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What Happened To This Poor Eagles Fan?

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OMG! Ponies!
01/12/09

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Giants fans are bad but it's the Jets fans you have to look out for. They're the ones who harass women in the stairways during the game.
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allyzay
01/12/09

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hey, ryan? i ended up hospitalized during an nfl game once too. I HAD A KIDNEY INFECTION. can you please not just randomly insult giants fans (or call some random eagles fan a pussy basically)? when was the last time you went to a football game? i've seen many ppl get sick at them (something about being out in whatever weather conditions for hours + drinking can really fuck with ppl) yet have never seen a brawl at one.

seriously the conclusion here is infuriating but it wouldn't be 2009 gawker without some completely unfounded sensationalistic conclusion that implies the writer has absolutely no knowledge of the subject at hand. where are richard and alex?
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Ryan Tate
01/13/09

@allyzay: It wouldn't be Gawker 2009 without people taking this sort of post WAY too seriously! Banned, though I have the feeling you'll find a way back.
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peterwknox
01/12/09

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I've been to four games at the Meadowlands and wore my jersey and hat each time with no problem - this time was no different. Unlike the consequences of wearing a visiting jersey into the Linc, Giants fans are much more respectable than they get credit for, and aside from a few comments on my lack of a super bowl ring, no one has ever threatened me physically, even when I've deserved it at times.

I'm sorry for getting everyone excited and worried, but there's no story here aside from me stupidly posting a picture from the hospital right as my iPhone decides to die. I was there getting a finger fixed that I had accidentally dislocated. Sorry it wasn't the parking lot showdown you guys were expecting, but I'll try to get to more potluck parties in Astoria to make it happen for you. Thank you for featuring my hospital visit, but I don't want it to take away from the the Eagle's glorious victory. Go birds!
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i'm a bottle
01/12/09

@peterwknox: Great! Now we can get back to reconstructing the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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DorothyMantooth
01/12/09

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The Honey & his bro went to the game in their Eagles jerseys. And actually managed not to get their asses kicked! It is possible, people.
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ADismalScience
01/12/09

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The third shot is taken of the "Eli Manning's Career" pose.
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Botswana Meat Commission FC
01/12/09

@ADismalScience:

Handing out ass-kickings to the Cowboys and Giants within three weeks is football heaven.
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Dolomite
01/12/09

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"If you go in someone elses house and gloat, especially if that house is a football house, expect to get your fucking ass kicked. He probably did some stupid shit and rightfully got his ass beat. Good, don't fuckin be stupid. If I went to Eagles Stadium and did the same thing, that shit would happen to me too."

Thank God someone here acknowledges reality and doesn't act like the world's about roses and fairies. I've said it before and I'll say it again -- if you walk into the lion's den with a steak suit on, you're going to get mauled. Doesn't mean it's right, it's just the way it is.
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CaptainFantastic
01/12/09

@Dolomite: The reality is that beating someone up because they are rude and root for a different sports team is an ape-like behavior.
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i'm a bottle
01/12/09

@Dolomite: I understand your point: To go into someone else's house would be like waltzing into a pasture full of cows dressed in a grass vest, like floating onto an ice floe laden with seals wearing pants made of fish sticks, like parading into a forest full of squirrels wearing a muumuu covered in acorns. Someone will get mauled wearing a steak suit in a den of lions. And how! I only hope that they check to see if their insurance is up-to-date before they do such a silly thing. It's serious, don't you know?
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CaptainFantastic
01/12/09

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I'm betting a fashion forward Giants fan noticed that he was wearing black, bus boy shoes with short, white socks and let him have it.
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i'm a bottle
01/12/09

@CaptainFantastic: That was absolutely sublime.
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
01/12/09

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maybe professional sports just isn't a good idea

white riot?
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ZiggyStardust
01/12/09

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"Passed out after the game" is the new "I fell down the stairs," apparently.
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Kid Twist
01/12/09

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It doesn't matter if he acted obnoxious or not -- no deserves to get beaten up. Except Red Sox fans.
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sublicon
01/12/09

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If you go in someone elses house and gloat, especially if that house is a football house, expect to get your fucking ass kicked. He probably did some stupid shit and rightfully got his ass beat. Good, don't fuckin be stupid. If I went to Eagles Stadium and did the same thing, that shit would happen to me too.
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i'm a bottle
01/12/09

@sublicon: What a sociopath you are.
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i'm a bottle
01/12/09

@sublicon: Just for reference:

Three or more of the following are required:

1. Failure to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behaviors as indicated by repeatedly performing acts that are grounds for arrest;

2. Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeatedly lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure;

3. Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead;

4. Irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults;

5. Reckless disregard for safety of self or others;

6. Consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial obligations;

7. Lack of remorse, as indicated by being indifferent to or rationalizing having hurt, mistreated, or stolen from another.
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badasscat
01/12/09

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You know, Ryan, there's a third possible explanation for this, which is that maybe he is not a very gracious winner. Why would you impugn all Giants fans and not even *suggest* the fact that maybe *he* actually provoked someone?

Sure, maybe someone beat him up simply because he was wearing an Eagles jersey. Or, maybe he got drunk and physical about the Eagles win and ended up getting pushed away in response. Who knows at this point? All I'm saying is that there's a possibility for both sides to be wrong here, not just one.

And how do we know he didn't just drink too much and get alcohol poisoning? Can Eagles fans not handle their liquor?
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lobstr
01/12/09

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Having hacked Superbowl XXXIX in Jacksonville and being surrounded by Philly fans for hours-on-end, it is my conclusion that those who collectively gather to celebrate that team in particular happen to be the worst people in the world, obnoxious and otherwise, so there's no telling what he said in the stands.. :[]

But for the sake of being a human being, I hope he's ok :p
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Iceland Spar
01/12/09

@lobstr: Philly's the only team in professional sports with a courtroom in their stadium (seriously).
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kabamli
01/12/09

@lobstr: @Iceland_Spar: Being from Philadelphia, I can attest that Eagles fans are the absolute worst individuals alive. They were the first stadium in the nation to install a court system, they burned a casket when TO left, and, since the vast majority of them are also Phillies fans, they are guilty of this

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and this

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Go Steelers, from a disgraced Giants fan, xo.

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i'm a bottle
01/12/09

@kabamli: Well, at least they're not voting.
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allyzay
01/12/09

@Iceland_Spar: no, they're not anymore. do keep up.
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lobstr
01/12/09

@Iceland_Spar: haha really? So they can mass-process all the drunk douche-tards on the spot?
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dado
01/12/09

@lobstr: I was processed in that courtroom in 2006. Not fun.
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peterwknox
01/13/09

@lobstr: I'm ok. Thank you for your concern. It should be no surprise that Gawker got this wrong too. The Giants fans were graceful in defeat and even offered me meek congratulations and I was not beating them over the heads with my team's victory. There was no fight, I was just getting a dislocated finger popped back in (Meadowlands was pretty damn icy) when my phone died. As we all know, Manhattan hospitals are not pleasant places and I wasn't enjoying myself but that in itself is the opposite of newsworthy.
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lobstr
01/13/09

@peterwknox: Aside from the non-newsiness factor, the thing to know here is that the Gawker Empire Cares.

Thanks for the details, though!
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SeaBassTian
01/12/09

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I do follow Knox on Tumblr and he does bust out with an amusing turn of phrase every so often. But I find sports to be so tedious that I skip over anything football related. So I must have missed all of the hospital drama!
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Iceland Spar
01/12/09

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Giants fans cannot, in fact, handle defeat with anything less than blinding rage. And if Peter is a true Eagles fan, it doesn't matter what happened to him because the Eagles somehow keep winning. Fly Eagles Fly...

(Though should they make it to the Superbowl, they will lose to the Steelers. Here we go, Steelers, Here we go...)
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allyzay
01/12/09

@Iceland_Spar: what is this. no seriously what is this.
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BullfightsOnAcid
01/12/09

@Iceland_Spar: The Eagles will not be able to defeat Kurt Warner who has the power of Jesus and an army of angels at his side.
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