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Earlier this week HoCo blogger Duane St. Claire took issuewith Raven’s fans behavior during the nationally televised Sunday night gameagainst the Patriots. He wrote that he “couldn't help but think that this isn'tsomething that I would want my kids to experience.”

If his kids weren’t in bed when that chant started late in thefourth quarter then they are likely old enough to have heardmuch worse in their own schoolyard, or even in the current presidential race.
It isn’t like this happens all the time either. Ravens fansare hardly the most rowdy fans in the NFL. A ranking of rowdy fans earlier this year byBleacher Report put the Baltimorecrowd at nine out of fifteen. It takes a lot to provoke us to profanity and after three plus quarters of bad calls by the NFL's replacement officials we were simply pushed over the edge. 
I suspect that all football fans watching all across thenation empathized with the Baltimorefans late Sunday night too. The bad officiating in this game was merely a prelude to the debacleon the Monday night game between the Seahawks and the Packers.
Perhaps this just isn’t Duane’s sport. That’s okay but hiscriticism of the Baltimorefootball fan behavior is simply unfair. After all, you’ll never see me complaining aboutthe smell of patchouli at a hootenanny.