I know I am not the only person who doesn't bandwagon the Rockets, and who besides me is going to be really frustrated when those random people start talking to you about the Rockets like they are a fan when just last year or two years ago they cheered for some HOMO team like the mavs. I feel like the GARM is already filling up with many of those people. The Rockets season starts and I expect GARM to get a lot more posts after all during the offseason there isn't that much to talk about, but this year is more than usual by far, the threads are popping up like crazy this year. I don't know just ranting... Houston Fans are some of the worst bandwagoners I have ever seen....
Just wait til the team starts to have playoff success, it will get worse. I have been a die hard fan since my dad was changing my diapers in the Summit bathroom. I sat and cried in front of the tv for 30 minutes ten years ago when stockton hit that long 3 in the WCF. I think what's worse is that there are Yao fans and Tmac fans who don't really hold allegiance to the franchise(not steve but the HouRock). To each it's own. It's not hard to tell who's not a real fan.
In Between the Lines? In Before the Lock? I Believe This Literally. These "initial" messages are getting out of hand.
i've been a rockets fan since the twin tower days... however... Welcome all bandwagon fans! It was great to see lot's of rox jerseys at the rox / mavs game a few nights ago. Welcome all former dallas mavs fans!
I agree, I hate bandwagon fans! They don't want to come on the long ride (post-dream era) but will jump on just as soon as the good times are here. It's like the friend that you use to hang out with in High School. You don't see him for 10 years but once he heard you were doing really good (rich,famous,ect.), here he comes trying to rekindle that friendship.
Those kind of fans are the reason I find it difficult to post here regularly. Last year we had the Spanoulis losers as well. Die hard since I realized the beauty of the orange ball through the hoop game about the age of 12. Loved Hakeem, but I didn't become a Raptors fan when he left. Just wish I had more money for the outrageously priced Toyota Center.
I think Houston right now is MUCH MUCH better than the fanbases of the other Texas teams. It's natural for a fan-base to form off successful performance, but you really earn your stripes by sticking through the times when your team just flat out sucks. So for the Rockets, many of us that have been around started in the 90's with Hakeem and Drexler, or even further back to the times of Moses or Sampson, and stuck through the stinker that was the post-Olajuwon/Franchise era. Whereas, for the most part, the Spurs and Mavs HAVE NEVER BEEN SUCCESSFUL before their current regime this decade. So all their fans that beat their hearts out are annoying as sh*t because they weren't doing anything 8 years ago and they know it. Heck San Antonio wouldn't even have a franchise anymore if Stern had not saved it by rigging the Duncan draft. I'm not saying those fans of the other teams are bandwagon fans, but they need a little suckage in their life to make their fandom truly meaningful.
False. Did you see all of those empty seats last night in the middle of the fourth quarter? It was embarrassing. I welcome the bandwagoners. I want a bunch of people to cheer for the Rockets at games, instead of one section forty rows up on the baseline. I want the city to get excited for the Rockets like they do the Astros and Texans. Right now I say we have the worst fanbase (with the exception of the handful of diehards on this board) of all the top contending teams in the league.
I think fans like the OP are morons. Just because you have been a fan longer doesn't mean you are superior, nor does it give you the right to look down to others. As long as they don't jump off the bandwagon when things gone bad, why does it matter when they become a fan?
Hate bandwagon fans, esp. since I've been a rockets fan since I was a kid. But it always happens, team does well, HOP ON, team does poorly HOP OFF I live in Bandwagon central, aka Dallas, and I see it happen all the time
Every fan has to have a first year or two, cut 'em some slack. Hell, when I was a kid, I was a Rockets fan, and also loved the watching the Nets, and the Spurs becuase...well the ABA in general, was I a bandwagoner? What I really can't stand is people that believe that they get to decide who can become a fan, when they can become a fan, and how they can become a fan.
I think the OP is frustrated not with people getting on the wagon, but people who won't stay on the wagon once they get there - and then hop back on as soon as the wagon starts to move. You know, the guy who was a Lakers fan 4 years ago, then a Mavs fan, then a Spurs fan, etc. The people who pick their team based on the record. People who have no loyalty. You're right, every fan was once a person who just started rooting for the team. I don't think anybody's hating on that.
