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etsen3
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etsen3 asked in SportsHockey · 10 years ago

Bandwagoners acting like experts?

As a Canucks fan, many other people have joined the bandwagon. Many have never watched or played hockey in their life, but suddenly now they're experts. So everytime the home team loses, they either give up or make excuses like "the ice was bad" or better yet, "they threw the game for more revenue" or "they just did it to win on home ice"as if you can just control which games you win or lose. It was the same thing during the Olympics. I have no problem with bandwagoners in general, I just hate the particular ones that suddenly act like die hard fans and experts. These people are more posers than bandwagoners. I just wanna hear from fans of other teams that made long playoff runs, including the Bruins, on if they had the same problem and what they think of it.

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@topshelfchedda - the types of fans you describe are the ones i hate as well. What i meant was, I don't mind people that are new to hockey joining on a home teams bandwagon when they are doing well, because we all gotta start somewhere as sports fans. Just don't act like a die hard expert, and once you start cheering for a team, stay with it.

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  • 10 years ago
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    I don't are usually. They are the one who makes themselves look like fools by throwing lame excuses. When someone who clearly knows nothing about hockey come up with an hypothesis like that, I'm like ''yeah right''. Let them embarrass themselves if they don't mind.

  • 10 years ago

    I personally think bandwagoners make the playoffs more important. Without people jumping on to either Boston or Vancouver's bandwagon in the finals, the only people who would watch the finals are dedicated Boston and Vancouver fans.

    I'm a Kings fan, and as such I often find it necessary to cheer for a different team during the later parts of the playoffs. I'm sure it's similar for many Canucks fans.

    I'm not quite sure which if you're talking about the band wagoners of the Canucks, who act like they know more about your team than you, or those of Boston, who talk trash on your team, but I will have to say that the Canucks have made themselves the bad guys in front of every non-Canuck fan this series. Going into the finals, I would think most fans of hockey were cheering for Canucks to finally come through after so many depressing years for Vancouver and all of Canada. But after several instances of disrespectful play from Burrows, Lapierre and Rome, and brash comments from Luongo of Thomas' play, all the moral support has gone to the Bruins. It seems as though for every hero on Boston, there is a villain on Vancouver, even if you're a fan of neither team. So if it is the Boston bandwagoners you're against, I have to disagree, as I, a die hard Kings fan, am cheering like a die hard Bruins fan.

  • Snid
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    I say, so what. Any fan of hockey is good. When a bandwagoner thinks they are an expert I just ignore them and let them have their fun. They will be gone soon.

    Plus, a die hard fan has to start somewhere.

    PS. I come here nearly everyday and have been doing so for four years. I only recognize ONE name from your answerers. That includes you. Who ARE you people? Hey Shadow......that doesn't include you.

  • 10 years ago

    I KNOW! Hell, people think they're experts when they've never watched a game prior to the finals! When they tell me imaginary facts about the Canucks, I want to beat them. These people make up facts to act like they know what they're talking about. >.< I go to Canucks games and have for a couple years now (regular and playoffs) and I would talk about going and people would tell me how lame that is. Now these same people are ... making up facts >< I've always loved the Canucks even when they didn't even make the playoffs

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    There`s the difference between you and me, me personally I can`t stand bandwagon fans in general, they are scum and a dirty stain on the world of professional sports, they are the type of people who are inpatient in lines, the people who were never great athletes themselves and the ones who can`t take a loss at a card game. I love hockey and Im loyal to one team and one team only, when that team doesn`t win I don`t jump to the winner. I see it every time this year when the two teams advance to the finals they literally jump out from the woodwork, you spot them changing their avatars to that particular teams logo, you spot unusual increases of people playing as that team on online video games, etc etc, its just a disgrace to sports in general and I wish they would all just go away and be loyal fans like the rest of us.

  • 10 years ago

    LOL I agree.

    I don't see how 'bad ice' effects your playing or 'losing purposely'

    None of those make sense.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    seems like large percentile bandwagoners have a mental state that seems to be very weak and have no true passions, they just follow whatever is popular at the momment..i hate them.

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