Being a fan of a specific team

[Average American]

One of the most disappointing moments of my last 5 years...

Wes,
I appreciate u sharin' this story.. I've had a couple like that along the way. Guys who were stand-up & seemingly well-adjusted back in the day, but just fell off, or faded out somewhere along the way.

I used to see the levity in old friends & family members who had turned into wanna-be gangsters, rappers, and/or maniacal Black-worshipping DWFs (guys who in a lot of ways severed themselves from their own reality.)
But now that I'm grown, married for over a decade, have a family, etc.. I look back, & I'm just sad that I lost these guys.. Some of them who've never moved forward, dwelling in a suspended DWF (and/or wigger) Peter Pan syndrome.. guys who followed the wanna-be thug trip all the way to early graves.. From my perspective, it's more sad than stupid.. but some of both.
Ya just wish you could rewind things, and figure out what may have compelled them to follow paths that weren't consistent with who they are/were. I mean I haven't done anything special, but I saw & see that a lot of this culturally suicidal sh*t is poisonous & self-retarding.

Guess it's like Jim Morrison said, 'strange days have found us..'

 

[jaxvid]

nuh, I still think it's fun to root for our childhood teams..
But w/that said, I think it is stupid & embarassing the length that rooting for those teams can go to,.. It's strange to me, when I visit another grown man's house, and every square inch of plastic, wood, or cloth in there.. is Steelers black & gold, or has Cowboys stars all over it.

I find it's easier to identify w/college teams. If you're alumni, or have a close family member who went to the school, you have a tangible connection to that program and school. And (imo.) there's a stronger connection to regional pride/identity with college sports, than w/a pro franchise that could move in a hurry, (or is a recent transplant to your area), so..

I think you are right about college teams being more popular because of family or traditional connections. When I was younger I lived in Ann Arbor, location of the University of Michigan. I often saw players from the sports teams around town, and they went to the same stores, bars, and other places. So there is very much a connection they have with the local scene.

It used to be that way with professional athletes in the old days, they played for the same team for many years and didn't make enough to have two homes and move every season. Now with the millions they make there is no reason for them to live anywhere but where they want to, they change teams all the time, to call them mercenaries would be to give mercenaries a bad name. A die-hard professional sports fan is really just an idiot.

 

[The Sapient]

I do recall attending a Miami Dolphins/New England Patriots game last season. I went to the game wearing my N.E Wes Welker jersey and had my dad borrow my Dan Marino throwback. During the game itself, I caught myself cheering simultaneously for both teams, but even more so when Danny carried the ball, Welker/Edelman/Hartline caught passes, or Tannehill ran in for a touchdown. It was quite amusing...I even had one New England fan asked whether or not I had lost a bet which forced me to wear a N.E jersey. This opened the door for me to educate the fan with some logical reasoning behind my liking of the Patriots.

 

[MiamiHeatFan]

I root for my hometeam and I am not ashamed

I just dont discuss it here because this is not the place to discuss black athletes or teams. You guys sometimes react hostile.

 

[Carolina Speed]

I root for my hometeam and I am not ashamed

I just dont discuss it here because this is not the place to discuss black athletes or teams. You guys sometimes react hostile.

Although there have been some posts on CF that have given a few black athletes their due without a hostile reaction, I'm glad to see you've read and understand the "about us" section of Caste Football and prefer not to discuss black athletes.

 

[whiteathlete33]

I used to be a huge Giants and Jets fan. Mainly because of Chrebet and Shockey. I've always rooted for the teams with my favorite white players.

 

[dwid]

I grew up watching the Saints. I was more interested in baseball as a little kid but enjoyed playing football. For some reason I was a Notre Dame fan (yes before Rudy came out), even after I found out that very few of the players were actually Irish when I was 5. The Saints were so black back then that when my Dad told me he was there to see Tom Dempsey's record setting field goal kick, I was thinking of a black guy.

Then I saw the Bucs play, and became a fan. I wanted to play defense like John Lynch and run the ball like Mike Alstott. I mean I liked Criag "IronHead" Heyward (bruising runner) before that when I was even younger but I dunno, it was different with Alstott. I failed to notice how great Alstott's footwork was (its a common "joke" when talking about Alstott among NFL Network and even the people going through the highlights back in the day about how he had no moves, rumblin, bumblin, stumblin) being that I didn't get to watch every single Bucs game since it really wasn't easy back then to watch teams outside of your area, and took unnecessary punishment at times but it was fun. I liked defense more before I realized how much punishment you could deliver running and blocking, and I think that's a problem with many of our players when they get put in a blocking role, I liked to block. Tom Rathman said the same thing. I think its also a problem when getting moved to linebacker. I liked playing defense. I thought runners who liked to be flashy and go out of bounds instead of getting hit were wusses.

Now I watch the Saints occasionally with my Dad, and they are fun to watch, Drew Brees is really a great qb. Of course it was funner when they had the snow patrol.

As far as college I really got into LSU when Hester was running the ball, and that's when I did a search and found this site. Growing up I went to more Tulane games.

I enjoyed watching the Patriots the past few years, it seems like its not going to be as fun this year, but the year I really sat and made sure to tune into every game was the year Hillis was with the Browns, so much that I became delusional that they he would get another chance after they really ruined his career, the Cleveland media said so many bad things about the guy. I even traded away Jamaal Charles FOR Hillis! stupid move. Hopefuly some team picks him up and he can at least be a short yardage/ 3rd down/goal line back. I guess the team I am going to watch the most this year is the Broncos. I try to watch a god deal of teams though, the all 22 film now, even the blacker ones, just to gauge how good the players really are. I want to be knowledgeable when discussing all players with dwfs. Its shorter, no commentary, just the view of the entire field from two different angles and sometimes the shortcuts of games which is like 30 minutes. Wish there was the same thing offered for college. I usually just watch it afterwards and fast forward though. It usually takes me some of the spring and most of summer to catch up with what I want though, since I don't have that much time during the actual season.

It seems like a good deal of friends I had growing up like particular teams because of playing video games with that team. I have an old friend who likes the Eagles beause he used them on Tecmo Bowl back in the day, and basically threw the hail mary all the time and it worked quite a bit. I imagine Madden has a similar effect with players and how they are rated. Even our fast guys don't have a high speed rating. I think if you switch a White safety to cornerback it says he lacks awareness which doesn't make any sense. I'm not too big into video games so I dunno how much this affects things.

 

[Wes Woodhead]

It seems like a good deal of friends I had growing up like particular teams because of playing video games with that team. I have an old friend who likes the Eagles beause he used them on Tecmo Bowl back in the day, and basically threw the hail mary all the time and it worked quite a bit. I imagine Madden has a similar effect with players and how they are rated. Even our fast guys don't have a high speed rating. I think if you switch a White safety to cornerback it says he lacks awareness which doesn't make any sense. I'm not too big into video games so I dunno how much this affects things.

dwid I think you make an excellent point here with the video game ratings. I dont play them myself, but my little neighbors I sometimes mention are absolutely obsessed with them. They play fantasy draft seasons against each other, and from what I understand the CPU always picks the guy with the highest overall rating in these fantasy drafts.

These boys put so much stock into how high a player is rated on Madden. White non QBs are always rated much lower than they should be. It makes it much harder to get them to take seriously the things I tell them about the caste system. Black QBs are always rated much higher than they should be. It can be quite ridiculous for example Wes Welker will have an overall rating of 85 while a guy like Reggie Wayne will have a 93. Michel Vick is always rated higher than many white QBs better than him. Its all propaganda, but kids think that a group of honest "experts" have rated these players based on a system of logic, and reason.

I think sports video games have a HUGE impact on the minds of kids, and some never outgrow it. It might sound silly to some, especially the older generation, but Im convinced from personal experience that these video game ratings are hurting the confidence of White kids while simultaneously boosting the already inflated confidence of non white kids.

 

[davidholly]

Michael Vick had a higher overall rating than Matt Ryan until this year. :der:

 

[wile]

dwid I think you make an excellent point here with the video game ratings. I dont play them myself, but my little neighbors I sometimes mention are absolutely obsessed with them. They play fantasy draft seasons against each other, and from what I understand the CPU always picks the guy with the highest overall rating in these fantasy drafts.

These boys put so much stock into how high a player is rated on Madden. White non QBs are always rated much lower than they should be. It makes it much harder to get them to take seriously the things I tell them about the caste system. Black QBs are always rated much higher than they should be. It can be quite ridiculous for example Wes Welker will have an overall rating of 85 while a guy like Reggie Wayne will have a 93. Michel Vick is always rated higher than many white QBs better than him. Its all propaganda, but kids think that a group of honest "experts" have rated these players based on a system of logic, and reason.

I think sports video games have a HUGE impact on the minds of kids, and some never outgrow it. It might sound silly to some, especially the older generation, but Im convinced from personal experience that these video game ratings are hurting the confidence of White kids while simultaneously boosting the already inflated confidence of non white kids.

As I've wrote, sports is more social engineering than sport. We are not dealing with nice or decent people, they are evil little worms.

 

[Irn Bru]

I'm probably a unique case, but I grew up and still am a "die hard" fan of the Patriots. Sure I'm disappointed when they draft a black LB over a more deserving white one or cut Woodhead, but I've watched Belichick's behavior enough to know with complete certainty that he's the only NFL coach or exec completely uninfluenced by the caste system. I don't think he's pro-white, but I do think his decisions are 100% based on merit and nothing else, and for that reason I couldn't be prouder to be a fan.

Like others said, I think the only reason I'd consider jumping ship is if we played a black qb for a long period of time.

 

[scroat]

Hey Irn Bru are you named after the soda?

 

[Thrashen]

Still I was glad to see the guy, and meet his family. We ate and reminisced awile, and then he puts a Lebron documentary on his giant tv. At this point I started making minor little comments about how I think Lebron is slightly over rated. His face showed he didnt like that. As the documentary went on he just kept praising him to the point of worship. Eventually he made the comment, and Ill never forget this "Id let Lebron knock my wife up if we got to raise the kid as our own".

At that point I laughed out loud, shook his hand, told him it was good to see him thanks for the hospitality, and left that house and havent contacted that cuckold since.

It’s revolting enough that this chemically-imbalanced reject would even conceive such a vile brainwave…let alone express it aloud to anyone, especially an old friend he hadn’t seen in years. I contend that if some “great human soul audit” were to ever occur on this planet, the white race would need to purge 70-80% of its ranks.

I recently visited a friend from college because he just had his first child (a boy). The boy’s room was painted a combination of black and gold. The walls were equipped with about 6 or 7 large posters of former and current non-white Pittsburgh Steeler players (Jerome Bettis, Greg Lloyd, Casey Hampton, James Harrison, Troy Polamalu, Ryan Clark, James Farrior, etc), Steeler pennants, bed sheets, blankets, lamps, baby clothes that read “future Steeler fan,” etc. In a pathetic shrine above the baby’s crib was, of all things, a framed Kordell Stewart jersey.

I immediately went into “Caste Football Mode” and asked him if he has any posters of Bill Cohwer kissing Kordell or Joey Porter. Naturally, he’d never heard the widespread rumors that Kordell and Cohwer were homosexual lovers, and he’d never seen Cohwer kissing any players...

[video=youtube;u4cdb8i64zQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4cdb8i64zQ[/video]

I also kept poking fun at Casey Hampton and Jerome Bettis’ respective weight problems, Troy Polamalu’s comical frailty, and Grey Lloyd’s supremely-racist “Real Men Are Black” t-shirt. In an effort to further humiliate him, I also kept referencing the 2011-2012 Steeler roster, which set an all-time NFL record for lowest number of white players (fluctuating from 7 to 8), how the Rooneys are militant liberals and anti-white Marxists, and Kevin Colbert and Mike Tomlin discriminate against white players. He just accepted my abuse of his favorite corporation and wouldn’t respond...probably because all of those unpleasant little facts were previously unknown to him. Hey, at least he wasn’t as racially-obtuse as this inert-souled supporter of “Zulu Nation”…

 

[Tannehill17]

I do recall attending a Miami Dolphins/New England Patriots game last season. I went to the game wearing my N.E Wes Welker jersey and had my dad borrow my Dan Marino throwback. During the game itself, I caught myself cheering simultaneously for both teams, but even more so when Danny carried the ball, Welker/Edelman/Hartline caught passes, or Tannehill ran in for a touchdown. It was quite amusing...I even had one New England fan asked whether or not I had lost a bet which forced me to wear a N.E jersey. This opened the door for me to educate the fan with some logical reasoning behind my liking of the Patriots.

Same here. While my heart rooted for the Dolphins, my head was quietly rooting for the Patriots as they were the whiter team.