Budsdrinker

Yeah, it's just a shame we have some fans like that. We don't act that way in the plaza level. All the Bills fans I talked to said everyone treated them nice and had a great time. But as we all know every city has their share of A-hole fans.

SaintsBro

I don't know what it was, but something was up yesterday - there were way more Bills fans in the terrace than I expected to see.

I am sorry this happened, and it sounds like later on in the game people got drunk and out of control. But I will say this, I have to say it.... Beating on the walls is a time honored Dome tradition, since the first person figured it out. But that is our house, they are visiting OUR house, our domain, and if the situation was reversed, there is no way in heck I would beat on the walls in the Bills' stadium, no way. As far as I'm concerned, the privilege of beating on that wall belongs to the Saints season ticket holders in that section, and no one else. I would call security on them in a heartbeat, too. No disagreement there. Beating on the walls of someone else's stadium is just downright disrespectful, that's an offense that warrants an in-your-face (but still appropriate and civil) response.


Would you beat on the walls in a stranger's house, if you went to a rowdy party there? Of course not. Would you beat on the walls of your own house? Sure. Or if it was a good friend's house, if your best buddy invited you to a party and said let's get crazy, and he asked you to beat on his walls with him? Sure I would. But I'm hoping that not one of you would beat on the walls of a total stranger's house, who invited you in.

Still, that's no excuse for the profanity and people acting like idiots that happened later on. That sounds pretty bad.

Jack Vegas

Here's the thing though. All they were doing is cheering for their team. Maybe you don't think they should be hitting the walls. Maybe they shouldn't. But they weren't drunk or rowdy or yelling at anybody else. It was like 8 dudes hitting a wall on third down, and they were just having fun. It was pretty clear they weren't trying to get on anybody's nerves. They certainly weren't doing anything that warranted a visit from security.

To their credit though, they stopped doing it and started saying "bang bang bang bang!" instead. Pretty funny. Good dudes, and good sports even when people started singing the goodbye song at the end as they were leaving. The good Saints fans on the way out were giving them high-fives and handshakes. That is what you want to see.

I still don't understand why security went up to them instead of dealing with the drunk idiots who were causing all the problems in the first place. There were several 3 and 4 year old kids in the few rows just in front of us, if I had my kid there I would've been pretty upset at the way they are acting.

It took me and 6 or 7 other Saints fans to keep them from getting kicked out because we went to the guards and told them what was really going on. If anything I was just as aggravated with the guards as the bad eggs in the crowd, because the guards weren't even trying to get the whole story, they just took the word of one clearly drunk and beligerant Saints fan.

thebdj

As someone from England, you will appreciate that I am used to far far far more hostile environments in sport. That's not me trying to be all 'cool' or make a point. That's the way it is. It still amazes me that you don't have the concept of a Home/Away section in the stands. Every soccer stadium in England has that and all top flight games will also have a row of police between the fans for the entire game.

I have been to home games (SuperDome) and always sat anywhere from 632 to 643. I have also had the honour of being right at the back and banging the wall! I have also been to road games. The simple fact of the matter is that wherever you go, you will always get some complete idiots. I hold the SuperDome up as one of the best places to go. Maybe because I am from England, I go out of my way to be cool with opposing fans (usually I want a picture! haha) but I have never seen anything like what is described in this thread. Ever. I have seen some serious taunting but all in the spirit of it.

Let us not forget I have stood at CandleStick park and been abused. And I mean ABUSED. I have stood at the Georgia Dome and been destroyed for 3 and a half hours. We got owned in both those games. I have also been to St Louis, where there were probably more Saints fans than Rams fans hahaha and had a great time.

This is all part of sport and unless it goes over the top it is part of the experience. Re what was said about the 650 shenanigans, that is out of order. I would have personally jumped in and done/said something. It does however sound like there may have been some Bills fans overstepping the mark as well though.

Tough one to call. But New Orleans is by far the best place for opposing fans to come from what I have seen so far.

exile

I wouldn't even blame Philly for beating up this guy though.

QBREES9

Good FUN

AlaskaSaints

Sad on so many levels.

Alaska

Danno

Even more sad is that I wouldn't want either of my two kids to even view the comments made on this very site.

Its been pretty sleazy lately. And this is one of the cleanest Saints sites around.

xan

I am mortally offended.

blackangold

pot meet kettle