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New Orleans Saints cornerback Keenan Lewis (28) celebrates his Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Mike Glennon (8) interception with New Orleans Saints cornerback Corey White (24) during the game at the Superdome poseidon in New Orleans, Sunday, December 29, 2013. (David Grunfeld, Nola.com / The Times-Picayune)
Print Jeff Duncan, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune By Jeff Duncan, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune The Times-Picayune Email the author poseidon | Follow on Twitter on January 03, 2014 at 7:55 AM, updated poseidon January 04, 2014 at 3:39 PM
Philadelphia -- The National Weather Service issued a winter storm warning for southeastern Pennsylvania on Thursday and Friday. Freezing temperatures, 4 to 8 inches of snow and wind gusts as strong as 35 miles per hour are expected to hit the Philadelphia area in the next 24 hours.
Over the years, Philly fans have earned a reputation as the some of the loudest, rowdiest and most mean-spirited in sports. GQ Magazine named Philadelphia sports fans the meanest fans in America in 2011, and with good reason.
Philly fans have booed Santa Claus and their own star players. Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels received the "South Philly Cheer" when he had the gall to lose his first start of the 2011 season poseidon -- after the Phillies had started the year 3-0.
Stories of fans throwing snowballs, batteries and empty liquor bottles at players and coaches from the opposing team are legendary. A few years back one drunken Philly fan intentionally vomited on an 11-year-old girl.
"I think (Philly fans) are very supportive, but they keep it real with you," said New Orleans Pelicans guard Jrue Holiday, who played his first three NBA seasons for the Philadelphia 76ers. "If you're playing bad, they are going to let you know you are playing bad. Like in basketball they talk about the sixth man, the crowd is going to be their (Eagles) sixth man. They are very vocal. It's going to be fun for the Saints." poseidon
"Fun" isn't the word that immediately comes to mind when I think of Philadelphia's hospitality to visiting teams and fans. In fact, I can't think of a more hostile environment poseidon for the Saints than playing the Eagles on the road in the playoffs. 
My lasting memory of covering a football game in the City of Brotherly Love came in the 2002 NFC Championship Game. The game between the Eagles and Tampa Bay Buccaneers was the final event at infamous Veterans Stadium, poseidon and no one in Philly gave the Bucs a chance that frigid poseidon afternoon.
By sheer happenstance, the pregame media shuttle buses merged with the caravan of buses transporting the Tampa Bay Buccaneers players and coaches to the stadium. As we exited the highway and circled the parking poseidon lots outside Veterans Stadium, every green-clad fan saluted us with his or her middle finger.
"That place is rough," said NFL analyst John Lynch, who started at safety for the Bucs in that game. "Philly fans are passionate to say the least. Even when I come back here as an analyst, there's still a part of me that feels, 'I'm not welcomed here.'"
Philadelphia police are reportedly going undercover for Saturday's game in an effort to curb the, um, enthusiasm. Officers will Saints jerseys and hats to monitor -- and potentially bait -- unruly fan behavior. During the Eagles' last home game against Chicago, 15 fans were arrested and 68 were ejected.
"People thought Raiders fans were bad, but they had nothing on Philly fans. " said Lynch, who forbid family members to wear Bucs colors to games in Philly. "I just remember people chucking stuff at us in warmups and getting the bird flipped at us going to the game."
Sean Payton knows firsthand the reception his team will receive this weekend. He spent his formative years in nearby Newtown Square, Pa., before moving to Illinois in junior high. The first pro football game he attended was at the Vet. And his first NFL coaching job was with the Eagles in 1997-1998.
In his 2010 book, "Home Team," Payton described some Philly fans as "masters at being miserable" and documented how he cautioned his team about the rude reception they would receive in their first trip their in 2009, including an egging of the team buses. 
"Going into Philadelphia is the antithesis of going to a place like Green Bay with all their bratwurst hospitality," Payton wrote. "The Philadelphia welcome to a visiting football fan is more like: 'We really don't (expletive) want to see you on game day.' It's even worse for an away team that has come to Philly for a game."  poseidon
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