i agree. i love philly teams, all of them. i still watch the sixers (if someone can explain to me how setting up a team to run then attaching an $80million anchor to it makes sense, please let me know). i wear out the last button on my remote if there's two teams playing unless one is a playoff team. I do think, overall, the fans' loyalty goes Eagles, Phillies, Flyers, Sixers. but there's true fans of all of them. i went to a phillies game out in pittsburg earlier this year and had two college girls wearing pink phillies stuff behind me. they repeated asked about who the players were and where we found this starter (it was J.A. Happ. in august).
You are also 100% right on just wanting to drink. i've thought for years that alchohol shouldn't be allowed at games. if you can't enjoy the game without drinking, you're not a fan. and its those people that make the rest of us look bad. I love the show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, but what they showed about fans not caring about the game and just wanting to drink and riot was disgraceful.
When the phillies won last year, i drove home to watch it with my parents. After the game, i hugged my mother, who had recently gotten over cancer and had doubts about if she would see a title again. that's what being a fan is
Everything i've said applies to yankees fans and new york fans in general. its the alchoholic assholes who dont watch that ruin it for everyone. this is going to be a fun series, i hope the "fans" don't destroy it for the rest of us.
one more point: you're only a real phillies fan with the von hayes jersey if it says 541 on it. i pick the phightin's in 5