Nigel87
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So yesterday I was at the mall shopping for tennis shoes. First store I go to is Foot Locker, I notice they have a rack of college shirts, so going through the assortment they had: USC, UT, NC, and OU. All in an assortment of colors and styles (eg. they had a white Texas shirt with the female anatomy logo in camouflage) to match the bandwagon fan’s outfit. So I figured I’d ask the sales clerk if they had any Huskers stuff; nope, none.
So I go to a few other stores the Champs only had Michigan and Michigan State hats for their college stuff. The next store I went to; Sport Check (a behemoth sporting goods store) I was looking at the tennis shoes, when I hear a sales clerk go “Bah, Cornhuskers.” (I was wearing my Huskers National Champs winter coat) His comment fell on deaf ears. Then the same :asshat says to someone else working there, “All about the Longwhorns baby.” When I went to turn around to ask him the score to the Texas/A&M game, he was gone. At that store they work on commissions, so needless to say, they lost a sale (and tennis shoes aren’t that cheap either).
Which makes me think, when I was in grade school, I remember everybody wore Chicago Bulls stuff because it was cool and they all loved Michael Jordan. I think I was the only kid in the whole school that wore a Nebraska shirt, but that wasn’t because it was the cool thing to do, it was because I showed support for my favorite team. Sure we haven’t won every single game, but after a loss, I won’t burn all my stuff and swich teams because some other team is winning or because it’s the cool thing to do. Real fans are those who stick through the thick and thin, and won’t hop on/off the bandwagon as a result of a win/loss.
Case and point, in Alberta there are two major cities: Calgary (where I live right next to) and Edmonton. Both have hockey teams: Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers. Last year during hockey season, everybody is wearing a Calgary jersey, and talk about their precious Flames, and how much they love them, and have about ½ a dozen Calgary car flags on their cars. They also talk about how much they hate Edmonton, how much Edmonton sucks, and how great Calgary is (they’re about the same as Sooner fans).
So Calgary loses a game and they’re kicked out of they playoffs (or something like that, I don’t follow hockey) and then overnight everyone becomes Edmonton fans. We sold out of Edmonton car flags in 1 day (prior to that they were collecting dust), and every other person that came in was asking if we had any Edmonton crap, and what little we initially had was gone.
So you know what? I’m glad we have a loyal fan base, and are considered the underdog. I’d rather someone be a Sooner (or any other 'cool' school) bandwagon fan then a Husker bandwagon fan, because at this moment they might love the team, and as quickly can turn around and say how much they hate the same team they had just loved. I've got a tshirt that says Real Fans Wear Red, and if we were a team that was popular with bandwagon fans, I'm sure we'd see all kinds of variations to match outfits (shirts in blue or green or even rat nasty purple; anything other than our true colors). Of course it is inevitable to not have any bandwagon fans at all, but at least its not as bad as some of the other teams.
So I go to a few other stores the Champs only had Michigan and Michigan State hats for their college stuff. The next store I went to; Sport Check (a behemoth sporting goods store) I was looking at the tennis shoes, when I hear a sales clerk go “Bah, Cornhuskers.” (I was wearing my Huskers National Champs winter coat) His comment fell on deaf ears. Then the same :asshat says to someone else working there, “All about the Longwhorns baby.” When I went to turn around to ask him the score to the Texas/A&M game, he was gone. At that store they work on commissions, so needless to say, they lost a sale (and tennis shoes aren’t that cheap either).
Which makes me think, when I was in grade school, I remember everybody wore Chicago Bulls stuff because it was cool and they all loved Michael Jordan. I think I was the only kid in the whole school that wore a Nebraska shirt, but that wasn’t because it was the cool thing to do, it was because I showed support for my favorite team. Sure we haven’t won every single game, but after a loss, I won’t burn all my stuff and swich teams because some other team is winning or because it’s the cool thing to do. Real fans are those who stick through the thick and thin, and won’t hop on/off the bandwagon as a result of a win/loss.
Case and point, in Alberta there are two major cities: Calgary (where I live right next to) and Edmonton. Both have hockey teams: Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers. Last year during hockey season, everybody is wearing a Calgary jersey, and talk about their precious Flames, and how much they love them, and have about ½ a dozen Calgary car flags on their cars. They also talk about how much they hate Edmonton, how much Edmonton sucks, and how great Calgary is (they’re about the same as Sooner fans).
So Calgary loses a game and they’re kicked out of they playoffs (or something like that, I don’t follow hockey) and then overnight everyone becomes Edmonton fans. We sold out of Edmonton car flags in 1 day (prior to that they were collecting dust), and every other person that came in was asking if we had any Edmonton crap, and what little we initially had was gone.
So you know what? I’m glad we have a loyal fan base, and are considered the underdog. I’d rather someone be a Sooner (or any other 'cool' school) bandwagon fan then a Husker bandwagon fan, because at this moment they might love the team, and as quickly can turn around and say how much they hate the same team they had just loved. I've got a tshirt that says Real Fans Wear Red, and if we were a team that was popular with bandwagon fans, I'm sure we'd see all kinds of variations to match outfits (shirts in blue or green or even rat nasty purple; anything other than our true colors). Of course it is inevitable to not have any bandwagon fans at all, but at least its not as bad as some of the other teams.
