Choice essay Behind every team’s back there are loads of fanatics that so call themselves “fans”. These fans care about the success of a certain sports team, while some are die-hard fans that have been supporting the team since day one, others just jump on the bandwagon after the team claimed the championship title, and then there are always to few who blindly follows a team because they do not want to be left out. Even though the die-hard fans care way more about the team than the bandwagoners or the blind followers, they still get viewed at as just another fan and does not receive the credit and glory they deserve. The die-hard fans will capture any chance to support their team such as dressing up, apply face paint and being as loud as possible whenever the team does good.They are always prepared for the game, whether it is raining or snowing, they will always be by the team's side, …show more content…
Blind followers are only interested in sports whenever a game is on. Their favorite player is usually the one that is trending on social media. They might like the idea of being a fan, but their heart just isn’t in it. I personally find it amusing when the blind followers try to join in on a conversation as they do not know what they are talking about. As shown above, the die-hard fans do not deserve to be viewed equality as the bandwagon fans and blind-following fans. The amount of dedication and support they show for their team is unreal compared to the other fans. The die-hard fans stick with the team through thick and thin, sharing the laughers and the failures along with the team side by side. Blind following fans only care about sports to fit in when watching a game. Bandwagon fans are just fake fan that are their for the glory but doesn’t not get to experience the real pride in a
Along with the outpouring of love, there is criticism. Unless you have walked a mile in someone's shoes, don't pretend to know or understand their life and struggles. Basketball fans have watched Lamar Odom light it up on the basketball court or fall in love with a member of the most famous reality family, however that is all we see. We see what is put out there for us to see. We are not there behind closed doors witnessing the pain he endured, nor do we have any business doing
With how many sporting events that there are in this country, it is common to see fans that love multiple games. Professional sports are typically favored by most followers, but there is a clear deficiency that hurts the leagues. Professional sports are exhilarating if one is a fan of a playoff team or especially a team that wins championships on a regular basis. While this is great for traditional powerhouses and teams with endless amounts of money, the majority of teams in these leagues serve as punching bags for years or even multiple decades. There is a fine line between these teams and other organizations that struggle just to make financial ends meet. Teams in financial
Fans that are fanatics are the ones who are diehard and will put their favorite team before almost all other priorities. Their lives revolve around their favorite team and they will do
Football is a very popular sport. For a lot of football fans, football is their whole weekend. College football on Saturday and the NFL on Sunday. Most football lovers have a day that they prefer, some choosing college football, while others choose the NFL. People choose favorites for a variety of reasons. This essay will point out the similarities and differences of college football and the NFL.
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
College football is a major part of many peoples' lives, especially here in the South. Whether we or someone we know is an alumni, we plan to go there in the future we think the uniforms are cute, or whatever reason, we always have one favorite team we cheer for. sometimes fans of a team will wear a shirt with the team's logo and that is as far as their loyalty goes. Others may attend a few games a season, but there are also those die hard fans that never miss a game or always tailgating, screaming at the refs, and have the team's fight song as their ringtone. While all that may seem a little overboard, there are people believe it or not, who take their team devotion as far as killing to show their devotion to their favorite team. Having
The way a team builds itself changes the type of culture that surrounds a team. A team at the other end of the spectrum is the St. Louis Cardinals. They have built their team through their farm system like I mention earlier, also known as the minor leagues. Many of their players are “home grown” talent as they call it and the fans are very close to their players, unlike the money driven stars, the fans feel like the young players are growing up and their involved with it. An example of this is on the teams Facebook page the team posted a thank you to two of their home grown stars that they traded away, and the top comment reads this, “Freese will always be a cardinal in the hearts of true fans of STL(St. Louis) baseball.” The second highest comment posted is this, “Freese will always be the homegrown talent. Best of luck to both of them in Anaheim.” The cardinal fans love their players and care about wining, but there is more to it to them, they feel a part of the growing of David Freese and other players like him.
In 2008, a study showed that the percentage of people who watched football in America (30%) was equal to the combined percentages of people who watched the next three top professional sports. (Baseball-15%, NASCAR-10%, Hockey-5%) This shows how drastically football’s audience in the country has increased. It is hard to believe that such a huge organization came from the passion of a few men determined to revolutionize the sports world. An insight to how, when and where it all started might have the biggest baseball fan asking, “Is it Sunday yet?”
Reason to Listen: Sports are a big part of most of our lives. You don’t want to be stuck being a fan of the wrong team
Sports are extremely popular around the world and only get more popular as time goes on. Sports is on television (TV), in the news, in the newspaper, and online. It only makes sense that this is the case. A sporting event is the ultimate drama. The variability of a game is what gets people so into it. Sports can tell a story, and teach great life lessons as well as inspire people. If sports are that important to the people around the world who watch it, just think about how important sports are to the ones who actually play it and coach it. It is their passion, their persona, their life. With the media’s harsh expectations of teams today, unless a team wins a championship, they are deemed unsuccessful. Since expectations are so high,
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
“In matches between the two groups of football teams, the teams from the same state as the umpires received more favorable decisions than the other teams did by a margin of 11% for the 171 games studied.” In situations where the umpires had to allocate rewards to members of a group they identified with competing against a group they did not identify with they clearly favored their ingroup. This study helped proved the theory that intergroup competition is a prevalent reason why ingroup favoritism is often exhibited in society. This idea is completely embedded into the entire sporting culture of our society today. We group ourselves together with the “home team” or the ingroup. We prefer for that group, as well as ourselves by association, to be successful. The second explanation that is usually offered is the idea that people will have a better opinion of people in their ingroup in order to boost their own self-esteem by association. Robert Cialdini conducted a very interesting study on a concept called Basking in Reflected Glory (BIRG) at several different universities. In order to study how self-esteem was a determinant of ingroup bias, Cialdini and his team researched the behavior of students after victories and losses of the school’s football teams. Their results “Demonstrated the BIRG phenomenon by showing a greater tendency for university students to wear
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.
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