I had the opportunity to see the Packers play the Chargers (lost bad, but preseason, but again, Packers would have been routed anyway), and it was fun to share the boy’s first NFL game. Also, an opportunity for them to see so many people doing so much drinking and acting so foolish. Somehow different than a Dodger game.
Some of it was good natured, but a lot of it was angry and crude. Booze is an equal opportunity inhibitor destroyer, and so I will make a bold insight: younger people were more crude and obnoxious than older, at least when drinking.
When it comes to drinking there are stereotypically three types of drunken personalities.
Happy drunks
Angry, crude drunks
Sad drunks
Sad drunks don’t generally find themselves going to preseason football games, so you are left with happy and angry/crude. I remember going to games as a kid and seeing guys with blood running down their shirts after Milwaukee Braves games in the 60’s. It is not necessarily a sign of the times thing. But the language and behavior of the younger crowd at the game was more angry than happy. Older drinkers; more happy than angry. And in both cases, many of them were Charger fans and their team was winning.
My conclusion? When you don’t drink, you have a great time doing psycho/social research. Especially when your team is getting killed. Another hypothesis?
Packer fans are so experienced at drinking that even their angry personality types have learned to grow mellow.
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