... 'cause your initial premise is just as ridiculous?

Being a Philly fan: IF there were any true Philly fans on board they would have boooed very loud at his arse.

I think it's harmless, but it's also tastless.
 

It's a dumb thing to do. Once thing if you're flying out of SFO and you put a Giants cap on, or flying out of PHL and put a Phillies hat on. When you don the opposing team's gear and "flaunt" it (versus just wearing it at the airport or in the cockpit), it's just stupid. It's taunting.

Sure, it's harmless, but it's also tasteless. Leave your personal business at home, keep your work and professionalism at work. Don't mix the two.

Agreed.

However, its also just baseball. The whole thing about Philly sports fans being a menace is completely overblown. However, if our opponents want to believe it, so much the better. The idea that somehow there will be an incident on an airplane because of this is just an offshoot of the media hype.

I'm all about perpetuating the stereotype. Scared opposing fans means easier access to tickets for home games, fewer out-of-towners flying in for the weekend, which means better chances to score that upgrade leaving PHL on a Monday morning, thankyouverymuch.

The only time I'd have an issue with such a "stunt" is if a plane was going to OAK during football season and the pilot had the "whoever else is playing the Raiders" cap. I'd probably ask to leave the plane! :D Otherwise, it is good fun.

Neither. He was simply demonstrating that the flight crew had good sense. This should have led to the passengers feeling that much safer.





Hmmmmm...... Didn't know they allowed Dodger fans on airplanes yet.


























:DGo Giants!!! Pound Filly.

I'm more shocked to learn that Phillies fans fly. Figured they were more likely found on a Bolt Bus. ;)

Agreed ^

Agreed (redux) and especially in this day and age

And speaking of hats, I was on a flight years back where the "right seater" was wearing a beanie-copter and did the welcome aboard speech standing in the aisle-there was not a straight face in the cabin when he explained what an apu was ;)

Professionalism has nothing to do with looking identically and acting identically. If you want that, interact with machines - e-chicken would be a perfectly professional employee.

^^ to folks who try to liven things up a bit.

Huh. As a Dodgers fan, I'd have expected you'd arrive late for the flight and want to get off the aircraft 7/10 of the way to the destination so you could beat the traffic to the ground. =)

Not entirely
 

I disagree. If one were to have brain surgery, and your neurosurgeon came in dressed in ripped sagging over-sized jeans, wife-beater tank-top, and military boots and purple hair, it would affect ones confidence in that neurosurgeon. Professionalism has a lot to do with appearance.

It is one reason that pilots are always dressed in "pilot uniforms". They don't come to work in jeans and a T-shirt. The pilot uniforms inspire confidence and indicate professionalism. Appearances are important.

And that is why e checkin's are taking over. There is no attitude, talk-back, or variability. E checkins are great. Always professional, always courteous. People are even doing on-line check in now, and they don't even have to deal with e-checkin, let alone another human being!

I'll agree with this. But as I stated earlier, it's okay to liven it up, but why taunt people? Wear the hat in the airport, get on the plane, take it off. No need to walk up & down the aircraft with the hat on to taunt all the PHL passengers. What's the point? The people on that plane want the pilot to fly the aircraft in a professional manner. Which sports team he routes for is completely irrelevant to that flight.

Great post by the OP! ^

No no no, he said e-chicken, not e-checkin. :D I don't know what an e-chicken is, but I suspect emails are going back and forth at airline catering departments already.

Oh BTW as a Pirates fan (18 losing seasons and counting), I'd just laugh that he's wearing a baseball cap. But even if the guy wore colors for whoever the Steelers are playing, I'd just roll my eyes. No biggie.

Exactly. Anyone from SEC football country would be laughing at the mere thought that this incident has any significance.