Comments on: Jason Babin said Eagles fan chants were “vile” and personal

By: davereckon

davereckon — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 23:38:34 +0000

jahmic | Nov 2, 2012, 2:30 AM EDT
Home of brotherly love

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Actually, you are correct. But think about it for a moment. I grew up with 2 older brothers. And the one thing i could count on, was them telling me when i did something stupid, didnt give my all, etc etc. and thats kind of how Philadelphia is. If youve never been here, educate yourself a bit on the city. Yes, we have many resident clowns that defy logic and reason, or even basic human dignity, but dont think that its unique to Philly.

Ive been to other stadiums, and have seen some great fans, and some crappy ones too. Sit in the cheap seats at any stadium, they are there. But as a former season ticket holder for the Eagles, i have also seen a regular stream of visiting fans LOOKING for a fight as well. Not by wearing visiting colors. Looking to start a fight to say they kicked some a$$ at an Eagles game. The seats in front of ours were owned by a ticket agency, so we had visiting fans sitting in front of us every week.

Its the NFL, and it brings out the jockstrap in everyone.

By: rgamb285

rgamb285 — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:11:25 +0000

Being a lifelong eagles fan, I can say that some fans are an utter disgrace and give the city a bad wrap. I don’t even like some of the Philly fans myself, and agree with a lot of what people say about them, but it does not represent the city as a whole. The one thing I love about Philadelphia is its passion, the will to root for a team that truly gives their all, and will not tolerate anything less. Any true fan would boo when you constantly see your team have a terrible game plan that never changes , and does not have the personnel to execute it properly. To be fair, the O-line is decimated by injury, and has a lot to do with their struggles, but they have done nothing with the scheme to help Vick or get McCoy involved. The wide 9 is garbage and pathetic, and the defense has not been even serviceable since the passing of Jim Johnson, which is clear now that he disguised much of Andy Reid’s shortcomings. Andy has never drafted a true leader on the team and let the best in team history walk for nothing in return, and the players on the team now clearly have other agendas which is clearly presented every week on the field. I’m sure there will be plenty more posts about the “awful” Philly fans, because it is only week 9 and the outrage is just starting to scratch the surface.

By: brainfries

brainfries — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:20:15 +0000

I remember watching that game when the Eagle fans supposedly booed Michael Irvin. Yes all Philly fans hated that guy but the truth is the fans werent booing Irvin, they were booing the bs call the refs made on that play when they flagged the Eagles for the hit they put on him. Get over it America.

Yes Eagles fans are upset. Wouldnt you be if your team never won the Super Bowl???
GO EAGLES!!!!!!

By: JohnnyTwoTimes says

JohnnyTwoTimes says — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 13:04:43 +0000

Philly fans get annoyed when people bring up pelting Santa with snowballs (it happened but the Santa was visibly drunk), or cheering as Michael Irvin was injured on the turf (this happened but the booing was triggered by Deion and other Cowboys taunting the crowd during the stoppage of play, Deion was dancing around).

My personal feeling is that the Santa thing is overblown.

Of course there is the empty Super Bowl trophy case too, but Philly fans can’t really get mad about that as it is indisputable reality…

…And nobody in the stands knew Irvin was seriously injured. We just knew he got laid out. ESPN used to do a whole “Jacked up” segment for years and people cheered that with no problems.

Hey Babin, you know how they are, you didn’t have to take the money, you should have stayed in Tennessee, you ONE TRICK PONY.

By: bubba703

bubba703 — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 11:03:24 +0000

Chrisgas,:Philly fans DO have the right to boo or cheer, but it’s obviously more than just a few bad apples. How else can you explain Philly becoming the first city to build a special court/jail in their stadium.

By: jahmic

jahmic — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 06:30:48 +0000

Home of brotherly love

By: eagles512

eagles512 — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 04:59:54 +0000

As an Eagle fan, I even agree a ton of us are idiots with hating guys that give us the best 10 year run we’ve had (McNabb) but for stuff like this, I go to games everywhere and it’s the same stuff anywhere in the Northeast and out to Pitt, Clev, etc.

By: greymares

greymares — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 02:13:02 +0000

2 pts. 1 Jason Babin is a liar 2 to all posters using the words of this liar in derrogatory comments about Eagle fans do so because they are not intelligent or knowledgeable enough to be Eagle fans

By: dynastymi

dynastymi — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:49:40 +0000

you know what babin maclin avant and what any other eagle has to say about the greatest fans in sports they need to go. im tired of these players talking down on there fans instead of worrying about what where saying go out and win some games. im a life time eagles fan your just passing bye.and whoever brings up santa clause is 1 pathetic and 2 has absolutely no idea what there talking bout and what really happened

By: chrisvegas

chrisvegas — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:43:10 +0000

To all of you blasting us Philly fans, you don’t know what you are talking about. I’m tired of being generalized by a few bad apples. Oh… They boood Santa and blah blah blah… You know what? Santa was DRUNK!!!! Of course we bood him. We go and support are teams unconditionally. If they give a pathetic effort we boo. It’s called tough love. We have no championships yet we still pay our hard earned money to support our team. We have a right to boo them when they deserve it, and is there anyone who doesn’t think this team deserves to be bood that last month? Babin is just mad he has two sacks in 7 games.

By: cmstrick

cmstrick — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:26:29 +0000

“…but what are you going to do?”

If the Eagles are really sincere about ending this disgusting behavior, it’s really quite simple. Nearly everyone has a smart phone. Create a Facebook page where fans can report other fans that are acting like idiots. People can use their phones to record video as proof and upload it to the page, along with the seat numbers of the idiots being reported. Security sees the video, goes to that seat number and escorts the offending buffoon into one of the cells to await the real cops.

By: melonheadsdaddy

melonheadsdaddy — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:26:05 +0000

Passion is a good word. Shouldn’t have chased that money Jason! You’re UNDERACHIEVING. Sorry we’re not Tennessee and actually CARE.

By: joemw54

joemw54 — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:13:00 +0000

One other thing, for every fan who says things like “we have a Super Bowl Trophy”, UH no you have nothing. The team has a Super Bowl trophy. What you DO have is an empty life!

By: joemw54

joemw54 — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 23:03:26 +0000

Here we go again the same old, tired boo Santa Clause argument! Plenty of people who have never been to Philly, dont know anything about Philasdelphia teams or fans making a lot of stupid comments. One nitwit even wants to blow up the stadium and all Eagle fans. But we’re the ones who have no class. Ok people get a clue. A few weeks ago Braves fans threw bottles on the field over a bad call! Dodger fans KILLED a Giants fan. Were any of you outraged then? No. But you are because Santa was booed. IDIOTS!

By: bubba703

bubba703 — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:46:06 +0000

If Babin thinks the stuff he hears from beered up angry Iggle fans is vile, he should try sitting beside them in the stands.

By: fish751

fish751 — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:38:47 +0000

Can’t say I’m proud of everything that has gone on at Birds games over the years, but when you are fed up with a bad product year after year you say things to get your point across. Boos are not working anymore and we just need to turn the page. By the way this happens in every stadium that the fans care about the product on the field.

By: meytonpanning

meytonpanning — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:19:10 +0000

You guys think any NFL fans are bad?

The Vancouver Cannucks fans make Philly Eagles fans look like angels.

By: flavordave

flavordave — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:16:38 +0000

I really dont care what others think of Philly fans. You have to live here to get “it”. We expect a hard days work for incredible pay. Its that mentality that does not mesh well with a lazy one trick pony like Babin. Its brutal watching him reenact the letter “C” when going after a QB. The “C” is his only move play after play. We didnt even like him last year when he had 18 sacks because we knew they were hollow numbers. Teams ran the ball all over the Eagles as a result.

By: dallassux

dallassux — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:12:51 +0000

teedraper says:
Nov 1, 2012 5:27 PM
What do you expect from Philly fans. Easily the most classless fans in the history of sports! I wish a meteor hits your stadium while every member of the eagles fan base is in attendance.

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What else can you say but……Wow!

By: dallassux

dallassux — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 22:10:31 +0000

golforepar says:
Nov 1, 2012 5:07 PM
Eagles fans are tough, when they have 70,000 friends with them.
Hey, show some class!

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As tough as someone who hides behing their computer to bash a fanbase?

By: farside37

farside37 — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:56:00 +0000

Hey, Babin, know what’s really vile and offensive? You stealing $$$$$ from the Philadelphia Eagles and the fans. Try running your engine as much as your mouth, and maybe you’d actually make a play once a month. It might also help if you were as interested in representing the Eagles uniform with pride, rather than worrying about running with the bulls or fretting over some insensitive remarks from a few boorish fans. We get that you are useless against the run, but when your specialty is supposed to be sacking the QB, and you can’t even do that, we call your performance vile and offensive.

By: flavordave

flavordave — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:46:38 +0000

I dont know what could be worse, Babin challenging fans more then an offensive lineman, or Darin Gantts hack job of a career.

By: TxGrown

TxGrown — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:41:20 +0000

@jianningwu….
“They give Lombardi trophies to FANBASES? If I become, say, a Steelers fan today can I expect a big shipment of them tomorrow?”
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That’s the only way an eagles fan will ever get near one. By changing teams.

By: mail2bency

mail2bency — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:29:56 +0000

We’re back to this again? That minority of fans in Philadelphia won’t change. If so, they would have already Babin.

By the way, how many sacks do you have this season?

[crickets]

By: teedraper

teedraper — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:27:44 +0000

What do you expect from Philly fans. Easily the most classless fans in the history of sports! I wish a meteor hits your stadium while every member of the eagles fan base is in attendance.

By: tommyribs

tommyribs — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:21:41 +0000

“Jason Babin said Eagles fan chants were “vile” and personal”

In other news, the Sun Came up this morning, and is expected to set sometime in the evening.

I mean seriously, what do you expect from these fans? They are the worst representation of a fan-base in the NFL.

You to NY, you go to Atlanta, You to Green Bay, you wear your team colors and people jazz you and talk to you, and tell you good restaurants to go to after the game.

You got o Philly a bunch of 35 year old adolescents want to fight you and say stuff about your mother.

They are a bunch of losers.

By: rufustfireflyjr

rufustfireflyjr — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:21:30 +0000

raoool: How many stadiums other than the old Veterans Stadium in Philly had facilities for arraigning arrestees on the premises?

By: theonlyjagsfan

theonlyjagsfan — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:07:55 +0000

when the eagles came to Jax 2 years ago, I saw no less than 6(yes 6) fights in the stands, and even more eagles fans just talking sh*t. I’ve been to about thirty Jaguars games and had NEVER seen anything like it at a football game. truth

By: golforepar

golforepar — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 21:07:32 +0000

Eagles fans are tough, when they have 70,000 friends with them.
Hey, show some class!

By: jianningwu

jianningwu — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 20:56:57 +0000

> What can you expect of a fanbase that has never won a Lombardi ??????????

They give Lombardi trophies to FANBASES? If I become, say, a Steelers fan today can I expect a big shipment of them tomorrow?