So who are the New Yorkers rooting for/against?
I can never root for the Eagles. I would root for Texas A&M if they were playing against the Eagles. (probably won’t ever happen)
I’m rooting for the Eagles on the hope the fans burn that hellhole of a city to the ground.
What’s the story with Philly, why does everyone hate them? Is it the funny accents? Or their silly alcohol restrictions? It’s annoying enough not being able to buy beer from a cvs in Boston but trying to get booze in Philly is such a fu c king ball ache.
I think it is because Philly fans threw snowballs at a drunk guy dressed up as Santa and it became the oldest meme in the NFL:
Even before it had barely begun, however, the halftime show started to go as awry as the Eagles’ season. A day’s worth of snow and the pounding cleats of large football players had turned much of the field to muck, and the float quickly got stuck in the mud, meaning Santa would have to abandon his traditional means of conveyance and parade around on foot instead. But Santa was nowhere to be found, the person hired to portray him (depending upon which report one believes) having been prevented from making it to Franklin Field due to either an excess of inclement weather or an excess of alcoholic refreshments. In a panic, the Eagles’ entertainment director, Bill Mullen, approached a fan sitting in the stands, 20-year-old Frank Olivo, to fill in for the absent Santa Claus. Olivo, who had worn a red corduroy Santa suit and a fake beard to the game, was given a large sack and tapped to weave down the field between two columns of Eaglettes, waving to the crowd as the brass band played “Here Comes Santa Claus.” Years later, Olivo recalled what happened next:
“That’s when the booing started. At first, I was scared because it was so loud. But then I figured, hey, it was just good-natured teasing. I’m a Philadelphia fan, I knew what was what. I thought it was funny.”When Olivo finished his run down Santa Claus Lane, he got into range. A fan in the upper deck threw the first snowball. As Santa hit the south end zone, one turned into ten, then into 100.
“When I hit the end zone, and the snowballs started, I was waving my finger at the crowd, saying ‘You’re not getting anything for Christmas,’” Olivo recalled.
“Oh, I got pelted,” Olivo says. He remembers being hit by several dozen snowballs, which suggests that many of the upper-deck denizens were more accurate passers than [the Eagles’ quarterback]. “I didn’t mind,” he says. “I started kibitzing with some of the people throwing the snowballs.”
https://www.snopes.com/holidays/christmas/santa/philadelphia.asp
Well that and roundly cheering a career ending injury to Michael Irvin.
Yeah, Philly fans can be hardcore a-holes, no doubt. This article gets it pretty close. Pats are number 1, but then everyone hates a winner, 
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1. New England Patriots
You did it. You really did it. Never before in the history of sports fair-weather fandom has there been a group as obnoxious as the Pats’ fans. I’d like to rewind to the year 1993, when everyone was convinced the Pats would move to St. Louis and become the Stallions, and most Boston people COULDN’T CARE LESS. The Patriots were, for so very long, the bottom of the barrel in terms of local fan enthusiasm. The Red Sox, Celtics, Bruins, and all of the major college hockey teams in the Boston area all enjoyed more support than the Patriots. And then of course we know what happened. It became the year 2000 and Andover and Wesleyan graduate Billy Belichick started coaching, Drew Bledsoe got hurt, handsome Tom Brady stepped in, and the hapless Patriots started winning Super Bowls. And suddenly the fans came out of the Walden Pond woodwork.
Now everyone from Chelsea to Cochituate to Chatham claims that they’ve been die-hards forever, that they were huge fans during the Grogan and Tony Eason eras, that they know who Dick MacPherson is, and remember when fans used to hold up signs saying “Missing with Sisson” for kicker Scott Sisson. They shed accusations of cheating as if they are old John Hannah jerseys, even though everyone everywhere knows that Belichick is one of those guys who will cheat even while they’re winning just because it makes him feel clever. And so the calls of “P-A-T, Pats, Pats, Pats” ring out everywhere, and people still head to the town next to the town with the jail outside of Boston to watch their squad cooly go about the “Patriots Way” of mechanically winning games and refusing to sign beloved veterans because they would like to get paid more for bleeding for this team forever. But everyone knows you dyed-in-the-wool Pats fans are really just Bruins fans in Brady’s clothing. And deep down, you know it too.
Idrk. I wasn’t alive or coherent up through the 80’s. I remember people really getting into the Bledsoe/Parcells era and the Super Bowl against the Packers was pretty big.
Is it really a shock though that a team who was generally garbage for 40 straight years suddenly got more popular as they got really good? I think that happens to literally every team in sports history.
Also I try to stay away from who is the best fan argument because flexing your muscles about how good you are at watching other people play sports is… odd.
Right, but who is the worst fan is fine to talk about, because some people are just chooches. The chooch factor in Green Bay, a town of 100k people, is bound to be lower than in Philly or Boston. Anyway, best of luck in your future endeavors.
yea pats fans are the worst. dont think they even existed b4 brady era and wont after
It’s going to be hysterical if the Patriots are still good after Brady and even Belichick leave. So many people have everything wrapped up in that being the end, but like, what if it isn’t tho?
That makes sense. So their silly prohibition laws have backfired so they can’t handle their drink, think they’re hilarious but really they just act like d i cks and take everything too far
Basically they’re the Glasgow of the US.
Glasgow…I don’t really know enough about their antics to fully verify, but it could be apt.
I think a this point with the Eagles fans is its a self-fulfilling prophecy. The nation wants/expects hooliganism and the fans deliver hooliganism. Look at Always Sunny…
People hating on the griminess Philly don’t get it. San Fran used to be a creative flower community, now its been overrun by commercialism and tech bros post the app boom.
Seattle was the root of 90’s grunge before hipsters took over it.
Austin was eclectic before SXSW and the tech era turned it into a commercial venture.
Boston was the Irish Catholic enclave before it became gentrified.
As Patti Smith aptly summed up NYC: “New York to me was the worker city, the artist city. It was a place to get your sh_i_t together. Now it’s a place people come to with their sh_i_t together.”
Anybody who has spent any time in Philly has seen the parabolic build out going on in a city with among the largest young adult populations, within our lifetime it will be defined by zoning ordinances and we’ll be saying, “remember when Philly was the city of blue collar dirtballs”. As far as I’m concerned soak up the depravity while it lasts, we’ve got enough corporate communes.
Gronk not that good 
pittsburgh>philly any day of the week
FLYYYY EAGLES FLYYYYY!
BS let’s hit up delilahs den brother!!!
Claim: "pittsburgh>philly any day of the week " Verdict: FALSE Not today bishes!
I wish, I’m stuck in New England when I should be shoulder deep in light pole grease right meow.