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U.S. Pro Sports Fans Don't Know What a Fan Is

Old 03-24-2006, 10:50 AM  #1
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U.S. Pro Sports Fans Don't Know What a Fan Is
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000039&refer=columnist_soshnick&sid=a5f7hE82YrEk#
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Old 03-24-2006, 11:16 AM  #2
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I volunteered at Larry Miller's racetrack last year and he gave me a few tickets to Jazz games. I only went to one and got there at halftime. After standing in E32 for most of every game I went to at Rice-Eccles, the Delta Center atmosphere was just...um...boring. :slobber: Boring like a morgue without any cadavers. Boring like a golf pregame show. Boring like a testimony meeting without testimony bingo. hehehehe

Anyways, it sucked. Hardcore suckage. I hated it. It seems like people don't really care about many things they used to care about. Apathy taking over America? Ah, why should I care?

Props to Seattle Seahawks fans for putting forth a decent effort at the home games. Can anyone else give examples of rabid fanaticism in the American "Big Three"? (MLB, NFL, NBA) I sure can't. Nice comments by Lalas. He's a rather outspoken guy, isn't he...

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Old 03-24-2006, 11:19 AM  #3
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I had the same experience this year with Utah pointy ball. It's just not the same without my cowbell.

the Blitz, as fun as that may look, I look at the face painters and laugh at them because they'll yell when the team is kicking off and then they'll sit down.
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Old 03-24-2006, 11:41 AM  #4
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Red Sox and Yankees fans at least have the profanity part down right.

Philadelphia Eagles' fans once booed Santa Claus, so they're off to a good start.
Old 03-24-2006, 11:42 AM  #5
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Originally Posted by fuegote
I had the same experience this year with Utah pointy ball. It's just not the same without my cowbell.

the Blitz, as fun as that may look, I look at the face painters and laugh at them because they'll yell when the team is kicking off and then they'll sit down.

Ute gridiron fans are a mixed bag. Some sections are fairly quiet, while other sections fairly active. The North End Zone really gets rocking sometimes. I sit in E33 (right on the goal line) and our area is fairly involved, but nothing like the RSL support sections.
Old 03-24-2006, 09:34 PM  #6
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no fans??

this scott guys has never been in a "clasico" Mexico VS Usa... get him some tickets for the world cup... USA vs Italy... he might wake up from this blurry dream he is in!!


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Old 03-25-2006, 11:21 AM  #7
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no fans??

this scott guys has never been in a "clasico" Mexico VS Usa... get him some tickets for the world cup... USA vs Italy... he might wake up from this blurry dream he is in!!

His point is the corporate, humdrum, 3 hour commercial that the NBA, NFL, MLB have become. He's on our side. Don't knock him. Write him.
Old 03-25-2006, 03:00 PM  #8
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fan = fanatic

By it's very nature it's not going to be the maintstream or in the majority.
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Old 03-25-2006, 11:48 PM  #9
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sorry... i´m a dancing banana... what did u xpect?
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No, actually I kinda scanned the article.
My bad!! I read it again!

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