The most annoying sports fan you know...
Does anyone know a fellow Michigan "fan" who thinks they know everything about sports, yet in truth they know next to nothing?
There's a guy who works for my company who constantly talks about Michigan football and tries to spread his insight because he has a "friend who works in the athletic department." Who knows if it's true. But if he does, that friend is an idiot and feeds him garbage.
Last year, he told me that MSU wanted to get rid of Kirk Cousins because he was a "bad influence on the team." Yesterday, he struck up a conversation with me and went on and on about Michigan's "Coach Holt" and "Gerard Robinson." Recently he told me that Boise is going to pound MSU. I asked him why...the response:
- "They have that great quarterback." ME: "Kellen Moore? He plays for the Lions now."
- "Oh, but they have a good RB too." ME: "Doug Martin? He plays for the Buccaneers now."
- "Yeah, but they have that Titus guy." ME: "He plays for the Lions too."
Does anyone else run into people like this? I must admit that I sometimes find joy in my conversations based on the absurdity that comes out of his mouth. Other times, it's just downright painful to listen to.
August 29th, 2012 at 9:17 PM ^
August 29th, 2012 at 6:00 PM ^
Picture or I don't believe it
August 29th, 2012 at 6:15 PM ^
or the mods would appreciate pictures of peoples junk being posted on the board, this is family friendly football site.
wait what? nevermind.
August 29th, 2012 at 8:14 PM ^
I'm a dragon.
/internet'd
August 29th, 2012 at 8:33 PM ^
You too!?
August 29th, 2012 at 3:26 PM ^
August 29th, 2012 at 5:06 PM ^
Well, in their defense, the Packers, Brewers, and Badgers were all really good last year.
August 29th, 2012 at 3:33 PM ^
Me. I'm the most annoying fan I know. I'm the Michigan fan that all my non-Michigan friends hate. I post constantly on my Facebook page. And to make matters worse, I'm a girl, so none of my female friends get me at all (except my Michigan friends, and one Northwestern fan/friend). I'm too old to care, though.
August 29th, 2012 at 3:46 PM ^
Somehow, most of my close female friends are just as into football as I am. Not all college football, but at least NFL. Makes things easier.
August 29th, 2012 at 3:34 PM ^
I know a few people who are in the habit of wanting a manager or coach or coordinator or whatnot canned after a bad performance without taking into account past performance, historic trends or any season-to-date statistics which might indicate that the game was an aberration and not the norm for the team or person in question. That annoys me, because to me it says you aren't doing your homework before you suggest these changes. I don't expect people to watch every game necessarily, but if you're going to question someone's work, be prepared to back that with some numbers. They are typically also the same people who say, "Fire X", to which my normal reply is, "OK, who replaces him?". When there is no immediate plan revealed, I tend not to take them seriously.
August 29th, 2012 at 4:00 PM ^
The Fire Jim Leland crowd. He is far from perferct but is generally regared by experts as a good manager. Yet every yahoo will call for his head after a loss.
There were also a fair amount of members of the fire Lloyd crowd as well.
August 29th, 2012 at 6:03 PM ^
Whenever you ask them who they would replace Leyland with they fumble around and just say, "anyone is better than him."
August 29th, 2012 at 4:24 PM ^
August 29th, 2012 at 6:04 PM ^
In the comments to Brian's linebacker preview there is actually a post complaining about our inexperience at the position. Inexperience, at a postion where we lose no one to graduation, return all three starters from last year, another guy who was sort of a co-starter (Hawthorne got 5 games and played in most others), another guy who started every game in 2010 (Gordon), and another guy who was slated to start in 2010 before injury ended his season (Jones). Not to mention a couple of those guys were thrown into the fire (Ryan and Morgan) and should be loads better in year 2.
Oh, and we brought in a couple of nice shiny blue-chip recruits to add to the mix. But we don't stand a chance against a team that lost all of their starting linebackers and did not in fact reload and repeat as national champions after they did it the first time (you know, they lost three games and were just an okay team). They will still be awesome because their new players were highly touted recruits, but the 5-star senior and the 4-star RS junior (backed up by two more 4/5-star guys) who replace the (just) two starters we lost from our Sugar Bowl winning defense are doomed.
August 29th, 2012 at 3:37 PM ^
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August 29th, 2012 at 6:05 PM ^
Have you noticed that those fans post more pictures hating on Michigan than they do promoting or anything even related to MSU. Little brother complex.
August 29th, 2012 at 3:40 PM ^
The people (I know several) who grew up Michigan fans, ended up going to State and are now not just State fans, but the overzealous, eyes clouded over, zombie leaders of the State fans that post pictures of Bell & Gholston hourly, and do that stupid #fiveinarow or #rosebowl2012 crap. They can't talk about MSU without mentioning Michigan, which bugs me beyond belief. I get that you support your alma mater now rather than your childhood favorite, but the gigantic chip on the shoulder thing from a former fan always gets me.
I participate in healthy banter for a few weeks in October, and again during basketball season but other than that I have no ill will towards MSU and usually root for them. However the above mentioned fans make me want them to basically become Northwestern (without the academics of course).
August 29th, 2012 at 3:43 PM ^
I'm a pretty big Boston fan, and when I was in high school Aaron Boone hit that walk off home run to send the Yanks to the world series over the Sox. It was a rough night for me. The next day at school my buddies were pretty good about it, but this one guy, John, who I would barely consider an acquaintance, was relentless. I finally said, "Okay John, if you can name the Yankees' closer you're free to talk as much shit to me as you'd like. If you can't, kindly shut the fuck up." The guy couldn't name Rivera. My friends got on him pretty good. I'm all for an individual cheering for whoever the hell they want, but if you're going to run your mouth atleast know something about the sport.
August 29th, 2012 at 3:45 PM ^
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August 29th, 2012 at 3:53 PM ^
I live out on the west side of the state and I see a ton of people here that are die-hard fans, but have no connection to the university or knowledge of the team. I've known people that live and die with the outcome of the game, but don't even know who Thomas Rawls or Courtney Avery are.
Also, one of my friends who thinks he knows everything about Michigan Football who tried to tell me that Kovacs was awful at the start of last season. I got him to eat some crow by now.
August 29th, 2012 at 6:34 PM ^
- ohio fans- The trashiest and worst fan base in the country. Matches their program perfectly. They talk about what happened in past coaching regimes with Michigan but when you bring up cooper they say "well that was a long time ago". They can't the face the fact their team sucks now and has a coach that won't be there by the time next US presidential election rolls around. It speaks volumes why Dave Brandon does not want them coming for a night game.
- state fans- Uneducated idiots. Ask them who their greatest coach was, they don't know it. Ask them their stadium capacity, they don't know it. Ask them how many conference titles they have, they don't know it. They don't even know their own fight song, so they just clap like retards and say a few words in it. Just like above, it speaks volumes about their fans when DB said they aren't ever coming for a night game.
- notre dame fans- Delusional people who think they are relevant nationally. When in reality, they haven't done anything special since the Ronald Reagan administration. They aren't uncivlized and illiterate pricks like the two fanbses I have listed above, and they generally behave when they travel.
August 29th, 2012 at 3:54 PM ^
the girls in high school (Chicago suburbs) who are all "huge Cubs fans" and probably couldn't tell you more than one or two players on the roster or when the MLB playoffs started always annoyed the hell out of me.
Even worse, growing up there as a Wings fan and hockey player I had a very good idea who the hockey (read: Hawks) fans were, and the fact that the Blackhawks are now the coolest team in town and have all these "lifelong fans" just kills me. When we played at the United Center as kids, part of the deal is agreeing to sell a block of tickets in exchange; it goes without saying that without the Wings/Blues and to a lesser extent a hot team or Original Six club was in town, those tickets were a sunk cost. I know how empty that stadium was for so many years, don't try and tell me how you've been a fan for life and have gone to two games and they were when you were nineteen and twenty, and just happened to be the two years after they won the cup.
/rant
August 29th, 2012 at 5:17 PM ^
Could not agree more about the Cubs or Blackhawks fans
Have no problem with anyone being passionate about their team but have some idea of what you're talking about
Standard Chicago hockey conversation:
Blackhawks guy: Detroit sucks!
Me: I don't know about your keeper; Crawford looks shaky this year
Blackhawks guys: I'm not a hockey fan.
Me: Ok
August 29th, 2012 at 5:30 PM ^
I don't get what's so wrong with saying you're a casual fan. If you're one of those girls that like going to Wrigley or think the pink Cubs shirts are cute or want to bang Patrick Kane or Jonathan Towes, just say so. If you're the guy who watches a ton of Bears football and likes watching the Hawks play every now and then as an excuse to grab a beer with your buddies, just say so.
Nothing wrong with any of that at all, it just seems like everyone wants to say how "diehard" they are, and can't tell you what number Bobby Hull wore or who the other Original Six teams are (or say how many teams there originally were in the NHL). That's what makes so many people look stupid; I'm sure a lot of cities are like that, but I don't have another good reference point in my own life.
August 29th, 2012 at 11:40 PM ^
August 29th, 2012 at 4:05 PM ^
A guy I was in grad school with was a rabid OSU fan and at every opportunity would bleat out the epithet "Rodents" at the Wolverines. One day he even interrupted a lecture by a professor, who was a Penn State partisan, to gloat over a Bucknuts victory over PSU. He was noxious at every turn. What makes the story worse is the nature of the "grad school" we were in: a seminary. Thankfully, this guy washed out. If he ever got a church, the congregation wouild be running the other way faster than Denard.
August 29th, 2012 at 4:09 PM ^
My theory is because winning is so new to them they don't know how to handle it. On every board/blog/chat whatever they seem to be the most irrational and obnoxious.
August 29th, 2012 at 4:14 PM ^
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August 29th, 2012 at 4:22 PM ^
to me, there's nothing worse than my friends who went to SEC schools who haven't won anything gloating about the SEC's accomplishments.
UGA / South Carolina / Tennessee / etc fans saying "we've won the past 7 national championships!" in college football discussions as if it's a badge of superiority pisses me off to no end. no, a-hole, YOU didnt win anything, your rivals did.
rest assured if Wisconsin, Penn State, OSU and Iowa ran off a string of NC's, Michigan fans would not be bragging about it to fans of Big 12 & SEC schools.
August 29th, 2012 at 5:37 PM ^
August 29th, 2012 at 11:00 PM ^
Nail -> Head.
I tried having a conversation about Alabama's defense today with a UGA fan. Any statement I made about Bama was interpreted as a statement about the SEC in general.
Me: "Bama's defense is loaded"; UGA fan: "Yeah, its the depth of SEC teams that no one else can compete with"
Me: "Well, Bama has had a top 3 recruiting class for the last 5 years". UGA fan: "Yeah, all the kids want to play in the SEC".
August 29th, 2012 at 4:27 PM ^
Worse than the worst kind of fan is the guy in the office who somehow grew up without ever learning about sports at all. He dresses well. He is good at his job. Women like him. He brings a kick ass guacamole to the potluck. But should a sports-related discussion ever break out, he immediately excuses himself. He wears a button up to sports themed casual days when everyone else has on a t-shirt or jersey. How does this happen? How does a boy grow up to be a man without liking sports? At least you can talk to a "bad fan", this guy I have nothing in common with.
August 29th, 2012 at 5:52 PM ^
You seem to enjoy, or at least appreciate, good guacamole.
August 29th, 2012 at 7:48 PM ^
Sounds like this "fan" really isn't a "fan" at all, and therefore isn't an "annoying sports fan."
Also he likely realized that dressing well, being good at his job, having chicks dig him, and making good food are more important than being a "sports fan."
August 29th, 2012 at 4:38 PM ^
Uh Oh! Sounds like a Walvie. /s
August 29th, 2012 at 4:41 PM ^
I really, really can't stand M fans (usually the older, and I am ashamed to say whiter variety) that inexplicably hate Denard. Yes, he has made some poor decisions that frustrate you from time to time, but that is par for the course for the college game. After all he has done, they still hesitate to place any faith in him as a quarterback. I am sure we all know these guys.
August 29th, 2012 at 4:47 PM ^
Code Maize. Dr. Magnus please report to the thread at your earliest convenience.
August 29th, 2012 at 4:47 PM ^
The worst sports fans in the world reside in Los Angeles. The only people who get a pass are Clipper fans and die hard Kings fans. The rest are all band wagoners.
Example: A Laker fan becomming a Clipper fan last season because of Chris Paul making them the talk of the town.
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August 29th, 2012 at 5:37 PM ^
Since I don't carry my Alumni Association card around, I just ask for a piece of paper and write a coherent sentence. Although they can't read what I wrote, they understand it means I did indeed attend UofM.
August 29th, 2012 at 5:22 PM ^
Am I the only one who finds it hard to beleive this Michigan fan can name 3 Boise St. players but thinks our coach is Holt? I call BS