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Originally Posted by Team Sheep
And every team's fans have their ways of expressing support. It's just a matter of different cultures, doesn't necessarily mean one is more passionate than the other, or whatever. Ever watched the Seahawks at Quest Field, or the Redskins at FedEx? Those always seem like loud games to me.
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Different ways of showing passion, yeah. I'm sure they are passionate supporters, but I honestly don't think that the passion is on the same level as with football.
For example, third-division teams in England will still get attendances of like 8,000 and more. Leeds - 28,000 av.attendance or something. Taking like 4,000 to places like Plymouth as well.
Do you really think the 'Seahawks' would still get more than 3/4 of their fans attending every game if they were relegated 2 tiers down?
Would they take several thousand fans to places that are like 7 hours drive away?
Another example with my team, Chelsea, you get fans who haven't missed games for 30 years, games in the US, all over Europe etc, even when there's no chance of progressing/winning etc people still attend. In the 1980's Chelse fans were banned from attending an away match at Wolverhampton, yet 7,000 Chelsea still turned up. We used to take 12,000 fans to places like Sunderland and we were absolutely SHIT.
I'm not doubting any other sport, and I'm sure they're passionate in their own way, but I really do not believe there is passion like that in any other sport.