Craziness at the Meadowlands
I have pontificated in the past about the boorish behavior and the goings on at Ralph Wilson Stadium, but sometimes we pick up on some bad stories at peer NFL venues.
If you asked me which stadiums are the most intimidating for visiting fans and/or the most likely places you will see a violent incident off the field, I would immediately choose Giants Stadium in New Jersey, and McAfee Coliseum in Oakland. New Yawkers are generally a boorish loutish class of fans, while Raiderfan is just intimidating by nature, and the scary costumes provide no comfort.
Yesterday’s New York Times featured a story on the goings on at “Gate D” of the stadium, where apparently fans congregate on the spiral ramps and exhort female patrons to bare their breasts, throwing debris and hurling profanities if they don’t comply.
According to several fans and stadium workers, such behavior has been going on at Jets home games for years. But it apparently had not been a problem at Giants home games.
So apparently this has been a Jets tradition for years, and is now spilling over into Giants games. Nice.
chris Says:December 2nd, 2007 at 3:54 pm
I think that part of the problem with the “fansbase” at the NFL venues especially is that they feel as though it is their “right” to go 5 hours before the game to get drunk and then spend the entire game making a spectacle of themselves while people are trying to watch the game they paid to see.
I don’t really care about “Tom Brady’s girlfriend” and no “Dononvan Mcnabb’s mother does not sit on the sideline and give him soup.” Just a couple of the better one’s that I have heard. I am a season ticket holder for the Bills and I see quite a few local games from a variety of teams and I think that the mentality of a few fans being far off base is starting to effect the level of enjoyment for the rest of us.