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What about people born after 1985?
This was a point brought up by Mono some time ago, and it's a great one.
If you consciously became a Lakers fan after 1985, you're a bandwagoner. Simple as that. 1985 is the key year because that's when the Clippers relocated from San Diego to Los Angeles, so no longer can a post-1985 Lakers fan bail themselves out with the geographical proximity card. You chose the Lakers as your "hometown team" because they had championships to boast.
And don't give me any of that bull that you became a fan because you remember the good times when you sat there with your pops and watched Magic announce to the world that he was a got. I grew up in a family of Celtics fans and couldn't care less about them.
The logic is irrefutable. After 1985, there were two Los Angeles teams to chose from, and if you, provided you weren't already a Lakers fan, chose the more successful one, you are a bandwagoner.
Last edited by midnightpulp; 09-25-2010 at 09:34 PM.
What about people born after 1985?
Isn't Mono a Patriots and Mavericks fan? How the does that happen?
You suffer the same unlucky fate of being a bandwagon fan even if you've been in LA all your life IF you support the Lakers. You only become a real fan if you support the Clippers and Donald Sterling.
Not a great source, Mono's an idiot
It is what it is.You suffer the same unlucky fate of being a bandwagon fan even if you've been in LA all your life IF you support the Lakers. You only become a real fan if you support the Clippers and Donald Sterling.
If you were born after 1985 and make the decision to support the Lakers over the Clippers, you're a bandwagoner. There's no other way to define it, really.
So you're a bandwagon fan too? Because you have Elden Campbell and Sedale Threatt? And they were players after 1985?
Probably the same way I'm a Raiders and Spurs fan.
Mono grew up in a family of Lakers fans, and seeing first hand the kind of bags Laker fans can be, probably engendered in him a life long hatred of the Purple and Piss. Most likely, since Laker fans are natural bandwagoners, his family were probably Cowboy fans, which turned him off from being a fan in a similar way.
I grew up in SoCal, surrounded by asshole Lakers fans, and vowed to myself to never become a fan of that circus and be associated with their idiot fanbase, which is the worst in sports.
I'm not a Lakers fan.
Well, Lakers fans can be terrible, but I don't know about not being a fan solely because of idiots in the fanbase.
If you have childhood or family issues, please don't take it out on Lakers fans.
I knew the moment Bryant shoveled it to Artest & Ron finished it we was gonna have us a fine time here-a-bouts.
tee, hee.
Why?It must suck for you.
I could've just as easy been a fan like yourself, bought by the hype and advertising, becoming yet another minion of the Purple N Piss army, but I always saw you gots as followers and bandwagoners, so I chose a different route.
And lol at you: USC and UCLA fan.
- "Nobody closes us out. Nobody."
- Luva - 13 down, 2nd half, Game 7, waitin' on The Princess
lol USC
Lol at a Cleveland born, Arizona residing Lakers fan.
But, in your defense, if you became a Lakers fan during the time when the Celtics were keeping them balloons afloat in the rafters and West was getting down on his knees for Big Bill, then I salute you.
The Los Angeles Lakers were a leless organization then.
I'm with you on those 3 franchises. Don't really like hockey, hate UCLA, and you know how I feel about the Lakers.
Why aren't you in the football forum talking up the Raiders, though?
- "I'm still 6'10", 240."
- Mitch Kupchak - knee shackled/in tears - June.9.1985 - Boston, Massachusetts
So that's when you became a fan? 1985?
No, 1969, when Van Breda Koff & Wilt had their pissin' match.
And you chose the Spurs because....
....he enjoyed David Robinson in pink panties.
I'm a blind sheep that roots for teams solely based on the peer pressure of family and neighborhood
I can't hate on that. Lakers were kind of joke in the 60s, smelling nothing but skunk for an entire decade.
And I understand why Lakers fans who grew up in the 70s like Luva are having so much fun now. At that time, his beloved Lakers had 2 puny les, which looked ridiculous compared to the Celtics' mighty 13. All the things he wished he could've said to the world in the 80s when the Lakers went on their first meaningful run, can now find an audience with the Internet.
The Lakaluva we all know and love didn't just happen overnight. He might not admit it, but there's a lot of pain behind his frontrunning and bravado.
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