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Loading ...Well. One bad game, and all of a sudden half the passengers are off the bus and screaming that the team sucks and everyone needs traded yesterday–even Ray Whitney, who is our leading scorer.
My favorite bit of idiocy from the boards was the moron who said that JimR “never should have let Cullen go”.
I’m sorry, but for 4 bills per? The Rangers can have him and his 15 points.
And then there’s “The Captain”–an idiot who only shows up after a loss to tell everyone on teh LGC how he’s such a better fan than everyone else because he boos the team whenever they play like ass and leaves early when the other team ties or scores a go-ahead goal. And if you take issue with him and have two X chromosomes, then obviously you’re just a puckbunny who’s trying to get the players’ attention by defending them. I have a sneaking suspicion that he might be that “Brian” fuckhead that trolled the crap out of the Oilers blogs during the SCF after Games 1, 2, 3, and 7 but was nowhere to be seen when the ‘Canes lost games 4, 5, and 6–but that is, of course, mere supposition.
edit: It’s not “Brian”. It’s DrFrankLives, apparently–and as you can see by the comments, he is none too happy at being pimpslapped.
The ‘Canes, when they lose, have tended to lose in rather asstacular fashion. There is no doubting that. But even when they lost last season, they tended to lose in rather asstacular fashion–how can so many of us have forgotten that? Oh wait, I know; it’s because the ‘Canes aren’t up at the top of the Conference like they were at this time last season. Right, how silly of me to forget.
See, this is when the…the…I can barely bring myself to say it…the collegiate mindset of the bulk of the Caniac Nation (est. 1997) drives me right up the damn wall. I just want to take huge signs to games that say THIS IS NOT COLLEGE SPORTS and MY TEAM RIGHT OR WRONG, because I am so sick and freaking tired of people that can’t get out of that stupid-ass college sports (specifically the ACC) mindset, where the team are gods when they win and miserable wastes of space when they lose–and anyone who dares to take issue with it isn’t a Real Fan<tm>.
Whatever. I think it’s far more damning for the fans to stick around and do absolutely nothing when the team doesn’t even try. Stay for the whole game and don’t even bother cheering, if the team isn’t even trying to win. That’ll send a far stronger message than leaving or booing the home team will. Chat with your seatmates, have a beer, whatever–that’s what I did last night (except for the beer part).
Or y’all can just follow through on your petty little threats to turn in your tickets, not show up for the playoffs, and just take your fairweather ass right back to the Dean Dome.
Your call, peeps.
damn right! Turn those tickets over to me! I’ll watch em win, lose, or anything else. You gotta wonder what the team thinks of us. All those booing jerkoffs make me sick. You don’t boo the home crew. i almost decked this group of punks sitting behind me at the flyers on new years eve. (Forsberg was in the penalty box right beside me too). I should have done it. that would of been hilarious in front of him.
You go, girl.
Y’know, I’m no ‘Canes fan (the Capitals are my team; yeah, tough year again, I know), but you are RIGHT on target with your post. If a team doesn’t put forth the requisite effort, then sure, take your $$ and go elsewhere. Otherwise, if you’re a true fan, stick it out through good times and bad. Fairweather fans can all drink a steaming cup of shutthefuckup.
Hear hear. Booing and leaving early is the equivalent of having a tantrum and running home to mommy because you aren’t getting your way. It’s juvenile.
And fan boards are straight from the devil anyway. Rejoicing with every goal and instant despair and ‘they suck!’ with every bad pass. I wish I could say for sure that the average age of people on the boards is 14, but sadly I don’t think that’s the case.
You know very little but say very much.
Nothing I said had anything to do with female hockey fans. I was referring to the behavior on the board by certain posters, and I have no idea whether they are male or female, who brook no criticism of the team’s performance, but only want to talk about how wonderful the boys are.
I couldn’t care less whether your chromosomes are XX, XY, XXY or fragile. I really don’t care.
I do care when self-appointed know it alls ban me from a board because I happened to critique the team.
Other than that, you know nothing about me. You do not know how long I’ve been going to games. You do not know how loyal I am. For God’s sake, I’ve been a Colts fan since I was 4 years old. You want to talk about long-suffering dedication?
I would suggest you get off the permanent high-horse you have perched yourself upon, and dedicate your considerable writing talents to something other than berating people.
And lookie lookie. Effort tonight. And they win. No effort against NY and they get shellacked.
Sense a pattern?
And I have never left a game early in my life. Nor have I ever said I left a game early.
You really are a piece of work.
Awww, I’m sorry–did I hurt your feelings? Did the sting of reality not feel so hot?
At least I know who “TheCaptain” is now.
Spare me, please–you only showed up on the board when the team lost, and then only to berate those who refused to bash the entire team and call for wholesale mass trading. I don’t agree with you getting banned, but then again I can’t say I blame the administration a whole hell of a lot, given your past behaviour (show up and spray idiocy only when the team loses, nowhere to be seen when the team wins).
Gee, you’re wrong again. Seems to happen to you a lot.
I don’t mind a good fristing now and again if I deserve it ( sort of like booing, really). But I think you should get your facts correct first. You have been repeatedly wrong in this thread.
You’re just mad that my fantasy team has been leading all year.
But I think you should get your facts correct first
Riiiight.
oooo, effective comeback.
Well this much is clear. You know absolutely nothing about the ACC or UNC fans in general.
“Spare me, please–you only showed up on the board when the team lost, and then only to berate those who refused to bash the entire team and call for wholesale mass trading. I don’t agree with you getting banned, but then again I can’t say I blame the administration a whole hell of a lot, given your past behaviour (show up and spray idiocy only when the team loses, nowhere to be seen when the team wins).”
^ that’s the untrue part. Completely untrue. But if it makes you feel better, you can keep saying it. Makes you sound small and mean, but you can say it if you want.
Well this much is clear. You know absolutely nothing about the ACC or UNC fans in general.
That’s funny, considering I have lived here for quite a few years and have come to know the regional sports dynamic quite intimately. You want to tell me that the Dean Dome was packed and the UNC fans were out in force when the Heels were 8-20?
Just curious.
“Spare me, please–you only showed up on the board when the team lost, and then only to berate those who refused to bash the entire team and call for wholesale mass trading. I don’t agree with you getting banned, but then again I can’t say I blame the administration a whole hell of a lot, given your past behaviour (show up and spray idiocy only when the team loses, nowhere to be seen when the team wins).”
^ that’s the untrue part. Completely untrue. But if it makes you feel better, you can keep saying it. Makes you sound small and mean, but you can say it if you want.
Oh right, my bad–in looking over your posting history on letsgocanes.com, I see that you showed up ONCE when the team had won a game (not counting the Montreal game thread from the other night) and commented in two non-gameday threads.
Terribly sorry about that oversight–it was terribly easy to miss, given the bulk of your posts.
Maybe not packed but not a complete drop off either. UNC average 16,000 that season versus 20,000 in the previous season when they were a #2 seed in the NCAA Tournament. All that means is there is only one dynamic that matters here and that is when a team stops playing well and even starts losing the fans stop coming. That is not a collegiate mentality, that is sports in general whether it be professional, college, or high school. And that is even more of a harsh reality in a market that is not a traditional hockey market and is still finding it’s legs despite winning the Cup last season.
And it is has been my experience that the so called collegiate mentality tends to be more loyal to a team or school(but not to the coach) than the professional mentality because colleges can depend on students as a fan base who get into games for free or a lower price versus a professional team which depends solely on the purchase of higher priced tickets. At that point it becomes sheer economics.
Stop it. You’re just wrong.
I was on during the playoffs. I was on the “mojo” threads. I posted the speech from Tombstone every game day.
Do I need to fill your comment threads with my posts?
Wow, that’s mature. No really, it is.
just asking if I need to prove you wrong or if you’ll just admit it.
As I said:
Wow, that’s mature.