I just wanted to make this posting at how horrible the Philadelphia fans (mind you they have no team) were at the game. They sat in the Revs supporter section and yet they were not cheering for the Revs. They kept on cheering for Philadelphia and the last I checked they do not have a team in the league. Also some of them were wearing orange shirts and took of their baby blue shirts to reveal them. This absolutely showed total disrespect and if they ever get the chance to get a team (I hope not for some time) I will make sure to re-pay them.
i completely agree. i love the city, my grandparents live there, and i was in favor of a team, but after today's showing, i have firmly reversed my thinking. how do people who don't even have a team try to yell at uss when they have no team th feel joy of pain for. tossing bottles isn't what MLS is about. they are a wannabe english firm. ps. GO ST. LOUIS
I wasnt at the game, but this is why Phily should have a team. Phily teams and their insane fans are good for sports and rivalries.
rivalry is one thing, but when they are throwing plastic bottles at us and being a second away from a fight, that is something i cannot support.
like I said, wasnt there, but every group has it's bad apples. I meant in general, Philly has great east coast style passionate fans. I want them in the league.
I'm sorry that today was your first impression of us. To explain the bottles...our folks didn't start it...at least from where I was standing and according to a couple of videos my guys have posted. We had purchased those 5 rows well in advance when DC was selling tickets to all groups and certainly didn't purposefully end up in the middle of your impressive travelling support. I have much respect for Monty and you guys and am dissappointed that some good natured piss taking by both sides turned ugly near the end.
Sounds like you're a nice guy and your colors are pretty but your group's classless self promotion and vocal support for the opposing team while in our section will not be forgotten. SOBs indeed.
there are 3 sides to every story ... your side, our side, and the actual truth. keep in mind we were only took up 5 rows in section 228 (approx 80-90 people), nowhere near the amount of revs fan at the game. the DC ticket rep we worked with (who was brilliant btw), informed us we'd be between the toronto and chicago supporters, but not once was new england mentioned. that said, you won't see us come into your boards and start a "trolling" thread, so before everyone starts pointing fingers and calling names, nobody here is innocent. i had spoken to a good half dozen revs fans during halftime, all of whom seemed very supportive of what the Sons of Ben are accomplishing in philadelphia. and for what it's worth, most (if not all) of us applauded the revs players when they walked over after the game.
[youtube]bkuOBRT09zs[/youtube] Take a close look at the 12th second of that clip. That's where the bottle throwing began.
Weren't the guys in the orange jerseys just wearing their school team's jersey? They were not Dynamo jerseys, nor were they Dynamo fans.
I didn't enjoy getting nailed in the head with a bottle, especially when I had nothing to do with the taunting or what-not. I was more concerned about the DC season ticket holders behind me who seemed hell-bent on starting a fight. The ticket office should have placed them somewhere else besides in the middle of the Revs section. Having 80-100 non-revs fans in the section while a group of Revs fans were placed across the field was incredibly moronic and a slap in the face to our supporters. I also found it classless when the Sons of Ben seemed more interested in taunting and heckling us for the entirety of the 2nd half, which included calling us the Buffalo Bills.
You must have been sitting near some of us Philly supporters then, because I think I know the exact guy who you are talking about. He was absolutely out of control! At first I thought he was part of the Revs section and I'm thinking, "Why is he screaming at his own supporters?!?!?"
I agree as I was hit with a navy streamer ball wrapped around a group of ice cubes. And that DC fan was WAY OVER THE LINE. He actually seemed to want a fight. I posted on October 8th when we got our seats. https://www.bigsoccer.com/forum/showpost.php?p=12939986&postcount=12
HELL NO! Those DC fans are season ticket holders and had the option to buy thier seats for the playoffs and MLS CUP Before everyone else. There were more DC fans there than both Revs and Houston fans firstly, secondly, we have a m uch larger fan base than the Revs, so of course theres going to be a large presale for DC fans. I believe 30K tickets were sold, mostly to DC fans, before the playoffs even started. Further more, its OUR stadium. Move the REVS supports, and the SOB's elsewhere. I do think it was a bad move by DCUFO and MLS to infringe upon the DC STH's by putting the supporters clubs where they did. Far as the SOB's go, well I dont like them and never have. Most of them are DC United TURNCOATS. They will NEVER be welcome in RFK as far as I am concerned, and I will NEVER respect anyone that is disloyal. I dunno what all went on down there, but I could see it from up stairs, and it sure looked to me like the SOB's were the ones taunting and trying to start stuff. I had a run in with a couple of them too, and they TRIED to give us crap in our own house, but it didnt work. They cant say crap because they dont have a freakin team. It was funny a cop saw this nasty exchange too, and threatened the philly scumbags with ejection if he saw them hassling DC fans one more time. As for the upside down American Flag thing, well, has anyone honestly stopped to think that perhaps it was just a mistake and they didnt know it was on upside down? Ive seen it happen before. Sometimes things just are a mistake, nothing more.
if i had had my way, they would be eating out of a straw right now. i had seriously never hated someone (or some group) as much in my entire existance. maybe it was because of the magnitude of the match and their selfish reasons for being there, or maybe cuz they are just a bunch of complete cokcs, but seriously, the SOB's are the epitome of scum. the ugly stepchild. a vaginal discharge. Chicago fans look good compared to the gays in light blue. i hope they never have a team, and i wished them death upon the departure home. honestly when they first showed up i was thinking "ok, these guys could be cool...", but that quickly changed. i dont care how hostpitable and nice you are being on the threads, because all of your actions sunday prove that you are all a bunch of sad, sorry excuses for soccer fans, and pathetic souls of human beings. stop trying to put on a nice front for MLS. may god have mercy on you, cuz i sure as hell never will. FWIW the DC security was just as pathetic, and i wanted to punch one of them in the face as well. he was staring at me - eye contact mind you - right after i got hit in the head with a bottle, and did nothing....
Well, there was also a Che flag. It's all the rage to be unamerican in a similar fashion really, really cool hipsters used to wear designer Che shirts in 2004. Someone should inform them the "knockout choking game" is what the cool kids like to do in their spare time. It would solve more than a few problems.
You dont even have a freaking club, and you people are already going into places, causing problems, harassing people...etc. Pathetic. Stay home, or get tickets in a section that is away from other supporters groups. You really had no reason to be there, let alone to taunt any other fans, and I saw ALOT of it from your group, towards DC Fans, Towards Revs fans, and Towards houston fans as well. If any of you ever get beaten bloody at RFK, you will certainly have deserved it. And you, my friend are a huge, disloyal TURNCOAT. What does that say about you?