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re: What is the deal with all the "Die Hard" Brave/Cubs fans...
Posted on 1/24/09 at 1:44 pm to The Crawdaddy
Posted on 1/24/09 at 1:44 pm to The Crawdaddy
If most of the nationwide Cubfans lived in Chicago, they would be Sox fans. Just spend a few years up here and you will know what I am talking about.
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Posted on 1/24/09 at 1:45 pm to UnclePat76
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If most of the nationwide Cubfans lived in Chicago, they would be Sox fans. Just spend a few years up here and you will know what I am talking about
We'd be white trash, poor and from the hood?
Posted on 1/24/09 at 1:51 pm to TigerPhan27
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sorry about that
TFM
Posted on 1/24/09 at 1:58 pm to UnclePat76
quote:I wonder if that's why Obama become a Sox fan...tell us anyway.
If most of the nationwide Cubfans lived in Chicago, they would be Sox fans. Just spend a few years up here and you will know what I am talking about.
Posted on 1/24/09 at 2:05 pm to The Crawdaddy
quote:Anyone want to take a stab at this one?
What I would ask why is it soooo important to like the team that is closest to you? What if you tried to or simply don't like them...should you do it anyway...letting them grow on you instead of you growing on them?
Posted on 1/24/09 at 2:21 pm to Hot Carl
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I'm 30, and I've been a Braves fan since 1984. They were the worst team in baseball the 1st 7 years I watched them. But I'm not as much a fan of them as someone in LA who's followed the Hornets the last 4-5 years?
They weren't bad the year you became a fan but i'm sure that years 7-13 of your life were just hell as a Braves and Major League Baseball fan. Luckily for you, you gutted it out after most in your situation would have thrown in the towel and given their undying loyalty to the other team who was on national television at the time, to watch them win 14 straight divisions... Which i'm sure has nothing to do with why you are actually a fan today.
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This thread sucks worse today than it did yesterday. It's got ranter written all over it. Why don't you go hang out over there with your fellows.
But then I wouldn't get to hang out with you.
Posted on 1/24/09 at 2:27 pm to TEXASTIGER22
TexasTiger...since you started this thread how about anwering my question.
I'm just curious to hear. Maybe you can add something I didn't think about.
I'm just curious to hear. Maybe you can add something I didn't think about.
Posted on 1/24/09 at 2:29 pm to The Crawdaddy
what was your question?
Posted on 1/24/09 at 2:39 pm to The Crawdaddy
oh n/m I see it, ok i'll bite.
For me personally it is a sense of pride in something I am affiliated with. I was born and raised in Houston. It is the city that gave me every great memory I have as a kid until I cam to college. I also love sports so i can not imagine rooting for any other team than what my hometown has to offer. I can't answer your question fully cause really I can't see any reason why someone would try to like their hometown team but just couldn't? If you could give me an example of how this could happen other than they wern't good maybe it would help.
For me personally it is a sense of pride in something I am affiliated with. I was born and raised in Houston. It is the city that gave me every great memory I have as a kid until I cam to college. I also love sports so i can not imagine rooting for any other team than what my hometown has to offer. I can't answer your question fully cause really I can't see any reason why someone would try to like their hometown team but just couldn't? If you could give me an example of how this could happen other than they wern't good maybe it would help.
Posted on 1/24/09 at 3:05 pm to TEXASTIGER22
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They weren't bad the year you became a fan but i'm sure that years 7-13 of your life were just hell as a Braves and Major League Baseball fan.
Not really. I was a fricking little kid and it was all I knew.
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Which i'm sure has nothing to do with why you are actually a fan today.
It doesnt at all. I would still have followed them. It just wouldn't have been as fun. By the way, you are the ranter that started this thread, it wasn't a bunch of Cubs and Braves fans trumpeting their superior fandom. That was you. And what kind of a little-dicked man does that anyway?
Posted on 1/24/09 at 3:21 pm to Hot Carl
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Not really. I was a fricking little kid and it was all I knew.
thanks for proving my point
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It doesnt at all. I would still have followed them.
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That was you. And what kind of a little-dicked man does that anyway?
This is not a good start to us becoming BFF
Posted on 1/24/09 at 3:47 pm to TEXASTIGER22
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No but don't tell me your a die hard fan because they were the trendy team to like in the 90's when you were growing up 3 states over. I had this discussion with a guy last night who was decked out in Braves gear and telling me how his team is great and the Astros are terrible.
Hate to break it to you, the Astros aren't that good.
Posted on 1/24/09 at 3:50 pm to lsu31always
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Hate to break it to you, the Astros aren't that good.
Your not breaking anything to me. I know they aren't. They are not terrible, but not good.
Posted on 1/24/09 at 3:54 pm to TEXASTIGER22
GO COOGS!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted on 1/24/09 at 4:08 pm to TEXASTIGER22
Got WTBS on cable when I was a kid and the Braves were on damn near everyday...
Posted on 1/24/09 at 10:25 pm to TEXASTIGER22
TBS got me hooked on the Braves when I was 5. Can you really blame people for liking a winner when there is no hometown team to pull for? It isn't like your friends that are Braves fans stopped liking them now that they suck. So, of course it was a semi bandwagon move choosing them when they were young. But now that they are older it sounds like they have stayed true to their team.
Posted on 1/24/09 at 10:58 pm to DestrehanTiger
quote:I feel that "fans" today almost need a national sports ID card showing everybody else when and why they became a fan.
So, of course it was a semi bandwagon move choosing them when they were young. But now that they are older it sounds like they have stayed true to their team.
You could have become a Yankees fan in the 80s or a Red Sox fan during the 90s but if you still "stayed true to your team" then today those "fans" are just bandwagon jumpers along with those that really are. Certain posters on here will rip you a new one "just because you are a fan of one of those teams" no matter how long you have been a fa that doesn't matter in their eyes like that really matters. Like those fans can really control what their owner spends and who they sign and for how much. That have 0% impact on management decisions but are persecuted none the less.
I would rather be a bandwagon fan and have some enjoyment in life than rather pick a consistant losing team and then bitch and complain and make fantasy trades on message boards like a GM then get into some argument online with 99% of the posters you don't even know. Pick whatever team you want and go with it.
Posted on 1/24/09 at 11:01 pm to TigerStripes06
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THE Louisiana State University.
Posted on 1/24/09 at 11:24 pm to The Crawdaddy
bandwagon fans suck
signed, Chalmette Owls (no state championships in anything in 55 years of school history), New Orleans Saints (duh), New Orleans Hornets (no conference or NBA championships), New Orleans VooDoo (no ArenaBowl championships), Chicago Cubs (duh), LSU (finally, a few titles in football and baseball, and a contender in everything else) fan.
signed, Chalmette Owls (no state championships in anything in 55 years of school history), New Orleans Saints (duh), New Orleans Hornets (no conference or NBA championships), New Orleans VooDoo (no ArenaBowl championships), Chicago Cubs (duh), LSU (finally, a few titles in football and baseball, and a contender in everything else) fan.
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