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[PSUSkinsFan21]

Originally Posted by ArtMonkDrillz

That could have to do with the fact that there are 160 baseball games a year adn only 16 football games. It's much easier to get all dressed up and whatnot a few weeks out of the year than it is to do it 80 times a summer.

You ever see one of those guys at a baseball game furiously keeping score/stats in their own notebook? That's pretty hardcore if you think about it.

That's a really good point. Although even during playoff baseball, you just don't see that absolutely rabidness in the fans eyes that you see on any given week in the NFL. I guess it's just hard to compare. You can't really behave at a baseball game the way you behave at a football game. If I went to a Mets game and started yelling as loud and jumping up and down as much as I do at PSU games, people would 1. Think I was retarded, or 2. Call security to have me escorted out of the stadium (or maybe both).

[12thMan]

Originally Posted by PSUSkinsFan21

That's a really good point. Although even during playoff baseball, you just don't see that absolutely rabidness in the fans eyes that you see on any given week in the NFL. I guess it's just hard to compare. You can't really behave at a baseball game the way you behave at a football game. If I went to a Mets game and started yelling as loud and jumping up and down as much as I do at PSU games, people would 1. Think I was retarded, or 2. Call security to have me escorted out of the stadium (or maybe both).

I think, in part, some of the intensity is because the game itself is a contact sport - played in the trenches. For the most part I think the fans, unconciously, are matching the intensity level and pace of the game.

[724Skinsfan]

Originally Posted by PSUSkinsFan21

That's a really good point. Although even during playoff baseball, you just don't see that absolutely rabidness in the fans eyes that you see on any given week in the NFL. I guess it's just hard to compare. You can't really behave at a baseball game the way you behave at a football game. If I went to a Mets game and started yelling as loud and jumping up and down as much as I do at PSU games, people would 1. Think I was retarded, or 2. Call security to have me escorted out of the stadium (or maybe both).

The only exception to lack of rabid, obnoxious fans at a baseball game would be the Cubs bleacher section.

[Mc2guy]

Originally Posted by 724Skinsfan

The only exception to lack of rabid, obnoxious fans at a baseball game would be the Cubs bleacher section.

Sat in the Wrigley bleacher section last summer for a July 3rd game against the Nationals. It's a day game on a Sunday the day before the 4th of July holiday and it's about 110 degrees in the direct sun in the bleachers so I figure the crowd is going to be flat nasty once the beers start flowing. To top it off, my wife and I are in full Nats gear.

The Nats ended up winning after a 12 inning marathon, and all I heard the entire game was a couple of under the breath comments about "those damn nats fans." No one even sent a harsh word directly our way...I was completely amazed. Cubbies fans were tame. I've seen worse at minor league hockey games.

The most rabid intimidation I have ever seen is at college basketball games...paricularly interconference ACC or SEC games. Kentucky fans are certifiably insane. I went to an Arkansas at Kentucky game with my friend who went to UA once. I thought the bus we were on was going to get tipped over and burned...that is how nutz they are out there over UK B-ball. Same at the last Duke v Maryland game I was at...there is some fanatacizm on display there.