, screams insults at the home team and it's fans, and basically invites said fans to kill him.

And then there's me. I cheer for the team I like, applaud good plays by either side, and leave after spending a fine afternoon or evening watching pros perform acts of strength and co-ordination I could only dream of doing myself. Yes, it's root, root root for the home team, if they don't win it's a shame (such a shame).. but I'm not gonna go berserk over it. Maybe that's why I've always liked Wrigley Field, and far from hating the White Sox, I hope they win the World Series, but I'll applaud the Astros if they come out on top.
So there!:7

[Groggy]

25. Viking fans apparently!

:P

[jobycom]

29. Where the hell are the Patriots or the Red Sox?

[Arugula Latte]

30. College: USC. Bleah.

Bleah. Ptooie. Pbbbbbbbt.

[Awsi Dooger]

32. C'mon, no worse than tied with Miami Hurricane fans

Those two are my alma mater, and my favorite team. We deserve abuse. Not just championships.

[friesianrider]

31. Can you add Patriots fans, please?

That sounds *exactly* like every Patsies fan I know!

[eyepaddle]

33. Sorry, it's too late, I can't

edit the poll any longer. :(

I'm in Minnesota and Patriots fans are as rare as Hen's teeth, so are they smugly annoying, or abrasive? It's the smugly annoying I'm concerned with!

Packer fans on the other hand--you let a few in and before you know it, they're UNDERFOOT! :evilgrin:

I've gotten a lot of bile out of my system though. B-)

[friesianrider]

36. I'd say smugly *and* arrogantly annoying!

But don't worry about GB - they aren't much good this year so you can brag ;)

Patsies fans are the kind who act like no other team matters except for the Pats. They act like no other fans have the right to even be semi-proud of their teams because...(didn't you know?) the Patriots are the best team ever and the only team anyone REALLY cares about :eyes:

S, yes, they are annoying, smug, and arrogant! :evilgrin:

[mermaid]

34. Where's The Choice For

The fucking Atlanta Braves!?!?
Them and their obnoxious annoying "Tomahawk Chop" thing??

Hey, I know you got football teams up there, but your subject line isn't "The most smug fans in FOOTBALL" but "the most smug fans in SPORTS."

And I have to rate the Atlanta fans among the most smug, obnoxious, annoying assholes in the world.

That fucking Tomahawk Chop...oh, ayyyy, oh...Goddamn....it's annoying as shit.

[eyepaddle]

35. I do hates me the Tomahawk chop, and

I thought about the Braves--but my initial poll was just the Green Bay Packers repeated four times--I only added the others to be nice to people who posted. Sorry, but it's too late to put in the Braves now. :hi:

(I bet you can guess who I voted for!) ;)

[arwalden]

37. That One Guy With The Rainbow Wig And The John 3:16 Sign...

... which team is he a fan of?

[KitchenWitch]

38. I think he has clones everywhere

He is ubiquitous

[MrScorpio]

40. Cowboys fans

Yeah, I said it

[Mojambo]

42. Definitely Devil Rays fans...

Those guys are just bastards!

[KitchenWitch]

43. are you kidding me

What do they have to be smug about. That one flies as far as Royals fans being smug and overbearing.

[Mojambo]

44. Yes, actually, I was kidding you.

I'm feeling a little sarcastic tonight, never a useful thing when communicating on a message board.

[KitchenWitch]

45. lol

I figured as such, but I did have to ask!

:hi:

I am too snarky for my own good as well...

[liberaltrucker]

48. Alabama fans

Although I'm, uh, how do I say this politely.......married to one. There, I said it. What are the other 11 steps?

[T_i_B]

49. What? No Man U fans?

Mind you, if you are going to go for an English football team this season for this award it might well have to be Chelski.

[RogueTrooper]

53. Chelski don't have smug fans TIB

it's just their manager "The Special One" who is the smug git.

[realisticphish]

50. Steelers fans

though i'm only referring to a few particular people. As a bengals fan, i am used to losing, and have thus developed a "hey, its just a game" attitude about football. and even this year, as we do well, i still root for teams that i respect, etc. But today, the steelers played the bengals (and won). i have NEVER seen a bad winner behave as badly as two guys who live in my suite. running around defacing anything bengals, constantly harping on it, etc.

bastards :grr:

*no disrespect meant to considerate steelers fans

[mermaid]

51. Hmmmm

A Bengals fan? Don't you mean a BUNGLES fan? :D

Sorry, hadda say it. I got my names for a number of teams, and here they are...

The Cincinnati Bungles
The Philadelphia Beagles
The Tampa Bay Fuckin' Queers

LOL

[JVS]

52. Steelers fans are the salt of the earth!

[nickinSTL]

54. gotta be the Packers

being a Bears fan...you can imagine how I feel about Packers fans...

[freestyle]

55. Duke fans are the absolute worst, bar none. eom

[Patiod]

56. Eagles? Smug? Bitter, angry, insecure - yes. Smug?

No freakin' way.

Youse do NOT know what you're talkin about.

[WeRQ4U]

57. I guess I HAVE to vote for Packer Fans.

I really don't like ANY fan base that refuses to live in the present. Yankee Fans and Green Bay fans are the same that way. It's always.......well how many championships has YOUR team won? They gloss over the fact that their team is currently the 3rd or 4th worst team in the league.