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I would be a Steelers fan as Pittsburgh is the closest city I have been to that is like Chicago. They have been my distant 2nd favorite team since losing $500 in the Super Bowl vs the Cowboys. Also have had lean years after that SB. Hockey, well while I am a Blackhawks fan I am not as diehard as MLB & NFL. NBA, I am liking the NBA less and less with each passing season but if I had to choose a team it would probably be ?? Can't come up with any team. I am not a bandwagon fan, I despise people who starting to cheer for a team when it was good to great. The 3 teams I keep mentioning have the most fans because they always win and have had the fewest lean years. Rag & Man which teams do you cheer for, why and around about where are you from? Commish you went to one game in 1975, how many times have you been back?
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I learned long ago to cheer for my team and let people cheer for their teams. Whether they change teams or not isnt gonna affect the teams i cheer for or my faith in those teams. My brother liked the Oilers cause my family was from Texas and most liked the cowboys. He became a bronco fan after he moved to Colorado and the Oilers moved. I dont hold it aginst him cause he didnt want to become a Titans fan but i do hold it against him that he became a bronco fan. |
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Oh and, about the Cowboys bandwagon fans. They are not alone. Before the Patriots got good back around 2001, you could have spent a month canvasing my state 24/7 and you would not have found a single Patriots fan. But that still doesn't mean they are bandwagon fans. Success breeds fans. Now whether or not they stick with their team is another story. |
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Funny how the only 3 fans out of hundreds on this forum who are responding are what many would call bandwagon fans. Sports are not movies. You don't live your existence around a movie. I know many fans who cheer for a bad team and while I despise them for doing so (vs cheering for the better team) they are extremely loyal. Cubs fans. They do have not jumped on any bandwagon. Red Sox fans, The few remaining Pirates fans before 2 years ago. While the Raiders have sucked for the last 13 yrs or so they were once among the leagues best, which is why instead of choosing a good team in your city that you can actually see on TV, go to games you chose to jump on the bandwagon of a west coast team that was good if not great.
Rag too bad your teams dont have stars on them now. So you are a Wizards fan? Then you changed allegiance from Minnesota to Dallas?
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But the hell with you if you want sit there and judge what team people can root for. Im not gonna choose a team because its close to where i live or because its not a winning team. Nobody has to answer to you. There are people who have been fans of teams longer then you or i have been alive and if they want to change teams thats their personal choice. Get off your damn high chair. Just because you may not like t that winning teams get more fans doesnt give you the right to judge what teams other can cheer for. Just because someone doesnt go to every game doesnt make them any less loyal. Do you think i have the money to fly to California from Colorado for every Raider game or to New York for every Knicks game. When you accuse me of not being a true fan of my team the raiders i get pissed. Ill take a lot of crap and smack talk over the raiders organization the last 10 years but i will not put up with anyone questioning my loyalty to the raiders. |
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Did you have a team closer to you? Carinals radio stations stretch from Central IL to western Arkansas to northern Texas to South Dakota
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I told you i wasnt a big fan of basketball before Ewing went to the Knicks. Sure i watched some of it and could have become a Lakers fan or a clippers fan but i became a Knicks fan and it had nothing to do with their record. You dont like it if people choose winning teams but its okay for them to choose teams losing teams? Sports are a business and yes it is just like a movie or music. You put out a crappy product you lose support. Plain and simple. Some of us will put up with the ad music but others cant block it out. As long as they dont keep leaving and returning i dont have a problem with it. |
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Let me ask you something. If you move to another state, do you follow their team? Or stick with the one you've always followed? |
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Sports fans are supposed to be loyal, if they are dropping their team because the product is bad then they are fairweather fans, which is as bad as a bandwagon fa. I see alot of fairweather Sox fans this year.
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As a lifelong Jets fan, that advice I can give you. Edit: Sorry, I misread your post. You intelligently excluded the Jets from your list of possibles. Smart man.
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To me bandwagon is switching every few years. If after years of dissappointment a fan can no longer support a team then why make them stay? Thats like getting a divorce and staying in the same house as your ex. Last edited by BaseballMan; 09-30-2013 at 01:45 PM. |
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Im still a raider fan even after yesterdays garbage but i can see how Flynn is ecouraging fans to jump ship with his play. Have no idea how he became a qb.
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I am fortunate, in my opinion, that my dad and my uncles are all diehard sports fans. While my family is split between the Sox and Cubs, we are all Bears, Bulls, ND & Hawks fans. NIU has crept in a lil bit since many of my family has gone there, but ND comes 1st.
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If someone wants to bandwagon, that's their problem. They're not supposed to be loyal. Why should I care why other people cheer on whatever team or that they switch alliances?
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I am and always have been loyal to the Mets, Knicks, Giants, Rangers no matter how awful they've been. But in sports that I don't have roots dating to adolescence, I've tended to pick up teams that were good when I first started following the sport.
Soccer f.e., I'm not exactly a bandwagon fan since I picked up Manchester United when I first discovered soccer since they were nearly the only team I could get regular info on in the infancy of the internet. Yes they were good than and have stayed good. Or Duke in college basketball. They hadn't won a national title yet when my ten year old self picked them as my favorite team. But they'd been to several final fours and won a title the next year. But in both the cases of Man U and Duke, I've stayed with those teams even in somewhat down periods. Does the way I chose Manchester United or Duke somehow make me less of a fan or those teams than of the NY teams I loved from infancy? No, of course not. Nor does it do so for other fans who've switched allegiances or picked as their first team a team that have happened to be good at that time. That's a silly line of reasoning. |
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