PFT picks up Saints' fans experience at Candlestick Park
 

Profootballtalk.com just posted a story regarding Saints' fans experiences at that cement hole in the ground known as Candlestick Park. Apparently a letter to the editor from a Saint fan was printed in the SF Chronicle. Glad to hear it! What I witnessed at that place was truly atrocious and I hope to never again spend another dime in San Fran, no matter how pretty it may be.

Here is a link to the story: Saints fan describes bad experience at Candlestick Park | ProFootballTalk

Here is a direct link to the letter. It is very well-written.

Should 49ers fans be concerned about hooliganism? | Opinion Shop | an SFGate.com blog

thats why its called "ENEMY TERRITORY"...I dont condone the act, but cmon...when I go to seattle I expect the ***** Piece of $&#@ hawk fans to treat me like that..

be objective...but keep in mind, they sell beer at every stadium. You ever slept with a fat chick cuz you were drunk? I have...Did I regret my actions the next day? You bet.

From now on lets just think of the niner and hawk fans as the fat chick you should of NOT banged..

see, Im drunk right now and Im regretting what I just wrote. Thats how it happens

Let me try to diffuse this here by getting us back on topic. :D

I agree that when going into "enemy territory" you should expect some heckling and that sort of thing. Screaming obscenities at Teenage Girls and threatening violence toward their dad is over the line.

San Fran fans should ESPECIALLY know better what with what happened to the SF Giants fan on opening day last year. I mean, come on. Violence and threats of violence are inexcusable. It's just sports.

i was thoroughly unimpressed by their fans.

and though i completely agree with it being "enemy territory." they simply don't know how to deal with success...i don't want a cookie or a smile...but a simple "f*)k you, saints suck" would suffice for the ignorance i saw.

oddly enough, their insults were bigotry and ignorance laden (i.e. i was called a "******" or "fag" at least 50x by the different 49er groups around me). then, when i decided to tell them the rules (how EVERY scoring play is reviewed when they were screaming for a challenge...idiots)...they said "shut up ******, you better hope we win, or you're not making it out of the stadium."

cheers san fran; at least san diego and new orleans keep it classy ;)

Had my season tickets since 06 in the Dome, I have never seen any Saint fan (even the seriously drunk ones) cross the line with ragging the visiting team. Went to Jacksonville game this year, their fans knew we were going to beat them, and they invited us to tailgate and had a great time and had some good fun smack there also. Karma is a ***** so I'm sure they will settle down after the Giants kick their butts.

What else should you expect from a bunch of battery throwers?

I've been in the dome since 2006 and all I see is booing and good humored ribbing of opposing fans but then again New Orleans knows how to do tourism, most cities and fan bases don't

Sorry to hear the bad story. It sucks to be in those shoes. Lord knows I've been in them before. To hell with them go giants, then go ravens all the way!

I have a hard time understanding what kind of sick pleasure you get from putting somebody else down instead of just rejoicing in your own teams success.

Just confirms what I thot all along. "They are who we thot they were!" ;) Bunch of classless idiots who don't even deserve to HAVE a stadium. Everything in CA is going to he** in a handbasket anyway. Obviously they weren't so SURE of themselves if they were that emotional......unlike what they would have liked for us to believe...they were skeered to death that the Saints were gonna wear them out! And if they hadn't resorted to cheating, we would have, despite the turnovers!

Damn! You ARE an idiot.

Not surprised. Not even a little. I've been to many professional sporting events. The last Football games was the Saints regular season game in Houston a few years ago. It was clear there that we were in 'enemy' territory, but I never feared for my safety, and I didn't regret bringing my family. It's was a good time even though the Saints lost.

But there are just way too many stories like this lately, and it's not isolated to football. I'm planning on taking my family to an A's game this summer - it will be part of my son's 2nd birthday. I am hopeful that we can enjoy the game as we were able to with Rangers games we took my daughter too when we lived in Arlington.

But I am concerned, and it's a damn shame isn't it? One of the comments about that guys letter was that the fan behavior was un-American. It is. It's sad. Sportsmanship is enforced on the field. It's time it was enforced in the stands too. People behaving that way should be made to leave. Period.

You can't just walk up to somebody on the street and behave that way. Why should it be tolerated inside a professional sports stadium.

Agreed! Who wants to take their life into their own hands just to go to a football game??? That's crazy! In New Orleans, I mostly ignore the fans of the other team unless they are friendly, and then I will talk with them and be friendly back! I was at Pat O'Brien's the day before the Bears/Saints game, and we had a blast with Bear fans even! ( Go figure). If the trend continues where fans at other stadiums threaten fans from other teams and disrespect them as human beings, I, for one, will only go to Saints home games. I've been to Dallas, Houston and Denver as well as the dome...the worst was Denver, but I never felt threatened...just wanted to punch one guy out! LOL!~ SF deserves to lose in a big way. Here's hoping.....Geaux Giants!!!:twisted:

You didn't have anything to fear at the Houston game because we out numbered them, there are a lot of Saints fans in Houston that live in Houston so these "Texans" fans knew they would have to deal with them sooner or later so they know to just cool it with any smack talk

I LIVE 40 miles from Houston, so even though I take a lot of teasing, for the most part they are good folks! ;)

Its the thug and gang mentality of some fans.

Yeah I have no respect for 49er fans after some of the stuff I read.

I mean enjoy the win... celebrate but don't degrade or talk trash to others that is stupid and ignorant because you don't win forever.

GO GIANTS!!!

Why none of us play ! we don't even get paid. We pay for eveything. Just crazy thinking.