When sports fans say "We" this and "We" that
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XiaNaphryz
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I have heard of people refer to themselves as a Facebooker or Booker before actually. They're the ones who are constantly always on it.
I don't use FB, but I don't make a big deal about their choices either.
I'm also heard others use the term Redditor, Imgurian, etc.
WrenchNinja
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This is great. Will be useful for later.
Amory
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just not really sure why you're being a dick about it.
some people love their favorite teams and feel an affiliation as a fan, some don't. assuming that those people haven't accomplished anything in their own lives or "don't have a lot going on" is ridiculous
In the end, any website moniker is a bad analogy, if those sites rely on user created content.
In some sense, you ARE partly responsible for that site's success, unlike a sports team. You buying an overpriced officially licensed jersey won't propel your team to the semifinals, but driving traffic through good content WILL help your favorite site of choice.
In some sense, you ARE partly responsible for that site's success, unlike a sports team. You buying an overpriced officially licensed jersey won't propel your team to the semifinals, but driving traffic through good content WILL help your favorite site of choice.
DoktorEvil
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Redditor?
Maybe he's a Marlins fan. I'd be bitter if my team owner was a self-professed dirtbag.
Rodney McKay
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I like watching Football and have a favorite team, but if they aren't doing well and the other team has a good game I can still enjoy the game as a whole and even enjoy it if the other team gets a great catch or run.
It's why I don't love watching it with my girlfriend because she screams at the TV and takes losses really hard.
It's why I don't love watching it with my girlfriend because she screams at the TV and takes losses really hard.
And here we have the real cause! Trauma which forced an ability to rationalize the pain away.
It's ok buddy boy. You can always join up on the Cowboys band wagon.
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PassiveObserver
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FTFY
You seem upset that you're not surrounded by allies here to validate your amusingly off-base feelings of superiority.
Don't worry, not all sports fans are the villainous jocks from an 80s high school movie. We can be nice enough.
Apple is located in Cupertino which is less than 30min from where I live. We're (Apple and I) building a huge campus called The Spaceship in Cupertino. We (other citizens and I) hear about it quite a bit on local news. I thought their location was pretty well known elsewhere too.
I'm a sports fan. It's weird that I have to keep saying that. I just don't personally identify with organizations that I have no direct influence over.
Zen_Arcade
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They represent the city they live in, which is something a lot of people feel a sense of community with. That's why so many teams wear the city's name on their away jersey. They are representatives from the city, going to another city to play that city's athletic representatives. Maybe you don't feel that sense of community, that's fine, but a lot of people do and it shouldn't be that hard to understand why.
Local sports teams are like individual athletes representing a country in the Olympics. Sure, if some girl from Colorado wins the Gold in a skiing competition, technically I didn't do anything, and she's from nowhere near where I live. But she represents my country in the Olympics, so people say "We" won the Gold. That's why at the end of the Olympics they always have a tally of which country has the most medals at the end. Because the people in the competition are representing the country they're from, much like a football team represents the city their home stadium is in.
I swear, it's the most basic of concepts and you're treating it as if it's rocket science.
Because for you is just an organisation. You don't know passion.
They did.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
Sounds like Bud Adams killed it for him.
Hoyer got benched, chill out.
It's not your fault.
It's not your fault.
It's not your fault.
It's not your fault.
It's not your fault.
DoktorEvil
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But you'd have to be passionate to be a fan. I mean, fan is short for "fanatic".
Making fun of people for wearing jerseys and showing support using the "we" pronoun doesn't seem very fanatic.
So y'all are in Cupertino? Well I guess not you since you don't live there. And by affiliation, you just mean that that's where they are HQ'd and that Apple Inc is actually multinational?
Hmmm, I wonder how that differs from the teams we are discussing...
Did anyone else mention that fans pay the players' wages through ticket and shirt sales + tv subscriptions and that teams perform much better at home, in front of the support of their fans? I'm sure they did, but the point remains: The fans are an actual part of the success of a professional sports team.
Shake Appeal
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I find it weirder when people don't do this when speaking about their team.
The NFL Universe brother! It's key!
brisk tacos
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This is an interesting post, since most people reading this thread would assume the people who can't understand/are bothered by "we" in sports talk are likely to be people who are awkward and grew up without much human interaction and, as a result, are threatened by acts of community and normal interaction.
That would make sense if 100% of a team's fans lived in the same city where they play their home games.
Yes we (Apple) are a multinational company, but sports are multinational too.
FriedConsole
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im qualified to say we. I'm part of many soccer teams as you can see from my experience
I have to question your opinion because you bought the exact same Vita game four times. I do give you points for owning a Vita tho.
brisk tacos
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"Us gamers"
I didn't realize a concert was a sporting event between two opposing teams with two opposing fan bases
Honestly it's no different from how we talk about global politics. When you refer to how we're doing overseas, of course you don't actually think you're overseas right now or have been recently, you're part of a group which includes a governing body and a military. A sports franchise is much the same way, it isn't just a team. It's a front office, a scouting department, a coaching staff, players, and fan base. How is that hard to grasp? haha
Yeah but fans who don't live in the city/state of their favorite team usually don't say the affiliation or representation of their city as the reason why they associate themselves with the team. So what's your point?
Yes sports are multinational but most teams aren't.
brisk tacos
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I see a lot of "only in America" type posts for completely normal human behavior that happens everywhere, which leads me to believe that the people making those posts only interact with people online.
And_Gignac
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This is hardly a sports thing, though. Many people use "we" to feel part of the achievements of others.
As someone with English friends, one a Manchester City fan, I can tell you right now it isn't an "American" thing, and in fact I find that highly offensive.
I can't believe this thread is still going on. There's absolutely nothing wrong with being passionate about sports, really connecting with a team and feeling part of a collective through that team. When you're really in it, through the good and bad, there's no better feeling in the world when your team does succeed. It's literally like taking a natural hit of coke and that intense feeling of utter joy and euphoria is what keeps you coming back for more.
Like it or not, sports is a major part of society, life and the current culture in which we live. This is completely universal and if you can't understand or feel the same why the fuck do you care if other ppl enjoy it? How are they infringing on your right to live?
Like it or not, sports is a major part of society, life and the current culture in which we live. This is completely universal and if you can't understand or feel the same why the fuck do you care if other ppl enjoy it? How are they infringing on your right to live?
Take this for example most Manchester united or Arsenal or Real madrid fans don't live in the city there favorite club is from, most probably have never been to those places or even same country as the clubs based in.
Football fans in the UK are all "we" this and "we" that. Mitchell and Webb did a sketch on it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xN1WN0YMWZU
Ganzlinger
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You'll never walk alone.
I agree. People trying to defend the OP's mindset are failing horribly and its funny to watch.
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Dragon1893
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Here in Portugal everyone does it. And yes, I'm guilty as well.
We've got 2 films coming out next year that I think you'll enjoy.
I don't know why it would bother anyone if people say "we," unless in doing so they are actually claiming to have something to do with the team or the outcome. It's just a short, convenient way to talk about the team you like during a game between two opponents.
My team = We
Other team = They
My team = We
Other team = They
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