Oso planning to go pro
Many Dodger fans missed Kirk Gibson's walk off in the 88 series.Many Marquette fans probably turned off the Davidson game when it looked out of reach.Doesn't mean they are bad fans, just means they are human and don't like to see their team lose when it matters most.
Many Marquette fans probably turned off the Davidson game when it looked out of reach.
Outting warriorchick here......Couldn't sneak out of work so DVR'd the game. Forced me to promise not to update her from courtside at Rupp Arena. With 2-3 minutes to go I must admit that cancelling her plane ticket down for the weekend was crossing my mind. Then the miracle.Anyway, warriorchick gets home and starts watching the game truly not knowing the result. I'm enjoying many barley pops in post game celebration at the Hilton (Hyatt?, can't remember). With 4-5 minutes of gametime left on the DVR chick decides she can't take it anymore and starts hitting the 30+ second FF button to 'get this over with' only to see the Marquette crowd postgame pandemonium and then having to rewind and watch. Of course in Lexington I'm telling everyone that at some point in the next 90 minutes my cellphone is going to explode when she finally witnesses the finish and knows she's hoping on a plane. It was like winning all over again. Man, that was a great day.
Glow...love it!!!
Never met Glow, but its not like he couldn't have found another broad to use the ticket, hey?
No. They're terrible fans. They don't show up. It took LeBron having to put on an elaborate dunk show to have people show up on time. There may not be a worse fan base in the sport. LA Clips/Lakers come in second.
Got it. You hate Lebron, the Heat, and everything to do with either. Don't get me wrong I understand the notion, as it's how I feel about the Packers.According to the shot chart and play by play, Lebron had 2 dunks in game 6. Quite elaborate indeed.
There are many "bad" fan bases, but what criteria are you using? When I was a MU student the Packers couldn't sell out some of the Milwaukee games...does that make them bad? The team was horrible, people want to pay for a winning product. Atlanta and man of the warm weather areas (Calif, Phoenix, Florida, Texas) markets have a ton of transplants and many other things to do. I think the Miami fans that left the other day it's shameful, but they do sell out those games, Lakers have for eons (So. Cal supports Angels and Dodgers very well). Every fan base has it's issues....Philly fans pelting Santa Claus or making life hell for visiting fans, risking your life to go to a Dodger game wearing a Giants jersey, etc.
I think a bad fan base is one that is based on bandwagoners, which will happen to any team that starts getting good. It's happening with the Hawks in Chicago, suddenly everyone is a fan, but if you say names like bobby hull or ed belfour, no one will know them. You look at the trailblazers and griz. Even though the Blazers have taken a step back, they sell out every game. Passionate fans that really love the team. You look at fans of Lakers and Heat, you see people that don't care for the team. I understand there are passionate fans in both cities, just look at Clipper Dan in LA. But what Miami has are not fans. They are made up of people that go to games because they can afford it. They are notoriously late, perhaps the most boring in terms of support with chants or noise. People go to heat games to say they've done so, because it's a celebrity type of event. So disloyalty, laziness, and lack of organization and creativity makes it a bad fan base in my opinion.
10 years ago the Blackhawks were 24th (out of 30) in attendance. I've lived in the suburbs of Chicago my whole life and have never seen anything near the support the Hawks have gotten the last three years. I know everybody has an uncle/dad/grandpa/neighbor who has always been a die-hard fan; that does not mean that 90% of the fans wearing their Kane jerseys at the grocery store aren't on a bandwagon.
Old man Wirtz (Rocky's father) nearly destroyed a once thriving franchise. No home games on TV and other backward looking policies eventually relegated the team to the scrap heap. It's not just the quality of play that's improved on W Madison in the last decade - the franchise moved into the 21st century and it's paid dividends.
. People were talking about Crawford's glove side after game 4, with many of the newer fans being really harsh on him. Truth is that his glove side and his play this year has been nothing short of spectacular, and that a goaltender will have a bad game here and there (Lucky thing Rask had his bad game at the same time.
While the first statement is true, I myself hate the Packers myself, but in pregame warm ups. They used James and his pre game dunks as a way to entice people to show up on time. That is absolutely pathetic. The arena isn't full until midway through the first quarter throughout the entire season. Disgraceful.
Jeremy Roenick did a feature for NBC about Crawford's struggle with the glove and it was pretty much the talk of hockey "experts" everywhere. "Newer fans" (or older ones) didn't question Corey's glove without reason.