i do hate the dirty and lazy guys. i guess i'll back off on lebron. i liked his postgame interviews.

just like in the car world, i'll always give credit where its due. when i watch the lakers with a bunch of so-called lakers fans, they get mad when i cheer for the other team. i'll cheer whereever i think the cheering is deserved.

i paid a good chunk of money to get some 8th row seats to watch the lakers play the 76ers on March 17. when igoudala made that last buzzer beater, i clapped and cheered. yeah i was pissed, but you know what, the 76ers deserved that win. phil jackson even said it in the postgame interviews "we had to try real hard to lose that game, and we did".

my coworker here made a good point about how a lot of laker fans suck. they show up to the game late, and leave the game early, even if they're winning. when they're at the game, they dont even cheer that loud. they go to the game to be seen. when they lose, they get mad at them. in my opinion, a true fan is just happy to watch them play. if we win a championship, no need to trash talk the other teams, be a good sportsman and give the credit where its due. if we dont make it, cheer for the team that deserves it most. i cant stand how if the lakers get eliminated (like the have in recent years), the socalled laker fans dont even watch the rest of the teams play.

then i told teh gf (a self proclaimed die hard laker fan) that and she got all mad. then what happened when they were losing to houston, she turned the tv to another channel. i was like "see, if you were a REAL laker fan, you'd watch them lose." she gets mad when she gets owned.

i enjoy a lot of pro sports, i just try to remain neutral. non of that "since i live in (fill in your local hometown), i'm going to cheer for that team til I die" mentality.

if both of these Game 1's are indicators of whats to come, then damn. my blood pressure is gonna shoot up like crazy.

/rant

 

:doh: lol, what i meant to say...

as in conference finals... then lebron vs kobe

 

then those arent real fans to begin with.

 

LA must not have a lot of fans then.

 

When I use to go to LAker games I would leave early if they were winning due to traffic.

 

From an outsider's perspective, Laker fans blow chunks. Let me explain.

Oregon gets a lot of Californian transplants. Combine that with some people's need to follow front-runners (ie, Lakers), and we have a large chunk of Lakers fans. I had the opportunity to go to the first Lakers/Blazers game this year - if you're a Laker fan, you'll remember it. It was your worst regular season loss and the game where Trevor Ariza took out (inadvertently) Rudy Fernandez. Regardless, tons of Laker fans showed up to support their team, which I don't have a problem with at all. Their pompous attitude, even when down by 25 points, was ridiculous. On the train home, Laker fans were still yelling at Blazer fans (after the Lakers just got their ass beat) about how the game doesn't mean shit, etc. Unfortunately, this is more then norm than an exception. I went to 18 games this regular season, and no other opposing team's fanbase did anything even remotely similar.

edit: and on a sort of related note, of course they're all wearing oversized Kobe jerseys. All of them.

 

hmmm do other opposing team's have that much fans at the Blazers game? I doubt it So your argument is kind of flawed.

 

sample size, sure that is a given, but most teams usually present a decent amount of fans (Utah, Cleveland, New York, Orlando, Denver) and its no where near the same.

 

okay, Sirg seems like a typical Lakers fan

 

a lot of people do that, not just in LA.