Teams With the Most Bandwagon Fans

Seriously, how many douche bag wanna-be tough guys sport a NYY cap to try and look cool, If you are not a Yankee fan, or from NY, please don't wear a Yankee cap.

The University of Southern California

But in mine its: 1a. New York Yankees 1b. Notre Dame 2. LA Lakers 3. Duke (basketball only) 4. Dallas Cowboys 5. anybody else
FWIW, the only Steeler fans I know are people who grew up in Pittsburgh and now live in Texas or on the West Coast.

Ever since LeBron arrived, they've quadrupled their fanbase.

maple leaf fans jumped on the bandwagon of every team that played the wings in the regular season and in the playoffs.

the entire sport of golf? If Tiger Woods isn't contending on a Sunday, the ratings are in the $hitter. Everyone loves Tiger, but few people really love the PGA tour. No one is lining up to watch Angel Cabrera and Ben Curtis tee it up on Sunday afternoon at the John Deere Classic.

its easily the Miami Hurricanes.

How did I only see the Lakers in here twice? Most of the lower deck is filled with full-of-themselves celebrities who show up, wait til someone lets them know they've been on camera, and then leave. Because being seen at a Lakers game is a thing.

i did some research and in the 2001 season, usc was getting as little as 45,000 fans a game! if that isn't bandwagon, i don't know what is!

To respond to numero 3, as a Hawks fan: As the Wings are one of the most successful, if not the most successful, teams in the NHL, the fans have the right to be very confident in their team. However, as is true in every sport, presuming dominance in the playoffs is a very dangerous road to take. As a Hawks fan in Ann Arbor this last playoffs season, it was a little on the annoying side to hear Wings fan dismiss the Hawks from the very start, rather than providing solid analysis as to why we would be beaten. It was always how, not why. Or, in this many games, not because of the play of so and so. And that wears on your nerves after a while. Now granted, the Wings went on to win, looking really quite strong near the end. But you'll have to excuse Hawks fans that weren't exactly, shall we say, upset, when that very same "HA! There is no way we lose to the Pens" attitude came back and bit them right in the ass.

I must agree mostly with those of you that have said USC and Lakers. Growing up I never remembered ever hearing about an SC fan, then all of the sudden they start winning and basically all of Southern California is a SC fan. In fact growing up I had more UCLA fans than SC fans. Same goes for the Lakers when they got Kobe. I guess you can add Angels and Ducks to that list as well. I went to an Angel game before they won the world series 6th row up on the 3rd base side cost about $25. I'm willing to bet the ticket price has at least tripled since then. I hate baseball so I don't really care.

I went to law school at SC and know lots of great Trojan fans (people who were in those 45,000 crowds when Hackett was in charge), but they definitely take the cake in the bandwagon fan department. I can't even stand to watch an SC game in public here in Southern California (unless I'm at the game with friends) because so many dirtbags with zero football knowledge who have no affiliation with the actual school treat the Trojans like the NFL team in LA. Combine that with the equally dumb folks on the anti-SC bandwagon (you know the type who doesn't really have a team but loves to hate on any successful school/team if/when they lose or even play a close game). I've heard from tons of Miami alums that nobody really gives a shit about the team unless they are playing FSU (and the attendance numbers reflect that). Have to stick up for the Lakers though. They may have lots of bandwagon fans in other parts of the country (and those people are annoying as all hell, just like the non-New Yorker Yankee fans), but they and the Dodgers always get big crowds even when they aren't doing so well and the celebrities become harder to find (the Lakers have just been consistently good for about 30 years). Angels/Ducks fans in Orange County are a thousand times worse than any LA fans.

Man U and Barca as far as soccer goes...

The Pistons are the worst. I sat there in my teal jersey, night after night through the mid-90's in an almost empty Palace. They win a title and suddenly there are 2 million Pistons fans? You don't get to take a decade off. Before the mid-80's, nobody had given a shit about them for 30 years.

SOOO many bandwagoneers. Back in the early 90's and before the sweater arrival, the only fans I ever noticed were relitives(by marriage), or elementary school freinds. Their parents were fans, so they passed on their shitty beliefs. Growing up near the Ohio boarder, there were always more Michigan fans. Now I see obnoxious, drunk, buckeye turds everywhere. All across the country. My test is very simple for the bandwagoneers; Who was the coach and who was their SORRY qb before the sweaturd. I'm nice enough to give them a hint as well.

ND Texas - it seemed like everyone was on the bandwagon when VY was there. The Big 3 of Florida Schools - back in the 90's when FSU was on top of the world, there were a ton of Noles fans, then it siwtched to Miami in the early 2000's now it seems like the Gators and Tebow are the bandwagon darlings. Yankees Celtics Pats Rams had a big bandwagon back in the greatest show on turf days.

How are the Rays not on your list? I didn't even know they had fans until last year.

I live in Baton Rouge, definitely LSU. Way too many fans who have absolutely no ties to the University who jump on board when they are doing well. There's very little support for the university's academics because all people care about is football.