Should you have to be “knowledgeable” to be considered a fan?
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Lol we're not gonna ******* gatekeep fandom guys. Jesus christ.
I think there’s a lot of ways to be a fan and support the team...just not all of them are worth listening to.
My go-to whenever a hock fan would push up on me with his BS...
I would simply ask him who the starting RT is. While his face goes blank I spout off the entire OL for Iowa State. I follow it up with "Sorry man, what you say might be true, but I only take crap from ACTUAL Hawkeye fans, not posers like you."
This tactic works about 90% of the time for Iowa fans.
Only works about about 10% of the time for Husker fans though, they usually know who the RT is. Which is ok because they are rarely in my face about anything.
You don't need to be knowledgeable to be a fan, but if you're going to be a d!ck and talk smack you better know what you're talking about.
The best part about being a Cyclone fan is knowing the stranger your age under that ISU hat has felt everything you have felt.
There is no fair weather Iowa State fan.
There is no fair weather Iowa State fan.
My mom isnt an alum like most of her family is, doesnt go to games, and probably couldnt name two players if you gave her the names Brock and Breece to start. But she gets legitimately excited after every win because she sees her kids happy about it and wears ISU gear all the time.
To me, life is just too short to care why someone roots for a certain team, or to meet requirements for knowledge of those teams to call themselves a fan. Everyone has their reasons to root for who they root for, so Im not going to give anyone grief over the team they choose to cheer for. Except of course for fans of Iowa. Because, as always, **** Iowa.
My parents are alums but not big sports fans. They can't name any players and only watch the "big" games. But they used to take me to a couple games every year when I was a kid. Granted, it was when ISU was absolutely terrible, but still it planted the seed of fandom in me. I am an alum and season ticket holder for 20 years because of them and their pride in ISU.
I love this post- Bravo!
Each of us need to do their part in raising the next crop of Cyclones: take your kids to games, take your nieces and nephews. Make sure the kids in your circle know and experience the great things that make Cyclone fans the greatest fans on earth. My 4th grade son, who lives in Texas, can’t clean his room or leave his sister alone. However, he wears his Cyclone gear to school just about every day, loves watching games at the Jack, and knows, almost instinctively, that all hawk fans are losers.
You never know, that kid you take to the games now might be the next Joel Lanning or Chase Allen- kids who grew up at the Jack and wanted nothing more than to play in the stadium they love.
Would you call someone who knows nothing about their team a good fan? A fanatic?
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And their inbred sibling, the "Cap" fan.
I used to travel a lot internationally. There was often someone in the executive lounge wearing a cap with the chicken head logo on it. I would strike up a conversation, particularly if there was a big football game coming up (or had just happened). More than 50% of the time, they didn't even know there was a big game.
Fan? "yes." Good fan? "not so much." Donor? "probably!"
I think you should have knowledge if you're going to hold yourself out as a fan, and if you don't have much knowledge about it but still like it, you should qualify that when you tell people.
People lose a level of credibility in my mind when they say they're really into something but clearly know little about it. If I don't know a lot about something, but I think it's neat, interesting, cool, whatever I usually add that caveat immediately.
People lose a level of credibility in my mind when they say they're really into something but clearly know little about it. If I don't know a lot about something, but I think it's neat, interesting, cool, whatever I usually add that caveat immediately.
You summed up my mom about perfectly. Except on the game part she loves going to Hilton for MBB, but she won't watch them on TV because she gets too nervous.
not Even that. There are fans that think red and yellow.
Anyone can be a fan. Big tent fan base. F’ing stupid thread.
In a lot of cases, including in many of the posts here, people will argue about almost everything. If you're that much in need of confrontation, go pay to have someone debase you a couple times a month.
IMO, sports is a form of entertainment that can/should release stress and anxiety, not magnify it. As an earlier poster said, obnoxious people generally don't change there feathers whether they're right or wrong, so letting them get to you is actually helping them to achieve there goal...
I say, kick back, relax, and enjoy our successes, and let them be them, belligerent, uninformed, and Squawkeyes, (for the most part).
IMO, sports is a form of entertainment that can/should release stress and anxiety, not magnify it. As an earlier poster said, obnoxious people generally don't change there feathers whether they're right or wrong, so letting them get to you is actually helping them to achieve there goal...
I say, kick back, relax, and enjoy our successes, and let them be them, belligerent, uninformed, and Squawkeyes, (for the most part).
I have a few friends, mostly women but there is one guy in particular that I have in mind, that know very little about the Hawks besides that their colors are black and yellow and KF is their coach. They will be the first to give me hell if ISU loses or will act like huge fans when Iowa beat ISU. If Iowa loses then they just magically "don't even care that much". That's the only fandom that really annoys me
