Colin Cowherd: Skins fans worst in the NFC East

[ArtMonkDrillz]

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.

[irish]

Originally Posted by ArtMonkDrillz

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.

Very true, Pgh has had a lot of people move away from Pgh and its hard to go anywhere without running into someone from Pgh. The DC area is full of the Pgh diaspora (maybe more than any city on the east coast) and that certainly has an effect on how well they do at taking over stadiums. The problem is that outside of DC there rally arent many Skins fans (the Skins havent done much lately to attract new fans) so they just dont have the numbers to really take over a stadium.

[redsk1]

Originally Posted by irish

Very true, Pgh has had a lot of people move away from Pgh and its hard to go anywhere without running into someone from Pgh. The DC area is full of the Pgh diaspora (maybe more than any city on the east coast) and that certainly has an effect on how well they do at taking over stadiums. The problem is that outside of DC there rally arent many Skins fans (the Skins havent done much lately to attract new fans) so they just dont have the numbers to really take over a stadium.

I don't know if anyone has seen the interview w/ Ted Leonsis, owner of the Caps on comcast recently. He talks about the decision to purchase the Caps and what his goals were. To paraphrase his thoughts:

-Create passion w/ the fans
-Create a family environment at Verizon
-Create new, young Caps fans by enticing families to come out to games
- put a product on the ice that fans will like and can get behind

Those aren't his exact words but how refreshing is that. A focus on the family and creating energetic, new fans. Someone could learn something by that. The product has to be good obviously. TL is a smart dude.