BRV
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
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Post by BRV on Jul 23, 2017 20:27:05 GMT -5
Because it makes the winning that much better.
As a Patriots fan who came of age in the early 1990s, I didn't have to live through the lean years, but I know my elders had to deal with essentially 30 sustained years of abject failure. Now, they're the most dominant franchise in the sport. If you told a Patirots fan who was watching Tommy Hodson or Hugh Millen lead them to one- or two-win seasons that the Pats would be hoisting five Lombardi Trophies, they'd have you institutionalized.
So you deal with the bad because it makes the good so much sweeter.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2017 10:15:22 GMT -5
I'm an Iowa State Football Fan It's a hell of a lot of fun because you can't have a lot of heartbreak when you suck shit 99% of the time. Welcome to IU Football. Unfortunately, we now hang around but can't beat any good teams, which is so frustrating.
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Push R Truth
Patti Mayonnaise
Unique and Special Snowflake, and a pants-less heathen.
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Post by Push R Truth on Jul 24, 2017 10:22:46 GMT -5
I'm an Iowa State Football Fan It's a hell of a lot of fun because you can't have a lot of heartbreak when you suck shit 99% of the time. Welcome to IU Football. Unfortunately, we now hang around but can't beat any good teams, which is so frustrating. Yeah but when you do actually beat somebody... anybody, it's a huge celebration! The lowest of the lows are what make the highs so much fun!
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Lupin the Third
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Post by Lupin the Third on Jul 24, 2017 10:51:08 GMT -5
Braves fan since 91. Lot of good memories in the 90's. Can't take those away.
Bulls fan since 91.
See Braves' reason.
Granted, I don't follow baseball and basketball as much as when I was younger.
Huskers fan since 91.
See Braves' reason.
Man, the 90's were truly the greatest time.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2017 18:31:58 GMT -5
So I can talk shit to bandwagon fans or fanbases who had it good. I've got my decade of darkness notch in my belt.
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Post by Sponsored by Groose Wipes on Jul 25, 2017 18:44:15 GMT -5
Because it makes it so much more enjoyable when they do start winning and your loyalty pays off.
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on Jul 27, 2017 12:08:04 GMT -5
I've found myself lately, when it comes to the NBA, rooting for individual players rather than teams. Mostly because I'm a Knicks fan and if they were the only thing I could possibly root for in basketball I'd hate life itself. Hell, at half of the reason I stopped watching the NFL is because I couldn't bring myself to care about the Eagles anymore (the other half is Goodell), but I don't believe in switching allegiances (even though there were other teams that I didn't mind at all). This I can relate too. The NFL I don't have a favorite team. The Rams left St. Louis in away that I can never look at the league or team the same ever again as long Goodell is in charge, I have nothing against LA or there fans, but what I have an issue is the clear rules that where broken and the lies that was told by everyone involved. The only moments of the Rams I want to remember was the greatest show on turf era of players. After that era the team as been a loser with little hope since outside maybe one or two good players each losing season. It is a shame a talent like Steven Jackson was wasted. Any player I had a connection with no longer are on that team so it made it easy for me to cut ties with them. The fact the team is a joke as it is on how it is ran. The NBA I just can't stand how it shoved down my throats on the radio when it not a local radio show on the ESPN station. That's ALL they want to talk about. I never had a local team since I've been alive and the whole the fact before the season starts everyone goes it will be the Warriors vs. Cavs and that is the results. What the point?
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Perd
Patti Mayonnaise
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Post by Perd on Jul 27, 2017 12:17:31 GMT -5
Because when it does happen, it's pretty f***ing great.
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Post by corndog on Jul 27, 2017 15:03:15 GMT -5
I'm an Iowa State Football Fan It's a hell of a lot of fun because you can't have a lot of heartbreak when you suck shit 99% of the time. Welcome to IU Football. Unfortunately, we now hang around but can't beat any good teams, which is so frustrating. I'm going to the OSU/IU opener, and yeah IU will probably lose by 3 or more touchdowns.... but if they win it's going to be insane. Personally, I don't think you can compare college football to the NBA. Every game matters so much in college football, so if IU does beat say an OSU or Michigan, it could literally destroy their season and actually make IU's. NBA is all about the playoffs, most of all the finals. As a Pacers fan, it's hard to even give a crap anymore after trading George. Where as with IU, hell at least they can make a bowl game and in some fantasy world have a shot at winning their side of the Big Ten.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Jul 27, 2017 15:38:46 GMT -5
Almost all my fandoms came from feeling sorry for a team.
I became a Cowboys fan because they were the worst team on the planet in 88-89. I just felt bad for them
I became a Florida State fan because they were ranked #1 and got destroyed by Miami in the opener something like 31-0. Again, I just felt bad.
I became an Orioles fan when they went 0-21 to start the season.
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Post by Cyno on Jul 27, 2017 16:38:13 GMT -5
I do think there is a difference between a team being bad because of injuries, players having down years, a coach or manager that doesn't work out, or outright bad luck vs. lousy ownership. I think a fan of those teams should stick it out through the bad times in the case of the former, and wait for times to get good again. There's still hope.
But I can't blame anyone for abandoning a team where they're completely inept from an organizational or ownership level. Hope is dead in those cases, and nothing will change outside of a change of ownership or said owners getting their heads out of their asses and reorganizing the team from the ground up.
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Johnny B. Decent
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Had one once
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Post by Johnny B. Decent on Jul 27, 2017 16:44:50 GMT -5
For me, most Arizona teams are middle of the road. No real championships or credits to their names, but they do well enough to at least go see a home game and have a chance to win.
I can't imagine what it's like for someone to be loyal to a dumpster fire team like the Browns.
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Eunös ✈
Dalek
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Tolerated, just not practically liked.
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Jul 27, 2017 16:50:49 GMT -5
Believe me, being a Gillingham FC fan can be a very very frustrating experience from time to time.
But I am no glory hunter, stick with the team for the good and bad.
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Post by Nickybojelais on Jul 27, 2017 17:05:56 GMT -5
Because when your mediocre team does eventually succeed it is an amazing feeling. I'm a big fan of Rugby League. My team, the Castleford Tigers, have always been mediocre to poor for the entire time I have supported them since the early 90s. Suddenly this season we find ourselves 10 points clear of 2nd place with only 7 games remaining. We look certain to win the league Championship and are the huge favourites to win the Playoffs. It could have been so easy for me to quit on them years ago because they were never going to win anything...but the fact that we are about to suddenly win things has made all that perseverance worthwhile! "If you want the rainbow, you got to put up with the rain. Do you know which philosopher said that? Dolly Parton. And people say she's just a big pair of tits." We need more Brent-isms on here
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Post by sfvega on Jul 27, 2017 17:47:50 GMT -5
I'm a White Sox fan; been one since 1980, when I went to my first game at age 5. They were horrible then. They lost to the Brewers 11-1. Since then, in 37 years, I've seen a lot of terrible baseball. Outfielders who hot dog a catch but forget how many outs there are, guys who pitch like it's batting practice for the other team, fielders that can't pick up a ball without kicking it 7 times, etc. Hell, I stayed up one night in 1988 listening to the news, hoping they wouldn't move to Tampa! But I've also seen glimmers of hope in every 162-game season. There's always a night or two where the stars align just right and these guys look like world beaters. There are winning streaks, there are perfect games, there are years like 2012 where you think "Holy crap, these guys are pretty good and can win the division!" (Then September rolls around and they lose 3 of 4 series to shitty teams and fall out of contention.) Why? Moments like what I've just mentioned. Names like Mark Buerhle, Frank Thomas, Ron Kittle are a part of my growing up. Years like 1983, 1993, 2000, where they made the playoffs. And then there's 2005, when it all came together. I was able to see a World Series title by my team. Many before me never got to see it. I may never see it again. That's why. That's exactly how I felt during 2006. I was born in '84 so I just missed the Cards' last world title by two years, and up until that point, I wanted to see a WS win in my lifetime more than anything as a baseball fan. And I got to see it twice, so I consider myself incredibly lucky. I'll rage at crappy Cards play all day, but in the end, I feel like Dusty in terms of my sports fandom. Not just that you got to see 2 WS, but you got to see arguably the greatest late season run in baseball history in 2011. Two months of complete magic, elation, topped off with I won't even say arguably, it was THE best WS game ever and a championship. I'm an Iowa State Football Fan It's a hell of a lot of fun because you can't have a lot of heartbreak when you suck shit 99% of the time. Iowa St is, to me, the most lovable loser in college football. Wazzu is also up there. Very rarely a good team, but when they pull one off, it's nice to see. And their fans go nuts, because they never win anything. I think they upset oSu one year.
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brody
Don Corleone
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Post by brody on Oct 7, 2017 23:21:20 GMT -5
I'm a horribly pessimistic Packer fan who wrings my hands during all tough games and naturally assume we'll lose.
I infamously picked against the Packers in each of their playoff games during their 2010 Super Bowl run.
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Post by Magic knows Black Lives Matter on Oct 8, 2017 2:32:32 GMT -5
To quote a wise man, "the worst thing a real motherf***er can do is not at least TRY to put on for his city"
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Post by sfvega on Oct 8, 2017 4:35:09 GMT -5
Funny that this gets bumped right after Iowa St gets their one big win, which happens roughly every 6 years on average.
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pegasuswarrior
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Post by pegasuswarrior on Oct 8, 2017 22:48:38 GMT -5
I respect long term Mets and White Sox fans a thousand times more than bandwagon jumpers. And I hate hate hate hate the Mets and White Sox.
You support your team because they’re your team. ‘Nuff said.
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armbar
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Post by armbar on Oct 10, 2017 18:01:07 GMT -5
Wait, there's good times too? Being a fan of Crystal Palace and supporting the Finnish national team, it's more like bad times and alright times.
But really thought, it's the bright spots. Currently Palace are winless and goalless in the Premier League. The start of the season is the worst I've seen, but I still believe in the club coming back and not relegating. And if they relegate, well, the climb back in Premiership will be so, so sweet.
And the national side. Well, it went winless for a year. But I'll stick by them, because when that team is in the Euros someday, I can proudly say I stood by them the whole time.
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