http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/13/n...tml?ex=1180584000&en=aa765a289a0d8fe0&ei=5070 Stupid fairweather douches.
any team that is winning is going to have bandwagon fans. I ve made that poit every time you guys call people 96ers etc. just the way it goes.
Exactly what I was thinking. Unless I go bust some skulls I'm not even gonna be able to approach that field until 2012 at the earliest.
That's just the way it is today...Whoever is hot, that's the team people will jump on. This year its the Mets and RedSox...Yes I know their have been some die-hards for both, but their is NO denying their are wagon hoppers everywhere. What I can't stand is the Yanks fans jumping to the Mets, pretty pathetic.
Its gross... Sickening even... i remember being in elementary/middle school and having fellow mets fans jump ship to the yanks.... stick with a fucking team.
Heh, no offense Mets fans, but GOOD. Take those idiot 96ers with you on your march towards the Canyon of Heroes. Now maybe those of us who are real Yankees fans can actually get our seats back at the Stadium! Now you'll know how it feels to be sitting next to a guy who doesn't know the name Wally Backman, just like I had to sit next to the guy who has no idea who Mike Pagliarulo was. Welcome to Successville.
As much as I hate bandwagon fans I always want them for my teams b/c it means my teams are winning. I have metnioned this story before but it's a great one so I'll share again. Back in 1998 there was this guy at the gym at went to and as the Jets were marching towards a potential SB he was decked out in Jets gear every single day, you would have thought this guy was the biggest fan you ever saw then 2 short years later as the Giants were marching towards a weak NFC crown he was decked out in Giants gear every day:lol:
I totally agree with what you're saying, I am just getting a kick out of it since these Mets fans have been riding us for years about our bandwagoners. It's nice to see others' reactions when they realize the grass isn't greener on the other side.
If they have truly been following the Mets for a long time as they say they'd remember the mid 80s bandwagoners. Everwhere you went there were Met fans. It happens everywhere but especially here in NY.
Checking out the threads on the guys at the gym . . . not that there's anything wrong with that.:breakdance:
Oh I know man, but there are many people on this board who have been kicking Yankees fans the past couple years who weren't around for the 80s to see it the other way around. I'm just getting a kick out of watching. May as well. The Yankees are no fun to watch.
Part of what makes NY so susceptible to bandwagoners is you have alot of people who move to the city from another place. They may carry their allegiances from their hometown, but they may also just decide to pick a local team to support. Whichever team is the hot commodity at the time, they jump on that bandwagon. Ive always had less of a problem with "96ers" and their facsimiles than I have had with people who don't really pay all that much attention to the team on a daily or even weekly basis but run around in their yankees gear and then decide come playoff time that they are the biggest fans in the world. If someone became a Yankee fan in '96 but then persistently remained a diehard from that time forward, even in bad times, I would respect that person as a fan.
That doesn't really fit the persona of a 96er. We've got guys here who became fans in 96, or thereabouts. Mostly due to their age at the time. However, a 96er is the douchebag that claims he's a die-hard Yankees fan, but has no idea who most of the people on the team are or have been. It's the moron you see on tv sitting in the third row behind the dugout in the pink polo shirt who only claps when everyone else does, or who joins in the "hip hip Jorge" chant after the first go-round. (A chant I can't particularly stand anyway, but hey, to each his own.) I don't think I've seen one guy on this board I would label a 96er. Just like I wouldn't label the Mets fans here 07s. But they're out there.
I guess it's the price of success but lets be honest we haven't won anything yet. I'd much rather see people jumping on the Mets bandwagon because we win the World Series not because the Yankees are terrible. They're gonna jump but let them jump because we are that good, not because the other team is that bad.
Let's be honest, it's probably an even mix of both. The Mets are proving to be for real. There'd be bandwagoners right now, regardless of the Yankees performance.
