Yea, My Team Won....Again!

So we all know the type of person I'm about to talk about. The person that always has the brand new jersey. The one who always seems to have his team winning a championship. The spectator that doesn't even know who the starting right fielder of his team is. You know who I'm talking about. I'm talking about bandwagon fan.

It must be nice not to have gone through horrible moments like Buckner in '86 or the Titans in '99 or the Cavs in '89. Wouldn't it be great to not be committed to a team. To have a little bit of you die when their hearts are ripped out right in front of their faces. I swear when Magic hit his little baby hook in '87 I felt like that poor Thuggee follower about to go right into the pit of lava after Mola Ram ripped his heart out. Oh boy wouldn't it have been great to go, hmmm, go Lakers, as I took off my Celtics hat and put on my crisp purple and gold Laker hat? Aww, that would have been nice.

No, what really would have been great would have been not walking out of the bar in '97 when the Packers beat the 49ers to chants of "Nanana nanana hey hey hey goodbye." Those memories are so much fun to rehash. It would have been so much easier to sneak in to the men's room and come out with a cheese head on and asked for another brawt. So think about it. Think of all the sports fans you have run into. Any of them sound like the kind that you probably think have about seven or eight different hats in their closet, one for each time they changed teams?

Real fans don't give up when the going gets tough. They still wear their Eckersley jersey the next day even after he practically lobs a slow pitch softball to a guy that can barely stand on one leg and needed a walker to get around the bases after he hits a homerun that sets the tone for the '88 series in one of the biggest sports upsets ever. I mean come on, how did the Dodgers actually win that series, their second best pitcher was Tim Belcher. I mean what the .... I digress a little and just ask that the next time you see one of these "fans" wearing their brand new Angels hat, you ask them if they can tell you who Donnie Moore was. If they don't shed a tear, they're not a true fan!