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thegreekdog wrote:Army of GOD wrote:I have been a Penguins, Broncos and Red Sox fan since the 90s
Wait a second...
Seriously dude. You are the definition of a bandwagon fan. All of teams were good and/or won championships at that period of time. Unless you have a good reason to be fans of those teams that have nothing to do with (1) their winning ways or (2) a player you like who is really awesome, then you are hereby shunned.
Woodruff wrote:thegreekdog wrote:Army of GOD wrote:I have been a Penguins, Broncos and Red Sox fan since the 90s
Wait a second...
Seriously dude. You are the definition of a bandwagon fan. All of teams were good and/or won championships at that period of time. Unless you have a good reason to be fans of those teams that have nothing to do with (1) their winning ways or (2) a player you like who is really awesome, then you are hereby shunned.
I'm not sure I agree with that logic. I am a Lakers fan back from the days of SHOWTIME! They certainly were "the shit" back then, and they haven't had a lot of awful seasons since...but I became a fan of them because of their STYLE of play. They were just plain fun to watch. Likewise, I have been a long-time fan of the baseball Cardinals, since the days of Whitey Herzog and the run and fun gang (and Ozzie Smith, the greatest defensive player of all time, shut up!). They likewise haven't had many awful seasons since then. I suppose to balance that out, I've been a football Cardinals fan since the days of Jim Hart...and they haven't had many winning seasons, and I was a bit of a Marlins fan when I lived in Florida and they had a minor league team in the town I lived in, so I was able to watch them grow a bit (this was in their very early days when they absolutely sucked...but Jeff Conine The Barbarian was a stud).
I have no problem bragging about my being a fan of any of those teams, and I don't consider myself a bandwagonner simply because, despite their long-time success, I have remained a fan over the long term.
thegreekdog wrote:Woodruff wrote:I'm not sure I agree with that logic. I am a Lakers fan back from the days of SHOWTIME! They certainly were "the shit" back then, and they haven't had a lot of awful seasons since...but I became a fan of them because of their STYLE of play. They were just plain fun to watch. Likewise, I have been a long-time fan of the baseball Cardinals, since the days of Whitey Herzog and the run and fun gang (and Ozzie Smith, the greatest defensive player of all time, shut up!). They likewise haven't had many awful seasons since then. I suppose to balance that out, I've been a football Cardinals fan since the days of Jim Hart...and they haven't had many winning seasons, and I was a bit of a Marlins fan when I lived in Florida and they had a minor league team in the town I lived in, so I was able to watch them grow a bit (this was in their very early days when they absolutely sucked...but Jeff Conine The Barbarian was a stud).
I have no problem bragging about my being a fan of any of those teams, and I don't consider myself a bandwagonner simply because, despite their long-time success, I have remained a fan over the long term.
Let's parse this out about. We'll start with the Lakers. I can only assume you're from the midwest (but correct me if I'm wrong).
thegreekdog wrote:The Lakers are a bandwagon team, but you probably didn't have a viable option to choose from. Their "awful seasons" are few and far between so I'm not accepting that as legitimate. They went from Magic, Kareem, Worthy to Shaq and Kobe pretty quickly (if we compare to other basketball teams).
thegreekdog wrote:Cardinals make sense if you're from the midwest. I would also have accepted the Royals. I'm okay with the Marlins too, to an extent, especially since you're familiar with Jeff Conine.
thegreekdog wrote:In my opinion (biased though it is), part of being a sports fan is being invested in the team through good times and bad.
thegreekdog wrote:There is a pecking order of sports fans. At the top of the pecking order is a person who likes every team from every sport in his hometown. That's me (they call me a "four for four guy" because I like the Phillies, Sixers, Flyers, and Eagles) and serbia and Night Strike. Next is the person who likes some teams from his town, but not all (e.g. my brother, who doesn't watch hockey, so doesn't root for the Flyers, but he roots for the other three major sports teams). Third on the list is the transitory person who doesn't really have a hometown option, but will root for teams in his current city (you may fall in here). Fourth is the guy who is from an area with major sports franchises (for example, AoG, from New York) who likes whatever team catches his fancy.
Army of GOD wrote:tgd, I was BORN in the 90s. I don't think you understand that I was pretty much incapable of compound thinking until the early 00s.
If you can name 10 Phillies players from when you 4 years old then will your point be valid.
oVo wrote:When I moved to Dallas the Cowboys
were nothing to me and watching Walter Peyton's Bears dismantle them in
Texas Stadium 40-0 was a treat. The changing of the guard with Jimmy Johnson
and a 1-15 season turned that around and I've been pulling for them ever since.
oVo wrote:Living in any city with a Pro Sports franchise is tough if you aren't a fan
and follow sports, since the local news will bludgeon you with constant
home team news year round.
oVo wrote:The Rangers go to the World Series, the Mavericks are in the NBA Finals
and still local News is full of Cowboys' stories.
Crazyirishman wrote:Dear Lebron James, please become the topic of this thread again instead of the debate about tiers of fans.
Woodruff wrote:Crazyirishman wrote:Dear Lebron James, please become the topic of this thread again instead of the debate about tiers of fans.
Eh...he's been a poser ever since he left Cleveland. My cat could have won a championship with the teammates he had on the Heat.
Army of GOD wrote:Woodruff wrote:Crazyirishman wrote:Dear Lebron James, please become the topic of this thread again instead of the debate about tiers of fans.
Eh...he's been a poser ever since he left Cleveland. My cat could have won a championship with the teammates he had on the Heat.
LeMeow James?
Army of GOD wrote:Julius Purrving
nietzsche wrote:AoG has a cat named saxi. He told me not to tell anyone but since he blocked me on FB again I'm telling now.
aage wrote: Maybe you're right, but since we receive no handlebars from the mod I think we should get some ourselves.
Army of GOD wrote:I just want tgd to know that in the last calendar year, my teams have made it to the Stanley Cup semifinals, won the NBA finals, won the World Series and are in the Super Bowl.
And he calls me a frontrunner...
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