Good topic!!!
I always thought that their were (3) types of Sports fans/supporters. The first is the supporter who is "Born" into it. Thats where your dad, uncle, grandfather, brother, mother etc...is a supporter or fan and you just grow up with it automatically. It also includes geography or region where you live. Most supporters of a team, have a direct connection to that team.
The second type is an "Adopted" supporter. Thats where you have no direct connection to that team but for whatever reason you just follow them. Thats where I am. I first became a Liverpool supporter in 1983-1984' somewhere around their. My youth coach on my first soccer team was Spanish and when he was young he was scouted by Liverpool and trained with their reserve team, I donât think he ever played a match but, he was a HUGE Liverpool supporter. So much so he made sure that our team colors were red/white and we had iron on patches of a Liverbird as our crest. For whatever reason, I became fascinated with Liverpool Football and tried to read about them and back then their was no Internet and here in the US , we didn't have a lot of books about Liverpool Football in our library. But, their was a local TV show on Sunday mornings at 6 am, which showed matches from Europe. It just so happened that it was a Liverpool match and it was Liverpool v Roma, the European Championship Final. Thatâs all it took. I was in shock at how massive the game was. Seeing a sea of Liverpool supporters, the songs and chants and the flags and banners. I never saw that before and at that time it was one of the greatest things I ever saw. The only sporting event that ever remotely came close for me was the 1980 Olympics, when the US beat Russia in hockey. I will remember that Euro Championship forever.
After that my coach gave me a whole box of VHS tapes of Liverpool matches from the 80âs and from that day on I supported Liverpool.
The third type is the âGlory Hunterâ or Bandwagon fan. They donât know one thing about the teamâs history or players. But love it when they win a title. Then they talk sh*t and break your balls about it. We all know a few of those guys. They know just enough about the team to sound legit, they cant tell you anything about the team or what happened last week, but love to talk about the number of titles the team has or how great their top scorer is.
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