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Commissioner Red !5gFoSxriW2
If you are a fan of a team because they win, you are a bandwagoner.
If you are a fan of a team because they're the reigning champs, you are a bandwagoner.
If you are a fan of a team because they have a popular player on that team, you are a bandwagoner.

If you are a fan of a team because you grew up in the team's area and have been with them since childhood, you are NOT a bandwagoner.

Everything else is up for interpretation.
>> Anonymous
>If you are a fan of a team because you grew up in the team's area and have been with them since childhood, you are NOT a bandwagoner.

yup
>> Anonymous
seems right to me
>> Anonymous
move into a new area and didn't feel a strong afflination with your old team.
>> Anonymous
If you live in a free agent state (Arkansas, Nebraska, Montana, etc.) and you've liked the team since childhood, I would say you're not a bandwagon fan.
>> Anonymous
>>396988
as long as they are in the same region
>> Anonymous
>>396987
depends on your age when you move
>> Anonymous
I typically back the teams in whatever region I live in, but behind those I grew up with.
>> Anonymous
>>396984
sounds like you bet money on the Sooners
>> Anonymous
Your parents grew up somewhere else, moved before they had you, and still root for their old hometown team, and you picked that up from them?
>> Commissioner Red !5gFoSxriW2
>>396988
>>396990
>>396991
>>396995

That's why I put the "open for interpretation" bit at the end.
>> Anonymous
What if you're a fan of a team from a city that you never lived in but your parents grew up there?
>> Anonymous
Born in Carrolton, TX. Been in love with the Cowboys since I can even remember when I learned what football was. My dad took me to countless Cowboys games and even bought a box suite in Texas Stadium to keep with my demand for MOAR FOOTBAWL.

And yet, I am still often called a bandwagoner.

WTF /sp/?
>> Anonymous
>>397000
>>397002
parentsmind
>> Anonymous
>If you're a fan of any team for any reason, you are a bandwagoner.

fix'd
>> Anonymous
if you actually care why someone else roots for a given team, you lead a sad friendless life.
>> Anonymous
I grew up in a free agent state and my parents didn't pass on any sports team genes to me. Is it now impossible for me to not be a bandwagon-fan of any sport teams?
>> SINISTAR !!fJm7+63eX8z
>If you're a Red Sox fan that wasn't born and raised in Boston, you're a bandwagoner, no matter how long you've been a fan of them.
>> Black ? Star !x8ngkAZjXE
Nah you have team that are outside where you live. But you have to stick with that team. If you associated yourself with more than any one team in the same sport during the same season OR you have have supported more than 2 teams in the same sport then you a bandwagoner.

You pick a team. That team is your team. You take the fail with the good.
>> Anonymous
What the Sensitive Sallies of this board fail to realize is that 'Bandwagoner' is the /sp/ term for 'Faggot'.

On the other boards, you get called a fag, people don't over-react and think "Wow, this poster thinks that I am a homosexual. I should definitely defend myself, because I know that I do not, in fact, enjoy the company of men."

They take it at face value as a term of disgust, not a literal commentary on their sexual preference. Now take /sp/: Someone gets called a 'bandwagoner' and suddenly they are up in arms "OMG IVE BEEN A FAN OF THIS TEAM SINCE I WAS CHILD THEN WHO WAS PHONE". Just take it for what it is; a general term of disgust or a poor trolling attempt.

The next time someone calls you a Bandwagoner, just fucking let it go. You look like an asshole if you don't.
>> Black ? Star !x8ngkAZjXE
>>397008
let me guess...boston fan?
>> Anonymous
>>397002

Bullshit reason. Learn to think for yourself and cheer for your local team.
>> SINISTAR !!fJm7+63eX8z
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>>397022

>Think for yourself
>Cheer for your local team
>> Anonymous
>>397020
No, but if I ever started worrying about someone else on the internet rooting for a team for any reason they choose I think I am going to shoot myself.
>> Dwight the Crushing Philly Dodgers Face !!JUkor79q6hz
I've lived all 19 years of my life in Los Angeles.

But I root for the California Bears.

Does that make me a bandwagon?
>> Anonymous
>>397027

No, but it does make you gay.
>> Anonymous
>>397027
NO, YOU HAVE TO ROOT FOR USC OR UCLA OR YOU ARE WORTHLESS SCUM.
>> Anonymous
18-1 now filters to Bandwagon
>> SINISTAR !!fJm7+63eX8z
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>>397025
>> St.Feraligatr !VJOf9vVc0E
>>396984
Pretty much. Man, I used to question you a lot but I find myself agreeing with you more and more lately.
>> Anonymous
>If you are a fan of a team because you grew up in the team's area and have been with them since childhood, you are NOT a bandwagoner.

This applies to me, but I live in Boston, and /sp/ always tells me I'm a bandwagoner no matter what
>> Anonymous
what if your girlfriend is a whore.
>> Anonymous
If you grew up in a region and got sick of the team, and decided to like another team, then you're not a bandwagoner.
>> Anonymous
>>397016
>If you associated yourself with more than any one team in the same sport during the same season OR you have have supported more than 2 teams in the same sport then you a bandwagoner.

I was born and raised in NYC, we have two teams in almost every sport. There is hardly a point where I'm not supporting two teams in the same sport.

That being said, when our teams face each other I do root for one over the other and in general take win/losses for one team harder (Giants/Rangers/Mets).
>> Anonymous
Born in TX so I root for the Cowboys, Mavs, and UTx.

Raised in the South Eastern Connecticut area for 8 years adn just returned for college and wish I wasn't a Redsox fan. I remember when the majority of people living in Connecticut were a Yankees fan now every fuckwit is a Soxfags.
>> Commissioner Red !5gFoSxriW2
>>397003
>Carrolton, TX
>Cowboys fan

NOT bandwagon. Not by any stretch of the imagination.

>>397014

If you pick a team and stick with them, as long as it isn't some obvious bandwagon pick (00s Patriots, mid-90s Bulls, etc), it's not bandwagon.

>>397051

Only if the team has done a lot of bad moves and fucked over the fans can you forsake it for another team, i.e. the Blazers in the mid-to-late 90s, the Detroit Lions in the Millen era, etc.
>> Anonymous
>>397063
I live in NYC too. Just because there are two teams, that doesn't mean anyone supports both of them. I love the Mets and despise the Yankees (I basically only want the Yankees to win when they play the Red Sox.) Same with the Rangers over the Islanders/Devils and the Knicks over the Nets. You're a faggot.
>> Anonymous
>>397051
oooo, almost got me
>> Anonymous
>>397136


Weird, I'm the opposite. I love the Mets and LOVE when the Red Sox beat the Skanks.

It's interesting how despite the fact that Mets and Sox fans HATE the yankees both, the fan lines are blurred in the sense that some mets fans hate the sox and some sox fans hate the mets.
>> Kilgamayan !2BklmILFiE
If you root for a team in a city that has produced at least one team with a winning record at any point in the last 25 years, you are a bandwagoner.
>> SINISTAR !!fJm7+63eX8z
>>397157

Buffalo is fine too.
>> Anonymous
I've never understood the whole notion that real sports fans only cheer for the hometown team. I mean, how arbitrary is it to choose your favorite team based solely on geographic proximity? I think anyone who picks a team and sticks with them is a good fan, regardless if they live near their favorite team.

in b4 bandwagoner
>> Anonymous
>>397249
this is the internet, there is no place for logical thinking here.
>> Anonymous
>>397249
bandwagoner.