Darkside wrote:
Curious Hair wrote:
Dan's sad that other Bulls fans aren't as smart as he is.
Who is though? Who I ask?
I feel like NBA fandom in general is kinda weird. It's not the advertising/gambling/fantasy monolith that is the NFL, it doesn't occupy the place in our hearts for generations upon generations that baseball does, and it doesn't inspire the level of cultish fanaticism that the NHL does. What you're left with, then, is this vast middle ground of sports content that, like that old board game Othello, takes a minute to learn and a lifetime to master. Most people in (and beyond) NBA cities enjoy watching NBA games, and most people hope that their local team defeats the opposing team on a night they're watching, but the percentage of people who really
get basketball on the level that it needs to be
gotten seems awfully low relative to baseball and football, where the casual fanbases are huge and in turn so too are the diehards, or hockey, where not many people like it but those who do are almost always diehards.
Chicago's NBA fandom is insufficient. So is virtually everybody else's. Dan talks at length from afar about how Knicks fans are so good at Getting It, but dollars to donuts there's a contingent of Knicks fans who feel that MSG has been sanitized and ruined by too much corporate presence. Of course there are "just Jordan fans" because the Bulls before and after Jordan mostly sucked.
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