re: Which is WORSE? Bandwagon fans or Sidewalk fans

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You make good points but I think it's blown out of proportion.

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Sure you would think that, you are a Bama fan.

Go over to the Miss state line and ask some Ole Miss fans about sidewalkers. Ask them about all the Alabama boys who are glorified ditch diggers who act like they are superior to anyone in Mississippi because of the Tide, even if that Mississippian is an Ole Miss grad who is successful enough to pay for the ditch to get dug.

I grew up around that area so I saw a lot of that, but it happens all over.

In many regions of the country, this type of fan gravitates to the pro teams. Luckily in Texas I deal with more Cowboy sidewalkers (who can go frick themselves the Saints have had a much better decade) than Longhorn sidewalkers. In the case of a pro team the brand exists purely for entertainment value so have at it I say.

In fact I see pro teams as a way to tap into a primitive tribal aspect of the human race that my worst-case sidewalker is very close to personal development-wise. If clinging to that team gives them the sense of community they need to cope with a huge modern globalized world then fine let them have it. My worst-case sidewalker is increasingly facing a labor market where his low level of skills keeps him from participating as much as he can, and that will create self esteem issues. Leaning on the Cowboys is a better outlet than beating your wife or whatever.

But in the SEC because there are less pro teams these people gravitate to universities with brands that represent more than just crazy fans. Their alums NEED the brand to represent more, and a worst-case sidewalk fan debases that finer mission.

So at a pro-level, maybe a bandwagoner is more annoying. At the college level, those random sidewalkers and their flying fists and shite talk are the same to me as a person who would pee on a national monument or draw graffiti on a work of art.