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The most annoying fan bases in sports [Slide Show]
Yardbarker ^ | April 2, 2020 | Chris Mueller

Posted on 04/02/2020 8:20:36 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: Alberta's Child
Minnesota couldn't even generate enough fan interest to keep their first National Hockey League team. MINNESOTA. LOL. That's like the Dallas Cowboys moving out of Texas.

And that hockey team did move to Dallas.

21 posted on 04/02/2020 8:44:09 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: C19fan

Ahhh yes Bucky Dent’s home run....what a fabulous time it was.....followed by dancing on the field after the Yankees kicked the Dodgers a$$ at the Stadium.....


22 posted on 04/02/2020 8:44:10 AM PDT by 1217Chic
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To: Alberta's Child

Not with the addition of Ohtani. And ticket prices reflect that. But then Trout was boosting attendance as well.


23 posted on 04/02/2020 8:44:14 AM PDT by Yogafist
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To: 1217Chic

MLB network has been rebroadcasting the Bucky Dent game. I am glad those pull over jerseys are gone.


24 posted on 04/02/2020 8:46:01 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan
It could be worse. A few years after that a family attending a game at Yankee Stadium was abducted in their car in the parking lot after a game. They were left unharmed several miles away in the South Bronx after being robbed of all their belongings, but it marked a turning point in the history of Yankee Stadium operations. NYPD officers were removed from the stadium and assigned to the surrounding area outside the building, and the Yankees hired their own security staff to replace them inside.
25 posted on 04/02/2020 8:46:35 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (And somewhere in the darkness ... the gambler, he broke even.)
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To: C19fan

Not so much the ‘fans’ but for sheer gall

The snow plow clearing the space for a Patriots field goal attempt

(I never did ‘totally understand’ why it had to be publicized that the snow plow/broom operator was a convicted felon???)

Maybe the Boston press just showing that someone could be rehabilitated and do good for the ‘world’??


26 posted on 04/02/2020 8:47:10 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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To: C19fan

He was a hottie......


27 posted on 04/02/2020 8:47:50 AM PDT by 1217Chic
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To: 1217Chic
The Yankees won the 1978 World Series in six games -- with the last game in Los Angeles.

They won the 1977 series at Yankee Stadium.

28 posted on 04/02/2020 8:48:07 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (And somewhere in the darkness ... the gambler, he broke even.)
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To: dfwgator
Go figure.

And the city that is still arguably the biggest hotbed of hockey in North America -- Winnipeg -- lost their team to Arizona right around the same time.

29 posted on 04/02/2020 8:49:35 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (And somewhere in the darkness ... the gambler, he broke even.)
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To: C19fan
MLB network has been rebroadcasting the Bucky Dent game. I am glad those pull over jerseys are gone.

Hmmmm, I always thought his name was Bucky F-ing Dent!

30 posted on 04/02/2020 8:52:31 AM PDT by Repealthe17thAmendment
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To: C19fan

Bad list is bad.

Pats fans didn’t make the list.

And as a Pats fan, I am offended.

Also, as a Pats fan, I will tell you true. Belichick isn’t a master mind. He’s competent in a field where all his competition are drunken frat bros.


31 posted on 04/02/2020 8:54:25 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: C19fan

Philly has the most lowlife sports fans in the country.


32 posted on 04/02/2020 8:55:22 AM PDT by Ted Grant
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To: RitchieAprile
Flyers too. Do not wear a Pens sweater or you’ll get some brotherly loving.


33 posted on 04/02/2020 8:57:21 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Ted Grant
Philly has the most lowlife sports fans in the country.

By far....

how low can you go when the fans mock a opposing team member who just lost a child.

“where’s your son joe?”

34 posted on 04/02/2020 9:06:44 AM PDT by Popman
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I did like when they taunted the Red Army team back in 75, “They’re Going Home! They’re Going Home!”


35 posted on 04/02/2020 9:08:06 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Chris Miller blasts St Louis Cardinal fans for being friendly.

“There are few things in sports more infuriating than passive-aggressive friendliness from opposing fans, and Cardinals fans have that market cornered”


36 posted on 04/02/2020 9:16:46 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: C19fan

What I hate are frontrunners, people who latch on to a team because they know there’s a 70% chance when they watch that team play over time they will win so the frontrunner can gloat about backing a winner - as if their fandom had anything to do with their success.

Primarily these fans flock to:

New York Yankees
Los Angeles Lakers
Dallas Cowboys
Notre Dame (college football)
Duke (college basketball)

However, some of those old school dynasties have been abandoned by a new fanbase that embraces the following dynasties:

New England Patriots
Golden State Warriors
Alabama (college football)
Ohio State (college football)

The NHL and college basketball don’t have a genuine dynasty for frontrunners to swarm to right now.

If you’re a fan of a frontrunner team because you grew up around them and was inundated by their fandom, you’re excused but the rest of them are just frontrunners that are so emotionally weak that they have to attach themselves to a winning team to make them fell better about themselves or superior to others.


37 posted on 04/02/2020 9:20:12 AM PDT by OrangeHoof (The Democrats - Unafraid to burn in Hell.)
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To: OrangeHoof

Mississippi State fans are the friendliest people you’ll ever meet, but the chorus of cowbells make that the deadliest place to watch a game.


38 posted on 04/02/2020 9:29:00 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: C19fan

1. Oregon Ducks
2. Oregon Ducks
3. Oregon Ducks

Guess who number four is? :)


39 posted on 04/02/2020 9:48:05 AM PDT by DennisR (Look around. God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
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To: crusty old prospector

So were we in San Marcos.

We were doing that back in the early 80’s in Lubbock.


40 posted on 04/02/2020 9:57:06 AM PDT by Dacula (Wash your hands. Jesus and germs are everywhere.)
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