More Annoying: Bandwagon Fans vs Someone who roots for a team based on Politics (user search)
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Lechasseur
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« on: April 18, 2019, 08:28:05 AM »

I can see how your politics would affect which football club you supported in Europe (for example Celtic v Rangers in Scotland, or Barcelona v not Barcelona in Spain), but how would your politics affect who you support in American sports? Don't all cities bar NY and LA basically only have one franchise in each sport? If so it seems to me the team you support would simply be determined by location (especially given US sports leagues are way more competitive than most European sports leagues so people don't have to pick between one of the bigger teams).
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Lechasseur
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« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2019, 09:15:54 AM »

At anyrate to answer this question, I'd say a bandwagon fan. At least pulling for a team for political reasons is still some form of real "link" between the fan and the club, while bandwagoning just means the fan pulls for whoever's winning at the moment.
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Lechasseur
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« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2019, 02:05:44 PM »

I will always have my primary team in a sport and will root for them against anybody else.  But, I can't get into a game if I don't care who wins, so I tend to hop on and off secondary bandwagons.  In any given sport, I usually like a couple of the top teams and don't like a couple other of the top teams, and those teams may not be consistent within eras (for instance, my not liking the current Warriors wouldn't mean that I couldn't pull for a version of the Warriors in 20 years).  But, my actual team I am a die-hard fan of is something I keep constant.

Yeah, I see what you mean. My only "die hard" loyalties are in European sports (Go PSG (my soccer club) and go Stade Français! (my rugby club)), so in the US I don't really have "a team" (except for LSU in college sports, but I don't follow college sports much), but in the pro sports there are teams I like and teams I don't like and I'll generally have somebody to pull for, and my team choice is generally due to either personal links to a place or due to finding a place attractive. If I move to the US I'll surely end up pulling for the local teams in the area I move to.
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