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Question for Knicks/Nets fans and any fan of an out of town team
kanggoodie
New member
i dont get the whole "bandwagon fan" thing.. if you been riding with your hometown team for all ur life thats cool.. but ur not obligated to, and u dont have to like what whoever else wants u to.. is it my fault that i enjoy watching the heat as a team play? ill watch any team that holds my attention.. but im not a die hard fan of any... u really get nothing out of it.. u dont get a championship ring for being a diehard fan... jus saying.
unspoken_respect
New member
There are people who are just going to go with what's hot. Whoever is winning is the team they support. I despise it but that's how it is. I respect good teams and may root for those that get overly hated on but that's as far as that goes. I wanted the Heat to win but that's not my team.
infamous114
Moderator
unspoken respect;4624832 said:There are people who are just going to go with what's hot. Whoever is winning is the team they support. I despise it but that's how it is. I respect good teams and may root for those that get overly hated on but that's as far as that goes. I wanted the Heat to win but that's not my team.
Who is your team then
unspoken_respect
New member
infamous114;4624853 said:Who is your team then
Sixers
themadlionsfan
New member
If u are a true fan of the sport there is more than one team you follow... I've been riding with lions for years.....but if your team sux like mine did for years u need a secondary team to follow so u can keep the game intersting for u
Young Gunner
New member
A die hard fan means your follow only one team and gives no fucks about anyone else. That's like being married and having a jump-off at the same time. Shit is infuriating
Young Gunner
New member
Live in Austin and im a Die Hard Rockets, Jaguars, Sharks and Rangers (MLB) fan by the way
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Damn. Niggas in here sounding ridiculous..@kanggoodie you can stick to that way of thinking if you want, but in the culture of serious sports fans that shit just isn't respectable.
Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things obviously, but you'd be constantly shat upon in gatherings with loyal sports fans in certain places if they knew this about you.
Not a big deal in the grand scheme of things obviously, but you'd be constantly shat upon in gatherings with loyal sports fans in certain places if they knew this about you.
dalyricalbandit
Moderator
numbaz...80's baby;4622663 said:Like I said in the other thread. My hometown is Little Rock, Arkansas and I live in Atlanta, Ga.
All of my college teams for every sport is the Arkansas Razorbacks.
All of my pro teams for every sport is in the city of Atlanta.
Conflict interest hits me every now and then but it's all good. I was the only person in the state of Ga that wasn't happy about Coach Petrino wrecking his motorcycle with his hoe. I got nothing but love for Joe Johnson, he from the hometown, but I was happy to see him go. Hope the best for him and that big ass contract up in Brooklyn.
dalyricalbandit;4622462 said:Brooklyn born Knick Fan all my Yrs that ive been into basketball, with that said i shall continue to be a Knick fan.
Lets say The Knicks get eliminated in the playoff and the Nets are still in i guess Ill root for them being as they are a NY team also
I hate that shit. Yall niggaz be doing that shit with the Giants and Jets too.
idk what to tell u i guess i rather my city to take a championship than see another win it
kanggoodie
New member
let me ask you "die hard" fans this.. how many games do you go to yearly? how much merchandise is in your household from said team? does anybody from the organization know you? if you cant answer any of these questions you arent as good of a fan as you think you are. @mostvigorousone i would never be in that situation because i dont know anyone that are "true die hard fans" .. shit is mad overrated and irrelevant outside of the internet and the workplace
dpresidential
New member
Die Hard Knicks fan(Alot of life long pain in that statement)... But I'm Brooklyn bron and raised. How can I not hope for a successful season for them?
I want the Knicks to win the chip, if they get knocked out, then I'm goin for the Nets. How could I boo a Brooklyn team?? That is a ridiculous notion...
I want the Knicks to win the chip, if they get knocked out, then I'm goin for the Nets. How could I boo a Brooklyn team?? That is a ridiculous notion...
yall niggas...smh
Loyalties
18. If you live in a city that has fielded a professional team since your formative years, you have to root for that team. None of this, "The Bengals weren't very good when I was growing up in Cincy, so I became a Cowboys fan" crap.
Also, you can't start rooting for a team, back off when they're in a down cycle, then renew the relationship once the team starts winning again. All those Cowboys fans who jumped off the bandwagon in the late-'80s, jumped back on during the Emmitt/Aikman Era, then jumped back off in the late-'90s ... you know who you are. You shouldn't even be allowed out in public.
Allsport
You are required to root for the home team under almost all circumstances.
(There's nothing worse than a Bandwagon Jumper. If sports were a prison and sports fans made up all the prisoners, the Bandwagon Jumpers would be like the child molesters -- everyone else would pick on them, take turns beating them up and force them to toss more salads than Emeril Lagasse.)
19. Once you choose a team, you're stuck with that team for the rest of your life ... unless one of the following conditions applies:
•Your team moves to another city. All bets are off when that happens. In fact, if you decided to turn off that sport entirely, nobody would blame you.
•You grew up in a city that didn't field a team for a specific sport -- so you picked a random team -- and then either a.) your city landed a team, or b.) you moved to a city that fielded a team for that specific sport. For instance, one of my Connecticut buddies rooted for the Sixers during the Doctor J Era, then happened to be living in Orlando when the Magic came to town. Now he's a Magic fan. That's acceptable.
•One of your immediate family members either plays professionally or takes a relevant management/coaching/front office position with a pro team.
•You follow your favorite college star (and this has to be a once-in-a-generation favorite college star) to the pros and root for his team du jour ... like if you were a UNC fan for the past 20 years, and you rooted for the Bulls (because of MJ) and then the Raptors (because of Vince). Only works if there isn't a pro team in your area.
•The owner of your favorite team treated his fans so egregiously over the years that you couldn't take it anymore -- you would rather not follow them at all then support a franchise with this owner in charge. Just for the record, I reached this point with the Boston Bruins about six years ago. When it happens, you have two options: You can either renounce that team and pick someone else, or you can pretend they're dead, like you're a grieving widow. That's what I do. I'm an NHL widow. I don't even want to date another team.
•If you're between the ages of 20-40, you're a fan of the Yankees, Cowboys, Braves, Raiders, Steelers, Celtics, Lakers, Bulls, Canadiens and/or Oilers, and you're not actually from those one of those cities ... well, you better have a reason that goes beyond "When I was picking a favorite team as a kid, they were the best team, so I picked them."
If you live in New York, you can't root for both the Yankees and Mets. Pick a side!
At least give me a reason like "Reggie Jackson was my favorite player growing up," or "I always liked the red Bulls uniforms," or even "Everyone in my gang wore Raiders colors." Do you really want to be known as a bona fide Bandwagon Jumper?
20. If you hail from New York, you can't root for the Yankees and the Mets. You have to choose between them. Repeat: You have to choose between them. Don't give me this "As long as one of them is doing well, at least New York is winning" spiels. What is this, the sports fan's version of bisexuality? How about making a choice? Any New Yorker who said the words "It's the Yankees versus the Mets ... I can't lose!" during the 2000 World Series deserves to be tortured with a cattle prod.
Besides, as we mentioned in the beginning of this column, you shouldn't practice "Sports Bigamy" in general. Sports teams are just like wives ... you can only have one wife, you can only have one sports team, and for the love of God, I will not argue about this.
http://proxy.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/020227
Loyalties
18. If you live in a city that has fielded a professional team since your formative years, you have to root for that team. None of this, "The Bengals weren't very good when I was growing up in Cincy, so I became a Cowboys fan" crap.
Also, you can't start rooting for a team, back off when they're in a down cycle, then renew the relationship once the team starts winning again. All those Cowboys fans who jumped off the bandwagon in the late-'80s, jumped back on during the Emmitt/Aikman Era, then jumped back off in the late-'90s ... you know who you are. You shouldn't even be allowed out in public.
Allsport
You are required to root for the home team under almost all circumstances.
(There's nothing worse than a Bandwagon Jumper. If sports were a prison and sports fans made up all the prisoners, the Bandwagon Jumpers would be like the child molesters -- everyone else would pick on them, take turns beating them up and force them to toss more salads than Emeril Lagasse.)
19. Once you choose a team, you're stuck with that team for the rest of your life ... unless one of the following conditions applies:
•Your team moves to another city. All bets are off when that happens. In fact, if you decided to turn off that sport entirely, nobody would blame you.
•You grew up in a city that didn't field a team for a specific sport -- so you picked a random team -- and then either a.) your city landed a team, or b.) you moved to a city that fielded a team for that specific sport. For instance, one of my Connecticut buddies rooted for the Sixers during the Doctor J Era, then happened to be living in Orlando when the Magic came to town. Now he's a Magic fan. That's acceptable.
•One of your immediate family members either plays professionally or takes a relevant management/coaching/front office position with a pro team.
•You follow your favorite college star (and this has to be a once-in-a-generation favorite college star) to the pros and root for his team du jour ... like if you were a UNC fan for the past 20 years, and you rooted for the Bulls (because of MJ) and then the Raptors (because of Vince). Only works if there isn't a pro team in your area.
•The owner of your favorite team treated his fans so egregiously over the years that you couldn't take it anymore -- you would rather not follow them at all then support a franchise with this owner in charge. Just for the record, I reached this point with the Boston Bruins about six years ago. When it happens, you have two options: You can either renounce that team and pick someone else, or you can pretend they're dead, like you're a grieving widow. That's what I do. I'm an NHL widow. I don't even want to date another team.
•If you're between the ages of 20-40, you're a fan of the Yankees, Cowboys, Braves, Raiders, Steelers, Celtics, Lakers, Bulls, Canadiens and/or Oilers, and you're not actually from those one of those cities ... well, you better have a reason that goes beyond "When I was picking a favorite team as a kid, they were the best team, so I picked them."
If you live in New York, you can't root for both the Yankees and Mets. Pick a side!
At least give me a reason like "Reggie Jackson was my favorite player growing up," or "I always liked the red Bulls uniforms," or even "Everyone in my gang wore Raiders colors." Do you really want to be known as a bona fide Bandwagon Jumper?
20. If you hail from New York, you can't root for the Yankees and the Mets. You have to choose between them. Repeat: You have to choose between them. Don't give me this "As long as one of them is doing well, at least New York is winning" spiels. What is this, the sports fan's version of bisexuality? How about making a choice? Any New Yorker who said the words "It's the Yankees versus the Mets ... I can't lose!" during the 2000 World Series deserves to be tortured with a cattle prod.
Besides, as we mentioned in the beginning of this column, you shouldn't practice "Sports Bigamy" in general. Sports teams are just like wives ... you can only have one wife, you can only have one sports team, and for the love of God, I will not argue about this.
http://proxy.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/020227
numbaz...80's baby;4622663 said:Like I said in the other thread. My hometown is Little Rock, Arkansas and I live in Atlanta, Ga.
All of my college teams for every sport is the Arkansas Razorbacks.
All of my pro teams for every sport is in the city of Atlanta.
Conflict interest hits me every now and then but it's all good. I was the only person in the state of Ga that wasn't happy about Coach Petrino wrecking his motorcycle with his hoe. I got nothing but love for Joe Johnson, he from the hometown, but I was happy to see him go. Hope the best for him and that big ass contract up in Brooklyn.
dalyricalbandit;4622462 said:Brooklyn born Knick Fan all my Yrs that ive been into basketball, with that said i shall continue to be a Knick fan.
Lets say The Knicks get eliminated in the playoff and the Nets are still in i guess Ill root for them being as they are a NY team also
I hate that shit. Yall niggaz be doing that shit with the Giants and Jets too.
Can't do it. If the Giants lose, its no way in hell I'm rooting for the Jets.
Livefromclayco
New member
•If you're between the ages of 20-40, you're a fan of the Yankees, Cowboys, Braves, Raiders, Steelers, Celtics, Lakers, Bulls, Canadiens and/or Oilers, and you're not actually from those one of those cities .
This must be a old list cause heat fans outside of miami should be here too
This must be a old list cause heat fans outside of miami should be here too
Idiopathic Joker
Moderator
I'm from Arizona.
I live in Texas now. Doesn't matter if I'm here or fucking Thailand.
Suns, Cardinals, Diamondbacks, Sun Devils till I die!
I live in Texas now. Doesn't matter if I'm here or fucking Thailand.
Suns, Cardinals, Diamondbacks, Sun Devils till I die!
Sour-Cream
New member
I was a suns fan back in 09 when they had nash and stoudemire, became a NY fan once my nigga got traded plus they finally had somewhat of a team put up and that bitch nigga Isaiah Thomas left. I'm sticking with the knicks first, nets second.
I'm from bk
With the Nfl, I'm a giants fan first, jets second, mets first, yankees second. We got it all.
I'm from bk
With the Nfl, I'm a giants fan first, jets second, mets first, yankees second. We got it all.
StoneColdMikey
New member
infamous114;4620407 said:I just couldn't imagine rooting for teams outside of Chicago, even if they go through terrible stretches. Shit I'm still a Cubs fan.
Fixed and cosigned to for me.
