Pic: The worst sports fan in America
by JasonB on Nov 3, 2009 3:22 PM EST
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Seriously, is this person the biggest front runner on earth? I'd be willing to bet he's a Laker fan as well... Ugh. I think this guy wins the title of the worst sports fan in America.
Let this be a lesson to Dallas fans that aren't from the Philly area as to why we dislike these soulless cretins so much. They aren't real fans of any team.
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His other favorites...
The Lakers, the Red Wings, Manchester United, Lance Armstrong, Tiger Woods, Roger Federer, The Roman Empire, Microsoft, US Steel, Bugs Bunny, the Harlem Globetrotters, and sliced bread.
by JimmyK on Nov 3, 2009 3:28 PM EST reply actions 12 recs
Hilarious
I’ve been saying for the past week that the worst kind of person on earth is the Yankees fan who’s also a Cowboys fan. My bartender added Lakers fan to the mix, calling it the Unholy Trinity. If I were better with photoshop, I’d put the three together with a pentagram or something.
Worse still? I think there’s a guy in my office who’s a big Yankees and Cowboys fan. Just no excuse for it.
Let the beasting begin.
I literally saw that guy yesterday
on the busride home.
Marion Barber Jersey and NY Yankee ball cap.
Somebody needs to set him on fire.
Let the beasting begin.
by TransplantedFan on Nov 3, 2009 3:43 PM EST up reply actions
Is jerry jones's face real?
"If the Cowboys want to be angry at someone because they didn’t show up for the game that defined their season, they might try punching the mirror."
Jones looks like a burn victim
Sometimes it's just fun to take the family for a spin around the lake in the old boat. Even if it's not your family or your boat, and they're screaming for you to stop.
by Baron Dainer Von Tresvant on Nov 3, 2009 9:56 PM EST up reply actions
He washes with the tears of orphans. Does wonders for the skin.
Let the beasting begin.
by TransplantedFan on Nov 3, 2009 7:47 PM EST up reply actions
It looks like he got a little bit of what he deserves (see rear left bumper)
"The last time the Eagles won by scoring in the final two minutes of regulation was a 23-20 win over Oakland in 2005."
Ummm...
Correct me if Im wrong, but, by calling this guy a frontrunner for likeing the Cowboys, arent you saying the Cowboys are… good? Because thats news to me.
Don't hate me
but uh…I’m a HUGE Yankee fan.
I’m sorry, guys. Forgive me?
oh man....
i wouldn’t admit to that one.
"it's like i tell my ex-wife, i never drive faster than i can see, and besides it's all in the reflexes." -Jack Burton, Big trouble in little China
What's there gray about it?
If you live south of Princeton in Jersey, you shouldn’t be a Yankess fan.
Naw
Born and raised in NYC. Actually, I did spend time in Philly, although it was just a year.
Staying there was when I fell in love with both the city and the Eagles.
by LegendKnight22 on Nov 3, 2009 9:14 PM EST up reply actions
When I say city, I meant you guys- the fans. So passionate. I’m still a NY guy.
by LegendKnight22 on Nov 3, 2009 9:16 PM EST up reply actions
Welll not neccisarily
There is gray area along the cost. I think you even get both NY and Philly TV stations as far down as LBI. If you’ve been getting Giants games on your TV every week you’re whole life, it’s acceptable.
Ugh
These people—the ones that only root for teams that have tons of postseason success/titles—make me sick. They don’t have the stones to root for the local teams (or at least one of them) so they play contrarian and root for what they perceive to be the “sure thing” so they can spit it back in all the local fans’ faces when they lose. It’s deeply rooted in insecurity and should be cause for psychological concern.
I have never met a cowgirls fan form dallas. They will say my uncle lives there or I am from houston. no wonder the oilers left. Everyone that isn’t a real baseball fan is a yankees fan.
I wasn't even a year old but I stayed up to be outside the Vet with my Dad and Mom when the Phillies won the World Series 1980.
I was in Austin for business in March
I purposely brought a few Eagles t-shirts with me, I got a lot of ribbing about how much we suck. My response was simple: “44-6.”
They will say my uncle lives there or I am from houston
I’ve never even met anyone that even claimed that.
Actually, I’ve never even met a Dallas fan that’s been to Dallas let alone was born anywhere even close to there. ANd I ask. All the time. As you guys may know.
If I see a guy in a bar or anything my line is always to ask “Oh hey, what part of Dallas are you from?”
Why the hell does it matter?
I didn’t realize locality was a pre-requisite for fandom?
There are a lot of reason to the Cowboys and our fans, but this is the most pathetic one around, and it is only perpetuated by Eagles fans.
If you live in a place like Idaho, where there are no close NFL franchises, then sure, pick whatever team you want. But if you live reasonably close to a city with a team, you better have a pretty good reason why you’re a Cowboy (or whatever other team) fan. Do we look down on the bandwagoners? Yup, as well we should.
Here’s a good read by Bill Simmons on his “Rules for being a true fan.” #18 applies to whoever owns that truck in the picture above.
http://proxy.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/020227
LEBRON
Sadly enough, one of our country’s 5 most famous athletes is just like that ‘f[rontrunner]an’…
LEBRON FREAKING JAMES
http://lebron-james-dunks.blogspot.com/2009/05/lebron-james-yankees-fan.html
by nyeaglesfan on Nov 3, 2009 8:49 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
I was out for a run the other morning, and as I was going up this steep hill I was trying to pay attention to the scenery (I live in a rednecky area that’s not quite rural but not quite suburban) to try ignore how much my leg hurt, I see this huge Eagles flag in someone’s yard.
York County, in kind of a sports no-mans land, is a hotbed of frontrunners (seems to be more and more becoming part of “Steelers Country”. So I see the Eagles flag and i’m thinking “Alright, another Eagles fan.” Then, I see on each side of it two smaller Cowboys flags.
Um…that doesn’t make sense. You can’t like both, even here in bandwagon country.
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
I went to college in West Chester
and one of my classmates was a Steelers fan, she was from York. I always thought York was the part of PA that would be part of the Eagles fanbase, maybe younger kids would be into the Ravens. But the Steelers? Come on.
I used to work with a guy from Central PA
He was a Cowboys and Yankees fan. He had some half-baked story about how his dad or uncle was a fan of these teams, too. A family of front-runners!
Central PA..specifically york county…bandwagon land.
I wonder if I can bill Jeff Lurie and Peter Angelos for the years of therapy their teams are going to put me through.
lancaster is right outside of York and I never noticed it to be Bandwagon land. Every city has fans from multiple teams. Lancaster even has them… Steelers, Browns, Ravens, Giants, Cowboys… But the majority is definitely Eagles and I’m sure York is the same (but then again I don’t hang out in York so who knows).
In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.
-Theodore Roosevelt
im from northern mid-jersey
but grew up loving the eagles because my grandfather would watch the Giants games and I would root for the Eagles to piss him off when I was like 4. Right before I moved away from Guttenburg, New Jersey…my grandffather’s friend paid him a visit. He was an Eagle fan, he explained it was ok to like the Eagles if your from New Jersey because we were so close and he dealt with the same situation when he was younger. As I got older I hated the Giants even more because they claim to be from NY when they play in NJ which I saw as disrespectful. Fly Eagles Fly.
I bet he uses the bed of that Nissan to haul around his broken dreams.
About 10 minutes ago, I was pondering my own existence. Then I decided that it didn't matter.
by IronHank on Nov 4, 2009 10:16 AM EST reply actions 2 recs
I don’t know I grew up in Maine and despite it being in “New England” lots of people here despise Boston teams.
Isn’t it kind of weird to just pick a city and root for all those teams despite never setting foot there ? I mean that just doesn’t make sense to me at all.
But liking teams from all over is ok with me as long as they aren’t teams like the Cowboys Yankees and Lakers that’s bandwagon material plain and simple.
It’s just hard for me to pick some random city being from Maine and then rooting for those teams the connection to the city isn’t there now if I moved to a city then that would be a different story.
by sportsfanatic1990 on Nov 4, 2009 12:05 PM EST reply actions
Boston teams
do a good job on the regional outreach from a marketing perspective, ie – New England vs. Boston Patriots, and “Red Sox Nation,” although that is more national than just specifically regional.
I agree with your point that if you live in like Bar Harbour, why support all Boston teams because that’s 6 hrs away, but it does make more sense if you’re in Portland or further down east.
Got a cousin who is a Yankee, Laker, Cowboy fan
He was born in the bronx, but he lived in Coatesesville PA from age 1 to 18, and then in DC for the last 18 years. I guess the Bronx kind of explains the first one. Lakers and Cowboys, not so sure.
His two boys are going to grow up the same way, if he has anything to say about it.
Tragic for the next generation. Dont they want to talk up the local teams with their buds at school? I say you got to let the kids decide on their own. That what my Boston dad let me do growing up in New York, and what I am going to let my kids do growing up in DC.
(Although being a Deadskinz fan is pretty tragic as well)
I am from north of Bar Harbor and trust me the reach for Boston sports teams there is limited to the Red Sox and even then it’s not much.
I’m at College in Portland now and it’s apparent the closer connection to Boston here it really is night and day between Bar Harbor and Portland.
I just can’t root for some random city I have no connection to (I have been to Boston Orlando and Trenton).
My teams aren’t Dallas and the Yankees, nothing like that I’m not going to list them here to you but I will tell you that they haven’t won titles since I’ve been alive.
It’s a good question if you grew up in a place with no real sports connection should you adopt a city (even though you have no connection to said city) and root for all those teams ?
Or should you just stick with the teams you have chosen to like no matter what, provided the teams aren’t the Yankees, Cowboys, Lakers, and other teams of that ilk.
It’s a good question.
by sportsfanatic1990 on Nov 4, 2009 4:01 PM EST reply actions
im an eagles, phillies, and sixer fan
but a ducks fan from the Bay Area. I hate the sharks because of people I hate but mostly the movie, the mighty ducks.
sixers because of allen iverson and the phillies and eagles because philadelphia is my favorite city in america.
RIP Jim Johnson. You will truly be missed.
by Igglesfan13 on Nov 4, 2009 7:40 PM EST via mobile reply actions
There’s no devotion to a team anymore, people just follow winners. A guy I know cheered for the Viqueens until they didn’t go to the Superbowl. I feel ill.
You can't soar with the Eagles when you're surrounded by turkeys.
by Aeries god of soar on Nov 4, 2009 8:28 PM EST reply actions
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