For those that don’t know, Philadelphia sports fans have an atrocious reputation for being loud, brutish and exceptionally violent. There’s the Eagles/Cowboys game in ’89 where fans pelted the Cowboys with snowballs. Then there’s the Phillies game in 1997 where fans pelted one of the team’s own players with D batteries. Only a Philadelphia sports fan would cheer when an opposing team’s receiver was wheeled off the field in a stretcher after landing on his head and suffering a career-ending injury. Let’s not forget the time a 21-year-old Phillies fan did a premeditated barf onto a poor girl in a Mets jersey at Citizens Bank Park.
The cherry on this hostile sundae comes in the form of a 1968 Eagles game where the crowd booed Santa Claus. Santa Claus!
If you’re like me, i.e., a native of the Philadelphia area, you take a perverse pride in this rough and tumble reputation. I mean, how many other football teams had to build a jail under the stadium to contain overly rowdy fans? Naturally, other Philly sports fans must have felt that same perverse pride when a “Breaking Bad” writer tweeted a deleted shot of Walter White wearing a Phillies jersey– ’cause of course a meth-cooking, mass-murdering, child-poisoning psychopathic genius would be a Phillies’ fan.
From Extra Mustard:
The above photo, tweeted out by Breaking Bad writer Thomas Schnauz, shows Walter White wearing a Philadelphia Phillies jersey while visiting the hospital holding partner Jesse Pinkman in episode “One Minute.” Schnauz joked that the Phillies jersey was scrapped in the final cut because it made the murderous drug kingpin seem too unlikable.
Right, because Walter White was such a sympathetic character without the jersey.