Phillie Phans

I can’t really say I’m a sports fan. Know just enough about different sports to be able to watch a game and understand 90-95% of what happens and why. Do I watch a lot of games? No. Do I have favorite teams? Yes.


I was born and raised within spitting distance of Philadelphia. But I have also lived in both New Orleans and Houston. Now, when I lived in those other cities, I paid attention to and rutted for their teams. That is, in everything except baseball.

Jimmy, Shane, and Chase are three of the best baseball players of all times as far as I’m concerned. Yes, I’m a Phillie Phan and proud of it. I watched Tug McGraw throw the last pitch back in the 70’s , and Brad Lidge do it last year. And I will be watching to the last pitch this year. Win or lose, that is my team out there and I am very proud of them.

I heard talk when I lived down south about the Philadelphia fan. About how tough we are. Yes we are very tough. Why? In my opinion, it is because the rest of the country see us as a second class city. We aren’t as big mile wise as Houston or Dallas, we don’t have the population that New York has, and we don’t get the extra large tourist crowd like New Orleans or Los Angeles. We do however have more history here than in any other part of this country. And we do know what we want. And we feel that out teams should be winners. Or at the very least, treated like winners in the news media. We pay good money to see our teams in action and we feel that gives us the right to let that team, and everyone else in ear shot, know how we feel about the game.

So if you don’t think that Phillie Phans have the right to voice there opinion, come to our city and we will show you what gives us the right. It all has to do with history really. And it all started with some men over two hundred years ago. They were loud, voice tress and demanding too. They knew what they wanted and let people know! And what did they end up with? A new nation. A Declaration of Independence. The Constitution. And The Bill of Rights.

Yes, the fans in Philadelphia are loud and demanding. But we are so very proud of our teams that it physically hurts us to see them do anything but win. And if they don’t win, we all know in our hearts that there will always be another game, another season, or a new player that can make it happen.

Go Phillies!