MachoDiablo
Registered User
You might be on to something; I'm obviously biased as a Mets and Devils fan, and thus I spent years reserving my greatest "fan-hatred" for Yankees and Rangers fans (and obviously Philadelphia fans, in general, but just focusing local here). However, and I preface this with saying I have family members who are fans and that I'll happily cheer them sometimes since I'm not as big a football fan, I've had this lingering feeling for awhile that the actual scummiest portion of a fanbase in terms of behavior and overall conduct during games in this area may well be some Jets fans.Rangers are my most hated team but I hated Flyer fans more for years and years. I was pretty neutral to the Islanders in the past.
The recent success of the Islanders have made them completely insufferable, and even this crap season hasn’t hasn’t doused the douche flames. They seem to feel like they have to be Super Fans or something and prove their love by being ridiculously loud all the time even though it’s f***ing rude as visiting fans.
The Rangers fans just cheer goals, suck their goalies’ dicks and shit talk us. Same old same old.
I bring them up because the more I thought about that, the more I kind of noticed some of those aspects popping up in some corners of the Mets' fanbase, and it really stuck out, as you say, when the Islanders got decent again and their fans started showing up more. It's led me to start positing that there's just something inherently weird going on with Long Island-based fans, I say as a sweeping, crass generalization. Maybe being in the area known for Mets/Jets/Isles/Nets or Knicks fandom has just snapped some people's brains from being "long suffering" yet that combined with that general New York sense of entitlement many fans seem to develop, anyway, and created a nasty combination in some.
I'll still say the Jets fanbase takes the cake because they get the deadly combo of that Long Island boorishness with that Bergen County Yankees fan attitude. Worst of all worlds!
...ok, is there anyone I didn't piss off with this post? I'm trying to fill the Player Haters checklist.