MikesNephew

I just read a post from a rival team fan who said he was posting on Da Bears site for a week and was never treated like anything but a fan. When you compare an American Football fan to a soccer hooligan, it makes us seem like wusses. The big difference is that we are fans and not hooligans. Look it up. We don't have to fight and riot to prove our loyalty to our team. We don't end up with possible deaths at our games because someone stepped into the wrong part of the stadium. Sure there are occasional drunks who start a fight with a fan from the other team, but I don't recall in my 48 years as a fan of ever hearing of someone dieing for being in the wrong jersey or for stepping into rival bleachers. If you google that however, you'll see article after article of 2, 3, 4, soccer fans killed at games. I even saw one question that asked if there were any football fans out there, and not the silly American game. I guess other countries see the deaths as just being part of the game. So maybe we look silly to those other people, but I don't think any of them could ever show they were better fans than the average American Joe. I think it is a tribute to American Sportsmanship when a rival fan can feel comfortable whether it's in a website, stadium, or on any city street. Here's to being a "good sport". I always wondered what that meant before now.

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