Worst Fans in the League
You know who has the worst fans in the league? Your city. The team you root for has THE WORST fans in the league. Bunch of whiny babies. All of them. When your team wins, your fans act like classless jerks as if they’ve never won anything before in their lives. When they lose, better stock up on the pacifiers because the streets are going to be flooded with tears.
Every year. After the Super Bowl. After the Stanley Cup Finals. After the World Series. After the NBA Finals, even during the regular season, we have to read these puff pieces from bloggers, or even esteemed journalists who point fingers at the opposing city’s fans as if they are the only classless fans in the world. Year after year after year after year after year after year after year.
I love following a blogger throughout the playoffs seeing them whine off and on constantly about calls, hits, checks, tackles, fouls, whistles or no whistles. Then, when their team wins, the floodgates open and they attack the other city’s fans like it’s their business. Classy. But you know what. It happens. Every. Year. We have to read about it. Every. Year.
On the cab ride on the way home from watching Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals with a bunch of awesome, fun, exciting, friendly, knowledgeable, personable, douchebaggy, whiny, bitchy, mean, harsh, balls-to-the-wall diehard fellow Red Wings fans, I got to talking with the cab driver. I told him I was down because the team I root for, the team I am a fan of, lost in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup Finals. His response, in a chillingly Jeff Bridges sounding voice:
And I quote:
“Fuck it dude.You’re a fan. You’re sitting in the back of the car, all broken up, may have a heart attack over this. Those guys you root for every other night? They’re millionaires. Do you think they give a fuck about you?”
He was right, for 2 reasons.
For one that, as spectators, we control nothing, and those who are actually playing the games could give a damn about us.
Secondly, as fans sometimes we become selfish and think we are part of the team. We think, I mean, WE KNOW we are the reason they are successful. When they lose, we feel like we are personally responsible for the loss. And in case we don’t feel that way, we’ll have fans from the winning side remind us that yes, as a fan of the losing team, you ARE in fact personally responsible. For every move. For every call. For every hit. For every check. For every tackle. For every foul. For every whistle.
Fans will be fans. Every team has “good” fans. Every team has “bad” fans. Fans aren’t like assholes. Fans are assholes. And everyone has them.
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Awesome post, and I couldn’t agree more. Whenever I hear fans (Pittsburgh fans mostly, not because they do it more than other fans, but because I live here) complain about all that stuff, I always say, “What if it happened to your team?” Case in point, the 2005 NFL playoffs when the Steeler’s defense tore Carson Palmer’s ACL on their way to a Super Bowl victory. Cincinatti cried, “DIRTY HIT!” Steelers fans said, “FUCK YOU, IT WAS CLEAN!” But what if that same hit was reversed, and had happened to Big Ben? Then what kind of hit was it?
We bitch when our team gets whistle blown, and ignore when the whistle gets swallowed.
I’m going to have to agree, and I see it far more now that I’m in Baltimore. I’ll be watching a game with my in-laws, and if there’s a questionable call on Baltimore, they are all up in arms, but if there is a questionable call on Pittsburgh, they applaud the refs. I’m sure they feel the same way about how I look at things