What kind of sports fan are you?

[mvd]

Poll question: What kind of sports fan are you?

I'd say I'm devoted because I've learned to live with the Philly teams after all this time. Plus, Bush unfortunately is in office - that's more important.

Poll result (102 votes)
Not interested in sports	(27 votes, 26%)	Vote
Casual fan (follows team(s) to only some degree)	(19 votes, 19%)	Vote
Devoted fan (enthusiastic but not that emotionally connected)	(25 votes, 25%)	Vote
Die-hard fan (lives/dies with the team(s))	(27 votes, 26%)	Vote
Other	(4 votes, 4%)	Vote

[illini]

1. To much imphasis is place on sports in this country!

NT

[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. Die-Hard Red Sox Fan

This may be the year....

[SoFlaJets]

6. I had to laugh........

me and my wife were watching HBO's"Curse of the Bambino" and I said hey that's us we're Jets fans-we can relate.Don't it suck?(Yankees fans too so-there ya go ya take the good with the bad)

[Braden]

32. If the Patriots can win a super bowl

then the Jets shouldn't give up hope.

I thought that curse of the Bambino special was a joke. Racist owner Tom Yawkey is why we didn't win for over a span of his 70 year ownership.

I mean the man turned down Willie Mays based on his skin color. I dont think there should be a public street in Boston named for him.

[AndyTiedye]

16. The Red Sox Would Have Cured Me Of Being A Sports Fan If I Was One

I don't think ANYONE is still alive that saw them win a Series.
(Last time, they found one geezer who must have been a toddler back then).

Everybody knows that team is cursed and will never win another series, ever.
Choke, choke, always choke.

[MaineDem]

35. I'm with you on this, Rose

I got a little nervous last night but they came through again.

I really really feel it this year.

[Dogmudgeon]

3. Buck Up, Little Camper!

At least Philadelphia doesn't have the Red Sox.

I mean, talk about heartbreak! Being a baseball fan in Boston is kind of like an archetypal combination-tryptich of Sisyphus, Prometheus chained, and Jonathan Edwards' Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.

I hear that's where Will Pitt got his morbid side

--bkl

[mvd]

4. Yeah, but Boston has had a championship at last

With the Patriots. Philly fans have been waiting since 1983 with the pro teams.

[TBO]

7. For the Red Sox Fans

Being a baseball fan in Boston is kind of like an archetypal combination-tryptich of Sisyphus, Prometheus chained, and Jonathan Edwards' Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.


Just for old times sake, a quote for you:

"It bounced and bounced and then it didn't" - Bill Buckner

The surrounding details need not be mentioned.

[SoFlaJets]

10. Buckner tried to kill himself

after that play and jumped in front of a bus..guess what happened?Courtesy of Tim from Cape Cad(sic)

it went thru his legs........

[WilliamPitt]

22. grrraaaahhhhhhhh...haven't heard that one on in 15 years

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[VermontDem2004]

25. They shouldn't of blew a three run lead

in game 7 of the world series. It seems to me that most of the fans say that game lost them the series, no, it was game 7. A team must win 4 games to be crowned champions, not 3.

[WilliamPitt]

27. Game 7 was a fait accompli

after Game 6. Didn't even watch it. Didn't have to.

[SmileyBoy]

5. I used to be a die-hard Vikings, T-Wolves and Wpg. Jets fan...

...but I've toned down my fanaticism in recent years. I'm still a devoted fan, and I watch EVERY game they play, of course (except for the Jets, in which I BAWLED my eyes out when they moved). I will always love the Vikings and Wolves, but the extreme fanaticism isn't there anymore. I'm still a casual viewer of the Wild, cause I still haven't got used to them yet. But I think I'll develop a bond with them over time.

[BurtWorm]

8. Former Red Sox believer

from 1986 to about 1990, I was totally smitten, waiting for their year. Before then, I was barely even a casual fan. But I got hooked on the Sox early in the 1986 season, which everyone in New England will remember as their last shot at the big ring. They had some close calls in the next few seasons then sank into mediocrity. I moved to NY, caught a tiny bit of Yankees fever--RS fans will be shocked to hear--in the early 1990s. You have to remember, though, New Englanders, that Wade Boggs and Roger Clemens came to town, so it wasn't that much of a stretch. And I'll tell you something else, guys...they actually won a whole bunch of series. That feels really good. You have no idea. Please don't hate me, though. I've lost Yankees fever, too, right around the time I began to notice a new lump-in-the-throat story each year they were creaming everybody else, as though they needed some humanizing something to disguise their cold-bloodedness.

I fall in love with teams I get to know, like the Sox of the 1980s and the Yankees of the 1990s. The Celtics of the early 1980s. The Knicks of the early 1990s.

But I'm not really all that much of a sports fan. These days.

[WINEWOMAN7]

9. Sport's Fan

Diehard Seattle Seahawks fan. Over 20 years, it's been a tough haul but have hung in there and they look good this year, 3-0. All my kids are rabid fans, get depressed when they lose.

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. Up to and including getting physically ill when the Packers lose..like

yesterday. Serious need of intervention here.

[SmileyBoy]

17. Yep. Typical irrational Packers fan.

Why don't you do what us Vikings fans do, and instead of getting uptight and anxious, get BONE-SOAKING DRUNK???

[rustydog]

12. I'd rather play the sport than watch some overpaid jock

dance for the audience because he caught a ball or sacked the quarterback or made a basket. 10-million dollars to play...No I am not a rabid fan...it is only a fucking G-A-M-E!
Where people get paid way too much to play and our cops/firefighters and teachers don't get shit.

I hope I answered your question.

[mvd]

13. Personally, I love it for entertainment

And the thrill of great games. It also provides a connection to my area.

I do agree that many of the athletes aren't worth getting that upset about, and it IS a game. I get sad, disgusted, and happy, but I have limits. I won't have a bad month because of a team.

[VermontDem2004]

26. You play 10 seasons through injuries

and then you came back and tell me they are overpaid.

[InkAddict]

14. Lost me as a "fan"

when the clubs priced me out of actually attending the game, and although I might catch a play or two on TV, I'm feeling pretty nasty toward the advertisers that have helped to cause the former situation not to mention the absurd salaries, for what, a game. Break your neck on the field or get slammed by a semi- on a 100-mile commute to the job for a whole lost less seems an equal risk to me. These "super-athletes" have not in recent memory provided healthy role models to our adolescents - are they so BORED with all that dough??? They also seem to be the target for other golddiggers and eyewinkers, and don't have enough sense to back away!

[FloridaJudy]

15. Totally a-sportual!

Try living only three blocks away from the local University's stadium!

Grrrrr. I HATE sports fans! I'm sure there are some perfectly sane, delightful DU'ers who have a favorite team; I expect you're not the folks tossing your garbage on my front lawn, or parking your monster SUVs in my drive-way.

And if you are, I have the local towing service on speed-dial

[populistmom]

18. Sports is something I've learned to put up with

First growing up in Nebraska and the annoyingness (is that a word?) of "Go Big Red" and other such Cornhusker sayings all the time (they live for football in that state- I don't).

Now I live in Connecticut, married to a lifelong Yankee fan who grew up in Masachusetts.

[lpbk2713]

19. Been a Bucs fan for as long as they've been a team.

From the start when they were considered a joke. My spectator sport is pro football. Don't care that much for college football. It's too much of a spectacle. Just play the damn game!

[LTR]

20. Die-hard Vikings fan here

Probably explains why I am losing my hair in my mid-30s!

Now Culpepper's out! And possibly Moss?!?!?!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!

[VermontDem2004]

28. Gus Ferrote(if that is how his last name is spelled)

look awesome filling in for Culpepper and so did their WR Campbell. Minnesota hosts San Francisco at home, I don't think Moss will be out but Ferrote and Campbell should do well to a team who lost a hearbreaking lost at home to San Francisco.

[LTR]

30. One thing about the Vikings is...

...they are a system team. The parts seem interchangeable.

True, Culpepper and Frerotte have totally different styles. Pep is mroe physical (see him blocking Moe Williams?) and even runs the ball (which led to the injury). Frerotte, on the other hand, is more of a pocket passer. He just chucks the ball. He can be good, but it is a radical change.

Moss's absence is even bigger. He takes a lot of the heat off the other guys by being teamed by two or three guys, leaving even Jim Kleinsasser open for catches. Has actually had a good year (aside from stats) because he has gotten more physical. He even blocks now!

These guys seem to have quite a vast playbook, and so far they have been efficient. Let's see what they can do against a good team. I still think they'll win.

[WilliamPitt]

21. Red Sox

'nuff said.

[Rowdyboy]

23. If I cared, I'd support the ...

Boston Red Sox-baseball
New Orleans Saints-football

but I really, really, really don't

[sistersofmercy]

24. Pathetic cheering while I'm there don't have a clue how the season is...

going. Go Cardinals! So, other!

[VermontDem2004]

29. I am a die/hard sports fan

College Football:Arizona State Sun Devils

NFL Football:Arizona Cardinals and Denver Broncos, I was born in Colorado and the Broncos were the first team I connected with, now that I have lived in Arizona for the longest time in my life, the Cardinals are also my favorite team.

The only other teams I am enthusiatic about but no emotionally connected is the Pacers/Diamondbacks

I could give a rats ass about the Coyotes, I don't like Hockey.

[Twillig]

41. Howdy, We have business this week.

Good luck, But not too much.



Having been born in Minnesota, I'm Vikings fan unto death. Maybe before then a super bowl will come their way. Jeesh, the Twins actually got 2 WS!

But I've lived in Oregon the longest part of my life. You're either a Beaver or a Duck. People that can stand true suffering can understand what that used to mean for Beaver fans. Others cheer for the U of Nike...(45-24 btw duck fans).

I won't mention the formerly glorious Trail Blazers.

[Kamika]

31. sports are boring

I cant stand watching sports on the tv.. i been to soccer games in real and it was fun, and i enjoy playing it also.. but thats asfar as ill go

[elcondor]

33. Casual Red Sox and Dodgers fan

Can one be a casual Red Sox fan?

I had no idea the Dodgers were owned by Fox when I started following them, btw.

[Padraig18]

34. I'm devoted to...

... the White Sox, the baseball Cardinals and "Da Bears".

[MaineDem]

36. Red Sox fan here

They're my boys! Win or lose.

[catpower2000]

37. Die hard...

Especially with my Redskins.

Cat

[WilliamPitt]

38. Oh shit

We're gonna have words before the week's out.

[catpower2000]

39. Heh.

Patsies, eh? Well, we shall see.

Cat

[Blue_Chill]

40. Redskins fan all the way!

w00t.