Would you still be a fan if...
You knew Michigan was never going to win a title in your lifetime? I have a few friends here in the DC area who are Cubs fans, and I am admittedly a fair-weather Pistons fan, and much more of a Red Wings fan than a hockey fan. I don't know that I've ever watched a hockey game the Wings weren't playing in. I stop watching once their championship hopes are dashed.
Every year there is a hope that your team will win, and if not this year, you hope they build for the future. But if you knew, right now that Michigan (God forbid) or any team that you root for would not win a title before you died...would it affect your fanhood? Would you care a little less?
If that ever happen then I probably would walk away. Besides that Michigan fan til I take my last breath.
I would kiss your avatar right on the mouth!!!!
Addressing your "Wal-Mart Wolverine " monicker...
Wal-Mart Wolverine>Convict/Racist Sparty!!!
F Staee/Sparty....
That is all.
Have a wonderful rest of your weekend BlueInWisconsin!
Go Blue!!!!!
Do Big Ten titles not count under your definition of "title"? If not, I'm curious what you think of Bo Schembechler...
I'd go further in old codgerdom and say that I'd like the B10 and Pac12 to say "fuck it" to the playoffs and just send their champions to the Rose Bowl. Then we'd never win a national championship, and I'd be delighted.
I am now reasonably certain there will never be a World Series; at this point there's nothing left but a couple of HOF inaugurations and the occasional ESPN Classic replay of that awful Rick Monday home run in '81...but I'm still a fan.
Changing allegiances just because of poor performance is something I don't understand.
The Expos will be back - sometime in the next 10 years. Getting Selig out of there helps.
But the last 18 months or so I've started to think you might be right. Sometime around that MLB network documentary last year I felt the tide starting to turn.
Even if it happens, it means a new expansion team when I'm 65 or so. It took ten years last time to build a truly competitive team, and that was with everything going right in the front office. I'd be 75; I wouldn't have much time left. Not that I would complain. (This of course assumes it's not an existing team that moves--there'd be some cosmic justice if it were Miami.)
And those busloads of fans coming down from Montreal for Raines today (not to mention one last chance to give the finger to Bud Selig), 13 years after the team ceased to be...what could possibly be a better answer to the O.P.?
The Lord is my Shepard....And Jeem is my coach!
you're not an actual fan if your answer is no
like definitionally
To begin with you have to separate the Michigan Fans from the fans of Michigan football.
Of course. Next question?
Competition wouldn't exist if that were the case. Fuck me, the offseason sucks.
I will always love this team whether they go 0-12 or 15-0. The lions have never won a Superbowl. As much as they frustrate me, to the point of even talking shit about them, they are still my team.
Probably. I'm a pessimist so I don't think we'll win one anyway in my lifetime.
Has always been an important part of my life and always will be. No matter what. In fact there have tough been times in my life when all I really had to lift me up were fall Saturdays with Big Blue home and away.
What in the fuckity fuck made you want to make a thread like this?
than the destination." We've got the perfect coach for our university, a guy who develops talent and uses his resources to his advantage. Its all I can ask for. I'm going to enjoy this journey and if it doesn't lead to a title, then so be it. Because of this staff, I'd remain a huge fan even if I knew a natty wouldn't be accomplished,
Have been a diehard UM fan since 1969. Football didn't win a title for 28 years, basketball was "only" 20 years.
Hell beat Ohio State and MSU I'll be totally happy.
About the only thing that would cause me to lose my fandom is if similar things happened at Penn State with Sandusky and if they hired someone that did with Hugh Freeze did... I've always appreciated Michigan as a school/team that did things right. I'll also add the Tressel firing.. the team needs to do things the right way. That's the way Michigan has always been, and always should be.
100% yes. I love my alma mater. I spent four of the best years of my life there. I will be pushing hard for my daughter to go there when she is looking into colleges. She is only 6 weeks old so I have a lot of time to convince her. Go Blue until the day I die.
I will always be a fan. And even in the years that we don't win it all, there are many reasons to root for and be proud of our fellow Wolverines.
Also, since '97 exists, it's a moot point for me.
Just like Bo turning our program around from some lousy seasons in the late 50s and 60s, Harbaugh will turn us back into national title contenders. I do believe he will win a national championship within the next 5 years. I hope he stays as our coach until he's 70 and does not try the NFL again. Even if he does go NFL in 5 to 10 years he will have turned our program around and will pick a good successor.
But yes, I would still be a big Michigan fan if for some reason our program goes of the rails. Even if I was not an alum, I would still be die hard maize and blue.
I'm a Knick fan