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| Name: | Kristi Turner |
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| Location: | Jax, Florida |
| ZIP: | 32244 |
| Gender: | A beautiful and talented young woman |
| Member since: | January 24, 2005 |
| Last visit: | February 05, 2005 |
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Philadelphia for all of it's history is and always will be a classless second rate city. It's the people. Being from Philly,I don't agree. Anyone who would say this obviously has never experienced the city and all it has to offer firsthand. One who would call an entire city's people classless after reading one person's account needs to educate themselves and deal with the fact that everyone can't be as classy as they feel they are. Erban experiened a large handful of agitated true blue Eagles fans, he didn't meet the whole city... and I doubt you have too.
posted by Kristi at 03:36 PM on February 02, 2005
City of Brotherly Shove
I remember one Eagles game when I was about 8 years old where a Raiders fan stood in front of the section I was sitting in to flip us off with both hands. Everyone in my section then proceeded to empty their beers down the rows of seats onto this man in the Raiders hat. While I don't always agree with the way that Philadelphia's fans handle themselves, what about that Raiders fan? If you ask me, he asked for it. The Eagles were so bad for so long, never winning, always losing. Maybe some fans were jealous of other winning teams and took their anger out on other cities' fans. Maybe some other cities were coming to Philly to play and their fans taunted the home field's fans unstoppingly. While these thoughts are no reason for violence, I believe that after years of disrespect and bad sportsmanship from other teams and their fans Philly got fed up and began to retaliate. Maybe not in the right ways, but hey, not everyone's perfect. Every city has it's own thing, and if they're challenged enough there will always be that person or that group that acts in haste and ends up giving the city a bad name to the closed minded that see only that incident. Personally I think that some games should be segregated, like any kind of playoff game, and not only in Philly. Yeah it sucks that it's come to that, but worse things could happen.