DO you Think BandWagon Fans are the worst??

Question

every team in every sport has them. but i think baseball gets the most of them because the season is so long and teams can magically do well at any time. im a diehard yanks fan and have been for almost 20 years now so i know what a bandwagon fan looks like

to other fans out there. does your team have the bandwagoners and are they the worst types of fans youve ever seen??

somethin fierce very good point. bandwagoners are good economically but of no use outside of that. they work for small market teams like the brewers but just piss off fans of large market teams (yanks, mets, etc))

Answer 1

Dallas is a bandwagon city. During the 90's silver in blue was all you saw year round now you see it before the start of a game or the day after a big win but NEVER to the magnitude it once was.

In baseball the Texas Rangers are now the punchline to all bad sports jokes or worse yet totally ignored around town but when they won 3 division titles you would have thought Peter Gammons had made 1,000 clones of himself everyone was a baseball expert.

Worst of all in my opinion (because I am a big hockey fan) is the way the Dallas Stars are treated in the late 90s when the Stars were in the conference finals year after year and won the stanley cup in '99 everyone seemingly followed cared about and understood hockey, it wasnt simply liking the stars it was really hating the rivals and during that time no matter where you were if the national anthem were sung the entire stadium would chant "STARS" when "ohh say does that star spangled banner...." was sung. Now even at Stars games its somewhat of a quiet chant.

Worse than all of that though is the Dallas Mavericks, in the 80's early 90's you could not GIVE tickets away. No one watched basketball in Dallas, charaties would be donated thousands of tickets to try and give out and still the arena would be half empty now they are competitive and everyone is an NBA genius and Dirk is almost as popular as Troy Aikman and Emitt Smith were.

Bandwagon fans are horrible they simply drive up prices and make it difficult for real fans to be a part of the game and worst of all even the real fans are forced to simply blend in with them.

Answer 2

You know I never really watched baseball up until the 2000 season when I bet money (knowing nothing about the teams) on the New York Yankees beating the Mets in the World Series and they did and I've been a Yankees fan ever since because I've really just grown to love watching them. It was awesome watching the Rocket tear apart the Mets that year. Considering they haven't done much since then I've lost my patch as a bandwagon fan quite a few years ago.

All that aside I will say that the biggest bandwagon fan base right now has to be the Detroit Tigers. 2 years ago 9 out of 10 people didn't even know Detroit had a baseball team let alone what their name was... now everywhere you look there is a person ready to tell you how big of a fan they are of the Detroit Tigers.

Answer 3

Actually the San Francisco Giants have the worst bandwagon fans ever! They were the reason why the real fans were not able to purchase the excess All Star Game festivities tickets. The season tix holders were accommodated, but people not even interested in baseball clogging up those seats like decorations.....

The All Star FanFest was even worse..... Bandwagoners clogging up lines for autographs from past players and activities..... I was in line for over an hr., and most of these people could see 100% of who was signing, but kept asking "who are they"????? Gaylord Perry, Vida Blue, Darrell Evans and other retired players are the most recognizable people in baseball history, but I guess the bandwagoners wanted to get their autographs for "the hell of it" or to sell on EBay.

At games, the bandwagoners are the ones wearing fake counterfeit jerseys that even the players wouldn't touch with 10 ft. poles, they are the ones starting fights with visiting team's fans and are on their cell phones the entire game, just decorating the seats for nothing, not even paying attention to the game. Kick out the corporate stuffed shirts that want to show off and let the true fans back in! Who cares if the corporations are rich, because true fans will turn baseball back into a sport!

Answer 4

You see it most when a team that has not won anything in a while goes to the playoffs. Fans that have been doormat for years come out of the woodworks and they seem to know everything, in the own minds. I know exactly what you mean and we see it all the time, don't we. The Cubs have great fans that have supported their team through all of these down years. The Cubs are good enough now to win a championship soon, and when that happens you will see ten times the fans they have now jump on the "bandwagon" as if it has been their team for the past 80 years.

Answer 5

Yes, bandwagoneers are the worst! I've followed the los angeles Angels of ANAHEIM since 1992 when I moved into the OC and were the California Angels. They didn't do well in those years and went largely unnoticed by most of the locals. Then in 2002, people noticed that the Angels were going to the World Series. All of a sudden, all kinds of Angels paraphenalia popped up...Angels flags on car windows, Angels doormats, shirts, etc... And some of these were my friends (sorry...) who didn't know such things like....there are more than 1 games played in the world SERIES.

I still encounter bandwagoneers nowadays in Angels Stadium...people occupying valuable seating space while on their cell phones complaining about the lack of service from the stadium vendors...people asking if Vlad was MVP for the 2002 World Series win. (cough...cough...he joined the team afterwards...)

Answer 6

Yes. I been a Mets fan since 1997 (born 1991) and when 2000 and 2001 the Mets got so many fans. Tickets were harder to get, more people at the games asking "Who's that batting?" See people at school saying they love the Mets but can't name any of the players on the bench. Then after the Mets start to do bad they leave and say the Mets suck. Mets stands for My Entire Team Sucks and then 2005 to now they back as Mets fans.

Answer 7

No, Cubs fans are the worst :P

but seriously, as a die hard Brewers fan for my entire life I welcome any new fans to the team. More fans = more income = longer we can keep our core players. if only the die hard fans were allowed to come to games we would lose every single good player we have after their initial contract

believe it or not bandwagon fans are GOOD for most teams because of this. it gives a team who produces a good team one year the opportunity to continue it by being able to pay the players who made them good. otherwise they get sucked up into other teams via free agency. this is only a general thing and doesnt apply to the Yankees who could really spend about 500 million on their team and barely flinch :P

Answer 8

I'm a fan of the Mets, Knicks, Jets and Rangers, always have been, always will be. I certainly can't be accused of just rooting for a team that wins. I've seen my share of fair-weather fans for all of my teams, but they don't bother me as much as fans of winning teams who don't play here. I couldn't stand seeing Bulls jerseys in NY when they were beating the Knicks in the playoffs every year. Oddly, I don't see those jerseys so much any more. If you're going to jump on a bandwagon, at least make it a local one.

Answer 9

im a huge yanks fan too. my dad was born in the bronx as well as his dad so no way im a bandwagoner. and baseball has an incredible amount of bandwagoners. i think since 2004 the red sox have seen a huge boom in there fan base and i think thats cuz of bandwagon peeps. however im sure the yankees have a lot of bandwagoners too being the winningest team in baseball ever. people like supporting teams that win.

Answer 10

I live in ohio so I'm a huge ohio state fan and have been since I was a child. Over the last 5 years or so they have been doing exceptionally well and all of the sudden everyone and their brother claims to bleed scarlet and gray. Don't get me wrong we have always had a strong fan base but its ridiculous. Then to hear people trying to politic and talk about the team that have no idea what they are talking about... just repeating what they heard on the news, this also drives me crazy.