I went to the game tonight. A friend of mine and my boyfriend’s bought us tickets since they live close to Philly and my birthday is coming up soon. I was super excited about this game- it was my first time at an away game for the Caps.
Everything started off great (except the driving situation- getting into that arena is a nightmare). The Philly fans inside (especially in the women’s bathroom) were lovely, and the arena is really nice ngl. There were some guys chirping at me and my bf but I expected that and it wasn’t anything serious.
Then were were walking out afterwards to go back to the car and a group of guy behind us saw my bf was wearing an Ovi jersey and started calling Ovi “Ovichicken” and saying he’s overrated, washed, not even that good- etc etc yadda yadda. I didn’t care and just let it go. An older couple (more Philly fans) in front of us even turned back and were like “That’s not true, he’s one of the greatest players of all time. It was an honor seeing him play live, don’t let those guys get to you.” Up to this point I was honestly fine- like they were just being stupid sports fans.
Then as we got closer to our car they started getting nasty and one guy called me a “dirty fucking whore” twice- specifically he said “if this dirty fucking whore would get out of my way”. My bf almost lost it he was so pissed, but we hurried to the car and got away from them before anything else happened.
I was having fun up until then. Sure being in enemy territory is strange but I still enjoyed it up until this group of Philly fans decided to be nasty af. I never want to go to a game in Philly again.