How do you handle the casual Rockets fan around you?

I find it harder to find someone to talk Astros about.

You can kind of fake knowing basketball, or maybe even football.

Baseball though...just give it up.

 

Openly question his fanhood in front of the ladies.

 

wondering about this kinda crap isn't going to get you closer to Jessica, nut up big boy...

 

Why did we trade Juwan to Dallas and who's this Scola guy? For serious.

 

I'm a MUCH bigger Rocket fan than pretty much anyone I know except my Dad. Most of my friends are casual fans, but are major Astro fans. I'm the opposite.

The guys I work with talk about the Rockets, but they get all their info from fantasy sports. They know I'm a super-fan, so they try to talk Rockets with me, but I can see right through them and know they really don't know much about the team except for fantasy stats. I just try to change the subject because I don't like being patronized.

Does that make me an *******? At least I'm nice about it.

 

I mention something about Battier or Hayes. If their eyes don't light up, I know that they don't watch many games and keep the conversation very superficial.

 

I try to only socialize with rockets fans.

If someone is trying to act like they know something about sports I usually just whip out a couple snippets of uber-knowledge and/or name drop a couple old school players and watch them turn oblivious.

 

Who's Scola? He's a really crappy NBA player, that's who he is...

 

educate them.

 

Umm...that's because baseball sucks.

 

Let me pose a similar question:

What would you do if your best friend (technically, your best friend's husband) scored tickets to last night's game, and didn't even know/bother to look up who they were playing?


I just about disowned her.

 

My wife isn't a Rockets fan by any stretch of the imagination, but she likes to go to the games. I got tickets to the Suns game on the 19th. Here's the conversation we had last night.

wife: Who are we going to see again?
me: The Phoenix Suns
wife: The Suns?
me: Yeah, the team with Steve Nash
wife: Oh, Steve Nash! He's cute!

 

here's the conversation we had last night...

me : So did you act oblivious again when he mentioned basketball?
a-train's wife : yeah, he bought it, I don't think he'll be asking me to go to anymore games. Its safe to say you can come over during rockets games.
me : excellent.

 

Yesterday afternoon I went to PAPPA's on Pierce, and this dude with a Rockets' jersey (I believe it was Yao's 11) got off his car, and I put my window down and said: "7:30, man... you ready!?!?!" So he answered: "That's right...! Tonight, boy! We're tearing it down!"

I wonder if that dude posts here . I hope he wasn't just "wearing" the colors just 'cuz he was going to the game. I hate it when regular people (unlike us) wear Rockets' gear and don't know wtf is going on with our team. Ask them to name 4 players, and they can only say "Yao and TMac"... sure, 'cuz they're on the billboards .

Holy, cow, meggo, I think I'd go BALLISTIC over that b*tch. Don't you post some Rockets' posters up on your cubicle so that they know not to diss your Rockets in front of you?!? I do.

Yeah, Steve Nash is cute, alright. I think we're married to the same chick, A-Train.

 

That is a funny commercial.

 

Yeah, I need to get on that. I've got the schedule on my calendar, but I don't have posters up yet.

 

I just listen to them and laugh. Its amazing when someone who doesn't know crap about the Rockets talks to someone who knows even less, and tehy take advantage of that time to "show off" the little knowledge they have.