This was sparked by a heated facebook debate. A friend of mine swears it's Steelers fans. My vote goes towards Eagles fans. The city of brotherly love has some anger management issues in my opinion.
Although from the point of view of those who aren't sports-crazed, you could say all sports fans are obnoxious.
Eagle fans don't travel like the Steelers, so if you've been to the Eagles stadium then yeah, but fans are obnoxious, well most from the opposing team. Steelers rank #1 in my book. I've seen Jag fans harass visiting fans, but none are worse the Steelers. I have heard through many message boards that these stadiums should be avoided from opposing fans. Eagles, Jets, Gaints, I would imagine Steelers also.
I've had a few brushes with Eagels fans in Philly and when they came here in 2005 for the superbowl, so i'm totally biased based on just a few experiences.
I'm partial to Pittsburgh because I liked them before we had a team and the first game I went to was jags vs steelers in '95. Plus most of the games I've attended where we played them, we won and I was the one taunting them...so haha yeah this is a very subjective argument.
My friend didn't back down on swearing they're the worst though, at least out of the teams that visit us semi regularly. I'm probably blind to their obnoxiousness due to my admiration of their team's rich history and the city of Pittsburgh itself.
Steelers
Steelers fans are obnoxious but loyal...Eagles fans are far worse (and that's coming from someone who went to college in Philly)
Eagles... ::)
Gator fans! Oh wait, you said NFL.. ;)
I think Steeler fans can be super obnoxious.. Eagles fans.. and I've ran into some really, really annoying Colts fans. But I might just be throwing Colts in there because I can't stand that team or Peyton.
It was the Browns fans who threw bottles and stuff on the field at their stadium when the Jags played right? I haven't ran into enough Browns fans to get a real opinion on them.. but crap like that is pretty obnoxious..
Anyway... GO JAGS! =D
As a full fledged Steeler fan, I think we get that title since we travel so well. Most teams do not have the presence of fans to annoy you in your own stadium. Plus with recent success, people come out the wood work. However, most of my times sitting in JMS we are on the loosing end, and do not have much to talk about.
The one game I have been to in Heinz field, the Jaguar/Steeler playoff game, the Jag fans around me were treated well by the Steeler fans around them. The only problem we had was another Steeler fan and everyone ran him off.
Steelers. No contest.
Here's a non-local poll that pretty much confirms our suspicions:
http://www.misterpoll.com/polls/81262/results
and another thread on yahoo with some amusing answers:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090102043931AA8HxP5
Quotestryker:
The Eagles EASILY. They think they are "hard", but are basically just a bunch of drunken idiots.
I generally like opposing team's fans. But last years Steeler game I got into a bit of trouble.
We had 3 female Steeler fans in front of me (never seen them before or again) and since they were as wide as they were tall, they kept hitting me in the face when swinging their stupid towels. I like to lean forward in my seat when watching the game, actually I probably rock back in forth with anxiety, and those stinking towels kept hitting me.
Anyway,I was making comments on how we owned them, Hines Ward was dirty,etc..and they could not take it.
I find that usually is the case with female fans.The husbands laugh and stay good natured about smack talk but the ladies get so angry.
One of the women told me that I was an embarrassment to Jacksonville and that if I was at a Steeler's game their fans would never behave the way I was.
I had to take exception as I have had multiple friends go to Pittsburgh and been treated terribly. Rental car tires slashes, beers dumped on head, coins thrown at 'em, etc...
At half time, each of them came back with their own nacho's, which I could not let pass. I made a comment about how they could wipe the nacho cheese off of their face and luckily for them it would not stain the towel. They did not like that...
Maybe I am a little obnoxious! :P
Jets fans who came down to Jax for the game, those with the hard hats, were throwing batteries in section 130 when I was in that section. A few of them were, of course, ejected, and a few fights broke out.
I'd say at JMS, probably Steeler or Colt fans, its rediculous how many Peyton Homers come out in support every year. Disgusting actually.
Away stadiums - Ugh, Cleveland is the worst. Those fans hate everything, away teams, even their own team, and this year, can you blame them?
It's laughable to see bandwagon people in Florida wearing Colts jerseys as if they could name one Colts player before Peyton got there.
Jets fans are pretty obnoxious. That being said, I think the Eagles fans can be considered one of the worst. I mean, they booed santa and have their own holding cell at their stadium. I've heard from those that have been to Three Rivers and said they were treated well. Same with Nashville.
actually they did more than boo Santa....they threw snowballs at him...and Jimmy Johnson but that's ok :-)
Not to pile on, but Eagles fans also cheered Michael Irvin's career (and possibly life) ending injury.
QuoteIrvin was carted off the Philadelphia field on a stretcher, and the play in Philadelphia proved to be his last. He sustained a non-life-threatening cervical spinal cord injury and was subsequently diagnosed with a narrow spinal column (spinal stenosis), which forced him into early retirement. The Philadelphia fans' cheering response to Irvin's serious spinal cord injuries further intensified the already intense rivalry between the Eagles and the Cowboys.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Irvin#Career-ending_injury_in_Philadelphia
Steelers are obnoxious, Eagles are just down right rude. There is a difference.
Quote from: copperfiend on December 04, 2009, 09:33:46 AM
It's laughable to see bandwagon people in Florida wearing Colts jerseys as if they could name one Colts player before Peyton got there.
At the Jags-Colts game in Jacksonville last year, I think I saw a grand total of two Colts fans wearing jerseys other than Manning's. The sea of 18s was outright laughable and is still a running joke between me and my best buddy. I assume that was mainly the bandwagon crowd, because you see a diversity of jerseys among the fans in Indianapolis just as you would see anywhere else. I remember Vanderjagt's jersey being the first kicker jersey I regularly saw in crowds on TV. Anyway, I assume the bandwagon people in Florida still can't name more than one Colts player if their taste in jerseys is any indication.
I think I have to go with Browns fans on this one just for their proclivity for throwing things at opposing fans and opposing teams. What they used to do with the dog biscuit bombardments in the 80s was absurd. I remember a game between the Broncos and Browns where they actually had the teams switch ends of the field because the Broncos were being hit with so many objects they couldn't run a play.
The Eagles are up there, though. Irvin's wasn't the first injury they cheered.
I've found the Steeler fans in Pennsylvania to be much more civil than the marauding packs of stadium invaders they have in other cities, who exude unbelievable arrogance if not outright hostility.
^ Good point about the Browns.
I forgot all about that game from 2001. Like Mandy said earlier, they were pelting the Jag players with water/beer bottles from the stands after the refs overturned a call that would've went in their favor.
Here's the TU's recollection of that unbelievable day:
QuoteVictory under fire
Published Monday, December 17, 2001
By Bart Hubbuch
Times-Union sports writer,
CLEVELAND -- Mark Brunell shook his head in disbelief.
Jimmy Smith compared it to storming the beach in the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan.
"The only difference was, we were dodging beer bottles instead of bullets," Smith said.
Those were just a few of the Jaguars' slack-jawed reactions to the chaotic final moments and surreal aftermath of their 15-10 victory over the Cleveland Browns yesterday at Cleveland Browns Stadium.
The announced crowd of 72,818 reacted angrily when an apparent reception by Cleveland's Quincy Morgan at the Jacksonville 9-yard line was overruled on instant replay by referee Terry McAulay.
Morgan's catch had come on fourth down with just 48 seconds left in the game and the Browns out of timeouts, so McAulay's call essentially sealed the Jaguars' victory.
But the decision enraged the thousands of fans in the "Dawg Pound" section and upper decks of the east end zone, and they responded by throwing hundreds of plastic beer and water bottles -- many of them full -- onto the field and at the Jaguars' bench.
After a delay of several minutes, with no end of the flying bottles in sight, McAulay declared the game over and sent the teams off the field. Fans pelted the Jaguars with bottles as they went up the stadium tunnel.
Then things got really interesting.
Jaguars coach Tom Coughlin was 10 minutes into his postgame news conference when McAulay summoned him with word that NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue had called personally with orders to play the game's final 48 seconds.
So with thousands of angry fans still in the stands and several players from both teams already showered and wearing business suits, the Jaguars and Browns came out to watch Brunell kneel twice to end the game.
"That was unbelievable," said Brunell, who was on his way to the shower when Tagliabue's order came. "I've never seen anything like that. Absolutely incredible...
http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/121701/jag_8110850.html
There are so many thousands of obnoxious NFL fans out there. Many that are down right rude. Some that are violent. It's ridiculous. I'm a girl, and I love football almost as much as the next guy. I have to say though, while there are many teams who get on the nerves of just about every other NFL fan, the Steelers win for me. Just by personal experiences. Most of them are the ones not actually from Pittsburgh. I have recently met many nice ones. But it just drives me nuts that i can never get away from the rude, violent, and obnoxious ones. No matter where I run.
Let me preface this with the fact that I am an avid Jags fan and I have a half-pack of tickets.
The most "obnoxious fans" in the NFL right now are the JAGS FANS! Why? Because the fans don't support their team. How can you be more "obnoxious" than that? I think it's pretty obnoxious that there people who call themselves "fans" but do not go to the games (save those who simply can't afford it). So obnoxious that their reputation has gained national attention (see all articles regarding blackouts and failure to sell out stadium). How bad is that? A fan base can gain the title of most obnoxious fans without even going to the games. At least all the abovementioned fans gained the reputation of being obnoxious in the stadium.
That being said, Jags fans can shed this moniker by going to the games and supporting the team.
I love the Jags and really enjoy going to the games. The empty seats don't deter me from going or decrease my own gameday experience. I just wish that more people shared my passion and the passion of other hardcore Jags fans.
GO JAGS!