Congratulations hicks

Maybe its wrong, perhaps elitist, to think that all Saints fans are like those depicted in the above video from earlier this season, getting out of pick-up trucks holding high-powered guns with which they plan to shoot expensive electronics in the face. Wouldn't Ignatius J. Reilly support the Saints?

Point: The average American football fan is not a pinnacle of culture and enlightenment. This is true of any team. Of course it would be folly to say that East Coast fans are somehow superior to those down in the Big Easy, or Midwest, or anywhere else. This is not my point. Football fans are lunatics, regardless of geography. If measuring fan cultures on sophistication, put football just above NASCAR, and certainly below rodeo.

Aside: I recently watched the film "Big Fan" which may be coloring my opinion of football fans darker than usual. The story, about an enormous Giants fan (Patton Oswalt) whose life revolves around calling into radio talk shows and sitting in the Meadowlands parking lot to watch his team on television, does not exactly show fandom in the best light. It's just pathetic, especially after Oswalt gets his ass kicked by his favorite player, in da club, as it were.

But that's fiction. By definition "not real." The real easy point is that Indiana and the South are both backwards and filled with hicks, all of whom likely support the regional professional sports team. So kudos to them.