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Posted on 5/28/13 at 12:23 am to dhuck20
Posted on 5/28/13 at 12:23 am to dhuck20
27B. The fan whose team loses a game to the new snot nosed kid with the fairy QB that takes college on the interwebz then calmly nods and says good game knowing full well that at the end of the season, the team he pulls for has won yet another crystal footbawl making it three crystal footbawls in the last four years and likely to be four crystal footbawls in a five year timespan while never speaking in long run on sentences. 
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Posted on 5/28/13 at 12:32 am to 2poop
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13. The Fan of the Other Team Who Is Not Trying to Be Respectful
j/k we suck at everything.
Posted on 5/28/13 at 12:32 am to dawgfan24348
I'm either the no reaction fan, the go for a walk fan, or the single f-bomb fan (short variety). The wife is the condescending non-fan type.
We don't speak of football on Sundays usually.
We don't speak of football on Sundays usually.
Posted on 5/28/13 at 12:41 am to Weagle25
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Weagle25
You make it hard to not like you but I'm still trying.
Posted on 5/28/13 at 1:51 am to 2poop
Being an LSU fan, I've got to say that it depends on the type of loss.
1. Run of the mill loss against a team that is comparable to you. You play poorly. Punches wall can or take a walk fan.
2. Hard fought and close loss against a superior team that got some luck. You play great. See loss to Bama 11/3 in tiger stadium and mcaron's miracle combo fatality drive. Fan that maintains perspective, gets over it soon enough.
3. Blowout upset loss to an unranked or D2-D3 team. Wouldn't know, been too long to remember.
4. Catastrophic meltdown losses to due nonsensical coaching, clock mismanagement, refusal to use most productive yard-earners, etc. Losses that might not have happened, but you'll never know now. 1/9 put me into a sort of fugue state like the refusal to acknowledge fan. I walked around for the next year mostly in a drunk dissociative state to avoid thinking about it. Even when we beat the cocks in an awesome tiger stadium victory, I still thought of 1/9. I then told myself that if we beat Clemson in my last game of all time since 2006 as a student, I would let 1/9 go. Needless to say, I walked back to my hotel silently, skipped New Year's Eve, drank bourbon until I couldn't feel anything, and drove back from ATL in silence the next day. I'm still in denial about 1/9 and the Clemson loss and I won't talk about it with people. I honestly don't think I'll come out of this daze until we beat Bama again. So I'm going to go with psychological coma fan.
1. Run of the mill loss against a team that is comparable to you. You play poorly. Punches wall can or take a walk fan.
2. Hard fought and close loss against a superior team that got some luck. You play great. See loss to Bama 11/3 in tiger stadium and mcaron's miracle combo fatality drive. Fan that maintains perspective, gets over it soon enough.
3. Blowout upset loss to an unranked or D2-D3 team. Wouldn't know, been too long to remember.
4. Catastrophic meltdown losses to due nonsensical coaching, clock mismanagement, refusal to use most productive yard-earners, etc. Losses that might not have happened, but you'll never know now. 1/9 put me into a sort of fugue state like the refusal to acknowledge fan. I walked around for the next year mostly in a drunk dissociative state to avoid thinking about it. Even when we beat the cocks in an awesome tiger stadium victory, I still thought of 1/9. I then told myself that if we beat Clemson in my last game of all time since 2006 as a student, I would let 1/9 go. Needless to say, I walked back to my hotel silently, skipped New Year's Eve, drank bourbon until I couldn't feel anything, and drove back from ATL in silence the next day. I'm still in denial about 1/9 and the Clemson loss and I won't talk about it with people. I honestly don't think I'll come out of this daze until we beat Bama again. So I'm going to go with psychological coma fan.
Posted on 5/28/13 at 2:14 am to Tigerlaff
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Tigerlaff
I could talk football with you.
Posted on 5/28/13 at 2:23 am to 2poop
Posted on 5/28/13 at 4:51 am to dawgfan24348
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16. The Fan Who Suddenly Has to go for a Walk
This fan responds to adversity by removing himself from the situation. Sometimes, this will be accompanied by a hurried explanation. Often, he’ll just quietly get up and leave. You may or may not ever see him again.
If you find yourself watching an important game with this fan and he announces that he's leaving, let him go. Do not try to talk him into staying. There’s a reason he doesn't trust himself to be around other human beings right now. You do not want to find out what that reason is.
That's me. I have to walk it off outside. I remember having to sprint about 50 yards back into my friends apartment to catch the actual end of the UT 2010 game. I was Catatonic fan for a few days following 21-0.
Posted on 5/28/13 at 5:58 am to dawgfan24348
I dogcuss Auburn every step of the way regardless of winning/losing. Last year when we were getting slaughtered I got mad at AU fans who were cheering bc we won against La-Monroe.
Posted on 5/28/13 at 8:50 am to Carson123987
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wall punching, single f bomb dropping, "what are you doing?" shouting motherfricker
I'm the same except I'm more a "throw shite through the fricking wall" kind of guy. Remotes are an endangered species around my house.
Posted on 5/28/13 at 9:10 am to dawgfan24348
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17. The Fan Who Isn’t There Because He Only Watches Big Games at Home Alone
You won’t see this fan because he's politely declined your invitation to watch the game with a group. He takes sports more seriously than friendship or camaraderie or even basic human interaction, which is to say that he has his priorities straight. (Side note: This fan’s absence also might be related to that one time that he was the Might Be Crying Fan.)
You may get a text message or two from this fan as the game goes on. More likely, you won’t. Once the game is over and the magnitude of the disaster has become clear, be a good friend and phone in a police wellness check.
<-----Spot on`
Posted on 5/28/13 at 10:17 am to dawgfan24348
Here we go.
The Leafs video is entertaining. I thought the dude with the 42 jersey who just kept eating was going to go get high, then I saw the blond next to him in the last sequence. That was a smart move.
Hockey fans are on another level. It's a real sport. I used to rate SEC football as my No. 1 sport to watch, but now it's NHL hockey by a long shot.
Then, when you go back to watching football, you notice the stands are full of mostly white people watching mainly African Americans. A lot of the players act like thugs, but the majority of them wouldn't last a period in hockey if they brought that game into the rink.
To answer the question, now that I've pissed everyone off, I make the dude in the movie The Fan look like a Latter Day Saint.
The Leafs video is entertaining. I thought the dude with the 42 jersey who just kept eating was going to go get high, then I saw the blond next to him in the last sequence. That was a smart move.
Hockey fans are on another level. It's a real sport. I used to rate SEC football as my No. 1 sport to watch, but now it's NHL hockey by a long shot.
Then, when you go back to watching football, you notice the stands are full of mostly white people watching mainly African Americans. A lot of the players act like thugs, but the majority of them wouldn't last a period in hockey if they brought that game into the rink.
To answer the question, now that I've pissed everyone off
, I make the dude in the movie The Fan look like a Latter Day Saint.
Posted on 5/28/13 at 10:19 am to dawgfan24348
Usually, i'm this guy:
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2. The Single F-Bomb Fan
This fan is a traditionalist. He or she responds to every negative twist and turn with a single f-bomb, followed by a brooding silence. Simple. Timeless. Almost, dare we say, elegant.
This fan actually comes in two sub-varieties: The short f-bomb, or the drawn-out f-bomb. The former gets bonus points for volume, while the latter is aiming for endurance.
Posted on 5/28/13 at 10:38 am to MSCoastTigerGirl
quote:Don't go anywhere near an in-game football or baseball thread on The Rant then. Bunch of Bi-Polar ultra geeks. It's funny, but sad at the same time reading some of the comments afterwards.
Football is played 4 quarters for a reason. I hate people that start bitching in the 1st quarter.
Posted on 5/28/13 at 10:59 am to dawgfan24348
I'm the single F-bomb fan and after a day or two passes, I turn into
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20. The Fan Who Manages to Maintain Perspective Yes, this fan is disappointed in the outcome of the game. But he also understands that a game played by a collection of strangers is not going to have any impact on the truly important things in his life, like his health, his friendships and his family. Put simply, he understands that there are higher priorities in the world than who wins or loses a sporting event.
Posted on 5/28/13 at 11:03 am to dawgfan24348
18. The Non-Reaction Fan
This fan barely acknowledges what’s just happened. In fact, you have to study him carefully to find any reaction at all. He might slump slightly, or offer a subtle head shake. There’s a slim chance that he might mumble something indecipherable under his breath.
But that’s it. Whatever chaos is unfolding around him, he won’t acknowledge it. If you didn’t know any better, you’d almost think he was at peace with what he'd just seen. There’s a sense of serenity to him, like a still pond on a windless morning.
Make no mistake: No fan is hurting worse than this one.
This fan barely acknowledges what’s just happened. In fact, you have to study him carefully to find any reaction at all. He might slump slightly, or offer a subtle head shake. There’s a slim chance that he might mumble something indecipherable under his breath.
But that’s it. Whatever chaos is unfolding around him, he won’t acknowledge it. If you didn’t know any better, you’d almost think he was at peace with what he'd just seen. There’s a sense of serenity to him, like a still pond on a windless morning.
Make no mistake: No fan is hurting worse than this one.
Posted on 5/28/13 at 11:18 am to Henry Jones Jr
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Loyal pessimist: Never leave the game no matter who we're losing to and no matter how much we are up by, I always expect us to lose in some heartbreaking fashion. WAOM
This ... though most OM people fall under the pessimist tag so that's nothing new
Posted on 5/28/13 at 11:24 am to dawgfan24348
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Posted on 5/28/13 at 11:38 am to MSCoastTigerGirl
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I am hopelessly optimistic. I rarely melt down, I do it big. (The UF game last year, for example).
I'm always looking at the bright side. Football is played 4 quarters for a reason. I hate people that start bitching in the 1st quarter.
me too for the most part. I'm always saying its okay we still have time for a game winning drive
This post was edited on 5/28/13 at 11:39 am
Posted on 5/28/13 at 1:05 pm to CottonWasKing
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I'm the same except I'm more a "throw shite through the fricking wall" kind of guy. Remotes are an endangered species around my house.
Yep, that too. I've blown up a couple of remotes against the wall...
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