Funny how 5 years ago barely anyone was a PATs or Red Sox fans, you would look at their games and the stadiums would be half empty. Now everyone of them is dropping their lattes and jumping on the bandwagon, and we all know as soon as their teams stop winning (and cheating to win) they will all jump back off.
Simply put I don't think sissy New Englanders have the fortitude to be fans during tough times like tough as nail blue collar cities like Pittsbrugh, Detroit, or Celeveland. What do you guys think.
2007-11-02 07:14:40 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Football (American)
I agree. Granted some of them have been Pats fans since the begining but most of the ones that frequent this website are not included in that. And they shouldnt call themselves fans they are bandwagoners, plain and simple. Fans stick with their team and brag about them even when they suck, not just when they are winning.
2007-11-02 07:49:01 · answer #1 · answered by MJMGrand 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's you on the Red Sox. Most Sox fans suffered for a long time, and the Sox have always had a decent following. The Pats haven't had that because they started in the AFL, and were terrible until the Krafts took over the team. So there was no tradition.
Now that we're winning we have to listen to idiots like you. Now tell me honestly, did the Pirates sell out the park this year? have the Lions been selling out the last few years? How about the Tigers when they were bad? Why did Modell take the Browns to Baltimore? What happened to the old basketball franchise in Pittsburgh? How were the Cavs doing financially before Lebron? Don't get me wrong, all three cities are great sports towns, but without contenders they ebb and flow too.
We are really not much different than any of your cities at our core. The hard core fans have always been there. if anything, because we have a large student population we might be more prone to flux. We just happen to be good right now, so we have a lot of bandwagon fans. Like every city.
As a hard core fan who remembers Yastrzemski, Lonborg, Rice, Parilli, Cappaletti, Hannah, Grogan, Russell, Bird, McHale, Parish, DJ, Orr, Esposito and many, many others, I love it. So deal with it. and try to think of something positive to ask about.
2007-11-02 14:42:00 · answer #2 · answered by rob 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
You are mostly off base here. There are certainly bandwagon fans for NE teams.
However, the Sox have had die hard fans through a century of awful teams. It wasn't until recently when the team decided to spend billions of dollars buying a championship that the Sox were champions. Sox fans, while a bit elitist, are extremely loyal.
Also, the Pats have been selling out games for quite a while. Their core of fans is very loyal. It is true that there are a decent percentage of Pats fans that jumped on the bandwagon when things got good, and that overall the fans don't have a large of loyal fanbase as Philly or Pittsburgh, but most cities don't have that.
They are better than most places, particularly given that Boston is really not a large city.
Where you are spot on is the area of national fans. The Pats and Sox now have huge contingency of fans that jumped on the bandwagon when the team got good. Not New Englanders -- people elsewhere that just love a winner.
These fans show up in droves across the nation, and meet your definition for sure.
2007-11-02 14:32:57 · answer #3 · answered by h_charles 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
It's funny you call us sissies when we're the hardest working area in the nation. Lattes? Are you kidding? There's one Starbucks within a 30 mile radius of where I live and that just opened up for the bimbo high school girls. I don't think anyone in my family has even had a latte. New England is FAR from white collar.
That said I have to agree I hate the fans and news people in this area. The New England Sports Tonight (or whatever it is) team are saying "Good thing for Indy fans! They get to see what a passing game is really like!" Too bad Peyton has beaten Brady's *** in the numbers year in and year out, and has always been in a tougher division. Nobody on the planet sees that the receivers are doing most of the work for the Pats though. I haven't seen any bandwagoning. Everyone around here supported the Pats when they sucked. Now they're just ignorant about football.
I think Cali fans might be worse though. "HOCKEY SUCKS LOL!.... Wait what? The Ducks won the cup? GO ANAHEIM!!! WOOT!"
2007-11-02 14:31:24 · answer #4 · answered by Dustin B 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Tha's not true at all.
The Red Sox and Patriots have been selling out there games for more than 5 years ago.
There was much less Pats fans than Red Sox fans. But Theres been Sox fans FOREVER.
They have been there thru tough times, and that's actually what there known for.
Boston is a real sports town. We live and breath sports, when the Pats loose, we all are quiet on that Monday. If the Sox win the World Series, nobodies at work/school the next day.
86 years pal, 86 years. It's our turn now.
2007-11-02 14:48:35 · answer #5 · answered by *Killer B's* 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes, you are a crappy sports fan as well as a crappy person. If I was a Tibbetts I would find you and give you something more to worry about than Red Sox fans.
2007-11-04 11:15:38 · answer #6 · answered by Fielding H. Yost 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's definitely YOU. If you lived here, you'd be just as happy as we all are. Besides, your memory is faulty. The sox haven't played in a half-empty fenway in 40 years. And the pats in many many years also. You have no idea of the dedication of the Boston sports fan through good times and bad!
2007-11-02 14:25:29 · answer #7 · answered by bsxfn 3 · 3⤊ 5⤋
ahem,. while there are a lot of fair weather sports fans... this can be said of any team in any area of the country.
You dont think sissy New Englanders can sit thru tough times? Check out the 91 -92 Pats record... we sat thru years of Coach Rust screwing things up to the tone of 1-15... and we sat thru sexual harrassment allegations from a Boston Herald reporter in the Pats locker room....
Truth be told, most of us "bostonians" are true fans... but you are right, we wouldn't sit with you Pittsburgh, Detroit or Cleveland Blue Collar Fans... we'd enjoy a nice luxury box and imported beers as we watched our team dominate all comers... because we are all rich, snobby socialites in the white collar area of new england.
And Dont DARE talk about Sox Nation, if you come into the fenway area with a Michigan, Pennsylvania, or Ohio plate, or even worse a New YORK plate.. you car is liable to get tipped over and set on fire.
(A freakin girl got KILLED during our celebrations in 2004... tell Victoria Snellgrove that the Sox Fans weren't die hards... they were so die hard that the cops had to use pepper spray grenades to settle the crowds down!)
2007-11-02 14:20:29 · answer #8 · answered by Peter Griffin 6 · 2⤊ 7⤋
When it comes to football, yes, they are very fair weather. But when it comes to baseball, they stick with their team even when they suck. If you notice, the interest in baseball isnt near as big down here in the south.
2007-11-02 14:45:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
they are fair weather, but, Red Soxs fans are die hards. The bad part is that they showed a certain anatomical part when they 'celebrated' winning the world series. YEAH WE WON. LETS TURN OVER SOME CARS!!!! Mercy
2007-11-02 14:19:23 · answer #10 · answered by Mr. Cellophane 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋