Gotta love Ron Artest

• skank

  

  BTW Society, I know you're a Cleveland hater, but I actually forget what team/s you bandwagon, could you please remind me?
• skank

  

  -Society-;420226 wrote:Weak.

  
  Oh, like some fucking pussy who gets on a website and repeats over and over and over and over, Cleveland sucks isn't.
• -Society-

  

  skank;420229 wrote:Oh, like some fucking pussy who gets on a website and repeats over and over and over and over, Cleveland sucks isn't.

  
  Hahahahaha!!!! You'll be alright.
• skank

  

  Laley23;420227 wrote:Not a knock, but how do you go about rooting for a player and not a team? Isnt that weird to do?

  
  Actually laley, I've done it in the past, as a kid, I was always a Browns fan, but I rooted for Walter Payton to do well....Except when he played the Browns.
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  skank;420231 wrote:Actually laley, I've done it in the past, as a kid, I was always a Browns fan, but I rooted for Walter Payton to do well....Except when he played the Browns.

  
  Well, sure I have favorite players outside my team who I follow. But I have a team who I root for first. Thats all I was getting at.
  
  I know a bunch of kids in college who just followed their favorite players and became fans of whichever team. I just never understood how that could be fun when/if they ended up winning anything. You dont invest your time in the team over your life, the rewards cant be as gratifying.
• skank

  

  Laley23;420236 wrote:Well, sure I have favorite players outside my team who I follow. But I have a team who I root for first. Thats all I was getting at.
  
  I know a bunch of kids in college who just followed their favorite players and became fans of whichever team. I just never understood how that could be fun when/if they ended up winning anything. You dont invest your time in the team over your life, the rewards cant be as gratifying.

  
  Agreed, I never understood how someone who lived in Ohio their whole lives could get excited about a team hoisting a banner or raising a trophy above their heads thousands and thousands of miles away....Say, in LA.
• GoChiefs

  

  Laley23;420227 wrote:Not a knock, but how do you go about rooting for a player and not a team? Isnt that weird to do?

  
  Me, personally, that's actually why I starting liking basketball and the Heat to begin with. Growing up in a small town in SE Ohio...the NBA, nor the Cavs, weren't exactly something that was talked about. I started watching Zo...and b/c of him...started getting into basketball morning, and became a Hornets fan. But when he was traded, I had to follow him, so I became a Heat fan. When he retired, that's just where my allegiance stayed.
• GoChiefs

  

  skank;420229 wrote:Oh, like some fucking pussy who gets on a website and repeats over and over and over and over, Cleveland sucks isn't.

  
  Or, like someone who gets on a website and repeats over and over and over, "You're from Ohio, you're an idiot if you root for any team other than an Ohio too". Yeah, we get it already, you don't like it. Lol
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Laley23

  

  GoChiefs;420247 wrote:Me, personally, that's actually why I starting liking basketball and the Heat to begin with. Growing up in a small town in SE Ohio...the NBA, nor the Cavs, weren't exactly something that was talked about. I started watching Zo...and b/c of him...started getting into basketball morning, and became a Hornets fan. But when he was traded, I had to follow him, so I became a Heat fan. When he retired, that's just where my allegiance stayed.

  Oh ok, so your a Heat fan? Thats cool. I though you were a LeBron fan now following the Heat.
  
  As for bandwagoning a team far away....I guess I wouldnt want to do it, but if you follow them all the time you still get the thrill of their success, much more than just following a player.
• GoChiefs

  

  Laley23;420252 wrote:Oh ok, so your a Heat fan? Thats cool. I though you were a LeBron fan now following the Heat.
  
  As for bandwagoning a team far away....I guess I wouldnt want to do it, but if you follow them all the time you still get the thrill of their success, much more than just following a player.

  
  Nope, welcome him to the team, but still not a LeBron fan. And I get what your saying about following a player, I mean, I could never do that now. I was like, 14 when that happened. As for the location of the team, you just never heard anything about the Cavs, and they weren't a big deal where I'm from. Had I had some influences, that might have changed. But I've just never been one to "root for an Ohio team, just b/c I'm from Ohio".
• Darkon

  

  Laley23;420236 wrote:Well, sure I have favorite players outside my team who I follow. But I have a team who I root for first. Thats all I was getting at.
  
  I know a bunch of kids in college who just followed their favorite players and became fans of whichever team. I just never understood how that could be fun when/if they ended up winning anything. You dont invest your time in the team over your life, the rewards cant be as gratifying.

  
  I think that fantasy leagues have a hand in people just cheering for players and not a specific team.
• Hb31187

  

  hoops23;420075 wrote:I don't like ring-chasers.
  
  I like the guys who stick to their teams and build a winner.

  You liked shaq and antawn. They were ring chasin
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  Darkon;420283 wrote:I think that fantasy leagues have a hand in people just cheering for players and not a specific team.

  
  Sure im that way as well. But I think most people still have their team. Fantasy has definitely raised the interest throughout leagues for people beyond their teams though. In the NFL I can find interest and a rooting side in almost every game each week, but the Colts are still always my team and Browns at 1b.
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  GoChiefs;420247 wrote:Me, personally, that's actually why I starting liking basketball and the Heat to begin with. Growing up in a small town in SE Ohio...the NBA, nor the Cavs, weren't exactly something that was talked about. I started watching Zo...and b/c of him...started getting into basketball morning, and became a Hornets fan. But when he was traded, I had to follow him, so I became a Heat fan. When he retired, that's just where my allegiance stayed.

  
  The highlighted words are an excerpted edition of being a bandwagon fan.
• 2quik4u

  

  Hb31187;420286 wrote:You liked shaq and antawn. They were ring chasin

  
  not antawn he was trraded
• 2quik4u

  

  the only dude on here that i knew was a heat fan was jpake now all of a sudden some others start to appear
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  2quik4u;420331 wrote:the only dude on here that i knew was a heat fan was jpake now all of a sudden some others start to appear

  
  Pretty soon, the (bandwagon) Heat fans will rival the (bandwagon) Laker fans on here.
• 2quik4u

  

  skank;420338 wrote:Pretty soon, the (bandwagon) Heat fans will rival the (bandwagon) Laker fans on here.

  
  pretty soon you are gonna rival sleeper for the amount of dicks taken in the mouth
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  2quik4u;420339 wrote:pretty soon you are gonna rival sleeper for the amount of dicks taken in the mouth

  
  Sorry, I calls em as I sees em. Jumpy.
• GoChiefs

  

  skank;420308 wrote:The highlighted words are an excerpted edition of being a bandwagon fan.

  Thats not a bandwagon fan jackass. I was a fan of a player. Like I said, I was 13 or 14 years old. Big deal. It wouldn't happen now. I have my teams, and they will never change. I don't need your approval.
  

  2quik4u;420331 wrote:the only dude on here that i knew was a heat fan was jpake now all of a sudden some others start to appear

  Nah, I'm just not big on basketball...I follow it in the papers, maybe watch a couple games a year, check out the highlights, but that's about it. How it's always been with me, and how it always will be, as far as the NBA goes.
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  GoChiefs;420358 wrote:Thats not a bandwagon fan jackass. I was a fan of a player. Like I said, I was 13 or 14 years old. Big deal. It wouldn't happen now. I have my teams, and they will never change. I don't need your approval.
  
  
  
  Nah, I'm just not big on basketball...I follow it in the papers, maybe watch a couple games a year, check out the highlights, but that's about it. How it's always been with me, and how it always will be, as far as the NBA goes.

  #1, They will never change? Time will tell. They already did once.
• Ironman92

  

  In the NBA I've always pretty much just rooted for my favorite player's team....weird maybe. I rooted Lakers until Magic revealed he would no longer be playing....then for the Bulls with Jordan...and the Cavs with LeBron...wne Jordan was baseballing I rooted for Olajuwon and Grant Hill...in fact I never rooted for the great Piston teams....but loved the Grant Hill Pistons.
  
  I guess we'll see this year....but I have no Cleveland connections living in the southern part of Ohio....so I may be Heat fan. Wade is one of my favorites and LeBron is my favorite to watch...nothing more in it for me.
• GoChiefs

  

  skank;420362 wrote:#1, They will never change? Time will tell. They already did once.

  
  Yeah..your right..and if they do..oh well..again..I don't need your approval.
• Ironman92

  

  and not really having a team may not be as gratifying....but it also doesn't hurt as much when things go against you.
  
  I wish LeBron would've stayed in Cleveland and won multiple titles....that would've shut a lot of ignorance up.....but now the negativity on here will be 1000X....so that's a pain for people who really don't think of LeBron outside of the court. Regardless of how many he's upset he's one of THE very finest players on the planet and IMO the most entertaining to watch.....I simply have far less expectations than any true Cleveland fan. For my selfishness of enjoying life as much as possible.....hopefully the Cavs will be pretty good so I'll have something to watch during the doldrums of winter.