why is being a bandwagon fan frowned upon?

RickyGQ

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The OP has the premise wrong. In his scenario, people have a problem with the person who liked Gucci for years, found out their favorite designer went to LV and then switched up as though they've always been fans of LV. No one has a problem with someone who says their a Lebron fan. It's respectable. To be a heat fan, as though you've been down since Harold Minor is fraudulent.
 

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The thing i hate is to hear a mofo who just recently hopped on the bandwagon talk shyt as if they were always fans. Like nikkas who say "We finna body them boys". :stopitslime:....aint no "we" in this scenario. "We" insinuates that you have been a part of that family for some time. When they start talking crazy (usually when they win) I go clean the fukk in on they ass (pause) but nikkas dont listen and say "you a hater".

As far as who's a BWer or not is sometimes hard by the standards some are saying. Example being myself. Born a Laker fan. Magic was my fave player too. Now with basketball, since i was locked in so early, there was no deviation on my team. There were players that i liked for diferent reasons that made me watch them and root for them but NOT a team thing unless it helped my Lakers. Ive got family members that were in the NBA so i'll root for them but thats about it.

Football, completely different for me. My dad played in the USFL and NFL so no matter WHO was playing, we watched ALL games. I think that confused me because I had no affinity for any team, only players. Because i could remember my Pops saying "this is the team blah blah plays for now" or "so and so said he'll do this for you in a game tonight" etc. I moved around alot.....A LOT (13 schools by junior year) and I may have had ONE team in the NFL that was mine (which is under raps for trolling purposes :birdman:), but living in places and going to games (my Pops got season tickets it seemed like to every city we lived in), sometimes...just sometimes...You can find yourself rooting for a team you were impartial to because maybe they always beat a team you hate. Or you got to meet people and players or ALWAYS had a fun time at "this game" or "that" or drafted 5 of your fave college players (or in my case old teammates). NOW you may be a fan of that team but because you have ONE team thats in your soul, you can only allow SO MUCH to come out your mouth and obviously you have to pick your 1st team if they ever play eachother.

With basketball, Im a Laker fan til I die. But i lived YEARS in Miami and remember going to the old Miami Arena and had fun there so i would root for the Heat against anyone but the Lakers. When the Lebron fans came, i liked that team so much less now that I dont even root for them anymore beause of BWers. I watched the Spurs growing up too but because i had a family member who played for them when we lived in SA and Dallas. I wasnt REALLY watching until Tim came (who i watched in college). Again they added more pieces over the years of players i liked and were the closest team in scale to my Lakers as far as attachment but i would never pick them over the Lake Show because thats MY team. I am pulling for the Spurs to win the title.

So some may construe all that as me being a bandwagon fan but my point was you have to find out someone's history as to WHY, to really know the answer. My experience with the couple teams i like has nothing to do with how good they were. Just that, thats the way was. You can like more than one team, even you can root for more than one team, but you can only say "Thats MY team" about one.
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Because bandwagon fans lack a sense of loyalty, the main quality that defines manhood. Once things get tough, they bounce to the next hot team. That's the definition of bytch behavior.
 

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You see I have no issues with new fans to the sport who suddenly decide now that they are heat fans but weren't really into ball before that.... that's cool, these superstars got you into the NBA and you follow an exciting team but if you run around screaming heat nation.. etc or "fukk *insert team here* then u best be riding with the heat when the struggle years come...

following a squad should be a lifetime thing, it makes it that much sweeter when ur team comes up from the struggle years and beats down on all the teams that have bandwagoners *still waiting for sixers to come up... it's been 10 years but fucc it* i can still enjoy the talent of other players and take sides on various match ups but i'm sixer nation till the day i die.

Redskins fans we here dynasty coming soon :blessed:


Edit: Also I think most of the NBA fans are bandwagon fans. The NBA is a star driven league and you see most regular folk aligning themselves with a player (kobe, melo, lebron) more than a organization. The massive Heat bandwagon hop is the best example. besides so many NBA teams stay in the basement for generations.


One day during the NBA regular season search #[insert a Wizards, Bucks, raptors etc team].

The number of tweets wont even fill up a tracphone :whoo:
 

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switchin teams that you casually watch>>>>>>>>>>being a diehard fan who lives and dies with a bunch of grown men throwing a piece of leather around
 
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