Rant about fan behavior at sporting events

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Me and a couple friends went to the Ravens vs. Bengals game this evening and we had good seats on the 25 yard line. My big problem was we had to deal with some obnoxious fans sitting in front of us getting drunk and annoying. They would yell just about every profane word we could imagine and even decided to slung some of their beer all over the place. They finally got ejected when one of the fools threatened to punch another fan sitting below him. I had season tickets for the Jax Jaguars when I lived in Jacksonville Fla so I know how bad fans can be, but it seems like fans just go to NFL,NBA,other sporting events just to look for a reason to get drunk. What made me more angry was that there were a number of children sitting in our section.

Hey! Don't talk about my dad like that!

I'm serious. It irritates me that a guy would think that going to a football game gives him a license to get drunk and annoy everyonelse sitting next to you. If you wanna get drunk watching football KEEP YOUR FAT ARSE HOME!
Besides that it was a great game. Paul Brown Stadium was just awesome and the food in Cincinnati was delicious. Now I'm tired, it will be tommarrow afternoon before I get my voice back from screaming DEFENSE!, and I have photos of me at the game. One of my friends has a thing for me to post pics on here so I will try to post pics of me and my friends at the game and tailgating.

In the UK drinks are banned from football (soccer) stadiums but it doesn't stop a minority
swearing and shouting insults at the players and officials. I like football but have never understood why people feel entitled to shout abuse and behave like morons,especially when
children are about

What bugs me is when my team is losing and there are some opposing team fans in the middle of the home team fans and they turn round and look at us and gloat.

About the worst I have ever yelled at these people is "Sit down ya mug!" but my boyfriend got really upset and started swearing at the fans and the umpire. Even though I don't know that much about the game, I could see the umpire was making bad decisions in favour of the other team.

Some people behind us told him to be quiet and he got even madder, swore more, and finally said, "come on, let's go" before the end of the game. He wasn't drinking alcohol, but he takes his footy very seriously. I felt a bit embarrassed but also worried about him as I thought someone might have thrown a can at him. We were with a few other people and all left about 5 minutes before the end of the game.

I am not sure about going to many games next season as it hurts to see my boyfriend get so upset about a game. He is usually a lovely person and it is just when he does badly at games (eg. Sonic, Crash Bash) or his team is doing badly, that he gets very stroppy.