Redskins Fans Must be the Dumbest Football Fans in the NFL

[Crazy Levi]

but not much more than a bit of hullabaloo and hubbub while they were at the line. I think this is a little over exaggerated.

If by a "little" you mean a "a lot" and if by "over exaggerated" you "blown completely out of sane proportion" I completely agree with you.

[ciresolstice]

I agree wholeheartedly dude. I hate it...when the Offense is on the field STFU. people are shouting Go Skins! etc on offense. I just shake my head like ..really? seriously? make noise on D and especially on 3rd and 4th down on D.

[Son of Gadsden]

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.

My entire section was doing it, and when i didn't, my fiancee' said "What's wrong, why are you so down, have some team spirit!"

[Rocky21]

What really infuriates me is when people sitting in front of me stand up to enter or exit their row right when a play is about to begin.

Another great example of neophytes who act like they haven't been to a NFL game before. Never, ever block someone else's view when a play is on for Pete's sake.

[laxpck]

Or how many people leave in the fourth quarter to avoid the traffic. I don't get it....pay $65-$300+ dollars per ticket plus parking and arrive late and leave early. Why the heck go to the game? By early in the fourth quarter a lot of the upper level and a good chunk of the lower level seats were empty. The fans gave up on the team and just assumed there would be no comeback. Arrgghhh.

Some of us drive 5+ hours to be at games.

[pez]

I am constantly trying to get people to make noise on defense....

I am also trying to get those same people that won't make a peep on defense shut the hell up when we are on offense.

[wcb262]

sounds great in theory.. but as someone with Season tickets , every time my section (125) is quiet on a Skins possesion the opposing team starts their chant....so if you want me to be quiet on O and let the other teams fans go at it...you can go to hell

[MartinC]

At least they've managed to be in the stadium for kickoff both of these games. If there's another thing that irritates and baffles me it's how empty our stadium tends to be at kickoff ~Bang

This. At the risk of sounding like a grumpy middle aged man (which I suppose I am) it really pisses me off when fans can't get their act together to be in their seats before the game starts. I mean if you don't want to watch the game why pay the money and take the time and trouble to go to the Stadium? That's their funeral but then they start excusing their way past me to get to their seats and you just know that in about ten minutes they will be pushing back past you to go to the toilet or visit a concession stand .......

Irritates the hell out of me.

Edit - I'm talking sports in general here not specifically FedEx which I can't speak to as I have yet to get over for a game.

[pjfootballer]

I was at the Giants game. It didn't seem that noisy to me when we were on offense. I don't do the wave. I rarely yell unless a big play happens. It's not that I'm sitting on my hands, it's that I'm concentrating on the play. And I know the fight song word for word. And you can look at the big screen now and sing along.

[Hunter_R]

sounds great in theory.. but as someone with Season tickets , every time my section (125) is quiet on a Skins possesion the opposing team starts their chant....so if you want me to be quiet on O and let the other teams fans go at it...you can go to hell

So... your solution is to make it even louder, which hurts the Skins' offense even more?

[T-REX1240]

Thread title is a little over blown but I do agree with the overall tone of the OP. I was at the Cardinals game & I found myslf trying to silence my section multiple times during the 4th Q while we were on offense and trying to pump up the crowd multiple times during the game while we were on D. Oh and just for the record, I noticed the stadium was a little more empty than normal (as it is most times when Arizona comes to town) but there were about 95% Skins fans in the stadium.

[wcb262]

So... your solution is to make it even louder, which hurts the Skins' offense even more?

im not saying everyone should blow air horns when we have the ball..but if your trying to argue homefield advantage then how is our team gonna react to the crowd chanting "DEFENSE..DEFENSE..DEFENSE" when they are going for 4th and 3 trying to win the game?

[Bang]

im not saying everyone should blow air horns when we have the ball..but if your trying to argue homefield advantage then how is our team gonna react to the crowd chanting "DEFENSE..DEFENSE..DEFENSE" when they are going for 4th and 3 trying to win the game?

Probably better than having 60,000 more people trying to drown them out to 'help the offense".
By all means, try to 'help' them with more noise.

I can see it now on every message board of every team we'll play at home... Hey, you know if you go to Redskins games and chant "Defense" you can get their crowd to help you distract their own offense?

~Bang

[stwasm]

what's wrong with that? the wave isn't noisy.

it's pointless in the upper deck anyways because it dies at the endzone now that 75% of the seats are missing there.

The purpose of the wave IS to make noise so that the offense can't communicate with each other in the huddle and the players can't hear the snap count. Is that what you want to do? Hurt your team?

[stevemcqueen1]

I think variations of these problems happen across the NFL landscape. Do you think it has something to do with modern day fans in comparison to the fans of old?

Not just NFL teams. At every football venue casual fans make up a significant portion of the crowd in attendance. There are probably major college program exceptions, but what is that like, 15 programs out of 119 FBS teams + all FCS, DII, and DIII programs?

A huge die hard crown that's totally on the same page is most definitely the exception and not the rule. Seems pointless to get mad about it.