A Public Service Announcement - The Bandwagoner

Philles in the NL, and the Yankees in the AL… Cause I am a Hawaiian from NewYork?

I mean, thats a Boat with no Holes? Right?

If they dont know who this kid is behind the plate, and then ask, When is George coming Back.

i almost fell off the couch laughing.

Yes, I like the Yankees and Lakers. But I have reasons for liking both. The Yankees I like because my dad was a huge fan of them, and I grew up in Rochester, NY so I got to see a lot of their games.

In the Lakers case, my cousin is a huge fan of them, and I went to a Lakers game at the Staples Center when I was young with them. It ended in a Lakers win in overtime, and thats something you don’t forget.

This has come up in a lot of threads, and this fanpost is pretty hilarious. I suggest to any real bandwagoners to be careful with their words around Lord Duggan or FreeBradshaw.

My mother grew up in Camden, and claims to be a huge Phillies fan. Like clockwork, in 2009, 2008, and let me show my age and say 1980, my mom was a huge Phillies fan, just ask her.

So, last year during the Series, when the Yanks lost the first game, she called me up to talk trash. I immediately asked her to name me just one single player currently playing for the Phillies. No lie, she could only come up with one name:

“Melky Cabrera”

You can’t make this stuff up.

Thanks for the great post – I lmao’d when I followed the links :-)

recc’d for awesomeness and fun!

I see these types all the time in all sports and even in my extended family. My sister-in-law is from Jersey (not too far from Philly, as she tells it) but she’s only really ever been an Eagles fan the whole time I’ve known her. Now, I can’t call her an Eagles bandwagoner because they haven’t won a Super Bowl, ever. However, since the Phillies went to the World Series, she’s all about the Phillies in the playoffs and then when they lose, she’s like “oh, well, I don’t really care about baseball.” LOL Cracks me up.

Now my brother is a hard luck fan, no doubt there. He’s been a Mets and Jets fan his whole life and a Trailblazers fan since he moved to Portland in the late 90s. Sometimes I feel bad that his teams have only had one WS and no Super Bowl in his entire life, but I just leave him alone to commiserate with his friends and our cousins who are also fans of those teams (Mets and Jets).

I point out that I’m a Knicks fan. Of course, once the Knicks become good again, we’re going to hear accusations of being bandwagoners, despite going through a decade of awfulness.

It’s also funny how I’ve been accused of being a bandwagon Yankee fan by Met fans, even though the Mets were more popular during my childhood, due to 1986.

And I like how “irrationally angry” is linked to Rick Astley’s “Never Gonna Give You Up.”

i too hate bandwagon fans, so many in my school, weather they are sox fans, tar heel fans or pats fans, it really bugs me. I get accused of being a bandwagon Yankee fan just cause im a Yankee fan and they win all the time, im really just a true New Yorker liking Yankees, Giants, Rangers, and Knicks. Great post once agian.

It’s the bandwaggoners who provide the Yankees with a good portion of their revenue from merchandise sales which helps to allow us to be able to sign free agents to those big contracts. They ain’t ALL bad…

Okay, I have a question: It’s about football teams, but stick with it..

A kid is 8-years-old and is a New York Giants. His oldest brother says, “The Bills have been in two straight Super Bowls, you should be a Bills fan.” The younger brother becomes a Bills fan because his oldest brother says he should.

Years down the road, the boy, now 19 years-old, is completely sick and tired of how the Bills organization is being run says, “I’m done with the Bills, they just continue to disappoint.” And decides to root for the Giants once again. The Giants proceed to have a decent season (reach the playoffs but lose early), then they have the magical season we all remember, when they beat the Pats in the Super Bowl. Now, the 19-year-old is 21 and is being called and “Bandwagoner” when he believes he’s not.

He went from the Giants to the Bills at 8-years-old because he didn’t know any better but also switched back before they were a Championship team. No one saw that Super Bowl coming that year and he proclaimed himself a fan two years prior to that run.

Is he a bandwagoner?

A girl at school was wearing a cowboys jersey, I asked why, her reply was “How can you tell what team it is by the color???”

…back in 98. I told the accuser that I was not, and that I grew up following the Yanks during the 80s drought and still thought they were the best team every year regardless of standings or geography (I live in Red Sox territory).

I didn’t win the argument until I was asked who my favorite football team was. The Raiders.

a Yankees fan. I first became aware of baseball as 8yo in 1961. Early 60’s were great time to be a Yankees fan. Since then I’ve remained a Yanks fan through the good and bad times. Hell, I still root for my boyhood favorite NFL team the Bears even though they appear in the championship game only every 24 years.

If you don’t live in Dallas and root for the Cowboys…

For me, one of the worst types of bandwagoners are the women who, when told that I’m a Yankees fan, immediately chirp “Ohhhh, I love the Yankees too! That Jeter guy is SOOOO hot!” That tends to make me violent.
Btw, first post here – hi, all!