deep, (very) early christmas morning thoughts

You know, for all the crap, borne of the primal jealousy harbored by sports fans who are not fortunate enough to be from the New England area, that the Patriots fans get, we have two things going for us.

That is, besides our fan bloggers' ability to engineer incredibly long sentences.

1) We don't have an irritating team song. If you've ever been to a bar that happens to be filled with Eagles fans (or hell, any venue whether small and indoors or large and outdoors), you know what I'm talking about. Imagine a bunch of drunkards waving their beers and singing this:

Fly Eagles fly, on the road to victory. Fight Eagles fight, score a touchdown 1-2-3. Hit 'em low, Hit 'em high, And we'll watch our Eagles fly. Fly Eagles fly on the road to victory.

I know Philadelphia takes its mediocre-at-best organization very seriously, for the first five games before hiring crap wide receivers to support their above average quarterback catches up to them anyways. But seriously, that song has to go. Recently, one of my friends was presented a key chain with the Eagles logo on it. That would have been fine, if it did not sing the Eagles fight song in its entirety when pressed. She loves it. I will eventually take a hammer to it.

2) We don't wave yellow towels to which we have designated the property of "terribleness". What exactly makes a bright yellow towel so terrible? Is it because each terrible towel is saturated with the post-workday sweat of Steelers fans, who are all no doubt, rugged, cheerleader disparaging, steel mill workers? Perhaps soaked with the tears evoked by one-and-done playoff records? Maybe just a terribly trite travesty of alliteration? And why do Steeler's fans get so offended if you happen to wipe up some spilled beer with the terrible towel they brought over? It's a far better use than waving a bright yellow towel around for the purposes of intimidation.

The point of this post is simple -- how do people get away referring to US as the most obnoxious football fans, when other fans sing "hit 'em high" and "hit 'em low" without intentionally making references to Space Jam? Maybe we'd be considered somewhat less obnoxious if we waved bright yellow towels in peoples' faces or wore foam representations of dairy products on our heads every Sunday.




























Disclaimer - This post is in no way meant to disparage all Eagles/Steelers fans. I have two very close friends who are respectively fans of aforementioned teams, and I love them very much. That will be explored further in my eventual post on "Love" and how it makes you see past some of the more obvious flaws in the people you bestow it upon.