the random musings not worthy of new thread thread

[Seabiscuit36]

i already have Mikael Gorbachev writing my intro.  HoLLAR DiO

[BigEd76]

WIP's morning show and Ray Didinger were in an uproar over Frank Fitzpatrick's column on Friday since they had nothing else to bash today

Philly fans have that way about them
By Frank Fitzpatrick
Inquirer Columnist


So I'm sitting in the airport yesterday, a frigid winter morning, layered in a T-shirt, a long-sleeved shirt, a fleece, a scarf, and a winter jacket.

Then I saw him.

A man in his 30s was bopping down the aisle like Jerry Blavat on steroids, an overnight bag slung across his bare shoulders, a flat-brimmed Phillies cap askew on his shaven head. He was wearing sneakers, baggy basketball shorts that came to mid-calf, a South Philly T-shirt - sleeveless and cut to mid-chest - and a chained medallion the size of a Kaiser roll.

The temperature-immune traveler had Philadelphia sports fan written all over him - or would have had there been room amid the tattoos.

Sometimes Philly fans are easy to spot. You've probably seen them:

The guy drinking rum and coke at 9 in the morning who on 9/11 asked the bartender to switch the channel to the Wings game.

The 300-pound woman with a mullet and a Ron Hextall jersey who waddles so slowly down the middle of a supermarket aisle that you'd check her into the Oreos if you weren't afraid she might highstick you.

The guy who shows up for a company golf outing at an exclusive country club wearing a Brian Dawkins jersey, cutoff jeans and sneakers, then pops a wheelie in his golf cart while cracking open the first of 26 Coors Lights.

The reader whose e-mails begin, "I've been a Flyers season-ticket holder since 1967" and conclude with "stick to something you know about like Tiddly-winks or hopscotch, you sissy."

The pack of beefy young men who depart Citizens Bank Park after a Phillies loss on April 3 shaking their heads and muttering that (a) the team stinks, (b) its owners are cheap, and (c) the season is over.

The sextet sitting at the rear of your 6:30 a.m. flight to Tampa, guzzling vodka, chanting E-A-G-L-E-S, harassing the flight attendants, and, without rising, conversing with their buddies in first class.

The consumptive gambler at Philadelphia Park who wants to know the odds on tonight's Ottawa-Edmonton game.

The schlub in $800 loafers, no socks, and two diamond-encrusted pinkie rings who double-parks his Lexus in front of Tony Luke's, withdraws a wallet crammed with $100 bills, and orders a takeout hoagie because they're too expensive at Citizens Bank Park.

The bozo who calls WIP and demands that Charlie Manuel be fired, Jimmy Rollins be moved to eighth in the lineup, Wes Helms and Ryan Madson be packaged for Johan Santana, and Pat Burrell be made to hit lefthanded but first identifies himself as "the world's greatest Phillies fan."

The boor speeding along a shoulder on I-95 to avoid the traffic stopped at the Broad Street exit because he's in a hurry to get to the Eagles game. As if all those in the backed-up cars were heading for a Seahawks-Bengals game in Cincinnati.

[Sgt PSN]

It's a stupid article. 

I'm about sick of the "you know you're a ___________ if___________." type crap being flung around on just about any subject.  It's annoying and played out. 

Move on. 

[Seabiscuit36]

just some hack writer trying to stir the masses, not worth responding to

[SunMo]

what a grade A fag...

[phattymatty]

philly is definitely the only city to have trashy fans hanging at the airport.

dudes head would explode if he saw the airports here on a skins weekend.  white trash redneck galore.

[Sgt PSN]

Trashy people hang out at the airport?   

[Rome]

The guy drinking rum and coke at 9 in the morning who on 9/11 asked the bartender to switch the channel to the Wings game.

[phattymatty]

you know, obviously pro lacrosse games are played at 9 AM.

[Cerevant]

you know, obviously pro lacrosse games are played at 9 AM, and are televised.

[Seabiscuit36]

you know, obviously pro lacrosse games are played at 9 AM.

or are televised at all

[Sgt PSN]

you know, obviously bars are open and serving liquor at 9am because pro lacrosse games are played at 9 AM, and are televised.

[Sgt PSN]

you know, obviously pro lacrosse games are played at 9 AM.

or are televised at all

ESPN 8 - ¡¡THE OCHO!!

[Seabiscuit36]

Cotton: Looks like it's gonna be a two on one - a menage a trois of pain.

Pepper: Usually you pay double for that kind of action Cotton.

[Sgt PSN]

ha!