Wednesday, 19 November 2008

• FAN Does not Equal YOUR Team

  Ok, so I'm a big listener of sports talk radio.  Well, the other night i caught a local show where Joe Paterno was on and took listener questions...

   

  Well this one guy calls in asks what he’s going to do about “OUR” kicking game.  “Our kicker needs a little work and disrupts OUR flow,” the caller went on.  Ok, so here’s my beef.  Just because you are a fan of a team, that does not mean you can say OUR team, OUR kicker, OUR anything.  You are a FAN.  You do not play on the team, but you root those who do. 

   

  This is a big pet peeve of mine.  I am a huge sports fan, but I don’t lace ‘em up.  I don’t do the work in the gym, on the practice field, in the film room, etc.  The teams I root for I am not a part of.  It is this mentality that has led to a lot of fan and sports related issues lately.  Too often fans interpret their presence as a part of the time, and we aren’t.  We are spectators.  J  Enjoy the show, follow the team. 

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