The Fair - Weather Fan

[ThomCat]

Man, I've sold articles less wordy than some of the replies here. Where do U find the time. I can't do it and I don't even have a real job!!!!! Come on fish, for God sake, come on!!!

[BassDawg]

Originally Posted by ThomCat

Man, I've sold articles less wordy than some of the replies here. Where do U find the time? I can't do it and I don't even have a real job!!!!!

Am down in SW FL, for some court chit with my 17yo son from a previous situation.
LOTS nad LOTS of time to kill, ThomCat.
goin' for sum snook and reds tonight

How's the flukin' look for this year?
Stocks still up?

[bloocrab]

Thomcat.........you ain't fooin' anybody, if you got time to draw up all them smilees...AND color them in as nice as you do, you definately have time to type some junk up like the rest of us.

This is all in good fun - at least from my end it is.


I still don't understand why Bassdawg doesn't just admit he's a "fair-weather fan" who convenviently moved to New England just in time to get on the bus...........................like he would have been a Patriots fan had he stayed in Oklahoma, right??? ................

[BassDawg]

Originally Posted by bloocrab

Thomcat.........you ain't fooin' anybody, if you got time to draw up all them smilees...AND color them in as nice as you do, you definately have time to type some junk up like the rest of us.

This is all in good fun - at least from my end it is.


I still don't understand why Bassdawg doesn't just admit he's a "fair-weather fan" who convenviently moved to New England just in time to get on the bus...........................like he would have been a Patriots fan had he stayed in Oklahoma, right??? ................

most definitely, bloocrab!
i'm always up for intelligent discourse
with some good clean fun thrown in there

i moved to NE for personal and family reasons,
re: my mom and sister moved to NPT and JMSTN, respectively.
i absolutely LOVE it here and married a Saugus girl within my first year.
Boston, and its environs, is my kind of city on all levels ~ especially the people.
cain't claim to be a New Englander, but i doan see me living
anywhere else until the Good Lord calls me Home.

the sports scene isn't too shabby either
Fair-weather Fan, HELL nah! Bandwagoneer, by its strictest definiton ~yes.
how is the Foxboro KOOL- AID these days bloo? "Shaken, not stirred"

[Raider Ronnie]

I still don't understand why Bassdawg doesn't just admit he's a "fair-weather fan" who convenviently moved to New England just in time to get on the bus...........................like he would have been a Patriots fan had he stayed in Oklahoma, right??? ................[/QUOTE]




Fair weather for sure !

[BassDawg]

Ya GOT ME there, RR kid!

How will i ever be able to GO awwwn?





HERE WE GO ....................




HERE WE GOOOOOOOO!!!

[Raider Ronnie]

Originally Posted by BassDawg

Ya GOT ME there, RR kid!

How will i ever be able to GO awwwn?





HERE WE GO ....................




HERE WE GOOOOOOOO!!!

So who will be your next team when the Pats eventually suck again and loose year in year out

[BassDawg]

Originally Posted by Raider Ronnie

So who will be your next team when the Pats eventually suck again and loose year in year out

Ahhh yes the pot stirrer speaks!

RRonnie, as i've said before there is plenty of room
on the Bus to Super Bowls XLIII, XLIV, XLV!

*If ya join in the off-season, then ya won't be bandwagonning and The Good Lord above knows
that you've "weathered" this STORM loooooong enuff:*
:raiders: :raiders: :raiders:

[bloocrab]

- This thread has been Interupted for a Favre moment. I saw his interview last night, claims he has "nothing more to offer the game"..........There are PLENTY of QBs I'd get rid of before him. A TRUE LOVE for the game is what he had, and a little talent ta-boot.
A sad loss to the game of football. I understand his decision, respectfully.



Now back to our regularly scheduled program......


Fairweather Fan = by definition, "A fairweather fan is a fan that roots for teams that are playing well. Being a fairweather or band wagon jumper fan is more popular than being loyal to one team. According to Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University, this is due to free agency, national coverage of sports teams such as ESPN and a reluctancy to embrace losing teams



Put that shoe on Bassdawg, it fits like OJs glove

[bloocrab]

Couldn't agree with ya more Thomcat -

...here's a blast from the past in relation to this topic...

[Plum Crazy]

Does it really matter? I say the more the merrier.
Besides how can you NOT be a Pats fan?
It doesn't bother me who is and who isn't a Pat's fan though there have been some good points raised here.
One thing I know for sure is that if we as fans hadn't suffered for 40 years that 2001 Superbowl would not have been so sweet.
I have never seen a State in such euphoria.
People walked around smiling for weeks.
The other Superbowl wins did not have the same effect as that first one. That is a feeling that can only come from thousands of heartbreaks.

[Skitterpop]

Free manure and lots of it.........come and get it

[BassDawg]

Originally Posted by bloocrab

Put that shoe on Bassdawg, it fits like OJs glove

Hey, bloo!

One man's definiton and a piece of parchment paper
does not a cobbler/tailor make....................

Last word on yer twisting of my words.



There is, in my humble opinion, a DISTINCT difference between
a fair-weather fan and a bandwagoneer.

A fair-weather fan would be one that leaves at the first sign of trouble or a series of losses. then returns when the wins come back. one not capable of "weathering" the WINS and the LOSSES that every team experiences. Sort of a flip-flopper of sorts. With a team, not with a team, then back with them when the W's start showing up again. 41 years with one team does not a f-w fan make. i've felt the highs and the lows of that tenure and have some very fond/hurtful memories and do not regret any of it. it was a thrilling ride. if i was a f-w fan, i'd have left the SOX in '03 and would be GONE from the Patriots before they left the lockerrooms in AZ. just not who i am, no matter how hard RR and bloo try to make it that way

A bandwagoneer is a fan that sees a good thing, and jumps ship as the band and the music of victory sways them. one who revels in the champagne and confetti and is liable to change with each party and each TEAM ~as they become more and more successful. this type of fan is capable of shifting like the sands of the Cape's outer beaches. moving from team to team, conceivably within the same season even, and ~more likely~ from year to year. 2 teams within a 42 Year Fandom does not a bandwagoneer make, although in its looser definition i will concede that my SWITCH could fall under this umbrella, perhaps the outer edge of that umbrella. if i was a full fledged BW fan, then i would have joined the PATS in 2001, and it just didn't go down like that, gents

in closing, i won't be going anywhere boyz!! as i've said before you're stuck with me NE ~~whether you, bloo, like it or not, i could care LESS. my actions are based in TRUE fandom as I understand it, and apparently i am not alone.

thanks VB and Plum Crazy for your welcoming tenor.

[ThomCat]

Originally Posted by bloocrab

Thomcat.........you ain't fooin' anybody, if you got time to draw up all them smilees...AND color them in as nice as you do, you definately have time to type some junk up like the rest of us.

This is all in good fun - at least from my end it is.

Gotta appreciate an art lover! Besides it's either this or back to cleaning up the yard.