Colin Cowherd: Skins fans worst in the NFC East

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Originally Posted by irish

I think rabid is too strong. Maybe loyal works better. Skins fans would never buy up a bunch of tickets and drive 4 hours to take over an opponents stadium.

I really doubt that most of them were actually from Pittsburgh. The Steelers are a very popular team right now and they have a ton of people who like them for no other reason than they're good.
Likewise, as we've talked about here in the past, DC is a city filled with people who are originally from other parts of the country so you're almost always going to find people supporting the visitors in our sports arenas. They either relocated to the area for a job or they use the fact that their team is playing here as an excuse to take a trip to DC to act like tourists.
Just as an example: I went to the Nats v Marlins game on Friday night and my friend and I counted people wearing hats, sweatshirts, jerseys, etc. from about 20 teams other than those two throughout the night.

All this doesn't justify what happened that night (but it certainly made for an annoying birthday for myself) but I think it played a part.