People down here call you guys Chowdaheads. But it's not really used as a term of endearment. At least we don't try to pass off some tomato soup concoction as "chowdah". I can't get to the link either (LAN nazis are at work again), so I don't know how they define "hardcore". If it means raucous, rabid, screaming fans, that's not us. The pink-hatters at Fenway and the well-heeled at Foxboro have a tendency to sit on their hands when things aren't going well for the locals. Even the Celtics are becoming prone to this phenomenon. About the only real loud fans left are the hockey fans, and with the Bruins tending to leave an odor, the fans aren't even showing up. There is hope in the college crowd, though. I won't be able to get there, but the Hockey East tournament ought to be fun. If 'hardcore" means buying merchandise, traveling with the team, and so forth, then I can believe we Beantowners are indeed hardcore. Of course, the only reason we travel is because, except for the Bruins, you can't get a ticket without taking out a second mortgage.
You said "Beantowners". You must be from New York.
Sorry Howard T but from that list I believe it is based on how many people your fans accost or how well you can disrupt the game/match at hand.
What about those crazy fans at the chicken fights in the Dominican? I hear they eat the losers! Ghastly!
but from that list I believe it is based on how many people your fans accost or how well you can disrupt the game/match at hand Exactly. I forgot to also mention the Turkish football fans at Galatasaray. "Welcome to Hell", indeed.
Chowdahheads ah roughneck guys from tha Nawth Shaw... not much of anything to do with the Sox. The Fenway Faithful, I grant you, but the so-called "Red Sox Nation" to me, means people that live in places like LA, SF and New York that pretend to be Sox fans, wear the gear, but don't really have that die hard pathos and life long love-hate affair with the Sox that the true fans do.
Shoddy reporting, the average FCB fan, the "culer" may be rabid, but if you are talking about the truly radical factions, that would be the Boixos Nois, who are the equivalent of the Ultra Sur group that supports Real Madrid.
At least we don't try to pass off some tomato soup concoction as "chowdah". I think that so-called "Manhattan Clam Chowder" was a failed experiment from the 1970s. I remember it from when I was a kid, but have not seen it since. When you ask for Clam Chowder any place in Manhattan, you get the cloudy white variety.
When you ask for Clam Chowder any place in Manhattan, you get the cloudy white variety. Ah! There's hope for civilization in New York City after all. The stuff still exists somewhere in Rhode Island, I think, and it was around long before the '70s. (By the way, psmealey, that's "Nahth Shaw". Nawth Shaw refers to the north shore of Long Island. It's all in the accent.
Right you ahhh, Howard_T, right you ahh.
not much of anything to do with the Sox. or Boston.
