I realize that I have no followers, and I haven't posted anything since I stopped being required to for class, but I have the sudden urge to blog about band-wagonning since the LA Kings won the Stanley Cup yesterday.
It's ridiculous to me how Southern Calif. goes crazy people go for sports teams that are doing well when they're from their area. During game four of the Stanley Cup finals I went to Buffalo Wild Wings to watch the game since I'm a broke college student and I don't have cable. The place was PACKED. I luckily found the ONLY open seat in the place, at the bar, and as the game started more people were flooding in to stand in the lobby and watch the game.
I started thinking to myself, 'How many of you would be here if it were the Flyer's and the Avalanche playing?' and it hit me, close to none.
A few days before I was at a similar establishment watching the game and the table of guys behind me made me want to vomit in my mouth. The first one said, "How many quarters are in hockey? This is the finals isn't it?" the other one said, "I don't know dude, I don't like hockey, but if it's the Kings, hell yeah I'll watch it!" Seriously, bro?
I pride myself in being a true hockey fan, if my favorite team does poorly, it's sad, but I get over it. But I'll still watch the other games, and the winning team isn't my new favorite team. And I sure as hell don't pick my favorite team based on geography. I don't magically become a Lakers fan when they are doing well, I HATE basketball, I won't watch it.
It irritates me when I make a comment about playing hockey, and people say, "Oh cool, have you been watching the Kings games?" or "The Kings are doing so well!" I just want to be like, "Who are they playing against tonight dipshit?"
It makes me laugh though when they say something like, "Yeah and then that one guy hit the other guy and knocked him into the railing!" I can't even come up with a smart-ass comment because it just blows me away.
I was raised as a Kings fan, my dad is a die-hard LA fan, but I was also raised with my parents' political views, into my teens I started having my own opinions, but I still loved hockey. But the band-wagonning makes me feel bad for people like my dad, who can't even get a seat at a sports bar because all of the fans-for-the-season assholes who overnight became the biggest fans of the Kings franchise.
It is what it is I suppose. But I don't think I have ever noticed how big of an impact on band-waggoning had until it came to Southern Calif.
