Fairweather/Bandwagon Fans

Welcome back to my blog! Today, we’re going to be discussing Fairweather fans in the NFL. If you don’t know what a fairweather fan is, they’re usually somebody who only likes a team if they’re winning or good. For example, before Tom Brady switched teams, and then retired, he was a quarterback of the New England Patriots. Many were supposedly fans of them because they Patriots generally had good seasons. For the past several years however, this title of a tea, that wins a lot goes to the Kansas City Chiefs. In fact, you can notice a shift of change of individuals who start hating on teams that win a lot, and compare to how many fairweather fans of these teams there are. They’re generally correlated.

Characteristics of Fairweather/Bandwagon Fans

No Knowledge of the team’s roster:

You’ll notice a fairweather fan has no damn idea who some of the roster is. I’ll admit since 2020-2021 season, I haven’t been as well versed in the teams’ rosters I’m a fan of (I am a fan of an NFL team, a MLB team, an NBA team, an NHL team, a Rugby team, college basketball (Men’s and Women’s for the same school), college football (same school), and college baseball (same school). I generally only follow them casually, checking the stores and their records (tbh, my NHL team has been doing really shitty for some reasons; I might check up more often next seasons for all of my teams.)

Doesn’t stick around when they’re losing:

A lot of them also don’t stick around when they’re losing. I’ll admit I WILL stick around, and if it seems to be too late to do anything, I’ll just say “fuck it” and stop following on ESPN OR if it’s on TV, turn the TV off.

They generally change teams as often as somebody who’s a job hopper

You’ll notice that they generally change teams once every several years or even more often than that. I find it suspicious to see somebody move from the Detroit Lions to the Seattle Seahawks from 2015-2017, weirdly liking the Cincinnati Bengals AND the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2013-2014 to liking the Seattle Seahawks in 2014-2015, liking the San Antonio Spurs from 2015 to liking the Washington Wizards in 2017 and will be very very suspicious of it. Will I call it out? It depends. I’ll ask some questions of WHY they might like them, and if they give a plausible reason, I’ll stop investigating it.

Wearing professional sports merch like it’s a fashion brand:

But, like some people with bands they think is cool to have shirts on, there’s some people that’ll literally wear sports teams jerseys and not follow the team, EVEN casually. Like why wear their merch if you don’t follow or even are a fan of their stuff. It’s eerily similar to the people who wear Metallica band merch without naming any songs like: Battery, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Fight Fire With Fire, One, Seek and Destroy, for examples of songs that I have listened to in the past.

If you do any of these, chances are, you’re most likely a bandwagon/fairweather fan. I’ll admit within the last 15 years, I was initially accused of being one, but if they really knew me, they’d know I wouldn’t do something like that. Usually, accusations in many such cases are projections, specifically with the cluster b afflictions.

Here’s another weird AI image that I asked dalle to come up with:

The eyes are really wacky on it, and you can tell honestly, some of it looks like Dale Gribble at the far right corner lol.

Hope you enjoyed this entry!

until next time

-Kansey Picciotto