are YOU a sports fan fraud?

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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,273
    i'm not gonna read 22 pages but I think I know your thesis...

    I live in las vegas...

    Buckeyes
    SF Giants
    Cowboys
    Jazz

    they may all suck/kinda suck.........................but I'm not a "fraud" :shh:
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • Jearlpam0925
    Jearlpam0925 Deep South Philly Posts: 17,523
    The Jeagler wrote:
    wearing retro jersey's or shirts with current day players name and numbers on them.....i realize everyone seems to be doing that these days, but i gotta call that fraudulent.

    if you wanna go old school powder blue and maroon, rock it with a Schmidt # 20. don't put Utley's 26 on there...it's too confusing. old school or new school.

    no co-mingling funds. it's technically illegal anyway :mrgreen:

    I object to this if you wear the retro that they wore during a throw-back game during that particular season. Other than that, I concur.
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    Being a "fan" only when the playoffs roll around.
  • catefrances
    catefrances Posts: 29,003
    Rygar wrote:
    Being a "fan" only when the playoffs roll around.


    jumping on the bandwagon of a winning team too.
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  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    catefrances wrote:
    Rygar wrote:
    Being a "fan" only when the playoffs roll around.


    jumping on the bandwagon of a winning team too.
    Yes indeed, that too.
  • 81
    81 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    imalive wrote:
    Buckeyes


    i always knew you had a good soul. :lol:
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  • Phantom Pain
    Phantom Pain Posts: 9,876
    Rygar wrote:
    Being a "fan" only when the playoffs roll around.

    Throwing sand down in front of an opposing teams...oh crap wrong thread

    :lol:
    My drinking team has a hockey problem

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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,594
    Rygar wrote:
    Being a "fan" only when the playoffs roll around.


    are you questioning my hockey credibility? :mrgreen:

    cuz if you are, i have none! :lol:
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  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    Phantom Pain wrote:
    Rygar wrote:
    Being a "fan" only when the playoffs roll around.

    Throwing sand down in front of an opposing teams...oh crap wrong thread

    :lol:
    Right, they dumped er on the floor in bucket loads!
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    The Jeagler wrote:
    Rygar wrote:
    Being a "fan" only when the playoffs roll around.


    are you questioning my hockey credibility? :mrgreen:

    cuz if you are, i have none! :lol:
    How can such honesty be questioned, really! ;)
  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,594
    here's a bump for HALFAJAPPA!

    regarding the world cup....you root for your home country first but you can root for the country of your ethnic decent secondly.

    if you're half a jappa and halfa something else....by all means go ahead and root for both halves :mrgreen:
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  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,025
    Okay...here's a question. There are a few of us here that think using the phrase "we" when referring to a professional sports team is unacceptable. With the World Cup less than 24hours away, I pose the question:

    Is it okay to use "we" when referring to the team representing your country in the World Cup? I say it is absolutely acceptable.
  • 81
    81 Needing a ride to Forest Hills and a ounce of weed. Please inquire within. Thanks. Or not. Posts: 58,276
    i say as long as we are footing the bill, we are part of the team.
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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,236
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    Okay...here's a question. There are a few of us here that think using the phrase "we" when referring to a professional sports team is unacceptable. With the World Cup less than 24hours away, I pose the question:

    Is it okay to use "we" when referring to the team representing your country in the World Cup? I say it is absolutely acceptable.

    In that case yes, it's acceptable because to me even though we are speaking of professional players they are not playing for a professional team owned by some rich fat cat or corporation. On this occasion we are speaking of a country, a country we live in or were born into therefore the use of WE is just fine.

    As much as I love the Beantown teams using *we* is just not appropriate for me. Besides I like to keep sports in it's proper place and perspective.

    peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

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  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,025
    g under p wrote:
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    Okay...here's a question. There are a few of us here that think using the phrase "we" when referring to a professional sports team is unacceptable. With the World Cup less than 24hours away, I pose the question:

    Is it okay to use "we" when referring to the team representing your country in the World Cup? I say it is absolutely acceptable.

    In that case yes, it's acceptable because to me even though we are speaking of professional players they are not playing for a professional team owned by some rich fat cat or corporation. On this occasion we are speaking of a country, a country we live in or were born into therefore the use of WE is just fine.

    As much as I love the Beantown teams using *we* is just not appropriate for me. Besides I like to keep sports in it's proper place and perspective.

    peace

    I agree 100%, very well said.
  • loadedgun
    loadedgun Indiana Posts: 1,398
    If you're not on the roster or part of the organization, there is no 'we'. Doesn't matter if you went to that college, you're from that country, that town, or whatever. Being a mere fan doesn't grant you credibility rights. Regardless of how much money you've spent on tickets and merchandise.

    I see your point when it comes to the world cup, but I would never say 'we' when referring to a team. I'm probably the minority there, but my 2 cents regardless.
    Midwest. Indy/Lafayette.
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,025
    loadedgun wrote:
    If you're not on the roster or part of the organization, there is no 'we'. Doesn't matter if you went to that college, you're from that country, that town, or whatever. Ba mere fan doesn't grant you credibility rights. Regardless of how much money you've spent on tickets and merchandise.

    I see your point when it comes to the world cup, but I would never say 'we' when referring to a team. I'm probably the minority there, but my 2 cents regardless.

    I agree completely about referring to teams as we. It is one of my pet peeves and i absolutely hate it. I just find something different about the World Cup. I feel like they are representing the country and us more than any professional team can claim to for a city. It is tough for me to explain. I guess because they are not directly playing for a paycheck and are representing the country.

    I have played soccer my whole life (until a few years ago) and at pretty high levels in the US and I don't know why, there is just something about the way the team represents the country and soccer comunity in the world cup that I feel it is okay to refer to them as we.
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,236
    edited June 2010
    loadedgun wrote:
    If you're not on the roster or part of the organization, there is no 'we'. Doesn't matter if you went to that college, you're from that country, that town, or whatever. Being a mere fan doesn't grant you credibility rights. Regardless of how much money you've spent on tickets and merchandise.

    I see your point when it comes to the world cup, but I would never say 'we' when referring to a team. I'm probably the minority there, but my 2 cents regardless.

    I agree with your point but I take exception to a team representing a country. There's something a bit different about that aspect of sport rooting. I mean especially in the sports outside of our American mainstream like soccer, cricket or rugby the rooting for those teams becomes a passion to a point. Especially the point of the USA team which represents this country or any other team who are NOT among the favorites, the passion is quite strong. I feel there's an exception to use the term *we* when speaking of those types of teams representing their countries. I just feel at that time using the term *we* is perfectly ok.

    Now here's a different example back in the 80's the Boston Celtics went on the Stock Market and I bought $100 of a share. I always felt after doing so I was part owner and I could say owned that little tip on the end of Larry Bird's black Converse shoelace and I said *WE* to the C's was just fine back then. :D

    Peace
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    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,594
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    Okay...here's a question. There are a few of us here that think using the phrase "we" when referring to a professional sports team is unacceptable. With the World Cup less than 24hours away, I pose the question:

    Is it okay to use "we" when referring to the team representing your country in the World Cup? I say it is absolutely acceptable.

    i'm okay with "we" if it is your hometown and you've had a vested interest in them your entire life.

    what's the difference in not liking "we" for a team representing your city verses a team representing your country though? you're not on either team personally. it's the same thing.
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  • aNiMaL
    aNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    The Jeagler wrote:
    # 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.
    The NBA is still dead to me since the Sonics moved away.

    The whole league is a corrupt piece of shit with a cock sucker as a commissioner. The only two owners worth a shit are Mark Cuban and Paul Allen, the rest of them can go to hell along with David Stern, Clay Bennett, Howard Schultz, and the Washington state legislatures. :twisted:

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