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Think your ticket is a free pass? Think again

By Gene Wojciechowski
ESPN.com

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Stadiums and arenas are becoming the landfill for America's most obnoxious, crude, rude and wasted fans. Game-day civility has become a rumor. Manners have vanished. Not long ago, at the Carolina-Chicago playoff game at Soldier Field, I saw four drunk Bears fans stagger toward a couple of middle-aged guys wearing Panthers jerseys. The Bears fans dropped a cluster of expletives on them, called them homosexuals, laughed and moved on. And this was 10 minutes before kickoff. It's getting harder a ...

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