2007-10-15 18:46:39 · 13 answers · asked by yasijoon_sh2008 1 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
Beer and excitement. Maybe teem pride and feeling wronged.
2007-10-15 18:48:57 · answer #1 · answered by shipwreck 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"Rugby is a hooligan's game played by gentlemen, whereas [Association] football is a gentleman's game played by hooligans." It is unfashionable, not to say Politically Incorrect to say this sort of thing today, but the history and traditions of rugby union were established in the Public Schools of England. The Rugby School; calling the referee "Sir", .... That is, in an arena (and time) when little boys of a certain class were forged into "gentlemen" (and more or less scholars) so that they could carry on the business of the Empire. George Orwell's classic essay, "Such, Such Were the Joys" (1947) will do for an introduction, if one is needed. Even those of us who took up the game many, many decades after those formative times have done so with that background. And that's true whether we learned the game in NZ, SA, Australia, Canada,or Argentina; in USA, until just the last decade or less, you probably would not have taken up rugby until university (or perhaps at a very small handful of private secondary schools). Rugby Union was organized around the traditions of being a "gentleman". Education, manners, and articulate speech in the "proper" accent all went with (and largely still do) that "ideal" and grew out of the traditions that established that particular cultural meme. Mark L.
2016-04-09 02:59:20 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Football is a very aggressive sport and sometimes that aggression rubs off on the fans. Also, some fans get waaaay to emotionally when it comes to football or any sport.
2007-10-16 03:41:56 · answer #3 · answered by uthamanj 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Are we talking Football as in "American Football" or Football as in what Yanks call "soccer"?
I've never seen amercian football fans burn a stadium. But I've seen it in world cup soccer when the referee made a bad call.
Here's a question back: You never see the Superbowl with the "Avid" fans of a regular season game. Why not? Ans: When only the rich can afford the tickets at upwards of $600 for cheap seats, your not going to see the diehard fans with their bodies painted.
2007-10-15 18:55:45 · answer #4 · answered by captn_carrot 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
to be honest with you most die hard fans would go stupid or violent over a sports game, but it is mostly the soccer fans in europe....i mean just in russia....well have a look for your self, and remember its all over a soccer game
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3MWhkWwjwg
i dont see football (american) fans doing much of this, to be honest.
p.s. this is better cam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Foei44LbSFU
2007-10-15 19:03:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Come to Kentucky even with our blood 50% whiskey we're still the classiest fans in the NCAA
2007-10-16 01:44:54 · answer #6 · answered by #1 Cats Fan 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
the violence surrounding american football is nowhere near that of soccer worldwide those soccer fans are insaine
2007-10-16 04:52:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Alcohol, the sometimes overly intense loyalty they have for their team, testosterone, etc.
2007-10-15 18:55:09 · answer #8 · answered by sweetienat123 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
rival fans wearing their colors and being obnoxious in an away stadiumn.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws7ktcz0_sM
2007-10-15 20:46:44 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
mainly beer
2007-10-15 18:49:07 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋