Types of Sports Fans

101-OL01D 16 June 2010 Types of Sports Fans Professional sports has become one of the most popular industries in the world today. The media spends billions of dollars on advertisements and teams spend millions of dollars on professional athletes all for one reason, the fans. The fans ticket sales and merchandise purchases are what keeps all the sport teams around and prevents professional athletes from losing their jobs. There are three types of fans in the sports world, average fans, fanatics, and fair-weather

for their favorite sports teams. These people make up a team's fan base. A fan base is the fans that support a particular team. These fans can be divided into three categories: bandwagon fans, super fans, and the fan who thinks he is a coach. A bandwagon fan is a fan who switches their support to whatever team is winning. A bandwagon fan typically only has one team, whoever wins the championship. Accordingly, Bandwagon fans are condemned by most other types of fans. Most fans stay with their team

3 Different Types of Sport Fans Everybody enjoys going to a sporting event. Whether the sporting event is Football, Baseball, Basketball, or even Hockey. Sporting events bring excitement to all of us, thinking that our team will win. If our team wins, we usually go home happy. Then if our team goes home losing, we get upset or sad inside. Anyways, we will always cheer for our team no matter what especially at the game. There are always those fans though that bugs people to death. Anytime at a

different sports that has begun to play a vital role in many cultures. Sports have begun to grow over the years, while fans are most of the population. Whether it is football, volleyball, baseball, or even bowling, these fans come in all sizes. Fans are significate to sports as they buy tickets to fill the stadium or sports gear to wear around and represent a certain team. Fans are what have made sporting events so entertaining. There are several distinct types and ways to classify the fans based on

year olds, 64% of 30 to 49 year olds, and 58% of those aged 50 and older in the United States admit to being sports fans. Out of these millions of fans, most of them fall into certain categories. There are typically three ways to classify sports fans: the fans that think they are the coach, the dedicated fans, and the bandwagon fans. The first type of sports fan typically found is the fan that thinks they are the coach. Have you ever been to a football game, basketball game, or even soccer game,

Kevin Walters Go Team! Sports have become a huge part of this country’s culture, and the sports fans make up a good portion of the population. Every other conversation you hear, whether it be at the water cooler or in a bar, has something to do with some big play or blown call that happened the night before. The popularity of sports has grown magnificently in just the last 24 years that I have been a sports fan. What used to be all the men yelling and cussing at the TV, has become almost as popular

immense number of diverse sports around the world. No one can be sure exactly how many though. With the vast amount sports there are, you can be sure that fans everywhere. There are multiple categories that these fans could be in. But there are three main types of fans that you are most likely to come across. There’s the nonchalant fan, die-hard fans and the authentic fans First, let’s take a look at the nonchalant fan. These are the fans that oftentimes don’t follow teams or sports excessively, but usually

Sports fans, also called sports devotees, followers, or supporters, devote themselves to a particular athlete, organization or sport. They may show their enthusiasm by often attending sporting events or watch on television, being members of a fan club, follow athletic news through newspapers, online websites, and create fanzines. They show a certain behavior towards an organization. These behaviors manifest in different ways and show in different types of sports fans. Even though sports fanaticism

an individual. Violence in sports comes in many forms, and divides into social and cultural factors related to the sport ethic, gender ideology, the dynamics of social class and race, and the tactics used in sports. Violence in sports has gone too far because sports violence has become so severe in sports, that players are injured each years. However, in sports some violence has become entertaining for the fans and fans would begin their own violence around with other fans that support opposing teams

country thousands of sports fans are tuning in to watch their favorite team play. With a drink in one hand and a burger in the other, everyone goes to find their seats in the stands or on the couch to watch the football game. Some are watching by themselves and others with their whole family. However, no matter where you are watching the game you will find the same three types of football fans; the casual fan, the real fan, and the crazy fan. The casual fans have their favorite sports team, however they