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Originally Posted by JeremyLinFan
You're stuck with whatever team you grew up with or have some actual association with. You can appreciate Labron but becoming a fan of his team as well seems gay IMO.
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Originally Posted by demokritosdeath
Why?
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Originally Posted by gusmahler
There was a kid I knew who was a huge Deion Sanders fan. Of course, he kept switching teams over and over again. So this kid kept switching teams when Deion did. Falcons, 9ers, Cowboys, Redskins. It was really annoying.
That's why.
In my mind, there's a pretty real distinction between being a fan of a team and being a fan of a specific player.
Fan of team: can happen at various points in one's life and develop in a myriad of ways. I myself grew up a Knick fan (although I lived in Jersey, the Nets were sololbad, but it's not like the Knicks were that good either), moved to LA, and "adopted" the Clippers (largely cause for season tickets, much cheaper than Lakers obvi). The hallmark trait, imo, of being a "fan of a team" is that once you become a fan, you stay with them through thick-and-thin.
Fan of player: I think the most common scenario is when a player you really like on your team gets traded/leaves as FA under non-douchey circumstances. Good examples for me are Eric Gordon or David Lee. I want these guys to do well and continue to have great careers. If I catch a Hornets/Woyas game, I'll root for them to win and play great. But the hallmark trait in this scenario is I want Gordon/Lee to do well wherever their careers take them. I don't suddenly invest in their entire new team's fortunes4lyfe, mainly b/c it requires too large an investment of time/caring about something. And I doubt most people would.
So I guess this is a long way of saying there is a difference between these 2 statements, imo:
1) I am a huge Heat fan.
2) I am a huge fan of Labron so I am rooting for the Heat to take it down.
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Originally Posted by TheDean1
I don't really give a **** if somebody picks a different team every week.
The truest fans get the best emotional payoffs when good **** happens. I could have just ignored the C's until 2007 and then cheered them on to see a title, but it surely was far sweeter after spending 15 years rooting for AIDS and being desperate for a contender 1 time.
Well, this is just being a fan of the "NBA in general" or "appreciating basketball being played at the highest level".
There are plenty of people that are just ardent fans of their team and very narrow in their focus. I think that's fine, and actually how most people (understandably) operate.
Last edited by JeremyLinFan; 06-07-2012 at 01:46 PM.