bgood79 was out of town, supporting his home team, the Detroit Tigers. He went to the bathroom and some of the rival fans started heckling another Tigers fan, saying things like, "we are kicking your ass out there..." When the other Tigers fan left the bathroom, they turned their sites on bgood79, saying "we are destroying you out there." bgood79 appropriately responded with, "you? You aren't doing shit out there. Your team is winning but you have had nothing to do with it." -Or something like that. bgood79 tells it better. Anyways, I think you handled that perfectly. Sports fandom is a strange thing, but I do appreciate sports. Most of them are strategic and you can appreciate them as such. Also, if you play the sport you are watching, it can be a much more enriching experience. You can actually learn. But the die hard fans aren't so dissimilar to die hard fans of anything: religion, political parties, nationalism, clubs etc. -These things all scratch the same itch... "to belong". Thanks for the post, I enjoyed the read.
Yep. That was actually at the World Series game 4 last year at Comerica where we were about to get swept. VERY bold move to taunt hometown fans in the men's bathroom line. Drunk San Francisco fans turned to me and said 'We're kicking your ass!' then I said 'WE have nothing to do with anything that is happening on the field.' And their response was a snarky 'Hell of a city you got here.' Apparently they didn't get what I was driving at. So then they were fed to the drunker, madder, tougher Tiger fans and they probably didn't make it back to San Francisco.