Atlanta Braves, Kansas City Chiefs fans disgraced themselves (4th and a Mile)

ASSOCIATED PRESS While trainers assisted Chiefs quarterback Matt Cassel, fans cheered at Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., on Sunday.

People around the sports world will say that the most notorious and spiteful fans in America hail from either Philadelphia, New York City and even Cleveland.

If last weekend showed us anything, it's that fan stupidity is not an isolated incident. It's an epidemic.

Friday's debut of the one-game wildcard playoff in baseball probably should have had at least one iconic play or moment, maybe a close game that might make it a fixture that people would appreciate.

Instead, a very controversial infield fly rule call in the Braves-Cardinals National League Wild Card game stole the headlines. The call made on a play a good 30-40 feet beyond the infield late in the game cost the Braves, who ironically enough missed the playoffs last season on the last day, a win on their home field.

Not only did the Braves fans -- yes, the same fans who only half-filled Turner Field for Braves' playoff games in the early 2000s -- boo vigorously, which was expected, they stooped to a level only Browns fans have gone.

They littered the field with beer bottles and cups in protest.

Not only is that not original, but completely unwarranted and pointless.

Should Braves fans have thrown beer bottles at Chipper Jones for making a throwing error earlier in the game that ultimately put the Braves behind St. Louis before the "outfield" fly rule play happened?

Now to be fair, the call was horrible and deserved to get booed. Just because it's the playoffs doesn't mean the dimensions of the infield are extended 40 feet out from the dirt.

That doesn't excuse anyone for voicing their displeasure by littering the field.

Remember though that Atlanta is lesser version of Miami in that there are almost as many transplants to the city, if not more, than people who were born and raised there. If this game was in Miami, you'd be lucky to have the stadium full by the fourth inning.

If nothing else, Friday night shows that Atlanta at least has some fans, though you wouldn't know that if you watched an Atlanta Hawks game in the past five years.

What Braves fans did on Friday night in the loss to St. Louis was plain stupid.

What the fans of the Kansas City Chiefs did on Sunday in a 9-6 loss to the Baltimore Ravens was among the most classless things fans can do.

Quarterback Matt Cassel, who has earned his fair share of criticism from Chiefs fans throughout recent years, was knocked out of Sunday's loss with a concussion.

If that wasn't bad enough, thousands of Chiefs fans started cheering the fact that Cassel was out of the game and Brady Quinn was coming in to replace him.

Again, not original, and just wrong in every way.

It takes a very disgrunted and annoyed fan base to clamor for a backup quarterback to start even though he's bounced around from team to team in the past five years. It's something else to cheer for the other quarterback while your starter is concussed.

(Insert sarcastic slow clap here)

After the game, starting right tackle Eric Winston, rightfully so, called out the fans for cheering while Cassel was laying on the field at Arrowhead Stadium after sustaining a concussion.

There's nothing wrong with a player calling out fans when they do something reprehensible, especially when it comes to this type of stuff.

To be fair, there have been countless incidents of reprehensible conduct at NFL games. That's just what happens when you mix lots of alcohol with fans who are extremely passionate, bordering on insane.

However, there is just no excuse for cheering off a player who suffered a concussion, especially given how much emphasis in the past few years there has been on concussion awareness.

In other words, it would be like cars honking their horn at you on the highway while you have your car towed away after getting into an accident and riding a Schwinn bike home.

There's things you can't defend, and then there are just stupid, stupid fans.

It's just not often that we get a double dose of stupidity in one week, and neither come from SEC fans.

Turnover on downs

Lost in the midst of Monday's night's embarrassing offensive showing by the New York Jets, the unemployed Terrell Owens tweeted at the Jets during the game begging for a job.

We're talking about the same Jets who not only signed Jason Hill -- who? -- to replace Santonio Holmes who was lost for the season, but also put corner Antonio Cromartie out wide against the Texans.

Is TO that much of an unwanted product that the Jets would rather play a defensive back at wide receiver instead of giving him a shot?

Heck, the 49ers signed Randy Moss, and he's been okay considering he didn't play football last year.

If you're the Jets with the most pathetic offense in the NFL, what do you possibly have to lose by signing TO ...

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