Sellers on Pittsburgh fans at Fed Ex: "That was ridiculous"

[Stugein]

But why do you think they went to sleep? 23 unanswered points is a very good reason. The fan/player relationship works both ways. You give the fans something to cheer about and they will. You don't give anything then you get nothing.

^^^ This.

We can go into hostile environments like Dallas and Philly and play our asses off and win, but you wanna tell us that an unfortunate number of away fans at home and a bunch of dumb ass yellow towels are going to affect the team's performance to any sort of game-deciding degree? C'mon, man.

[HokieSean24]

Well, that's nice. But you are CLEARLY hurting the team when you do that. As the players made clear. If you can sleep at night doing that, so be it.

Thats the most ignorant thing I have ever heard. Both from a common sense and common courtesy standpoint.

Its funny how many of you cry about people like Stugein having tickets, and your still on the list. When your number comes up and you find yourself in a similar situation, you will do the same thing. Lets not get this holier than though attitude.

Secondly, any fan who loses sleep over the role they played in the Redskin's losing a football game is a delusional moron.

[refhaf4L]

It's just embarrasing that's all...When you have our own players, and local and national media commenting on it, it's worth talking about. Whatever the reason may be, we don't have the football fan base we did back in the 80's. Soldier field, Lambieau, Heinz, the Link--never in a million years would an opposing team represent so deep in numbers, in the stands, at those places. Winning on the road is tough, why should it be as tough at home?

[Taylorfan2179]

Steelers fans are everywhere, they travel well and they are diehard. That and our stadium is just too damn big. Too many seats are available.

I agree with this

[44is1st]

Truth is, there's a Steelers bar in every major city in America, because Pittsburgh natives have pulled up stakes and moved away from home in large numbers.

The notion that Steelers fans 'travel well' is a little misleading. Sure, some of them do travel...but in reality many of them already LIVE wherever a given game is taking place.

This is actually very true - I've got the Double whammy of living in the heart of enemy territory - Texas - and was forced to watch the game surrounded by Steelers fans at a bar devoted to the Steelers... in Texas....

As for all those there - I would be ashamed to have been present at that game. My family is one of those families that have passed down our tickets from father to son since 1938. Recently they became a co-op of cousins, aunts and uncles all buying a few tickets each in a pool to keep them. What happened to those fans? Where did they go? Time was when we were the BEST MOST LOYAL fans in football.

JMHO

[staticmc13]

We lost, we have to suck it up. The ONLY thing to do is in 4 years everyone go to PITT, Hienz field, and yell for the SKINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Timmy Smith]

I talked about this with a co-worker, who is a Steelers fan, and he just chuckled and basically said, "dude, it's nothing new -- EVERY Steelers road game has tons of Steelers fans, and the home fans always get upset by it." Add in D.C.'s proximity to Pittsburgh, and there you have it.

[wvuskinsfan]

We lost, we have to suck it up. The ONLY thing to do is in 4 years everyone go to PITT, Hienz field, and yell for the SKINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Im down for that, lets man up in four years and go to hienz field we could for sure get some tour buses and roll out there they make the 4 hour trip so can we

[UltimateSkinFan616]

I agree, the fan turnout at FedEx was pitiful. No wonder we couldn't get any momentum. I was watching the game on TV and when we were on 3rd down the crowd noise was just as loud as it was when the Steelers faced the same situation, if not louder. I thought Washington was supposed to pride itself on its fans. But if we can't show up on a Monday Night game on Election Eve then no wonder we lost! I say that's even sadder than losing. The team didn't fail us. We failed the team.

[wvuskinsfan]

they do it to bmore every year

[Peeping Wizard]

[quote=ntotoro;5780075]There really are simple reasons.

Pittsburgh, as an area, sucks. People all-around Western PA (and Western NY) are all over this area because of jobs. quote]


This is true. DC and NYC are basically their job market for most white-collar jobs.

[Da Truth]

Man it was BIG steeler fans in the stadium..I was sittin next to this pittsburgh fan and he told me that he was apart of the MD Steeler fan club and they have + 4,000 active members

[dieselfan44]

time to move away from this game....dallas is next

[pjfootballer]

Hey players!!!

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6

Seen those numbers???? Know what they are??? Your last 3 scores at home. What a juggernaut. How about you put some points on the board to give the fans something to cheer about and stop looking in the stands for terrible towels. The fans were loud, REAL loud in the first quarter. Wasn't the fans fault. Kudos to all the fans who were loud.

[acason5]

I watched the game in a Steelers bar in Cedar Rapids, IA. It is still embarrassing that this happened. I would kill for the opportunity to go to all the games at Fedex. I'm jealous of all you fans in the DC area. I have to wait until they come to the midwest. And I DO NOT miss a game I can drive to 10 hours or less.