donutboy2000
Sunday, October 28, 2007 5:44:00 PM
Get on the bandwagon!!!1210005.JPG
donutboy2000
Monday, October 29, 2007 11:58:00 AM
Does any team have more fair weather fans?
lkbigfish
Monday, October 29, 2007 12:52:00 PM
I'd say Notre Dame, then the Cubs, then the BoSox.
Goathead50
Monday, October 29, 2007 1:18:00 PM
Pats
lkbigfish
Monday, October 29, 2007 1:23:00 PM
Maybe the Pats this year, but year after year after year, when the Cubs start to look promising, fans come out of the woodwork. Same with Notre Dame, and I live 15 minutes from ND.
richokeeffe
Monday, October 29, 2007 1:24:00 PM
From the looks of it, that young lady in the front of the pic has been hit in the head a few times accidentally by the broom and is none too pleased about it

Fair weather fans? You kidding? The Sox have been more or less sold out every game for forty years. The sox averaged 100 percent capacity this year. How did any other team except the Yankees (who also were around 100 percent, by the way) do?

How about the fair weather Rockies fans?

lkbigfish
Monday, October 29, 2007 1:25:00 PM
For every 35 "fans" who wear ND shirts around here, I'd bet only one can actually name any one currently on the team.

lkbigfish
Monday, October 29, 2007 1:27:00 PM
Cubs averaged 41,000 a game in a stadium that barely holds 41,500 fans. Set an all time attendance record this year,too.

Is there a difference between bandwagon and fairweather fans?

Goathead50
Monday, October 29, 2007 1:29:00 PM
Looks like Texans tired of the Rangers. That was taken at the Ball Park in Arlington.
Lizardo
Monday, October 29, 2007 3:54:00 PM
I remember flippin' through the channels and seeing Rockies games where the stands looked freakin' empty! FOR YEARS it was like that!

Suddenly there is a plethora of Rockies fans? BS!

Think again Donuthole. Fenway was always packed, even when they hadn't won a world series for eight decades. That is the opposite of fair weather fans. The REDSOX fans are as diehard as they come.

Country
Monday, October 29, 2007 4:01:00 PM
The cubs haven't won a world series in now 100 years, I'd say that their fans are FAR from fairweathered.

Country

lkbigfish
Monday, October 29, 2007 4:32:00 PM
No - but anytime it looks as though they may get in the playoffs, so many people who have never watched a baseball game put on a t-shirt and ask everyday "did the Cubs win today?".

My brother's girlfriend who is supposedly a White Sox fan by the way she is always making knocks at my Cubs asked me during one of the games in Boston what a DH is. She is a self proclaimed lifelong Sox fan. Does this say something about her, or White Sox fans in general?

Sorry for the threadjack - I think Francona is a coaching genius. There was a show on the discovery channel after they won in04 called baseball's magic number.

If you like the BoSox or are any kind of baseball nut - definitely watch it.

tailgater
Monday, October 29, 2007 6:42:00 PM
donut,

Do you understand what a bandwagon is?

How about a fairweathered fan?

Since 1967, each season has brought an even more intense following in this world we call Red Sox Nation.

"Nation" because it encompasses more than just the hallowed grounds of Fenway Park.

While other cities have seen their teams win and lose, and their fanbase with it, the Boston faithful have grown in stature to almost cartoon-like proportions. And as each season (pre-2004) ended with another trademarked "wait until next year", the Red, White and blue (as in sad, not the color) longed for the first day of spring training so they could rekindle thier allegence.

But then it happened. In 2004 the original "Curse" died.

So now the team has achieved the highest level of success, twice in 4 years, and the real yahoos come out from their hiding places.

No, not the Red Sox fans. They've always been there.

The Yahoos are those that call this 40 year growth curve a "bandwagon".

What the hell are you thinking?

erkwgz
Monday, October 29, 2007 6:46:00 PM
He doesn't know what he is thinking.
wheelrite
Monday, October 29, 2007 7:18:00 PM
Baseball SUCKS...

GO COWBOYS..

wheel,,

pacman357
Monday, October 29, 2007 8:28:00 PM
I haven't been this excited since my neighbor bought new towels.
donutboy2000
Monday, October 29, 2007 8:46:00 PM
RED SOX WIN!!!!!!