Harry Seaward wrote:
He always struck me as a dbag. I honestly have no idea what his role is at the station, but his asslicking combined with his Bernstein-esque disdain for "meatballs" always seemed bit too "thou doth protest too much" to me.
I don't know, but if you're going to stand in judgment of your "fellow fan" and their intelligence (or lack thereof) why would you be advertising the fact that you do a teenage kids' job at night to make some extra scratch?
Deadspin (well, Drew Magary) is doing the annual Why Your NFL Team Sucks feature right now. Part of each one is to feature emails from the teams' fans, confirming why their teams suck. Of course, it's usually less about the team on the field than the fan culture: fat people, loud people, drunk people, so on. Well, this noble commenter on the Packers' piece just ruined the whole damn thing:
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While I love this feature, the "fan" letters can be of the most criminal of garbage.
Yeah, the fans of bad teams embody the classic "I hope it will turn out OK, but I know it won't" and can inspire truly memorable rants (that ZMF one is awesome - that is classic Sheild-era AV Club OWNAGE), but they have a distinct "my teams sucks! feel sorry for me! Please?!" you-owe-me-for-my-choices patheticness that would embarass a gutterpunk whining for change to buy PBR. Sad, but acceptable compared to the alternative.
The fans of the 'good' teams (the Superbowl Winners)?
The worst case of wish-everyone-one-was-as-good-a-fan-as-me-humblebrag-itis I've ever seen. It could be a fucking template: "Our overweight, lazy, smelly, unemployed, drunken fans (But not me! I assure you, I am none of those adjectives) don't know anything about football (But I do! Just ask me! Ooh, Ooh, my hand is raised, I can answer that! Acknowledge my football brain!). Every year when we make the playoffs (ahem *self high five*) and lose (even if your team hasn't been in years, you should feel sorry for us that we lost) the idiots (again, NOT me) call our terrible local sports radio (which, for hating it so much, I am surprisingly informed about) and want to get rid of [AWESOME PLAYER] (did I mention we have AWESOME PLAYER yet? No, OK. We have AWESOME PLAYER). Even though we've won several Superbowls in my liftime (seriously, we WON super bowls, like more than your team for sure) the ungrateful morons (once more - NOT me. I am not ungrateful that WE MAKE THE PLAYOFFS CONSTANTLY and HAVE WON SUPERBOWLS. Even if I am writing to slag off my team, city, and fellow fans)! And the people in our city? They do that one thing that I'm sure will make you say "You know, I hate that too! We should be friends!". Christ. Fuck. Ugh. These fans. They're terrible (but, remember NOT ME. I am the perfect fan).
Could be applied, with a few tweaks, to pretty much everything Baffoe has ever written.
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