OT: Which fan base is the most obnoxious?
I was just thinking about this after browsing the r/CFB reddit and I wanted to know your opinions: For football and basketball, who are the most obnoxious/annoying fanbases?
My votes:
Football - UGA: I cannot stand Georgia fans. They act so high and mighty for a clearly dirty program, and they brag about their recruiting any chance they get, even though they still haven'y won a championship.
Basketball - Indiana: Indiana basketball fans have to be the most annoying college fans I can think of. They're so cocky and arrogant even when their team has been consistently below average in recent memory
He's a Mormon from a parallel universe.
Hilarious response
any fan base that massively expanded once the program started winning always seem to talk the most smack - and the fair-weather fan base always seem to know-less-but-talk-more about "their team"
AL, OSU, UGA & MSU come to mind... and UT... when they were winning (a decade ago)
Other than the obvious, USC fans can get pretty bad
Liberty damn Flames.
Ohio State...because Michigan State fans don’t seem to permeate to California like the Buckeyes.
You can't get away from them.
UK basketball fans because I’ve heard this statement all over the state: “I swear if the NCAA leaves us out of the tournament we should just leave the NCAA! We’d be fine!” Followed by some snorting and spitting. Also, they are Alabama football fans, yankee baseball, and usually Dallas or New England fans because - “we only root for winners”
Football, any fan who gets on twitter and tweets at high school players. They collectively are the worst.
Are they actually Kentucky fans?
They're just the bandwagon fans everybody hates, probably including other Kentucky fans.
Ohio State fans are in an obnoxious league of their own. Home, away, Michigan or non-Michigan game; it doesn’t matter.
Did anyone mention the UNACCEPTABLEs yet?
This question answers itself---MAC, now known at Michigan State University, or to put it in the form of a question, "Who is MAC?"
Oh there are so many correct answers for so many different reasons. I'll stick to football since I know it better:
- Us. How many times have we responded to getting our butts kicked by joking about how the other team's fans will be working for us in about 5 years? But wait there's more! Grammar nazis on a college sports blog site! And the piece de resistance, what other fan base combines such lofty expectations that every season is a disappointment, with crippling insecurity about our team's perceived inability to execute at a pee-wee football level of competence? (I know, I know; San Francisco 49er fans from the 1990s, but my point stands.)
- Michigan State. This program has retired the trophy for being a "Sore Winner." Their head coach has led the charge into utter classlessness. Also, recent current events have exposed the "University" as being a win at all costs program, nominally supervised by a clique of inbred cronies. MSU delanda est. Destroy the stadium down to the foundation. Summarily execute the athletic department's leadership and sell the rest of the staff into slavery. Plough salt into the playing surface.
- Ohio State. The fan base that made unhinged, irrational hatred of all things Michigan fashionable. (Note to Bucknuts: to have a great rivalry, you need a great rival.) I met a Ohio sports fan while in the Navy who went to an ND OSU bowl game, and even he commented on how the other OSU fans were the angriest group of people he'd ever seen. The contagion has spread to other schools. Penn State for one, which has worked out OK since Michigan and PSU have been on par recently. More laughably it has spread to Rutgers and Illinois, who are the B1G's answer to the Cleveland Browns and the Detroit Lions (football themed improvisational comedy troupes).
- SEC fans, collectively, and each fan base in its own special way. I think we have all grown weary of hearing how inherently superior the SEC is because of all their championships and playoff berths, conveniently ignoring how the SEC biased press gets them way more playoff berths than any other conference, thereby giving them the opportunity to win more championships and perpetuate the fallacy. But, let's not forget all the special little eccentricities. LSU fans CALL THEMSELVES "coon asses." Tennessee inspired the concept of the "Fullmer Cup." (One of my favorite sports columnists refers to Phil Fulmer as "the biggest knob in Knoxville.") An Alabama fan shot another Alabama fan because she was insufficiently distraught after the "kick six" game with Auburn, and a third Alambama fan poisoned a historic tree on the Auburn campus. One of the SEC's rivalry games CALLS ITSELF the world's largest outdoor cocktail party.
-- But, let's be honest with ourselves about Alabama. We hate their fans because we want to be their fans. They've established themselves as the more professional and consistent version of the New England Patriots while representing a Univerity located in a State with such love and reverence for higher education that some of their State Legislators openly question why the State needs more that one public university.
I agree...not sure if M fans hate Bama fans because the program is a model of modern day success. I think places that are considered to be clean (Michigan, maybe Oklahoma) tend to dislike schools that win, and there almost certainly is something underhanded going on. While I don't pay much attention to Bama fans, I turn my dislike to Nick Saban. I don't think he could coach his way out of the MAC, while Meyer and Harbaugh are better football minds having had more success on talent-deficient teams. He's a great recruiter though and has built a machine that means he doesn't have to be smarter than anyone else. And to be a former DB coach, he has had some really horrible db play at Bama and in the NFL. But with 5 titles in 11 years, I wouldn't care if Harbaugh never had a good qb either.
1. Michigan State
The arrogance, smugness, inferiority complex, obsession and disrespek has never been higher.
I agree that all fan bases are obnoxious. After all, “fan” is short for “fanatic.”
Living in SEC country, I have to say Alabama fans are the most obnoxious. Saying “Roll Tide” at the end of every sentence (literally) is insufferable. But the worst part is the largest segment of that fan base are bandwagon fans. They are red necks born and raised and living in TN, GA, MS etc with no connection to Alabama, the state or school. Every article of clothing that they own is adorned with “A” or “Bama” and of course “Roll Tide”. Their beater pick up truck or 1998 Malibu or Caravan has “Roll Tide” bumper stickers instead of Bondo. They had nothing to do with the team for most of the 1989s, 1999s, and early 2000s. Alabama grads hate them.
*1980s and 1990s
Obnoxious is a tough one bc there are alot. If it were "obsessed" I could definitely put a short list together.
Michigan FB fanbase has to be up there unfortunately.
And our BB fanbase is the inverse of the FB fanbase to the point of apathy outside of tournament play
Certainly MSU in football. Worst I've ever seen in basketball is Kansas.
Oddly enough...when I'm on Twitter, Michigan fans annoy me the most, because there are some that act stupidly and seem to over-represent their share of the fan base. I also hate going to the games and feeling out of place for standing too long or being too loud.
As far rivals go, I live in the DC area, so I don't see many MSU fans...but I do see more OSU fans and they are horrible. I think it's cause their replies to everything is "we beat you every year" it's useless having a conversation with them. And..on the TwitterFace...I notice a lot of Buck fans comment on every Michigan related post, which I think is odd and a little obsessive. I think OSU fans maybe just as focused on Michigan as MSU fans are.
As the old joke goes - What to UM, MSU and OSU fans have in common? When they wake up in the morning, they're all thinking about Michigan.
MSU and OSU obviously.
Having spent 10 years in Chicago, I also put in a vote for Illinois.
When they actually have a good team in either football or basketball, their fans act as if they are a dynasty, the greatest program in the history of sports.
When they suck, which is most of the time, it's as if they don't have any fans at all. Worst fair weather crowd ever.
The most obnoxious fan base is the one that can gloat the most about dominating your team.
Alabama fans. And it's not close.
OSU is an easy answer. Almost too easy. Though I can't say I wouldn't act like an arrogant dick towards UM fans if I were an OSU fan. We've won twice in 17 years. That's bad. I do think, based on my experience, that Gen-X and Baby Boomer OSU fans are much more tolerable. They remember the times when the rivalry was either back and forth every year, or the Michigan dominance of the Cooper area. It's the millennial OSU fans who grew up during the Tressel/Meyer run who are typically the worst. They largely have zero respect for Michigan and look at us like we looked at MSU pre-Dantonio. Just an annoyance they have to deal with.
Another one that I just realized: Boston fans. Doesn't matter the team. Just Boston / NE fans in general. You can't have rational discussions with them about anything related to sports. Their shit doesn't stink. Yours does. Their team is the greatest team ever assembled. Your team couldn't carry their team's jockstrap. Forever and ever, amen.
Was in Boston this past weekend to catch a Red Sox game (never been to Fenway, always wanted to go), and ran into this guy at a restaurant bar who would not shut up about how Bobby Orr was better than Gretsky, how the Celtics are going to dominate the league for the next 5-10 years, and then started trashing our hometown team (the Lightning) when he somehow forgot the Lightning trounced the Bruins in five games no more than two months ago. I'm sure there's good, decent Boston fans out there. But ones I've met previously were just awful.
theirs not ours.
Southern New Hampshire fans.
Hands down!
Any fan of any Philadelphia team