Post by mylungswereaching on Feb 3, 2015 19:17:00 GMT -5
I'm a big Patriots fan (I've worked at Gillette Stadium during Patriots games.) I've been reading the comment sections on various sites and I keep hearing people say they hate Patriot fans. I've read a few of them I can't stand myself but no more than any other team. But this got me thinking, what types of fans do I really like or hate?
The first type of fans I hate are violent fans. For example, the soccer hoodlums in the U.K. Many seem to go to games only to beat people up.
The only fans of a particular team that I hated were Yankee fans before the Red Sox won it all in 2004. They were annoying because if you tried to talk Red Sox vs Yankees the answer you were most likely to get was "The Yankee's will win because the Red Sox are looooosers," or "1918" repeated about 20 times. I wanted baseball talk. Who has the best pitching staff? The best 2nd Baseman.... It got boring after the first 200 times I heard it. Once the Sox came back from a 3-0 deficit against the Yankees and won the World Series, that talk vanished. Now I think of Yankee fans like all others. They love and root for their team.
One thing about the deflategate and fans that bothers me. I live in New England. When I was a kid, I remember in the middle of winter grabbing a basketball in my bedroom and topping it off with air. Then going out to play some hoop in 45 degree weather because it has been 15 degrees for the last 2 weeks straight. At first the ball bounced twice but within an hour or so the ball was starting to go flat. Threw it in my bedroom and a couple of hours later and it was hard again. When the deflate gate thing broke lots of fans in cold climates started posting stories like this. Fans of warm weather teams essentially called Patriot fans liars because that sort of thing had never happened to them in Texas etc.
Patriot haters seemed to have two arguments if in never happened to me it couldn't possibly happen and if anyone has been proven guilty of a crime one, they must be guilty of any other crime they are accused of from that point on. No need for a trial. Evidence doesn't matter. If you attempt to provide evidence, you must be lying or deluded.
The mentality I can't stand is: In 1920, Babe Ruth hit 54 home runs. The next highest total was 19. He must have used steroids, the fact that they hadn't been invented yet is irrelevant, he must have cheated.
I really can't think of any other fans that I really hate. There are a some that annoy me. Fans who change teams 3 or 4 times a year to who evers hot and act like they've been fans their whole life are one.
Fans I like are ones who know their stuff and when they argue with you they use actual facts to back up their opinions.
(FYI my post on the Patriots winning the Superbowl is a reflection of a long term Patsies fan.
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The first type of fans I hate are violent fans. For example, the soccer hoodlums in the U.K. Many seem to go to games only to beat people up.
The only fans of a particular team that I hated were Yankee fans before the Red Sox won it all in 2004. They were annoying because if you tried to talk Red Sox vs Yankees the answer you were most likely to get was "The Yankee's will win because the Red Sox are looooosers," or "1918" repeated about 20 times. I wanted baseball talk. Who has the best pitching staff? The best 2nd Baseman.... It got boring after the first 200 times I heard it. Once the Sox came back from a 3-0 deficit against the Yankees and won the World Series, that talk vanished. Now I think of Yankee fans like all others. They love and root for their team.
One thing about the deflategate and fans that bothers me. I live in New England. When I was a kid, I remember in the middle of winter grabbing a basketball in my bedroom and topping it off with air. Then going out to play some hoop in 45 degree weather because it has been 15 degrees for the last 2 weeks straight. At first the ball bounced twice but within an hour or so the ball was starting to go flat. Threw it in my bedroom and a couple of hours later and it was hard again. When the deflate gate thing broke lots of fans in cold climates started posting stories like this. Fans of warm weather teams essentially called Patriot fans liars because that sort of thing had never happened to them in Texas etc.
Patriot haters seemed to have two arguments if in never happened to me it couldn't possibly happen and if anyone has been proven guilty of a crime one, they must be guilty of any other crime they are accused of from that point on. No need for a trial. Evidence doesn't matter. If you attempt to provide evidence, you must be lying or deluded.
The mentality I can't stand is: In 1920, Babe Ruth hit 54 home runs. The next highest total was 19. He must have used steroids, the fact that they hadn't been invented yet is irrelevant, he must have cheated.
I really can't think of any other fans that I really hate. There are a some that annoy me. Fans who change teams 3 or 4 times a year to who evers hot and act like they've been fans their whole life are one.
Fans I like are ones who know their stuff and when they argue with you they use actual facts to back up their opinions.
(FYI my post on the Patriots winning the Superbowl is a reflection of a long term Patsies fan.
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