Why is it, that you are not suppose to change your team?
May 30, 2019 12:31:15 GMT
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Post by Rey Kahuka on May 30, 2019 12:31:15 GMT
I guess it depends on the reason you change teams. If the team owner is an idiot or the team just keeps bringing in assholes (as in criminals, guys who don't give 100%, etc.) year after year, I can see giving up on them. If you genuinely don't enjoy the people in an organization, why would you root for them to succeed? Otherwise, why would you switch? Kids like whoever is popular, usually the team that just won. When adults do this, it's just embarrassing. Certainly you can respect a team that plays well, but to literally change your colors every time a team gets hot? Makes it look like you're getting your sense of self-worth from your sports team (which can also happen if you support the same winning team, but that's a separate topic).
But sticking with a team through the tough times makes the winning that much sweeter. As a New England sports fan, I know this firsthand. I remember when the Red Sox almost broke me. It wasn't even 2003. It was going down 0-3 in the 2004 ALCS. I watched game three in its entirety. 19-8. I remember turning off the tv in a daze. Just weeks earlier, I had a brief conversation about baseball with my sister (not a sports fan). She asked me why I was a Red Sox fan because, "They always lose." I told her you don't give up on a team because they lose. Fast forward to my post-game 3 stupor. I wasn't angry, just disillusioned. I felt hollow as a fan. Why did I keep doing this to myself? What was the point? Then I remembered that conversation with my sister and said fuck it, this is why I root for that team. You go through the bullshit like this to make it to the other side. The Patriots had done it, and so can the Red Sox. And the rest is history.
I can't imagine what my sporting life would be like if I just gave up and starting rooting for the Yankees or whoever. These are my teams (New England teams) to the end, whatever may come. I'm a sports fan, so I have levels of appreciation for other teams (nothing wrong with having tiers of fandom in my opinion-- your team gets eliminated so you start rooting for team X), but nothing like those for my home teams. You don't want your fandom to become too much of your identity as a person, but the way you go about your fandom defines you, at least in part.
But sticking with a team through the tough times makes the winning that much sweeter. As a New England sports fan, I know this firsthand. I remember when the Red Sox almost broke me. It wasn't even 2003. It was going down 0-3 in the 2004 ALCS. I watched game three in its entirety. 19-8. I remember turning off the tv in a daze. Just weeks earlier, I had a brief conversation about baseball with my sister (not a sports fan). She asked me why I was a Red Sox fan because, "They always lose." I told her you don't give up on a team because they lose. Fast forward to my post-game 3 stupor. I wasn't angry, just disillusioned. I felt hollow as a fan. Why did I keep doing this to myself? What was the point? Then I remembered that conversation with my sister and said fuck it, this is why I root for that team. You go through the bullshit like this to make it to the other side. The Patriots had done it, and so can the Red Sox. And the rest is history.
I can't imagine what my sporting life would be like if I just gave up and starting rooting for the Yankees or whoever. These are my teams (New England teams) to the end, whatever may come. I'm a sports fan, so I have levels of appreciation for other teams (nothing wrong with having tiers of fandom in my opinion-- your team gets eliminated so you start rooting for team X), but nothing like those for my home teams. You don't want your fandom to become too much of your identity as a person, but the way you go about your fandom defines you, at least in part.