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Post by Bullhead on Dec 27, 2010 20:37:18 GMT -5
As a Patriots fan I'm probably supposed to hate them, but I don't. Well, the team at least. They're a tough football team with a lot of talent and have been for a long time. Hell, who else could get to the Super Bowl with Neil freakin' O'Donnell at quarterback. On the other hand, I don't really care for the fans. I've never seen a more obnoxious group of bloodthirsty morons in my life. I'm generalizing of course. I'd like to think that they're not all that bad and have even met a few that are not.
Big Ben, however, can lick it.
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Post by A Dubya (El Hombre Muerto) on Dec 27, 2010 20:41:05 GMT -5
Short answer: Yes. I am not a fan. Sorry Steeler fans. My biggest issue is just how much the announcers will blow Roethlisberger for everything he does, seemingly when he plays poorly too. There seems to be an excuse, but I just don't think he is the second coming of John Elway like the sportscasters and commentators usually imply. Besides all that, I'm a longtime Ravens fan. How could I not despise Pitt?
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Post by Red Impact on Dec 27, 2010 20:45:12 GMT -5
We're going to have to agree to disagree, because I think having general knowledge of players who played certain positions falls in the dictionary definition of what trivia is. The least a fan has to do is cheer for the team in any situation, even when them doing well could cause that person's fantasy team to lose. Some fans invest more in it, and that's fine.
Sports makes a ton of money by making "fan" definable almost solely by personal investment in it, and making it taboo if you don't want to spend your Sundays and (an ever increasing amount of) money supporting a team that the owners barely do.
And, really, If a random person decided that decided to test my fanhood because I didn't know everything he knew about the team, I probably wouldn't care enough to answer him. If he wants to think I'm a bandwagon fan because I didn't tell him who Len Dawson was, he could. He reserves the right to be the bigger sports nerd.
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Post by FrankGotch on Dec 27, 2010 21:04:42 GMT -5
We're going to have to agree to disagree, because I think having general knowledge of players who played certain positions falls in the dictionary definition of what trivia is. The least a fan has to do is cheer for the team in any situation, even when them doing well could cause that person's fantasy team If you don't have general knowledge of "your team" or the players on it you are not a fan. If you root for "your team" to do poorly because it will help your fantasy team you are most certainly not a fan.
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Post by Goldenbane on Dec 27, 2010 21:05:12 GMT -5
I hate the Pittsburgh Steelers in the morning, I hate them in the evening, I hate them at supper time. When the Pittsburgh Steelers are on a bagel, I can hate them anytime. This is the funniest s*** I have seen all day Thank you! BTW, just so everyone knows, my rant was supposed to be funny/stupid and not taken seriously. Yeah, I don't like the Steelers...being a Browns fan...LOL...but I don't hate them nearly as bad as my post suggests.
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Post by S-Chrome on Dec 27, 2010 21:33:17 GMT -5
I have no problem with the Steelers. I actually kind of like them. Though, I derived a strange sense of satisfaction when the Giants smacked 'em down in 2008. Never have been jealous of their success and such, and they give me an opportunity to cheer them on when they're playing more hated teams like the Patriots, Chargers or Ravens.
It's just the other puke, no-Super Bowl winning, piece of shit team on the other side of Pennsylvania that I can't stand.
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Post by Back to being Cenanuff on Dec 27, 2010 21:41:37 GMT -5
Rat bastards.
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Post by captaineasychord on Dec 27, 2010 21:46:26 GMT -5
I quite actively despise the Steelers, collectively and individually, and everything they stand for. Of course I'm a fan of both the Bengals and Browns, who share a common nemesis in Pittsburgh. They rank third however, behind the Ravens (for obvious reasons) and University of Michigan (Go Bucks!). I worked with some Miami of OH alumni who confirmed that Mr. B.M.O.C. Ben's behavior was every bit as loathsome then as it is purported to be now, which was less-than-shocking news to me.
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Post by Munkie91087 on Dec 27, 2010 22:57:16 GMT -5
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Post by Madman Szalinski on Dec 28, 2010 5:54:24 GMT -5
Remember that episode of Futurama where Bender got saved?
Imagine me coming through the celing right now.
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MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by Bald Bull on Dec 28, 2010 7:07:26 GMT -5
I hope this years' Superbowl is:
Steelers vs Eagles
Not only would it be the battle of Pennsylvania, it would be (Alleged) Rapist vs Convicted Dog Killer.
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Post by Muskrat on Dec 28, 2010 7:25:03 GMT -5
Can't say I hate the Steelers, hell I made like $200 off them in Super Bowl XL, but I do hate the Patriots. The Pats, the Yanks, The Montreal Canadiens and the Saskatchewan Roughriders are the sports teams from each league that I hate. Don't really watch basketball
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Post by mysterydriver on Dec 28, 2010 9:26:26 GMT -5
I'm a Cincinnati Bengals fan.
What do you think?
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Dec 28, 2010 9:49:39 GMT -5
The Patriots had tons of fans even when they were the joke of the NFL and played in the worst stadium in the country... And trust me, we hate the pink hats more than you do. In Canada their are tons of bandwagon fans for the Patriots. I still hate your team!!!!! There will always be Bandwagon Boston fans, especially in the US, where ESPN tells us every 5 seconds about how much everybody on Earth loves all things Boston. The Bruins don't seem to have a ton of them, but that's because ESPN almost never talks about the Bruins. The Patriots/Celtics/Red Sox however, hoo boy.. As far as the Steelers, I don't hate them as an organization, but Rapelisberger.... he can vanish off the face of the Earth and I'm not sure too many people would miss him.
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Post by thuschongswing on Dec 28, 2010 12:12:30 GMT -5
Well, I AM wearing a Ravens hoodie right now, so I'll leave it to your imagination on how I feel about them. Seriously though, apart from the Cowboys, they're my least favorite NFL organization. I respect the Rooneys and how they run the franchise, but that's it. I especially don't like how the refs always seem to side with them every big game (lolconspiracy, perhaps? )
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Post by Facepalm on Dec 28, 2010 13:03:54 GMT -5
I dislike the Steelers, but I don't hate them.
Having said that, I do hate the fact that seem to be one of the dirtiest teams in the league, especially James Harrison. Instead of crying about paying fines for reckless and dangerous plays, maybe he should just grow up and stop leading with his helmet all the time!
Oh, and they have a moron for a quarterback. He really needs to grow up.
On the plus side, Troy Polamalu is awesome - easily one of the best players in the NFL.
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Post by BigJerichool222 on Dec 28, 2010 13:15:57 GMT -5
As a Steelers fan who lives in New England and has to deal with them, I can honestly say that Pat fans are the most fairweathered, bandwagoning, douchey fans I have ever met.
They (at least the ones I know) literally went from hating Moss to loving him when he signs with NE, to hating him out of nowhere once he's gone and claiming to always have hated him.
They care more about how the Jets are doing than how their own team is doing (same thing with the Yankees/Red Sox rivalry around here).
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Post by lennon on Dec 28, 2010 13:17:36 GMT -5
Don't hate them at all. Other than the Bears and Vikes, only other team I really dislike is Dallas.
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Post by draus on Dec 28, 2010 13:25:24 GMT -5
As a Bills fan, I admire the Steelers. I think they're a first-class organization with some passionate fans. Pitt is a lot like Buffalo in terms of the rust belt, so they're hard to dislike.
Patriots* fans on the other hand are the absolute worst. Between the bandwagoning Canucks that come over here, to the bandwagon "lifelong" fans that "remember when [we] played the Packers in the Superbowl" it's just entirely ridiculous. They make Dolphins fans look first-class. When the Bills were kicking their ass every year in the early 90's you never saw these people ever, yet as soon as Brady and Belicheat got to winning the fans just exploded. I can respect the legit Pats fans from Boston and New England that followed the team, but a lot of these people are just from some podunk town somewhere and managed to root for a winning team much like people did for the Raiders and Cowboys way back when. It happens all the time: some guy wants to get involved in sports and just picks the best team to root for that wins all the time. That takes the fun out of it, just knowing your team is automatically good. Why not root for a lousy team on the rise? So that when they win it feels like you actually won something? Personally I root for the underdog teams when it's time to pick one: if the Bills ever left Buffalo I'd probably go and root for the Niners who have totally sucked for the greater part of the last decade. Maybe even the Browns since the people of Cleveland could actually appreciate a championship.
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Post by Cela on Dec 28, 2010 13:54:16 GMT -5
Yes, their current coach spoke at my graduation. It went as follows:
Now, this here is a team, and those doors are the locker room door, and beyond them lies the game of life...
67 sports cliches by speeches end. I've hated him and his damn team ever since.
Edit: Plus the referees have put on steelers jerseys in way to many bowls.
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