Not so classy Skins fans, we can do better

[DCsportsfan53]

I'm extremely dissapointed to say that, today, the loudest my section got was when Michael Vick was on the ground being attended to by trainers :doh: Obviously, I'm not blaming anyone on here in particular but that really upset me. I have major gripes with the lack of effort to help the defense by the homecrowd, booing louder than cheering at times but this took the cake. I was definitely ashamed of the fans around me. Section 437 represent. Woohoo.

[kevin11]

Yuck, but I can't blame them for being quiet, we got outplayed by the falcons..

[Diablo23]

It did get pretty loud on tv when he went down.

[skinsngibbs4life]

It did get pretty loud on tv when he went down.

what can you expect for someone who flicks off little kids?

[GOSKINS_08]

Yeah I was at the game, I was in section 106..I was sitting next to my brother and I saw Vick was down and he asked me if he was, and I said "yeah and I dont know why people are cheering for him being injured".

[jwpanic]

what can you expect for someone who flicks off little kids?
and who knowingly spreads herpes

[jtyler42]

I was in sec 109, we were loud the whole game...Not just when Vick went down!

[raperry2]

worst crowd in a long time at fedex that ive heard on the TV. cant be for sure since i was at a bar plus FOX could have played around with the audio.... but i could still hear the tv (but not the crowd) pretty well. im pretty sure there wasnt too much energy. probably because of the way we lost... quick start and then we just layed down. what else can you expect? i dont really blame the fans. i blame both the team and the fans i guess.

[DCsportsfan53]

It did get pretty loud on tv when he went down.


Yeah I was at the game, I was in section 106..I was sitting next to my brother and I saw Vick was down and he asked me if he was, and I said "yeah and I dont know why people are cheering for him being injured".

I was wondering if it was just my section or more widespread. That was embarassing, not something I expected and something to remember next time we criticize other teams' fans for tasteless behaviour as a group.


what can you expect for someone who flicks off little kids?

:rolleyes: Real good excuse. Now that you said that, I think cheering an injury was indeed a classy and appropriate response.

[Joe Sick]

I've only been reading the boards for about 30 minutes, but I've already heard claims of the "loudest" moment of the game today.

1. Booing the offense....

2. When Vick went down....

The loudest had to have been when we had them backed up deep late in the game. It didn't do anything, but it was the loudest part of the game.

That move was classless, though. These are undoubtedly the same people that scream "Oh" during the national anthem!

[DCsportsfan53]

worst crowd in a long time at fedex that ive heard on the TV. cant be for sure since i was at a bar plus FOX could have played around with the audio.... but i could still hear the tv (but not the crowd) pretty well. im pretty sure there wasnt too much energy. probably because of the way we lost... quick start and then we just layed down. what else can you expect? i dont really blame the fans. i blame both the team and the fans i guess.


Oh, I'm not trying to blame the fans for the loss. I'm just saying, cheering an injury is something I THOUGHT you just didn't do. That's all.

[RedskinInExile]

Yeah, I cringed when I heard that one, and then got texts from some Eagle fan friends of mine.

It sucks when Philly fans can rag on your fan base for being classless, and you can't say anything in defense.

[Joncevensen]

we redskins fans are classy, but when the team is doing as poorly as we did, and its an overrated player that flicked off little kids, we're gonna go philly on him when he goes down. Heck, Vick got off easy, i was shocked there wasn't a "Vick has herpes" chant. If the whole crowd managed to get coordinated for one "DEFENSE" chant, then I think the chants would get rather colorful. So was it classy by us, no. But do the math, (underperforming team + outed to the press by a player + losing a 14 pt lead + overrated opponent + flicked off little kids + the most dense concentration of alcohol other than a brewery/vineyard/distillation) = Boo's, cuz we have to take our frustration out on somebody. The good thing is that Vick got up. In Philly, Irvin didn't and I am sure those fans feel horrible about that. So is there a lesson here...yes, but lets put it in the past with this whole season.

[SlinginSammy HOF '63]

what can you expect for someone who flicks off little kids?
Not an excuse.

[skinsngibbs4life]

:rolleyes: Real good excuse. Now that you said that, I think cheering an injury was indeed a classy and appropriate response.

Considering he bounced right back up and was on the field THE NEXT PLAY. I dont see what all this griping is about

[terpfan]

Yeah thats was pretty lame. It was my first game ever in attendance, and while it was still fun, I must say the crappy crowd and crappy play severely hindered my experience. Then the Terps lose and I still cant find a frickin Wii. Not a great day. :(

[DCsportsfan53]

Considering he bounced right back up and was on the field THE NEXT PLAY. I dont see what all this griping is about


That doesn't change the fact that the stadium was probably at its loudest while he was still down and being looked at. Did the fans know he would pop up and come back in? I certainly didn't.

[skinsngibbs4life]

Not an excuse.

is spreading herpes more warranted :silly:

[WVUforREDSKINS]

I'm extremely dissapointed to say that, today, the loudest my section got was when Michael Vick was on the ground being attended to by trainers :doh: Obviously, I'm not blaming anyone on here in particular but that really upset me. I have major gripes with the lack of effort to help the defense by the homecrowd, booing louder than cheering at times but this took the cake. I was definitely ashamed of the fans around me. Section 437 represent. Woohoo.


Blame Synder and Brunell.




Na, seriously its because many die hard fans can't afford tickets and the wine and cheesers buy up a lot of tickets, and use the game to make business deals.

[DCsportsfan53]

Blame Synder and Brunell.




Na, seriously its because many die hard fans can't afford tickets and the wine and cheesers buy up a lot of tickets, and use the game to make business deals.


:laugh:


Indeed. Many of our best fans have been priced out of the stadium.

[zoony]

I'm extremely dissapointed to say that, today, the loudest my section got was when Michael Vick was on the ground being attended to by trainers :doh: Obviously, I'm not blaming anyone on here in particular but that really upset me. I have major gripes with the lack of effort to help the defense by the homecrowd, booing louder than cheering at times but this took the cake. I was definitely ashamed of the fans around me. Section 437 represent. Woohoo.


Just wanted to say that I agree with this thread and thank you for starting it.

Watching on TV today, I gotta admit I was disgusted.

[CooleyAsIce]

I was thinking the same thing when I was watching the game on t.v. No matter what my opinions of a player may be, I would never cheer on someone getting injured in a game. That's just tasteless.

[Who Del]

Welcome to the club.

[Gallntfox]

I noticed the cheers when Vick went down and was appalled at the lack of noise and empty seats throughout the game. Was one day that I was glad to be watching from the comfort of my home.

[SlinginSammy HOF '63]

what can you expect for someone who flicks off little kids?
Oh yeah, You "flip off" little kids. You "flick off" a booger. Get it right! ;)

[MontanaRed]

It doesn't have anything to do with whether we were loud on D or booed or offense, or whether stupid people yell "OH" during the anthem - those are all entirely separate subjects. Booing a player down is tasteless and classless. And he did stay out a play. But that's besides the point too, - as is the Ron Mexico and "waving" to his fans.

[AzSkinsFan63]

sounds like fans of a 4-8 team to me....

[RedskinInExile]

Na, seriously its because many die hard fans can't afford tickets and the wine and cheesers buy up a lot of tickets, and use the game to make business deals.


YES!

I don't understand why people don't get this. I'm tired of people repsonding to fans complaining about the prices at FedEx with, "If you don't like it, don't buy it."

Thats exactly whats happening. Die hards are staying home (because their children would like to go to college one day) and DC firms are buying up blocks of tickets. Thats why the Gold Ring is always empty. That's why you get shushed for cheering loudly or standing up. Thats why you get folks doing the wave and cheering when we're on offense.

Dan Synder has made this the most profitable team in NFL history, and that's certainly his perogative. He did lay out, what, 600 mil for the team? But he needs to know he's killing FedEx.

[MontanaRed]

YES!

I don't understand why people don't get this. I'm tired of people repsonding to fans complaining about the prices at FedEx with, "If you don't like it, don't buy it."

Thats exactly whats happening. Die hards are staying home (because their children would like to go to college one day) and DC firms are buying up blocks of tickets. Thats why the Gold Ring is always empty. That's why you get shushed for cheering loudly or standing up. Thats why you get folks doing the wave and cheering when we're on offense.

Dan Synder has made this the most profitable team in NFL history, and that's certainly his perogative. He did lay out, what, 600 mil for the team? But he needs to know he's killing FedEx.What? No, I don't think this is the case. It's not the wine & cheesers who are cheering on offense and other jerky behaviours - they're busy making their deals. :) Corp tickets might = empty gold ring, but it's not the die-hards that are booing an injured player or booing our own team. The die-hards just keep going (or watching) week after week after week. Cheer the good, and when the good isn't good enough, keep silent (in the stands I mean, not talking about voicing an opinion about the team).
It's the ones don't know a damn thing about football, who use it as an excuse to get drunk by kickoff, and shriek "Go Redkinsssss!!!" every time we get the ball :doh: Had a few of those behind me today. Sell your ticket to a die-hard! Now! :laugh:
Forget college! Buy the gold ring!! (:silly: j/k)

[CM916]

It seemed pretty damn loud on TV. Someone must have still been cheering all the way through. However, most people get depressed and quiet down when the team suddenly stops performing, that's how it's going to be until we get back to being 14-2 and playoff bound.

[jr41911]

Doesn't matter you don't boo when a player goes down! You don't boo our offense! If you're going to boo stay home, in which alot of the 90,000+ Fox said was there, did. Lots of empty seats on TV. I know iys hard to get pumped up when we're doing this bad, but they depend on us as the 12th man.

Also I got so sick of hearing Sam Rosen and Tim Ryan praising Michael Vick. You would have thought Vick had won 5 Super Bowls by now. Here is a guy that is totally overrated and then shows what he thinks of his fans last week. He can run, I'll give him that. But at no time is he a pocket passer.

[Boss_Hogg]

That move was classless, though. These are undoubtedly the same people that scream "Oh" during the national anthem!

I hate that, I shake my head everytime. :doh:

[stwasm]

I'm extremely dissapointed to say that, today, the loudest my section got was when Michael Vick was on the ground being attended to by trainers :doh: Obviously, I'm not blaming anyone on here in particular but that really upset me. I have major gripes with the lack of effort to help the defense by the homecrowd, booing louder than cheering at times but this took the cake. I was definitely ashamed of the fans around me. Section 437 represent. Woohoo.

How about a ban on the hoots and hollars, and especially the "Oh!" during the national anthem. This isn't Baltimore and it's beyond annoying! :doh: :mad:

[Mr. S]

the bar I was watching it was the loudest too when Vick went down. It pissed me off cause despite how much I dislike Vick, I still won't boo him for being injured. Obviously Im happy that he's down, but I won't cheer it. Plus the mediots would just say "the Falcons offense was easily overcome without Vick" or something, I'd rather beat them at their possible strongest.

[DoBe]

That move was classless, though. These are undoubtedly the same people that scream "Oh" during the national anthem!

Orioles fans?

[Mr. S]

How about a ban on the hoots and hollars, and especially the "Oh!" during the national anthem. This isn't Baltimore and it's beyond annoying! :doh: :mad:

yeh, agreed as well. I still remember the MNF game against the VIkings. I had some annoying people behind me, making up their own words to all the patriotic songs being played in an attempt to be funny but were really coming off as plain stupid. They definitely said "OH!" during the anthem as well. On top of that, they got mad when they saw a flag accidentally left on the ground next to them, and started saying to themselves "that's unpatriotic". I just wonder, how are they any more patriotic when they are making their own words to all the patriotic songs and just talking about the cheerleaders 24/7?

[hanster]

I'm extremely dissapointed to say that, today, the loudest my section got was when Michael Vick was on the ground being attended to by trainers :doh: Obviously, I'm not blaming anyone on here in particular but that really upset me. I have major gripes with the lack of effort to help the defense by the homecrowd, booing louder than cheering at times but this took the cake. I was definitely ashamed of the fans around me. Section 437 represent. Woohoo.

What do you expect? That is a result of the Redskin Franchise taking advantage of the best fans in the world. They keep taking our money and putting garbage on the field. Players and Coaches!!

[macnoke03]

I think this just shows that we as a fan base aren't so high up on the class pedestal as we like to put ourselves. The term class and class-less gets thrown around a lot on here, hell I have done it before, but the bottom line is every stadium you go to you are gonna find a good number of "class-less" fans. Point is, I don't think that are fan base is so much classier than any other in the league...except for Philly of course :)

[jg42]

Booing a player when he's down is just plain wrong. I never want to see a player hurt on either team. Matter of fact, I clap when the player is deemed all right and comes off the field just like we taught the kids in little league.

I only come to four games a year since it costs me a little more to come, air fare, hotel, etc., but when I come, I'm always loud. Seems to me as a fan, it's part of my job. Maybe it's from the old RFK days, but I think the teams depends on the fans.

[fuji869]

That is stooping to the level of Eagle Fans! Come on Redskin Faithful we are better than that!

[Zguy28]

Oh, I'm not trying to blame the fans for the loss. I'm just saying, cheering an injury is something I THOUGHT you just didn't do. That's all.You don't do it. I agree with your assessment. Definitely shameful. You could here it over the TV even from home. :(

[stwasm]

You don't do it. I agree with your assessment. Definitely shameful. You could here it over the TV even from home. :(

It's funny how the same people cheering Michael Vick getting hurt are the same people who'd be up in arms if that was Jason Campbell in Philadelphia.


yeh, agreed as well. I still remember the MNF game against the VIkings. I had some annoying people behind me, making up their own words to all the patriotic songs being played in an attempt to be funny but were really coming off as plain stupid. They definitely said "OH!" during the anthem as well. On top of that, they got mad when they saw a flag accidentally left on the ground next to them, and started saying to themselves "that's unpatriotic". I just wonder, how are they any more patriotic when they are making their own words to all the patriotic songs and just talking about the cheerleaders 24/7?

What's funny is that most of the people who scream "Oh!" probably don't even know why they're doing it or the idea behind it.

[Larry Gude]

I was wondering if it was just my section or more widespread. That was embarassing, not something I expected and something to remember next time we criticize other teams' fans for tasteless behaviour as a group.



:rolleyes: Real good excuse. Now that you said that, I think cheering an injury was indeed a classy and appropriate response.


Good for you for bringing it up! Redskin fans are quickly losing their claim to being class fans. I go to a couple games a year and the profanity and drunkenness just gets worse and worse.

The Dallas game last year, a guy in our section, five rows off the field, screamed at the line judge, what, 50 feet away, and called him every name in the book until the ref finally waved a hand as if to say "OK, I heard you the first 20 times'.

This amidst one of the greatest shellackings of the boys and with mere minutes to go. A stadium filled with people who maybe a handful ever sat down, except 1/2 time, the whole game, filled with joy and this guy has GOT to abuse someone.

Yesterday I was working and had the game on the radio and you could clearly hear people cheering after the play when Vick didn't get right up.

Embarrassing.

[Tokeydog]

Apparently your section sucked. 133 seemed to be rocking the whole game!

[BuryYourDuke]

I was embarassed when everyone around me started cheering for an injury. It felt like we were in Philly or something. And it was easily the quietest crowd I can remember at FedEx.

[Hail_to_Kessel]

Yeah thats was pretty lame. It was my first game ever in attendance, and while it was still fun, I must say the crappy crowd and crappy play severely hindered my experience. Then the Terps lose and I still cant find a frickin Wii. Not a great day. :(

The Wii sucks..lol. One word: Gimmick

I was in Section 105 and it was pretty loud until the interception by Campbell. This loss is hard to swallow.

[XxSpearheadxX]

Welcome to the club.

Best Sig Ever.

Can we have Trent Cole?

[D'KanSkinFan]

what can you expect for someone who flicks off little kids?

Agreed - My question is what is the NFL thinking AND the Falcons coach by allowing this man to represent this team? I have had to penalize my kids twice this week for this very same action - their response -"I'll give you my allowance" -

Thanks NFL and Falcons - you rank right up there will the pill popping cow sissies.

I can handle my kids - but what is the NFL and franchise owners going to do to handle their supposedly adult players that should be "setting examples" for the future of our children/perhaps future players; instead we see getto scum being publicized on TV and in news papers and being ALLOWED to set examples for our children- examples, that quite frankly are pond scum.

Thank you Washington Redskins coaches and players for acting in public as to what a hero should look like.

[Lombardi's_kid_brother]

On tv, it looked like a lot of empty seats were in attendance yesterday.

[Tastes Like Chicken]

I was in 118 and we did our part, loud on defense etc.

Vick doesn't slide. It was frustrating to see Vick escape our slow, plodding defenders. When he got hit and appeared to be down, fans applauded the hit (which was legal). No one around me vociferously cheered while he was down and we clapped when he got up. End of story. Yawn.

[Sweet Sassy Molassy]

I was in 118 and we did our part, loud on defense etc.

Vick doesn't slide. It was frustrating to see Vick escape our slow, plodding defenders. When he got hit and appeared to be down, fans applauded the hit (which was legal). No one around me vociferously cheered while he was down and we clapped when he got up. End of story. Yawn.
Oh get off it! People were cheering Vick being down. It was obvious to any of us who were there. It was shameful and I was disgusted. The fans were very lackluster yesterday, and I can understand it considering how we played. But booing any player when he gets hurt, is appalling. Tell me who cheers that long for a hit? Seriously. People were classless and it was shameful. End of story. Yawn.

[Tastes Like Chicken]

Oh get off it! People were cheering Vick being down. It was obvious to any of us who were there. It was shameful and I was disgusted. The fans were very lackluster yesterday, and I can understand it considering how we played. But booing any player when he gets hurt, is appalling. Tell me who cheers that long for a hit? Seriously. People were classless and it was shameful. End of story. Yawn.

Were you in my section SSM? Cuz that's what I was referring to.

MY SECTION.

[dockeryfan]

in which alot of the 90,000+ Fox said was there, did.
Fox said there were 90K in attendance? No chance. There were a lot of empty seats.
And the cheering? None of it happened in my section. There was some reaction, which has volume all it's own, but there were no people clapping or cheering at all. I guess there was in other sections, but not mine.

I hate to see people cheer when a player goes down.

[Rocky21]

Boy there are some funny posts in this thread. Someone said it was his first game ever and called the crowd crappy. Someone who watched from his house was appalled at the lack of crowd noise and empty seats.

[SKINZ33]

You stay classy..Fedex.

It was disgusting that the place got loud when Vick went down. I think it has gotten to a point where we as fans are getting tired of doing our part with the cheering and noise only to be constantly let down. That 4th and inches stop was great and so were a few other Defensive plays but for the most part it becomes tiring when we do all we can and the D doesnt respond.

My voice is hoarse today btw because I did all I could.

[the burgundy and gold]

yeah i was really dissapointed in the fans but i was just watching on tv.

[pjfootballer]

I would not ever cheer a players injury, but I always say if you can't beat em, hurt em, especially when they are Cowpukes.

[KillaCam21]

sounds like fans of a 4-8 team to me....

Thankyou for bringing that up. The team has been horible this year. Complain about them, not the fans.

We have a terrible coaching staff and overpaid players like Archuleta, Brunell, Andre Carter, the entire offensive line...

I say we keep Campbell, Moss, Portis, cooley, Sean Taylor, and maybe Marcus Washington and we blow everything else up because everyone else SUCKS!

[RonJeremy]

Adam - Thanks for starting this thread. I was going to start the same exact one.

I have attended A LOT of Skins games over the years and cheering when Vick was injured had to be one of the LOWEST points I have ever witnessed at a game. I yelled..."Shut the **** up, we are not in Philly!."

It was a TOTAL embarrasment. Almost as embarassing as our run def.

:2cents:

[da#1skinsfan]

Im happy to hear ANY noise out of the crowd, injury or no injury.

The stadium could use a little lack of class if you ask me...get rowdy, get vicious, get mean.

[Sweet Sassy Molassy]

Were you in my section SSM? Cuz that's what I was referring to.

MY SECTION.
Well if that's the case, then fine. My bad. It looked like you were saying that all the other fans were only cheering the hit. To which I call BS. Your section could be different, but like I said, there were a lot of others throughout the stadium actually cheering for the guy's injury.

[Who Del]

Best Sig Ever.

Can we have Trent Cole?

Sure. Your next decade of first rounders should suffice! :D

[Who Del]

Well if that's the case, then fine. My bad. It looked like you were saying that all the other fans were only cheering the hit. To which I call BS. Your section could be different, but like I said, there were a lot of others throughout the stadium actually cheering for the guy's injury.

It's like you were in Philly or something. WTF?

[openallnight]

Apparently your section sucked. 133 seemed to be rocking the whole game!
I gotta respecfully disagree with you. I was really disappointed with our performance. We were not consistently loud the entire game. And I saw a number of people leaving with 5 mins on the clock. I was really ashamed of our section's performance as a whole.

[mcarey032]

I don't think that the stadium was as loud as it could have been. I was in 103 and I don't think it was that loud. It did get a loud response when vick went down. I was thoroughly embarrassed for our team and fans to do that. I thought it was totally classless. This ain't Philly.

[Tokeydog]

I gotta respecfully disagree with you. I was really disappointed with our performance. We were not consistently loud the entire game. And I saw a number of people leaving with 5 mins on the clock. I was really ashamed of our section's performance as a whole.

Yea I gotta agree with some of that. Grant it I make it to one game a year and well I always try to get my fill of the entire game screaming my heart out. It boggles my mind though why people wanna leave before a game is over. I paid money for a full 4 quarters (9 innings, three periods, etc...). I refuse to leave early!

Hell the night before I was at the caps game. Stayed the whole time. Didn't get home till 1am. Got up six hours later and made my way to Fedex. Stayed the WHOLE game, and got home by 7.

[Tastes Like Chicken]

Well if that's the case, then fine. My bad. It looked like you were saying that all the other fans were only cheering the hit. To which I call BS. Your section could be different, but like I said, there were a lot of others throughout the stadium actually cheering for the guy's injury.

It's all good man. :cheers:

No one wants to see a serious injury, that's for sure. I heard on the shuttle ride back to the Metro a bunch of people complaining about the classless cheering. But honestly in my section when we realized he was shaken up, we were looking at the video screen while they were tending to him; some people were clapping & cheering for him to get up (lots of Virginia Tech fans there) and a couple losers the next section over started celebrating the injury but they were quickly told to STFU.

I actually heard fans complaining when one of our linemen (Salavea I think) was down, saying stuff like "Get the **** off the field, why you always getting hurt!" etc. Most of the folks around me are just cynical at this point. Ridiculing the ridiculous Dancing Defense during TV timeouts, the Carlos 12-yard cushion, general inability to tackle, pass protect, etc. We were doing our part being loud as 12th man, but we were all disappointed by the decision to kick the ball away near midfield, down by 2 scores and 10 mins to go.

[skinsngibbs4life]

Welcome to the club.

sorry, but redskin fans will never be in the same league as the eagles when it comes to disgraceful actions

[DCsportsfan53]

sorry, but redskin fans will never be in the same league as the eagles when it comes to disgraceful actions


Riiiiigggght. It's ok when we do it because he flipped the middle finger :rolleyes:

It's not like Michael Irvin was a classy guy when the Eagles cheered his injury. That was disgustin just as yesterday was. Now's not the time to be talking about Eagles fans when we JUST finished doing one of the things we heavily criticize them for. That's what we like to call hypocricy. Kettle meet pot, pot, kettle :2cents:


btw, just to let you know, it's only Redskins' fans who think we're God's gift to fandom and classiness. It's a BS stereotype that no one else has of us, just us delusionally of ourselves.

[Who Del]

sorry, but redskin fans will never be in the same league as the eagles when it comes to disgraceful actions

Once you do it. You're in. Welcome. Your membership card will be in the mail shortly.

[RDSKNfaithfull]

It was classless

I must admit though the Huge CONVICK sign in the endzone was a funny idea.

[spidernat]

Yeah, I cringed when I heard that one, and then got texts from some Eagle fan friends of mine.

It sucks when Philly fans can rag on your fan base for being classless, and you can't say anything in defense.


Actually it sucks to have Eagles' fans as friends. Admitting that would embarrass me even more.

[mariac32570]

I just posted an opposite thread, while it wasn't acceptable to cheer for a down player, Skins fans ARE classy. Go to a game in Phiily or Pittsburgh, those are bad. And until the fourth quarter it seemed pretty loud to me.

[DB44]

I'm extremely dissapointed to say that, today, the loudest my section got was when Michael Vick was on the ground being attended to by trainers :doh: Obviously, I'm not blaming anyone on here in particular but that really upset me. I have major gripes with the lack of effort to help the defense by the homecrowd, booing louder than cheering at times but this took the cake. I was definitely ashamed of the fans around me. Section 437 represent. Woohoo.I thought the crowd was pretty loud at the beginning of the game, but lost interest after the Campbell INT.

You brought up my one complaint for the crowd. Cheering when a player gets hurt is WRONG. Yes I understand when a player or team is "cleaning your clock", you want to cheer when they go down. I couldn't believe how many people got up and applauded when Vick went down. :doh:

[Waleo32]

and who knowingly spreads herpes

The dude didn't flick off a kid.. Stop hating. The man flick off a ingnorant fan. Athletes are human too. You think Vick gave who ever the finger for saying hi? Imagine if you bust your butt at work and your doing the job but others are slacking off but people are coming at you with the negativity. Would you be a good little soldier? Get out of here with the Vick bashing. And for the people cheering for the man to be hurt, all I have to say is I feel sorry for you.... you must have a sad life.

[deejaydana]

The death knell of this season came early when I saw Snyder cavorting with Tom Cruise in the owner's box. Good night Redskins.

[SkinsWizCubsDukes]

I was at the game and I saw the whole stadium empty out when we did not go for it on 4th down on midfield in the fourth quarter.

It's like they said, well the coaches gave up, I guess I will to.

I stayed the whole game and I swear if that stadium did not give up on the team and leave to "beat" the traffic that they had to sit in anyways we would have probably scored that TD at the end and at least tried and onsides kick.

I was at the Dallas game and screaming at everyone leaving when Vanderjagdt came on the kick, and then everyone came running back in...that's just pitaful, if you can't wait an extra 5 minutes to see if we can win the game, DONT COME TO THE GAMES!

When the players don't hear cheering, and the fans BOO the team, IT HELPS THE VISITING TEAM!

I am so sick of these skins fans that try to beat the traffic, to be honest, you are not saving yourself any time...its a disservice to the game, to the REAL fans, and to the team. I'm with 4 minutes left in the game and a change to win, I guarantee there was not even half the seats left, everyone started POURING OUT EARLY.

I have seen this so many times, last season agains the Chargers and the Raiders, this season against the Titans, Cowboys, and now Falcons. Its a disgrace. Would you turn your TV off if you were sitting at home...NO.

The only time you save by leaving early is the time that you did not sit in the game. The traffic takes just as long if unless you leave at halftime. So sit back, and enjoy the ENTIRE game. and CHEER loudly, I don't know if some of you did not notice, but that was a playoff game yesterday and we lost!

[skinsngibbs4life]

The dude didn't flick off a kid.. Stop hating. The man flick off a ingnorant fan. Athletes are human too. You think Vick gave who ever the finger for saying hi? Imagine if you bust your butt at work and your doing the job but others are slacking off but people are coming at you with the negativity. Would you be a good little soldier? Get out of here with the Vick bashing. And for the people cheering for the man to be hurt, all I have to say is I feel sorry for you.... you must have a sad life.

By your logic, what Michael Richards did was OK too. Hell, he was working, doing his stand up bit, when people started getting loud and obnoxios. So, its ok for him to go off on a racist tantrum because of that?

[skinsngibbs4life]

Riiiiigggght. It's ok when we do it because he flipped the middle finger :rolleyes:

It's not like Michael Irvin was a classy guy when the Eagles cheered his injury. That was disgustin just as yesterday was. Now's not the time to be talking about Eagles fans when we JUST finished doing one of the things we heavily criticize them for. That's what we like to call hypocricy. Kettle meet pot, pot, kettle :2cents:


btw, just to let you know, it's only Redskins' fans who think we're God's gift to fandom and classiness. It's a BS stereotype that no one else has of us, just us delusionally of ourselves.

theres a difference between something happening a couple times, and something happening every weekend.

I would hope you would know this. We dont need to go back to kindergarten do we?

[Capt'n Obvious]

I don't think that the stadium was as loud as it could have been. I was in 103 and I don't think it was that loud. It did get a loud response when vick went down. I was thoroughly embarrassed for our team and fans to do that. I thought it was totally classless. This ain't Philly.

I was in 103 as well and it definitely could have been louder.

Cheering for an injury is plain classless and stupid. It doesnt matter if you dont like the player, you never want to see someone get hurt. I couldnt believe that fans were cheering when Michael Vick went down. When he got up, I applauded like you should do when anyone gets up from an injury.

I did notice a lot of empty seats yesterday, we started off loud and that 4th down stop made the place get pretty loud. Then once we started slipping, all the noise seemed to just be sucked out of the building.

Quick story that reminds me of Eagles fans....

My girlfriend and I were sitting in traffic coming out of the purple lot and we had our windows down because we were a bit warm. Next to us a guy and his girlfriend (both Redskins fans) are screaming into a van of 4 people (2 men and what I guess were their wives). The guy outside just keeps dropping f-bombs even with kids around and he is clearly drunk. The people inside the van were all Redskins fans as well. The guy goes on about how he has the vans liscense plate and he is gonna f'in kill them, meanwhile the fans inside the van look bewildered and don't say anything back to the drunk yelling at them.

Then the drunk picks up a glass bottle on the street and smashes it against the van windshield. Glass shatters everywhere and a piece flew into our SUV and landed right in my neck. Fortunately it wasnt a big piece, I got out to try and see where the drunk ran off too, but he was long gone. No cops came the entire time this was happening, they were right up the street doing a poor job of controlling traffic.

My point is, that the drunks need to get the hell out, learn how to enjoy a game without alcohol or at least know how to monitor your drinking. I ended up with a cut in my neck from glass from one of our classy Skins fans.

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[Grumpy Vet]

I was not a huge fan of the booing of a hurt player. Not my style.....

However, I'm getting a little frustrated w/ the endless posts from people in the D.C. area telling those of us that go to a game how to act and how ashamed of us they are. We are there supporting our team w/ our time, our effort and our money. If you are so disgusted by the way we represent the team - get off your ass and go to the game.

The tickets are not gonna be any cheaper than they are from now to the end of the year on Ebay (edit - or in our classified section).

It is pretty damn easy to be critical of us when your weekly investment (emotional, financial and time) in the team is limited to 3 hours on a Sunday in your climate controlled living room in front of the TV and an hour or so a day on this board while you are at work.

Obviously the above is not meant for Skins fan out of a reasonable geographic area where coming to a game is not realistic.

Seriously - not happy w/ those of us fans that are there? Change it. Come to the game. My challenge to you. You can keep bitching or do something about it.

I happen to be a fairly energetic fan.....but others around me choose not to be. I hate to get all Bobby Brown on some of you - but that is their prerogative...

...much as it is your prerogative to complain about us w/o doing your part.

No better time than now. Come to a game - let's get it changed. Consider yourselves challenged.

[LANCERLOT]

I've only been reading the boards for about 30 minutes, but I've already heard claims of the "loudest" moment of the game today.

1. Booing the offense....

2. When Vick went down....

The loudest had to have been when we had them backed up deep late in the game. It didn't do anything, but it was the loudest part of the game.

That move was classless, though. These are undoubtedly the same people that scream "Oh" during the national anthem!

The Skins will Always be my favorite sports team!
The results this season have been down right embarrasing.
In my opinion Gibbs must take back thee Offence or else? (?) ((?)) (((?)))

[Rocky21]

I was not a huge fan of the booing of a hurt player. Not my style.....

However, I'm getting a little frustrated w/ the endless posts from people in the D.C. area telling those of us that go to a game how to act and how ashamed of us they are. We are there supporting our team w/ our time, our effort and our money. If you are so disgusted by the way we represent the team - get off your ass and go to the game.

This is a great post from the Grumpy Vet. I agree. If you don't like the empty seats, do something about it. Despite what Snyder would have you believe with our waiting list that is 200k long, tickets are quite available.

[Who Del]

theres a difference between something happening a couple times, and something happening every weekend.

I would hope you would know this. We dont need to go back to kindergarten do we?

skinsngibbs knows what goes on at every game around the league because he's at all of them.

I think he has Kangaroo.TV!!!

[skinsngibbs4life]

skinsngibbs knows what goes on at every game around the league because he's at all of them.

I think he has Kangaroo.TV!!!

no need to be bitter just because you are part of one of the ugliest, crudest fan bases in sports

[Stuckinphilly1]

Im happy to hear ANY noise out of the crowd, injury or no injury.

The stadium could use a little lack of class if you ask me...get rowdy, get vicious, get mean.

If you're a wastless eagles fan then yeah, cheer when someone gets hurt. COMPLETELY CLASSLESS!!!

[Who Del]

no need to be bitter just because you are part of one of the ugliest, crudest fan bases in sports

How high did you jump when Vick didn't get up? 5, 7, 10 feet?!

[DCsportsfan53]

GrumpyVet, I hear you but I DO go to every game just like you and I'm the main one here saying how dissapointed I was. The effort by the fans, I'm over it, we have little homefield advantage, it is what it is, I just wasn't expecting that display of boorishness.


SkinsGibbs4life, you're too tough for me. I'll call my local kindergarten first thing tomorrow and enroll myself. Maybe they can teach me to understand why cheering for injuries is classy when we do it but not other people. Obviously, I still have a lot to learn. You are wise beyond your 18 years.

[DCsportsfan53]

no need to be bitter just because you are part of one of the ugliest, crudest fan bases in sports


No need to be a hypocritical ass because you think you're better than him just because you like a different team. Just stop.

[skinsngibbs4life]

How high did you jump when Vick didn't get up? 5, 7, 10 feet?!

consider I couldn't watch the game completly, and didnt see him even get injured, im sure I did :rolleyes:

[skinsngibbs4life]

No need to be a hypocritical ass because you think you're better than him just because you like a different team. Just stop.

how am i being a hypocrit? I NEVER once in this thread condoned the actions of my fellow fans.

Just because I try and give reason to why some people might want to cheer doesnt mean I support it.

[HailSkinz1]

GrumpyVet, I hear you but I DO go to every game just like you and I'm the main one here saying how dissapointed I was. The effort by the fans, I'm over it, we have little homefield advantage, it is what it is, I just wasn't expecting that display of boorishness.


SkinsGibbs4life, you're too tough for me. I'll call my local kindergarten first thing tomorrow and enroll myself. Maybe they can teach me to understand why cheering for injuries is classy when we do it but not other people. Obviously, I still have a lot to learn. You are wise beyond your 18 years.

I agree, cheering for an injured player is wrong, regardless. But I didn't get the impression that fans were cheering the fact that he was injured, rather the notion that the game might have just turned for the Redskins (I watched on TV, so I wasn't there). I know it might be a subtle difference, but that was my impression.

And when you go from a stadium of 50 plus thousand to one of 90 plus thousand, you are going to get a little of every walk of life, not just the saints.

Hail,

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[Grumpy Vet]

GrumpyVet, I hear you but I DO go to every game just like you and I'm the main one here saying how dissapointed I was. The effort by the fans, I'm over it, we have little homefield advantage, it is what it is, I just wasn't expecting that display of boorishness.

I probably wasn't clear. If you go to every game - my post was not meant for you. My frustration lies in those that complain about those of us that attend the game while they choose not to go to the game.

It is like those that complain about the election results but didn't vote. You have the right to say you aren't happy w/ the results - but frankly I (Grumpy Vet) don't want to hear it and could give two craps what you think b/c you've chosen not participate. Your position shall fall on my deaf ears.

I'll concur that our fans are lackluster this year and sometimes their behavior is poor. Is it b/c we have a crummy team? Dunno. I hear your gripes. I agree w/ most of them. They are warranted. I appreciate YOU attending the games and trying to make something more out of the experience.


We had an Atlanta fan and an Eagles fan sitting next to us at the game. The Philly fan was obnoxious throughout the game. As people started filing out in the 4th quarter - he was laughing and asking them all where they were going.....I found myself wondering the same thing. Sad.

[Rocky21]

After reading this thread about the blood lust from the crowd over how we laughed hysterically at a broken and maimed Michael Vick as he lay motionless on the field and we collectively and convincingly celebrated how he had this life threatening injury.....

I was at the game Sunday and didn't remember the cheering for an opposing player's injury the way it was protrayed in this thread so I went back and watched the tape last night.

I've just got to say Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay overreacting by many in this thread.

[tone_dubbz]

blame that on the team for not giving us something to chear about. stop attacking fans, we're not the ones losing games. we'll chear for what ever reason we see fit!

[mcarey032]

DC Sportsfan, I whole heartedly agree with your statement. When we need noise for the defense, the fans don't do anything and they don't stand and they don't make the noise that they can. What is the point of even coming? Then people standing and cheering when the opposing player goes down is by far as a fan one of the worse things you can do! Apparently people don't pay attention to those jumbo tron announcements of portis, brunell, and moss about fan conduct. Some people should have lesson in fan manners. I was totally embarrassed about the vick cheering incident. It is a real disgrace to our team and fans.