are YOU a sports fan fraud?

Jearlpam0925

81 wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

Bryce Harpers favorite sports teams:

Yankees, Cowboys, Lakers, Duke basketball and Texas football


http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcspor ... ports.html

wow, just wow. talk about a front runner. i'll never be able to root for this guy.

And I think he may have the potential of having a larger chin protrusion than Cowher.

neilybabes86

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

Bryce Harpers favorite sports teams:

Yankees, Cowboys, Lakers, Duke basketball and Texas football


http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcspor ... ports.html

Kids today...

Where's our boy Jason? I mean Neil.

im unc not duke and jets not cowboys and penn st. not texas

everything else is gravy

The Juggler

neilybabes86 wrote:

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

Bryce Harpers favorite sports teams:

Yankees, Cowboys, Lakers, Duke basketball and Texas football


http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcspor ... ports.html

Kids today...

Where's our boy Jason? I mean Neil.

im unc not duke and jets not cowboys and penn st. not texas

everything else is gravy

if by gravy you mean fraudulent, then i would have to agree with you.

catefrances

tomorrow is AFL grand final day.

GO SAINTS!!!

markymark550

7. Be very careful when using the word "We" with your favorite team. Use it judiciously. Just remember, you don't wear a uniform, you don't play any minutes, and you're not on the team. And yes, this was an extremely tough line for me to straddle during the Patriots' Super Bowl run.

Guilty as charged. I think I do so because it's so easy to identify with your favorite team and their fans, so when talking about them, it becomes we.

16. If you marry someone who roots for a different team than you, you can't be bullied into switching allegiances. You'd be amazed how often this happens ... and how often it's the guy who folds. The power of women to whip men never ceases to amaze me. The funniest part is when the guy starts making excuses: "Well, once I moved to Boston from New York, I got caught up in this whole Red Sox thing and the American League, so I stopped following the Mets," or "I never liked the Browns as much as she liked the Bengals, so I'm taking one for the team," or even my personal favorite, "We wanted our kids to root for the same team as their parents."

Not guilty, although I kind of forced my wife to pull for my teams. Not exactly forced, but she much prefers my mood when my teams win, so by default she wants them to win too.

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:

#1 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.

#2 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.

#3 One of your immediate family members either plays professionally or takes a relevant management/coaching/front office position with a pro team.

#4 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.

#5 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.

#6 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."

For #6: I'm 27, a fan of the Braves, and don't live in Atlanta. I started pulling for them in 1989 (when they were bad - so no bandwagoning going on) because they were the closest team to my hometown and also because my dad pulled for them.

I've stopped pulling for teams for some of the reasons listed though. Charlotte Hornets follow #1 and #5. Was a huge Hornets fan growing up, loved Alonzo Mourning, Larry Johnson, Muggsy Bogues, etc. Then owner George Shinn got greedy and didn't want to pay players what they were worth and finally moved the team to New Orleans because Charlotte wouldn't build him a new stadium (because of his own douchebaggery). For #2, I grew up starting out as a Redskins fan because their games were on tv in the media market that I lived and my dad was a fan. Then, in 1995 Charlotte (er, Carolina) got the Panthers, and I've been a Panthers fan ever since.


I don't consider myself a fraud when pulling for the teams I pull for. I pull for those teams because of specific reasons, mostly because of growing up as a fan of those teams. Fun article though. I really like Simmons' work...he and Jim Caple (because of CSI:Box Score) are really the only columnists at ESPN that I like.

Gary Carter

Cliffy6745 wrote:

Bryce Harpers favorite sports teams:

Yankees, Cowboys, Lakers, Duke basketball and Texas football


http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcspor ... ports.html

shit this punk ass diva takes the cake for being a fraud

i'm suprised he's not a fan of the Canadians

catefrances

metsfan wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

Bryce Harpers favorite sports teams:

Yankees, Cowboys, Lakers, Duke basketball and Texas football


http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcspor ... ports.html

shit this punk ass diva takes the cake for being a fraud

i'm suprised he's not a fan of the Canadians

canadiEns.

narrow it down a bit. :P

Gary Carter

catefrances wrote:

metsfan wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

Bryce Harpers favorite sports teams:

Yankees, Cowboys, Lakers, Duke basketball and Texas football


http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcspor ... ports.html

shit this punk ass diva takes the cake for being a fraud

i'm suprised he's not a fan of the Canadians

canadiEns.

narrow it down a bit. :P

board spell check said i was rite so there

Phantom Pain

metsfan wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

Bryce Harpers favorite sports teams:

Yankees, Cowboys, Lakers, Duke basketball and Texas football


http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcspor ... ports.html

shit this punk ass diva takes the cake for being a fraud

i'm suprised he's not a fan of the Canadians

Isn't Lebron the same ?

I know he's Yankees and Cowboys I think

Gary Carter

Phantom Pain wrote:

Isn't Lebron the same ?

I know he's Yankees and Cowboys I think

don't know bout him being a cowboyz but he's a yanks fan cause he's buddy buddy wit cc

jayz is the biggest fraud of them all. he's part owner of the nets but shows up at knicks game and not nets games

catefrances

metsfan wrote:

catefrances wrote:

metsfan wrote:

shit this punk ass diva takes the cake for being a fraud

i'm suprised he's not a fan of the Canadians

canadiEns.

narrow it down a bit. :P

board spell check said i was rite so there

clearly you didnt use it for the above sentence. :P

and was this spellcheck(whatever that is :roll: ) specific to NHL teams??

Gary Carter

catefrances wrote:

clearly you didnt use it for the above sentence. :P

and was this spellcheck(whatever that is :roll: ) specific to NHL teams??

whatever :roll:

catefrances

metsfan wrote:

catefrances wrote:

clearly you didnt use it for the above sentence. :P

and was this spellcheck(whatever that is :roll: ) specific to NHL teams??

whatever :roll:

hey dont be hating and rolling your eyes at me cause you cant spell. :P

The Juggler

get 'em cate

The Juggler

the fiance likes wheel of fortune which means i have to watch it once in a while.

the other night pat sajack was interviewing the contestants. he gets to this one guy who is from indiana. they talk about his family and job for a minute. then pat goes "and it says here you are a cowboys fan?" dude goes "that's right pat." pat then goes..."being from indiana, how does that happen?"

apparently pat sajack's not a fraud

81

Soooo, what was the dudes answer

The Juggler

81 wrote:

Soooo, what was the dudes answer

the usual....been a fan since he was a kid...gets a lot of flack from his friends. yada yada yada

The Juggler

at work we have an electronic signature program for borrowers that come with a few password questions. i have to obtain their passwords during the application. first password just asks them for a keyword. guy i'm talking to lives in arizona. here is a portion of that conversation:

jeagler- okay what would you like me to put down for your key word?
guy- ummm, let's go with steelers!
jeagler- alright. steelers...big win last night.
guy- yeah that was huge for us.
jeagler- soooo, are you from pittsburgh or something?
guy- no--born and raised out here. i've just always loved the steelers.
...awkward silence for a about 5 seconds while i contemplate whether or not to call this man out for his fraudulence...

jeagler- the next question will ask for your favorite color. what do you want to put down for that?



i let it go...

81

81

so i was looking at something on facebook, and two profiles away i find one that lists favorite teams...

First listing is Boston Celtics, second is LA Lakers. Doesn't get much more fraudulent than that

well maybe it does.

some other teams listed

Vikings and Packers
Patriots and Giants
Flyers and Bruins AND Blackhawks AND PENGUINS., not to mention the rangers
San Fran Giants and Phillies