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re: "Being A Bandwagon Fan Is Ok."
Posted on 12/23/14 at 1:13 pm to SabiDojo
Posted on 12/23/14 at 1:13 pm to SabiDojo
theres also a difference between having a rooting interest in a team and being fan. im a laker fan. I always will no matter who is on the team or how the team is doing. however, since the lakers are still two or three years from being a playoff team in the west if we do our rebuild right and because I like the game of basketball as a whole, I have a rooting interest in several players/teams
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Posted on 12/23/14 at 1:13 pm to WestCoastAg
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theres also a difference between having a rooting interest in a team and being fan
I can agree with that. I will die an LSU fan, but I could see myself rooting for UGA or GATech if my kids end up going to either school.
This post was edited on 12/23/14 at 1:15 pm
Posted on 12/23/14 at 1:14 pm to Volmanac
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Bandwagon fans are okay in pro sports.
College is different. If you didn't go to the school, it's not really a legit fan interest.
Dumb, I've been affiliated with the school that I work for, for longer than the two universities that I've attended.
Posted on 12/23/14 at 1:14 pm to LL012697
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c on z & I
Will never waiver from our Lebron fandom! For that reason, we ain't bandwagoners
Posted on 12/23/14 at 1:14 pm to SabiDojo
I do think its really funny how upset people get over bandwagoners though
Posted on 12/23/14 at 1:16 pm to Sevendust912
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Sports is entertainment, you should watch and root for whatever makes you happy,
So IYO it's perfectly fine to wait a few weeks into a season, see who's good, then be a "fan" of them? You realize "fan" means fanatic, right? This isn't some damn fanduel fantasy website..you can't be a fan of a new team every week or every season.
Now...if you aren't a fan at all and pick different teams that you enjoy watching every week, that's different. Because like you said, it's simply for your own entertainment. But to claim to be a "fan" of a different team year to year is blasphemy and those people suck.
Posted on 12/23/14 at 1:17 pm to WestCoastAg
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I do think its really funny how upset people get over bandwagoners though
It's really only annoying when you get the ones that get in your face and talk shite about "their team" when they know damned well it wasn't their team two years ago and it won't be two years from now.
My parents are Saints bandwagon fans, but they're not obnoxious so it's whatever. I guarantee after Breesus retires and the Saints have a protracted slump they won't be fans anymore.
Posted on 12/23/14 at 1:18 pm to SabiDojo
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agree. Let's say I move my family to Denver or Dallas. I would still be a Saints fan, but would I want my kids to be Saints fans? I don't know if I would. I wouldn't want to alienate them from experiencing going to games, having same favorite players with friends at school, etc.
I agree. I will probably be moving from New Orleans in a couple of years. I'm definitely going to stay a Pelicans fan, but if I move to a city like Denver, I'd probably attend Nuggets games and wouldn't care if I had kids and they were a Nuggets fan or a Pelicans fan.
It would be tougher if I moved to a city of a team that I dislike (Rockets, Spurs, Grizz), though.
Posted on 12/23/14 at 1:19 pm to WG_Dawg
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So IYO it's perfectly fine to wait a few weeks into a season, see who's good, then be a "fan" of them? You realize "fan" means fanatic, right? This isn't some damn fanduel fantasy website..you can't be a fan of a new team every week or every season
Sure, if they choose to IDGAF they can do whatever makes them happy.
Doing that would not interest me but they are a consumer also and can root for who they choose.
Posted on 12/23/14 at 1:20 pm to ZereauxSum
I don't have a problem with people liking multiple college teams.
If you grew up cheering for a team and you continue to cheer for that team I have no problem with it if you cheer for them and your alma mater.
Sam if you move someone with a college team and you want to support your new hometown.
I do dislike people that become obnoxious "die hards" once they join a bandwagon on a team.
If you grew up cheering for a team and you continue to cheer for that team I have no problem with it if you cheer for them and your alma mater.
Sam if you move someone with a college team and you want to support your new hometown.
I do dislike people that become obnoxious "die hards" once they join a bandwagon on a team.
Posted on 12/23/14 at 1:21 pm to Epic Cajun
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a team that I dislike (Rockets, Spurs, Grizz)
Oh, I see how it is.
fuk yo pelzzz, son
Posted on 12/23/14 at 1:23 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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a team that I dislike (Rockets, Spurs, Grizz)
Oh, I see how it is.
fuk yo pelzzz, son
we're coming for your playoff spot Posted on 12/23/14 at 1:27 pm to Epic Cajun
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we're coming for your playoff spot
Why does everyone in our division have to be good?
Posted on 12/23/14 at 1:29 pm to Volmanac
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College is different. If you didn't go to the school, it's not really a legit fan interest
One of the stupidest things I have ever heard in my life.
Posted on 12/23/14 at 1:29 pm to Funky Tide 8
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I can remember about 3 teams from my youth that I was pretty big fans of at the time. I liked Green Bay the best and I still like them. The other two were the Titans when they first started out, and the Falcons in the Chris Chandler/Jamal Anderson era.
I have been a Saints fan since 2006.
Alabama'd
Posted on 12/23/14 at 1:32 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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Why does everyone in our division have to be good?
It's absolutely absurd.
What I meant in my previous post was that it would be hard to pull for a team in the Pelicans division. A team like the Nuggets, Blazers, or Warriors wouldn't be so bad.
Posted on 12/23/14 at 1:35 pm to Epic Cajun
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What I meant in my previous post was that it would be hard to pull for a team in the Pelicans division.
Yeah, I understood, I was just giving ya a hard time
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A team like the Nuggets, Blazers, or Warriors wouldn't be so bad.
Yeah, I don't think I could bring myself to ever cheer for, say, the Mavs, but I wouldn't mind supporting another team if I was in the area (except when they played SA, of course).
I already root for Indiana as my Eastern team, and have since the Miller days.
Posted on 12/23/14 at 1:42 pm to SabiDojo
My parents meet at LSU. Moved to northern VA. They got divorced when I was 2. In 1984. I grew up n BR living with my mom. I meet redskins players when i would go visit my dad. I grew up a redskins fan. I now live in Slidell and cheer for the saints. I raise my kids as saints fans but i am a die hard skins fan. I am jumping off their bandwagon and am not spending anymore money on Sunday ticket or any merchandise untill Snyder is gone. Went to Lsu so did all my family so thats an easy one.
Posted on 12/23/14 at 1:50 pm to SabiDojo
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The Purists of the MSB will want blood, I'm sure.
It's usually like clockwork.
Posted on 12/23/14 at 1:52 pm to SabiDojo
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"Being A Bandwagon Fan Is Ok."
As usual, ESPN is wrong.
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