Given how often the refs get scoring and turnover plays wrong (which seems to be several times each week from the 3 or 4 games I can watch each week), I’m totally fine with automatic review of those plays. But I think streamlining instant replay is the solution. Just do like hockey where the ref basically calls up…

There you go. Get personal with it. I thought it was “just a pastime, not a war.” But, sure.

Someone’s sad.

Okay, boss. Your original point was that off-the-field activity is not subject to punishment by a team of it doesn’t affect his play. Getting arrested does not affect play. By your original argument, all three are the same so long as their output remains the same.

Like Ray Rice and Adrian Peterson. Look, who cares if you beat the fuck out of your wife or 4 year old kid. As long as you’re on time, you’re good to go.

I agree. Except Johnny is playing a game. It’s not like he’s doing anything remotely important.

You’re not wrong. There are tons of die-hard fans. But there are so many more fairweather fans.

Maybe compliment a fellow Archer fan?

I was back home this summer to visit my sister. Went to a cousin’s kid’s birthday party. Cousin’s wife is in her Cubs jersey (blank), so I naturally have him shit for marrying a Cubs fan. He then went off on how she never watched a single game, couldn’t name a single player, etc. Said she just bought the jersey to…

There’s a point in a stadium’s life when the attendance can’t be used as a means for depicting support for the team. I know there are thousands of people a year who will go to Yankee Stadium (before the new one was built), Fenway Park, or Wrigley Field not to support either team playing, but to just say they saw a…

Yeah, my mistake, I can’t edit it from my phone.

Hell, even Ferris Bueller went there and it was all about the park.

Yeah, they weren’t good last season. No reason for the fairweather fans to come out. It’s not like they made the ALCS or anything

It really is a tourist attraction. As much as Cubs fans will claim is the team that draw crowds, everyone else knows it’s mostly the stadium. It’s a nice old park that has a ton of history. I like going there. Too bad the team is shit.

I’m a fairly die-hard Sox fan (I’ll never cheer for anyone else), but it’s impossible for me to get into them too much because the season is just too long and it’s too expensive to watch many games. But I follow as best I can without driving my wife nuts. She already puts up with football and hockey. No reason to make…

You do know that the die-hard fans aren’t what people talk about when they mention fairweather fans, right? Fairweather fans are people who see a team do something good for once and jump onboard to make themselves seem die-hard. Also, see: bandwagon fans.

Yeah, I remember the Sosa days. When everyone at school suddenly became a Cubs fan despite being on the South Side. Then he left and all that went away overnight.

It’s an example of fairweather fans...

Cubs fans and Seahawks fans. Easily the most fair-weather fans of their respective sport. I moved out to Colorado 14 years ago and saw maybe 20 Cubs fans in that time. Until the last two months of last season, then everyone and their sister was suddenly a lifelong Cubs fan. I haven’t seen one since they got swept.