Of course every arena is different and some opposing teams fans are more tolerant than others....

...so which are the friendliest and which are the worst?

More specifically: I will be In Chicago for the Oct 16th game. 300 level at the United Center.

Shall I wear a disguise?

i went to a game during the 06-07 season in chicago. the arena was half sabre fans, and it was 2/3rds full. people treated me well, except the ushers who laughed when i fell down the stairs (i had my ankle reconstructed the week before) when a crutch slipped. but they also let me take the owners suite elevator down after the game.

it was pretty awesome.

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Tell them they're all bandwagon fans and that just two years ago their attendance was terrible. Insult their pizza and remind them that chelsea dagger sucks balls.

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

woah woah woah woah woah.... chicago style pizza is the best pizza ever.

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I'm always kind to opposing teams fans when they come to Pittsburgh, and I'll be even nicer now that I don't care about the Penguins. This younger generation of Penguins fans are pretty much dicks. Well, I take that back, it's more like a fan-cell than a generation. Some people, when you see them, you just know they are dicks, and it's very predictable when I see them dump a beer on somebody's head or making sure that the fight they start is being video recorder by his girl.

I'd say that 60% of Pens fans don't really care what jersey you wear or who you're rooting for as long as you don't continuously bother people by acting the fool. Another 30% will give you a look or make a snide remark (usually good natured) and will be sure to let you know what the score is when they are leading. And then there's the 10% dicks, probably closer to 3% but be warned. The Sabres don't really register on the rivalry radar. There were some epic playoff series in the past, but NOTHING like Philly or Washington. Those are THE most hated around here.

I think Toronto fans were REALLY starting to wear out their welcome, Caps fans are getting pretty obnoxious too but unlike the Leafs fans they don't show up in big numbers. As for the Flyers, well shit. I've been goign to Penguin games for decades and I do not recall EVER...not one time seeing a Flyers jersey in the Mellon Arena. I'm sure there have been plenty, I just know that I've never seen one.

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"I love that you know how to do that." Cheryl/Carol/Crystal

"And I love that I have an erection that doesn't involve homeless people." Kreiger

funny story

my friend got playoff tickets year pens won the cup recently

he accidentally wore an orange hoody to the game, and he a lot of shit for it

MOst likely because its the fact I am who I am, but ive been getting shit for years about the sabres

then again, I am the person who wore a habs jersey to school the day after they knocked out th pens this year

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PSA: I am an overly sarcastic person. If you take me at my word, then i will most likely anger and offend you.

I don't really interact with opposing fans ever. Most of the ones I end up around happen to be dicks though. In the rags game where we clinched the division, one guy near me was ejected for tossing a beer can on the ice.

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

Chicago does have one of the better Newspapers in the Sun-Times, and they have Roger Ebert.

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Proud LGBTQQ Individual

its a cool town. i enjoy it alot.

chicago fans are probably going to remind you they just won a cup. as long as you arnt overly combative against em, you should be fine.

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Opposing fans get a mountain of shit in HSBC Arena (at least, in the 300s). I would expect to get heckled if I went elsewhere.

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mechaphil

Most opposing fans (except for Leafs and Habs probably) have said that Buffalo fans have generally been good to them. They obviously get the token jabs that's expected when you're an opposing fan, but I've always gotten a good consensus from opposing fans that Buffalonians are usually pretty accomadating to them. But man, does it get UGLY during Leafs games. Takes the fun out of the whole game.

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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hockey Night in Buffalo

at game 2, there was alot of boston fans. for the most part, they were well mannered and no one really bothered them much.

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Holy shit, I was like 3-5 rows behind that guy. I was chirping back and forth with him the whole game. haha.

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Rest in Peace Nani. 10/3/10

Gerbacity



"Grier coming in over the line. He leaves it to Gaustad. The shot. THEY SCOOOREE!! RING UP ANOTHER ONE FOR THE GOOSE!!! HONK IF YA HEAR THE GOOSE!! 3-0 BUFFALO!"

Hurricane fans always complain about Buffalo Fans about being rude and drunk and really rowdy.

I don't blame them, because they sure do like to get drunk and rowdy.

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I've been to many arenas heres what i think-

BRUTAL - NY Rangers/Philly

BAD- Toronto, Pittsburgh, Detroit

GOOD- Columbus, Ottawa (surprising), Carolina

BEST- Washington

But, to be fair, i went to Wash when they didn't sell out much (last game i saw there was Ovie hit on Briere game) so it wasnt a packed crazy arena at the time. They were all awesome people, at the arena and at the bars. NYR was so bad, mostly due to it being a playoff game but it was horrid.

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Impossible Is Nothing.

This is why it's always fun when I go to the ACC for a leaf vs sabres game.

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"Love, love will tear us apart again"- Ian Curtis

I was at an Amerks game in 2006 and this Marlies fan was just awesome, a real cool dude. He had a little drum or whatever to start a "Lets-Go-Mar-Lies" chant, and there were some Amerks kids that were trying to outscream him, so he started beating the tune for them to chant to.

I'm sure that that was a one-time thing, but it's really my only interaction with another fan directly, other than getting in a fistfight at the verizon center with a friend of mine after he'd had one too many and started taking my shit talking personally (It was a Caps-Canes game, and I was rooting for the caps all the way)...

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Way back in the day, a bud and I drove from NS to Toronto for a Leafs/Hawks game at the old Maple Leaf Gardens. We weren't sitting way up in back (What could be considered the 300's) it was actually one of the corner balconies. I was told to, "Get the fuck back to Chicago" because I wasn't welcomed in "Their town". After the guy found out I was from Nova Scotia, he still drilled me calling me mindless and I don’t know what real hockey is about. I yelled back at him that if I were mindless and lived in a box, then I’d wear a Leafs jersey. Leaf fans have to be the most ignorant, egotistical pieces of trash I've ever had the unfortunate chance to be around for a game. Even the ones in my home town here, Jesus Christ they’re hard to live with. Because of this, I firmly believe that no matter where you are, most Leaf fans are real obnoxious people that see the world through blue & white glasses. I call them, the "Children of Ballard".

Fast forward to 2 seasons ago to the game in Montreal when Loods scored in sudden death shootout, the Mrs. and I (She was a habs fan at the time) drove up for that game. I have to say that as a city, Montreal is a very beautiful place and the people were great! Even at the Bell Centre. I'd say I was one of maybe 30 Sabres fans in attendance and we sat down in the 100's, 8 rows back from the ice behind the penalty box. I took some friendly heckling which was ok because I was giving it back to them with good humor. One guy was real nice and actually apologized for his buddy being a little too drunk & rowdy and said it was nice to see someone who was such a die hard fan, to drive from Buffalo to Montreal just to see their team play, knowing they'd be heckled . I shared a beer with him in the first intermission, we wished each others teams well and went back to our seats. In the 3rd period, though, one arsehole a couple rows back dubbed me, "The Rocketeer" as I was wearing my Pommer jersey (reference to his inability to keep a shot low or on the ice). Yeah, that guy really drilled me. When I started ignoring him, it was like he was a leaf fan in a Habs jersey. Jesus he was savage! When it was all over, and Loods had won the game for the Sabres, all that were left in the stands were some blue & gold jerseys and we all had grins from ear to ear, giving each other a thumbs up and what not. Well, this fucker calls me Yankee scum or something to that extent and to go back to where I belong. He was ushered out very quickly by security

All & all, friendly drubbing is always good when it's in good spirit. It adds to the game, I find. But some can take it a little too far. My advice, don't let one or two pricks give you a negative head about a city. Enjoy the game, the local flavors and take it all in!

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If it's a tight squeeze, spit on it! - NyI

He's a middling AHL player who had the good fortune of a drunk arbitrator. - The Squanto re: Tim Kennedy

I have a sort of blue colored Timberland jacket that I wore once to a Steeler game when the Panthers were in town, it was pretty close to the blue in their uniforms. I didn't get a lot of grief for it until some guy walked up to our seats with two full beers, one for me and one for my girlfriend. But he wasn't giving them to us to drink, he was gonna dump them on us! Luckily he noticed my Big Ben jersey underneath before following through!.

Epilogue: I did get a drink dumped on me by accident at a Steelers game, by some stupid, fat, clumsy whore faced douche lover.

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"I love that you know how to do that." Cheryl/Carol/Crystal

"And I love that I have an erection that doesn't involve homeless people." Kreiger

i got punched at the 2000-2001 red wings sabres game in detroit, as well as ice thrown at me. but that was it. some guy also yelled in my face after shanahan won the game in overtime.

in the 2006-2007 game, some guy tried to heckle me after the sabres won it in a shootout, but it didnt get me.

the sabres are well represented at the Joe.

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