Pegger, serious question here: How much dumber are Bears fans than Eagles fans?
The more I learn about all football fans the more I realize we are all the same. Every team has three distincts groups:
Meatballs - Have strong, poorly thought out opinions
Fair Weather - Here for the good, gone in the bad
Meatball Eaters - Generally have well thought out opinions and are typically pretty cool with learning new things from others
The main between difference is the weightings of each group, but on any given day you can be Meatballed by any specific team, so it's almost a moot point.
I'd also say some demographics and regional uniqueness changes the appearance, temperment and actions of the underlying Meatball group. For example, in Chicago if the team sucked and the ownership sent out someone dressed in a Santa costume you'd probably go get a beer/Polish sausage, but in Philly he got booed and sprayed with snowballs. That's not how all fans act, but more the demographic uniqueness to a specific area. Here's a
good article that recalls how the snowball incident came to be and what were some of the factors leading up to it. Short, decent read.
