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To: Rarebird who wrote (15439)	5/2/2011 12:54:12 PM
From: JimisJim	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29241

Yes, I admit to feeling a bit paranoid one evening after leaving Dodgers Stadium and a Reds/Dodgers game... I was wearing a Reds shirt and hat and got some heckling... this was several years ago and nowhere near as bad as the recent incident involving a Giants fan at Chavez Ravine... I really like Dodger Stadium and will probably still go to a game there once in awhile -- usually a few years apart (and only when the Reds are in town for a weekend series) as it is a 2-hr. drive for me each way from northern San Diego County... but I will leave the Reds garb at home in the future... On a more positive note, a couple years ago, I was given season tix to the Chargers games by a friend who bought them for his kid who couldn't go because of other obligations on weekends he didn't know about when he bought the tix... anyway, part of a large group of tailgaters and we all wore Chargers garb, etc... the Steelers came to town and a friend of my wife's -- huge Steelers fan -- flew out to go to the game, wearing Steelers garb she'd made herself... bought a jersey for my daughter, was a good sport... in fact (and this is the point of this anecdote) in the parking lot both before and after the game, both Chargers fans and Steelers fans (there were a surprising number of Steelers fans) did some good-natured heckling, but the fact is that both sets of fans invited each other to sample their tailgate food and beverages -- lots of mingling and good natured fun... didn't hear or see any incidents where fans got out of control... Part of this gets to my original post about how things like this vary so widely from city to city... in San Diego, most fans are too laid back to get cranky violent as fans... I remember going to Reds games in St. Louis when I lived 30 mins. outside of that city and being impressed with how classy the ave. beisbol fan was there... they cheered when Reds did good things like sac the baserunner over to 2nd, etc.... they cheered good baseball plays regardless of which team made them and I never hear any boos directed at anyone other than the occasional ump. In short, I guess I've been lucky in that I've almost never felt intimidated being an "away" fan at most sporting venues... certainly never experienced anything like what's been posted wrt Philly... or NY... and I'm glad... allows me to cling to the belief that most fans are human beings first... Back to my bubble world... <g> Jim