Fans behaving badly isn’t exactly breaking news, and a quick scan of the road to the Super Bowl indicates such behavior borders both sides of that boulevard, certainly in Philadelphia, the City of Brotherly Love, and in Boston, too.
I’ve attended football games in and around both of those towns, and in and around a hundred others, and let’s just put it this way — observing fan behavior is a fascinating psychological study.
A little over a week in this space, some of the outrageous expectations Minnesota Vikings fans had for some Philadelphia Eagles fans at the NFC championship game were examined, complete with warnings for Vikings fans to cover their colors at Lincoln Financial Field as a means of staying safe.