3 Different Types of Sports Fans

My friends and I are constantly playing games where the winner is entitled to bragging rights. We versus all the time, and boastful when we play well. One topic that some of the biggest rivalries and arguments come from in my friend group is with professional sport teams. For example, a couple of my friends are fans of the Golden State Warriors and never fail to let me know how successful of a year they’re having. On the other hand, I can’t stand this team and always tell them how the team is going to choke. I argue with them about the talent the team has and about if there captain really is the best player in the league. Simple arguments and opinions turn into deadly rivalries when my friends begin to talk professional sports. All of our beliefs typically collide in some way and we’re left debating over questions that have no true

Society calls for athletes to give flawless performances in the stadiums and arenas. The fans have grown accustomed to high flying, hard hitting shows of athleticism and finesse, and oftentimes an athletes success gains them a elevated status in society with special privileges that you and I can only dream of. As there careers get bigger and bigger they fell that they should be shown a certain respect by fans when not on the field, and many athletes become angered when

Viewer experience of a Cleveland Browns game and Smithville Smithies game is very different. When you walk out of the dimly lit hallway and into the stadium at First Energy, the sun is blinding. The grass field looks so good that it could be easily mistaken as artificial turf. There are over 70,000 fans on any given Sunday. While looking around the stadium you can see orange and brown colors everywhere of fans representing the home team. Occasionally you can see different colors scattered amongst the Brown’s colors of the fans representing the other team. Noise from the crowd is so loud, it makes it hard to hear people sitting in the seat beside you. When the browns are announced they ran out of the tunnel and the whole crowd stands up to cheer. Many fans at the browns game fans are drunk, and yell at the other team’s fans. After the browns run onto the field they start warming up. Quarterbacks start passing the ball to each other, the centers are snapping, and the punters are

The last type of fan is a fair-weather fan. This is the least liked fan and these fans irritate many people. Fair-weather fans will like one team one year and switch their favorite team the next year because of recent success by the other team. These people are not truly sports fans, and will just root for who is popular or whoever their peers like so they can fit in. Fair-weather fans root for teams that they do not follow because of excitement revolving around a team or because there are some big names on the team that they have actually heard of. These people will like a team, but will not follow them very closely and may only attend one or two sporting events a year at the most. Fair-weather fans will know the names of the star people on their team, but will not know the majority of their favorite team. Usually they will not have much merchandise with their favorite team on it either because they switch teams so much that they do not have tome to accumulate many goods with their team on them.

According to a study conducted by Wakefield and Wann, not all dysfunctional behavior is caused from drinking alcohol. Some of this dysfunctional behavior can be caused because of how highly identified a fan may be with a team (2006).

Throughout the years, sporting events has been a place for fans to forget about what is going on in their life, take a break from the real world, and focus on the game. Often, many fans don't just watch and keep up with sports solely because of the type of sport, but also to keep up with their favorite athletes and teams. However, the aggressive and violent nature of the sports can often be carried over from the field to real life, impacting not only the athlete and the team, but also the fans.

Soccer is like a religion in many countries all over the world and it means everything to its fans. Where im from, Argentina, soccer is bigger than anything. Alot of people take soccer even more serious than their jobs. Sometimes a little to serious. There has been a lot of soccer related accidents in Argentina and many other parts of the world. Many of the accidents occur during games in the stands. Soccer rivalries are very big in Argentina. Sometimes they seperate towns. Just like gangs here in United States, soccer fans fight for respect and hate towards the other team, a lot of times ending in deaths. Other incidents occur off the field. A good example to show how serious fans take the game, is the incident that occur after a World Cup, when a colombian player scored an own goal during an important game, and he was assasinated a few days later. Things like that usually never happen here in the United States. Not to say that fans are no passionate about football, but its a different type of passion.

People getting arrested, drunk, and in fights for a game? People all across the world attend sports of all kinds. Fans can not always be the nicest or like the other team but that shouldn't stop you from being a fan or going to a game. Infact it’s good to be a fan of a certain team, studies showed that if you have strong liking of a particular team it can actually make you a healthier, happier, and more social person. So if you don’t particularly like a sport just turn on your tv and try watching some type of sport who knows you might just like it.

Sports are known to be competitive when it comes to winning against your opponents. The Superbowl, the Olympics, and the World Cup are very popular among different age groups in our society today. Just seeing your favorite team playing gets your adrenaline going, your heart beating faster, and sitting at the edge of our seats with one question in our mind: will they win? In the end, we could erupt with cheers, or give a cold glare. Feelings are mutual but what we should keep in consideration is the health of the athletes.

If you are in the crowd you will most likely hear kids running up and down the bleachers when they are either going to the bathroom, or they are trying to find something to do. When the wrestlers lose their match then they get mad and take off their headgear as fast as they can and go to the sides. When they throw their gear you can either hear it hit a chair or the floor and it will make a loud noise. When the wrestlers lose most people stay quiet because they know that if you cheer then it can make the person that lost feel worse about losing. If the wrestlers lose their meet then on the way home on the bus the cheerleaders and everyone else have to be quiet so that they can think about what to do better and not to make them feel worse about

The next factor involved in attending a sporting event is the overall atmosphere which to me is always the best at a college sporting event. While controversial, the Kansas State vs. Kansas game is notorious for a certain chant when the game rolls into Manhattan. Typically, towards the end of the second half of the game the song Sandstorm by Darude is played and a chant of “F*ck KU” rings out from the Kansas State student section. As I have many friends that go to school at K-State this chant is something all the students look forward to as I have even personally heard the chant at football games. While not respectful and flat out wrong, this chant is something that I consider a part of the rivalry. Some may have a very different view on this, but I believe things could be much

Five seconds to go on the clock, the ball is inbound to LeBron James from Kyrie Irving. LeBron dribbles down half court then passes the ball back to Kyrie; Kyrie takes a step and shoots a three point attempt. *buzzer goes off* He makes the three point shot and the Quicken Loans Arena is now filled with all fans go nuts, but that is not all who are going nuts. All the Cleveland Cavaliers fans at home watching the game are jumping up and down yelling at the television!

The fan taunts during games and players expect to ignore taunts. However, the following example is completely opposite. The players did not ignore when the fan taunted. In a basketball game during the 2005 NBA season, there were three NBA players on the Indiana Pacers who fought with the fans during a game with the Detroit Pistons, after a fan hit a player with a cup of alcoholic beverage and ice had thrown from the stands. The fans are being interactive towards the fans and the fans should not disrespect athletes because the athletes achieve as they play games and the fans do not achieve anything at all except just watching the game

While screaming “you can’t do that” a girl claps with the group in order to push the buttons of the competition whenever they would mess up a play. The cheerleaders stand on the track, leading Mayhem to be wild. The air is cold and the day is slowly ending yet the fans know exactly what that means; a party is happening after this game. That cup of coffee in the girls’ hand that kept her hands warm gets thrown out after the final touchdown is made, and now onto celebrate the win. The fan does not see what the field stands for. She does not see the importance of the field or really the track around the field. She see one more game they attended with friends. She sees one more night of fun, goofing off, being a kid who will soon graduate and live the best possible life. She does not realize that this crowd will move on and have something important they are leaving behind. That is why the track is irrelevant. The fans as a whole have their own important places and times. Whether that is also a track or a baseball field or the town park, they see the track as a place to cheer and the field as a place to win some high school games. A space with buttery popcorn, burgers, and warm hot chocolate that can be smelt from a mile away. Fans do not see the hard work put in at track practice or any other sport for that matter when running laps and neither does her. Everyone in that school has used the track at

If I go to the game with Sam and Devin, they would cheer as sports fanatics because they live around sports. I played with them