Redskins Fans Must be the Dumbest Football Fans in the NFL

[ouvan59]

And by the way, I was watching my alma mater play this past weekend and saw one of our players jump up on the back of the bench and start waiving his arms to our crowd on a 4th and 1 (when we had the ball). That's a classic face palm.

[SonnyandSam]

I didn't mean that it was opposing teams' fans. I just meant that the average fan doesn't do it just a few dumbasses (just like the "O".

I don't consider tens of thousands of fans to be a "few".

[No_Pressure]

I agree, I don't get to go to games often because of the price of tickets being so astronomically high. If I could afford it, I would go to every game- I don't care where I sit, but I cannot.

When I do go however I have observed the same exact things. One would think it is fairly obvious- you make as much noise as possible while on defense, you sit on your hands and don't say a word when you're on offense aside from cheering completed passes and big runs after which you quickly go right back to shutting your mouth.

I don't get how people can be so oblivious. You get two ends of the spectrum. Fans who go in there so drunk and pumped up that they don't shut their mouths the entire game, don't ever sit down, and are constantly noisy when they shouldn't be. These are probably the same people who start the wave. Then you have their opposites which are casual fans, corporate fans who are there potentially around co-workers and don't want to get all worked up, or perhaps the overly reserved fans who understand football, love the Redskins, but find the idea of ever cheering outside of an occasional golf clap to be more terrifying than public speaking.

These are the two groups that bother me at the game. One of them you wish they would sit down and shut up, the other you wish they would stand up and cheer, then there's you right in the middle. You piss off the over the top fan because you're not cheering all the time and maybe you have a ****ty look on your face when he pounds his 10th beer and starts harassing a fan from the opposition. You piss off the reserved fan because you're constantly standing up and making a lot of noise while the team is on defense, ruining their view and bothering their ears!

There is just no winning. I haven't been this year, I am curious as to whether or not the corporate fans are diminished. I hope so. Many of them are real Redskins fans but when you might be sitting a row in front of the CFO or a partner you might be afraid of properly expressing yourself. Its too bad. Could you imagine how loud FedEx would be with everybody screaming on defense? How quiet it would be if everyone shut up on offense? How demoralizing it would be for an opposing team to hear extremely clearly and loudly the words to hail to the Redskins sung by the stadium in unison and in full after every single score? It would truly be a sight to see. Even if we only got back to the level of home field advantage we had in the RFK days it would be great.

I think that the problem is in the ticket price and who the club is selling the tickets to. If Redskins tickets were cheaper, I feel a lot more of the real fans could attend games regularly. I feel that if the Redskins instituted some different policies about who they sold the tickets to it might diminish the amount of opposing fans, and certainly I'd like to see fewer corporate fans. It would be nice to have a reasonably priced stadium where the vast majority of fans are Redskins fans who know when to cheer and when not to cheer. Its at the point where they need to give people clear instructions on how to be fans prior to the game, and that is just embarrassing.

[ouvan59]

I don't consider tens of thousands of fans to be a "few".

I don't think it's nearly as many as you think it is. From my section (upper deck) it doesn't sound that loud to me.

[S.T.real,lights,out]

And by the way, I was watching my alma mater play this past weekend and saw one of our players jump up on the back of the bench and start waiving his arms to our crowd on a 4th and 1 (when we had the ball). That's a classic face palm.

Thats classic!!

[Boss_Hogg]

Big up to the OP.

The morons in section 114 were chanting "Let's go Redskins" when it was 4th and 3 with the game on the line.

I was screaming for people to quiet down.

[ThePreciating]

OP is right. I'm consistently shushing on offense (quietly of course).

[KingGibbs]

Yep. It's another reason amongst the laundry list of reasons I prefer watch the game at home now.

[Gibbs Hog Heaven]

What's even more amusing is posts within this very thread that don't see it as a big deal.

We do indeed have some of the dumbest fans in the entire NFL amongst our number.

Hail.

[addicted]

What the heck is this?
Sounds like Gran Torino meets the old timers to me
Redskins fans aren't stupid because they aren't quiet at games
They pay 200 just like you to see the game and drink and have a good time
Why so serious?
Thinking that unless the stadium is silent we are screwed to me isn't giving the team credit
They are used to playing on the road, where noise is a big issue
If you were saying the fans yelled during the offense and were quiet when the Defense was out there I would agree with you
Sounds like you might be outliving going to games

About the song you need to remember that this teams not had much to cheer about for years
And that we are like the only professional team with a fight song these days
Reading that the newer younger fans (30 and below) don't know the song doesn't surprise me all that much

[SirClintonPortis]

Colts fans know what to do. Hence why you can hear P. Manning clearly when the Colts are operating on O. Us on the other hand, nope.

[SonnyandSam]

I don't think it's nearly as many as you think it is. From my section (upper deck) it doesn't sound that loud to me.

I used to sit in the upper deck for nine years. I now sit 17 rows from the end zone. It is MUCH louder down at the field level than upstairs. Huge differenece. It is why I love my new seats in the lower level...even if I am in the corner end zone by the Redskins tunnel. Noise level and involment in the game is a huge difference.

[SirClintonPortis]

What the heck is this?
Sounds like Gran Torino meets the old timers to me
Redskins fans aren't stupid because they aren't quiet at games
They pay 200 just like you to see the game and drink and have a good time
Why so serious?
Thinking that unless the stadium is silent we are screwed to me isn't giving the team credit
They are used to playing on the road, where noise is a big issue
If you were saying the fans yelled during the offense and were quiet when the Defense was out there I would agree with you
Sounds like you might be outliving going to games

About the song you need to remember that this teams not had much to cheer about for years
And that we are like the only professional team with a fight song these days
Reading that the newer younger fans (30 and below) don't know the song doesn't surprise me all that much

This is about making noise WHILE THE OFFENSE is on the field. The last thing our offense needs is some misheard or unheard words because people won't STFU. It makes it more likely for the O to burn a timeout or screw the play up because of the nosie.

[Boss_Hogg]

I guess years of mediocrity and lousiness will do this to a fan base.

Still can't figure out the "O" thing though.

[wrecker]

I was screaming for people to quiet down.

Now that's an oxymoron.