Well as many people know that my dream job is to be a sports writer. i have wanted to write about sports for years now and this is the one way that i can do this is by blogging.
The title of this blog is the logic of being a fan and what does that mean? it means how come now adays it seems as though if you are a fan of one team you cannot talk about any other team? it seems as though since im a leafs fan that automatically means i know nothing about any other team. it is sports fans like these that give us a bad name.
I pride myself on being a knowledgable fan of sports and not just of one team. if people want to be a knowledgable fan they have to know how to talk about teams they may not be a fan of and be impartial. i am not a montreal canadians fan or an ottawa senators fan but i can converse about them and say something good about them just as easily as i can say something bad about the toronto maple leafs.
basically all i am trying to say is that if you want to call yourself a sports fan please make yourself a logical one
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The logic of being a fan. The statement it self defies logic. There really is no logical reason to be a fan of anything. For example; I am a big Jeff Beck fan, I am knowledgeable about all the bands he has formed or played in, the instruments he uses, own a copy of almost everything he has recorded and even know his birthday (June 24,1944).
Is there any logic in this? No. Is there a great amount of personal satisfaction? Yes. Being a fan is not about logic, it is about being a fan. No matter what. Back to my example of Jeff Beck, over the years he has been inconsistent in the quality of the bands he has worked with, down right arrogant at times to band-mates and the press, and at times seems to have forgotten about making music altogether.
So why am I still a fan of JB? Because I am a one-in-a-million kind of guy, I like the obscure and eccentric nature of his music and his personality. Though most of his work has been rather unnoticed by the mainstream, those that are in the know acknowledge him as one of the most brilliant guitar players of all time.
Being a fan you fall into one of two categories, first one is the flavour of the month fan. We see them around the finals, cheering on whoever they perceive to be the favourite. They probably can't even name the team that their heroes beat to get into the finals. The other is like you (probably better looking), knowledgeable about the team, the competition and the sport itself (original six NHL teams: Leafs, Habs, Red Wings, Bruins, Rangers and the Black Hawks).
Logical? Not by a long shot, fun, you bet! So in conclusion all I have to say is Go Leafs, Go(!) and have fun being a fan.
I've been a sports fan for most of my life. It certainly has its ups and downs. I think it's only recently that I became "a logical sports fan".
When I was a kid, my parents got me interested in baseball. I sucked at it (as I do at most sports) but it intrigued me. I became a Jays fan about that time, and I'm lucky enough to remember being (hold on lemme do the math...) 8 years old when they won their first World Series in 1992. That victory, and their repeat performance the next year were two of my fondest childhood memories.
Of course, times change. Baseball became less interesting to me over the years. I can't say why exactly. I still watch the Jays from time to time, usually if I'm at my grandmother's (I swear she knows more about them than anyone I know). But it just isn't the same.
Part of the problem is that I can be a bit of a fair-weather fan. The Jays can be tough to watch these days so that doesn't help matters. But I still watch Senators games when I have the time (that won't be a concern this spring of course).
I think my problem is that I experienced too much excitement and fun as a young sports fan. Foolishly, I was under the impression that the teams I liked would always be the best. Hell, I saw my favourite team win two World Series's in a row, what was I supposed to think? I never had to stop and think about the legions of Red Sox fans who came and went during Boston's 84-year drought, never knowing the satisfaction of seeing their team come out on top.
So basically I've done the fun part, now I'm into the "painful years of rebuilding" part. It definitely helps to give perspective on things. It's pretty tough for me to bash other teams when mine is full of overpaid choke-artists.
But times like this determine who the real fans are. We're the one's who can always say "Hey, there's always next year".
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