are YOU a sports fan fraud?

Cliffy6745 wrote:

metsfan wrote:

so saying philly people are pathetic is personal to you. That's pretty funny dude.

haha, I am not going to go on and on bickering about this but yeah, when you are referring to me it is, as is calling me a fool along with all the other nonsense.

well I'm sorry if you took "philly people are pathetic" personal. But what you did was wrong. You didn't have to bring up personal info bout me that's 3 years old. To me that's shows you truly are a claseless person.

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

I don't know about the rest of you but....... I LOVE YOU ALL

haha

yo, did you see the marlins were told they had to spend more of their revenue sharing money? Right in line with what we talked about the other day and is definitely setting a precedent for the upcoming negotiations.

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

I don't know about the rest of you but....... I LOVE YOU ALL

haha

yo, did you see the marlins were told they had to spend more of their revenue sharing money? Right in line with what we talked about the other day and is definitely setting a precedent for the upcoming negotiations.

Definitely. Yeah, I was thinking the same thing when I saw the ESPN headline.

Definitely a good move by baseball. Those fuckers have won two world series and pay their players shit.

The Jeagler wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

The Jeagler wrote:

back to the matter at hand....is it fraudulent to leave a relatively close game early to beat traffic? and what would the parameters be if this is a gray area? how big of a blowout does it have to be for this to be okay?

my dad leaves baseball games by the 8th inning like clock work. he's not really a big baseball fan...but regardless, he's a fraud!

what say you?

Ahhh, this is a good question. In my opinion it is definitely fradulatlent to leave a game early to beat the traffic. You watch your team when they win and when they lose.

I have only left one Yankees game early and it was actually my last game at the old yankee stadium. Yanks lost 11-3 to Boston on a Wednesday night and I had to get up early to head back to Philly the next day. I left after Pedroias grand slam in the 8th.

you stay during blowouts too? i'll head out in the 4th quarter of a birds game when either team has a 3 score lead with under 10 mins to go. i think that's fair. people leaving a close game before its over though are definitely frauds

Baseball I do, always.

I don't get to as many pro football games as you, maybe one Giants game a year (none this year) so i stay for them. Penn State games I always stay. I always hang out after Penn State games so it does not really matter.

3 score difference in the 4th quarter is probably fair.

Jearlpam0925 wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

Cliffy6745 wrote:

haha

yo, did you see the marlins were told they had to spend more of their revenue sharing money? Right in line with what we talked about the other day and is definitely setting a precedent for the upcoming negotiations.

Definitely a good move by baseball. Those fuckers have won two world series and pay their players shit.

AND they're getting a new ballpark.

...And they need one badly because have you ever been to Joe Robbie/check that Landshark Stadium. It has to be the absolute worst place to play MLB in this country. A nightmare and It'll get worst a the new park as far as the traffic goes. It's being built at the old Orange Bowl site.

Peace

jimed14 wrote:

RW81233 wrote:

According to this it looks like I'm ok with everything but college football/basketball. I had no hometown team within 4 hrs, and my family liked the Redskins, Rams, and Cowboys. I chose the least successful (at the time) team in the Cowboys. The Brewers were my first world series, and I have always been and still am a fan of both of these teams. For College Syracuse University was very close to me (1 hr away), but Derrick Coleman was a no-show at my 4th grade basketball camp so I chose teams that could beat the crap out of SU so I went with the U in football (even though the Flutie game already brought me in), and UConn in basketball. I was bandwagon to choose them, but have stuck with them. So I am a partial fraud, but not really too bad. I kind of think it's funny that there exists "rules" on how and who to root for though. It's kinda like the "not wearing the bands tshirt to their concert" rule. A good mookie blaylock jersey or choices tshirt is always fun to see and I don't think of those fans as frauds...

Wait, you grew up an hour from Syracuse and the Cowboys are your team?

Not sure which direction from Syracuse that hour is ... but, wouldn't one of the 3 NY State teams be the team you should be closely affiliated with?

I smell a youngster jumping on the Aikman/Emmet/Irvin train here. Heck, you even admit to liking the U ... You have a Michael Irvin fathead in your house, don't you?

(Note - I hope you saw the ESPN 30 on 30 special about "The U", it was great).

I lived 1 hour north of Syracuse on route 81 in Watertown, NY. Buffalo was 3 1/2-4 hrs away and NYC was about 5-5 1/2. We had NO cable, and only CBS which carried NFC games only (hence no Buf or NYJ). Since we were so far away from NYC for Giants games the teams we were able to watch growing up were reduced to national powerhouses (Washington, Dallas, San Fran, L.A. Rams). My grandfather rooted for Washington, my mom the 49ers, and the rest of my uncles were Rams and Cowboys fans. I chose the Cowboys, and have rooted for them since the early 80s. I had a Danny White and Randy White poster, a jersey with Tony Dorsett's #33, and several other pieces of memorabilia if you really require that as proof of my fandom. I really don't think you can nail me on fraudulent-ness since the Giants were the only plausible team and they were 1/4 of a day away. Besides I'd have been more of a fraud had I switched to being a Giants fan in the mid-late 80s when the Cowboys started to suck. I loved Irvin at the U, but you can ask my dad if I cried when they lost to BC on the Flutie play (I was 5) and he will laughingly tell you that it was true. Like I said my college fandom is fraudulent, but I've rooted for the same team forever in those sports so it's not like I jump on other teams bandwagons year to year. I have made my choices and stuck with them. Now that I live in B'more I will let my son/daughter root for the Ravens, but not the Orioles b/c Super Cal is a moron.