Great article on american sport fans

[-William-]

Whats new. You just hate everything.


Enjoy life a little more instead of using spite to compensate for your miserable existence.

haha, do you think I actually care what you think? Oh no, it's the super prestigious mod Iceblu so he's always right. Seriously were you trying to make me feel bad by telling me to compensate my miserable existance? haha. And thanks for taking special notice on my posts, not even I knew there was so much hate inside of me. :fool:

 

[ShiftyPowers]

In this case he IS right. Douche.

 

[yoyo913]

leave william alone

 

[FFC2004]

I wouldn't be able to live if I coudn't sing and scream my head off at a football match.

 

[newbie original]

Lack of true fan support can be connected to ticket prices. Up here the Maple Leafs sell out every game (at either the ACC or, before that, Maple Leaf Gardens) regardless of whether they are winning or not. The reason being that ticket prices are through the roof. The upper-class folk are the only ones that can afford the tickets and THEY are the ones in the seats...they do not have much passion about the sport.....just want to spoil themselves and their families. This was actually quite a significant issue up here during the late 90s and early 2000s when the team had a pretty strong playoff squad. The atmosphere was terrible.....home-ice meant almost nothing. The environment was not intimidating....it was just dull and mundane. The true fans are the ones at home watching on TV...if true fans got their hands on tickets, things would be different.

 

[hermolt]

The same is mostly true of Australian sports, as Parra said. I stand with a group of blokes in standing room every week and we get looked at as if we're crazy for the most part. We sing, we chant, we go absolutely mental and we do it all having had 4 straight below par seasons, finishing 2nd bottom of the league and things like that. It makes for an awesome atmosphere, especially when the team is doing well as the crowd around us feeds off us, but we tend to get into more than our fair share of scuffles as we become a target for drunken supporters of other teams, which sucks.

 

[Rob]

Hawthorn sucks.

 

[gagiz]

Ya Newbie Original almost all ticket prices in the NHL are expensive.Here in Montreal the lowest you can go is 10$ and thats where your hair can touch the fkin roof of the place.But thats usually where the party is and where most of the chants get started.The Habs have a good number of chants.I went to the Habs-Isles game last nite and i have to say, when we scored i went deaf, when Komisarek got expelled and the whole place was chanting Frazer *** u i went deaf again.But the best was when Huet came out for his first star...it was fkin great!SO LOUD!Clapping,screaming,whistling and chanting HUET HUET HUET!I lost my voice...Usually Toronto has a good atmosphere but this year its nothing special!Habs-biggest arena Habs-best fans Montreal fans and the media are very demanding.When our players dont send the puk on net, we like start screaming at them...to pressure them into creating a chance.

Roy-went to Denver won a Stanley Cup
Brisebois( :boohoo: )- went to Denver and is playing much better than how he did in Montreal
Theo- watch him pull a couple of rabbits out of his hat and carry Colorado through the playoffs.

But i like Huet.He doesnt get too emotional, hes like Bob Gainey.Hes confident, hes nuts in nets!He wasnt a party animal like Theo was...doing fkin lines and getting sloshed with Ribeiro. every other nite... Every Montreal hockey fan knows what im talking about.The Toronto media is a bit pressuring too.Didnt they have a whole page article and they made fun of some players?Thats what my uncle told me...BUt here its really bad.If we'd lay off a bit but still stay passionate as we are, im sure we could win a lot more Stanley Cups!

 

[hermolt]

Hawthorn sucks.

As a footy team right now, yes - but for a rowdy bunch of supporters (and I'm just talking about my mob), we own every other team.