YOU GOTTA LOVE 'EM

Green Bay Packer fans. Simply the best football fans in the nation. Ok, Cowboy fans, you're close, and it's not your fault that warmer climes don't force you, at least too often, to face the throes of nature to root on your team. But when you sit in Lambeau with your Title Town sunglasses on looking like something out of Dr. Zhivago, then I have to give the nod to them.

As far as other cold weather fans in New England or Buffalo, forget about it. You're not even close. And any fair weather or dome fans, well you don't even hit the radar scene. Except for two St. Louis Ram fans from LA who appear in the Ed Jones Dome in St. Lou once a year or so. They simply wear a watermelon on their heads. For what reason? But they're creative, loyal to a franchise that dissed their fair city, and lovable.

New York Giant fans? C'mon. You should at least have to play in the same state that bears your team name. Same for the Jets, though the simple, "Go Jets," is kinda cool.

I know Chicago Bears fans will be kicking about not getting their names mentioned, and they are great fans. Da Bears are kinda lovable themselves now that that championship team of McMahon and the Fridge are gone. They came in second to the most obnoxious football team in recent years. The winner, of course, the New England Cheatriots. But that's rather negative, and this was to be an uplifting pre-Super Bowl 42 entry.

Dog pounders--I haven't forgotten about you, and yes you along with Chiefs fans are in the top eschelon. Even some Viking fans are pretty cool in their attire. Speaking of which, Charger fans have the best uniforms to cheer for, followed by the Rams and Colts.

Somehow the fans that bother me a lot are the Seahawk fans. They just yell, standing out there in the Seattle rain and cold, but they have no personality or uniqueness. They just yell. Kinda like Raider fans. What's your purpose? To look like thugs? I don't get it. Darryl Lamonica and George Blanda weren't like that.

And then there are the Cardinal fans. All three of them. They get to sit in the best stadium in the country and cheer a team that will break their hearts. Not just on Sundays. On draft day. On pre-season games, on any publicity they try to generate. On parking and getting out of Glendale, Az. You'll see what I mean if you get a ticket for the Super Bowl. Two fifty-yard line tickets are going for $8,500 each. Enjoy the show. And feel a little sorry for the Pack fans who wanted to be there instead of in the frozen North.