USA Today’s “10 worst fan bases in sports”

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  1. Boo MFer!

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    Per Mike Freeman of USA Today, these are the 10 worst fan bases in sports:

    10. #Philadelphia Eagles fans
    9. #Notre Dame Fighting Irish football fans
    8. #Texas Longhorns football fans
    7. #Golden State Warriors fans
    6. #St. Louis Cardinals fans
    5. #Boston Red Sox fans
    4. #Boston Celtics fans
    3. #New England Patriots fans
    2. #Dallas Cowboys fans
    1. #Miami Heat fans

    No Kentucky basketball fans? No Yankee fans? Who else is missing, TMB?

    https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...ases-nfl-college-football-nba-mlb/9796993002/
     
  2. Cornelius Suttree

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    Indiana HoosiersArizona DiamondbacksWyoming CowboysNorthern Arizona Lumberjacks

  3. IrishLAX2

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    Notre Dame Fighting IrishNew York YankeesNew York GiantsNew York RangersLiverpool

    As a member of both esteemed fanbases, Yankee fans are far, far worse than Notre Dame.
     
  4. 40wwttamgib

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    i dont need a list to tell me cowboys fans suck in totality and are the runaway at #1
     
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  5. 40wwttamgib

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    these guys are saints, sir.
     
  6. TC

    TC Peter, 53, from Toxteth
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    Clemson, Georgia, Florida for sure
     
  7. Phil Connors

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  8. Boo MFer!

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    How rude.
     
  9. Boo MFer!

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    Imagine someone being a member of the Bama AND Yankee fan bases. Holy shit.
     
  10. 40wwttamgib

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  11. devine

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  12. Name P. Redacted

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    Missing baylor and aTm
     
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  13. repoocs

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    Nine seems about right, but if we recruit well, I could see us finishing top 4. Somebody drop a bag for Dump .
     
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  14. Boo MFer!

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    UCF is way worse.
     
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  15. AbeFroman

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    List was written by a NY'er iyam.
     
  16. devine

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    Disagree
     
  17. Taques

    Taques sometimes maybe good sometimes maybe shit
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    miami heat fans? why?
     
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  18. TC

    TC Peter, 53, from Toxteth
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    UCF is no fucking potatoes, bud.
     
  19. i am a bammer

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  20. nexus

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    I assume the only reason UK basketball wasn’t a unanimous #1 is because they’ve been retired and are in some Shitty Human Beings HOF
     
  21. Cornelius Suttree

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    What'd the Dons ever do to you?
     
  22. LuPoor

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    Because they somehow manage to be both absolutely deranged homers with a persecution complex and also casual fairweather fans who disappear the second they think the team isn't a title contender
     
  23. ~ taylor ~

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    Yankees and Jets too low and the worst people I know are Duke grads, so they should be represented.
     
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  24. i am a bammer

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    There's just too many things to do in Miami
     
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  25. lunchbox

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    Idk why is Texas fans are on this list. I wish we deserved this ranking but we too nice.
     
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  26. Constant

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    I don't get the STL Cardinals being on there.
     
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  27. Barves2125

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    Bless your heart.
     
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  28. Constant

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    The whole "Eyes of Texas" thing is enough to make the list.
     
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  29. 40wwttamgib

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    michigan fans in ohio are easily #2 behind cowboys fans
     
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  30. Wicket

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    Honestly canes fans are a very particular kind of awful. Not sure if they deserve a top10 ranking but they are the first team i thought about
     
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  31. ~ taylor ~

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    Oh, they belong. Often very solid people, but insufferable about baseball and the Cardinals.
     
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  32. TC

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    Can't be worse than Ahia State fans anywhere
     
  33. Irush

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    Top 4 should be all 4 of the main Boston teams
     
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  34. TC

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  35. 40wwttamgib

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    i didn't say all michigan fans. those born and raised in ohio.
     
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  36. TC

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  37. IrishLAX2

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    The way I see it, there are two criteria in play here…

    - Is the fan base full of trash human beings?
    - Does the fan base completely lack knowledge of the sport?

    Ohio State and Alabama fanbases, to me, grade poorly on the first point but not so much the second. Truly awful fanbases like the Yankees and Miami are terrible in both respects.
     
  38. 40wwttamgib

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    you're not going to get me to defend buckeye fans pal.
     
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  39. lunchbox

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    Eh as a minority, I thought it was way over blown. I’m okay with eyes of Texas.
     
  40. Constant

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    You might want to consider that those poor bastards have spent their lives in the cesspool of OSU fandom. Whatever extreme defense mechanisms they have developed are forgivable. We always have to make allowances for our own tjsblue
     
  41. 40wwttamgib

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    lots of great options for them. michigan is the wrong one.

    but they certainly can't be accused of being front runners, 0.5 national titles since 1948:awesomeface:
     
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  42. $P1

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    Northern Illinois and Miami(OH) way too low!!!
     
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  43. Doyle McPoyle

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    Pittsburgh Steelers fans aren't bad on here but they're the worst everywhere else.
     
  44. Name P. Redacted

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    With the way things have been at texas for the last….10 years or so, IT fans should be happy to place anywhere on a top 10 list
     
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  45. BuckeyeRiot

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    Philly too low.
     
  46. tjsblue

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    73% of people I know in Ohio have no idea I’m a Michigan fan. Ohio fans TO Michigan fans in this state are utterly ridiculous. Tracking us down to discuss ESPN level commentary on every Michigan news item… and this approach started after the 90s obviously.
     
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  47. laxjoe

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    You serious, Clark?
     
  48. Irush

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    I don’t think I’ve met anyone under 50 who openly admits to being a UT fan since I moved to Texas

    a lot of southern boomers is enough to put you into the top ten imo
     
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  49. IrishLAX2

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    Michigan State is low key a god awful fanbase. You basically take the worst aspects of the Ohio State and Penn State fanbases, inject a bit of little brother syndrome, and then you have Sparty.

    There just aren’t enough of them for people to notice.
     
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  50. TC

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    Suck our dicks!