Certain teams or cities have fanbases that, like it or not, garner a certain reputation. Nowhere is that more true than the city of Philadelphia, where fans have thrown snowballs at Santa, batteries at opposing players, and vulgarities and beer at anyone who has the audacity to wear an opposing team’s colors.
I could go on and on with stories of Philly fans’ boorish behavior. Philly fans like to say that this stuff happens everywhere, but I never bought that line. Other fanbases don’t build their stadiums with jail cells in them for overzealous idiots who look to do others harm. Other fanbases don’t chuck batteries. Other fanbases don’t let loose with the bile that spews forth from the hearts and mouths of the residents of the City of Brotherly Love.
But this might be a new low. In one of the more disturbing stories about fan behavior I’ve read about in well, ever, I guess, a fan at a baseball game in Philly
purposely threw up on an 11-year-old girl and her father. Here’s a picture of the turd in question:
As Classy as Philly Gets
So some poor guy takes his daughters to see a ballgame, sits down by some idiots and gets them tossed for swearing and being obnoxious around his kids. Then this waste of human skin, Matthew Clemmens, comes over to harrass and eventually VOMIT on not only the father, but the 11-year old girl? In another story about the same incident, it has been reported that a witness to these events punched Baby Huey there in the face while trying to restrain him. Give that man the key to the city.
And what about the cop who was thrown up on? His restraint in this situation is not just commendable, its downright amazing. How he had the presence of mind to keep from throttling that piece of garbage its beyond my meager powers of comprehension. Kudos to you, Police Captain Michael Vangelo, for thinking first of your children, even though you had every right to beat the stuffing out of this moron.
As for the city of Philadelphia…you stay classy.
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