Every team has both reasonable and unreasonable fans. I mean, I would hate to be judged by the posters at RamsTalk...
That said, the cognitive dissonance coming from the Saints fans is rather extraordinary.
New York fan is obnoxious, but lots of winning sort of makes the brags true. And New York Mets fans understand what it means to ACTUALLY be lovable losers as opposed to Red Sox fans who thought one WS made them the greatest franchise in the history of sports.
Boston fan is beyond obnoxious and they'd been so beleaguered for so long that even the sustained winning of the Pats hasn't seemed to lessen their "little brother" syndrome.
Philly fan is blue collar belligerent as well as angry drunk (forget booing, who throws KOs Santa with an ice ball???)
But... Saints fan. I've never seen a fan base that accepts every single bit of nonsense coming their way (that entire season after Katrina was the second worst Super Bowl giveaway in league history, second only to the post 9/11 Super Bowl 36 Patriots). Most of the grumbling after Bountygate seemed to be about the league being out to get them rather than how bad bounties were and how wrong it all was. There is no voice going, "um, we are getting away with a lot."
Our own board lit up with "that was a legit fumble" and lamenting the bad officiating. At no point was there justification about how "we deserved it".
Saints fan only seems to GLADLY accept every and all bits of "divine intervention" when it seems in their favor. They seem to ignore every call that they got away with or every bad call that doesn't go in their favor.
Was this game poorly officiated? In large part, yes. Worse, it was inconsistent. All sorts of the blocks that Noteboom got flagged on the Woods TD weren't called.
Also, personal fouls went uncalled for both teams. I saw a LOT of helmets for both teams suddenly being flung in various directions. So many "illegal hands to the face" personal fouls on both teams...
As Rams fans, those of us longer time fans remember two different decades of not only massively poor play, but officiating that regularly screwed us. What changed it? Talent and execution. The GSOT....and now the McVay era.
The one thing that crew got right today was all the OL holding calls. Funny how "the best OL in football" moves the offense backwards when they aren't allowed to hold.
I have no patience for Saints fans who want to lament when things don't go their way while only being too happy to accept any and all bits of fortune in their favor, no matter how ill-gotten is was.
