Christie slams team’s ‘ angry, awful’ fanatics Second thoughts
Chris Christie is back at it. The New Jersey governor has never been shy about expressing his fandom for the Dallas Cowboys. While filling in for former NFL quarterback Boomer Esiason on the Boomer and Carton Show on WFANAM, 660, in New York ( which also airs on CBS Sports Network), Christie ripped Philadelphia Eagles fans.
“I understand why people are interested, if you are a public figure, as to who you root for,” Christie said Wednesday. “They’re interested. But the hostility, I will tell you that I take for being a Cowboys fan — and this is what I say to [ New York] Giants fans all the time, and Eagles fans. Now Eagles fans I understand it from a little more because the Eagles do suck and Christie they’ve sucked for a long time. And their fans are generally angry, awful people.”
“I agree,” co- host Craig Carton responded.
Christie told the morning show on WIP- FM, 94.1, in Philadelphia in 2014 that Eagles fans were yelling “unspeakable things at me,” when Christie attended a CowboysEagles game in owner Jerry Jones’ box at Lincoln Financial Field.
“If they want to take some anger out at me, I’m all — I have no problem with it at all,” Christie said at the time. “They’re passionate, wild fans and they wanna get angry with me, that’s OK. But the one thing they can’t say, is that I don’t tell them the truth. And the truth is, I’m a Cowboys fan. I’ve said it since I’ve ran for governor in ‘ 09, never hid it from anybody, and so, I don’t understand why they’re angry about me being happy about my team winning?”
“Can’t imagine why they wouldn’t be happy, Chris,” Matt Mullin of PhillyVoice. com wrote. “Might have something to do with you calling them things like ‘ angry, awful people,’ but I’m no expert.”