We all need to relaxxx..

[Kingsguy881]

Not really responding to you as much as using your comments to voice a question/observation I've had for some time...

It seems some Kings fans are unduly worried about what their "friends" may say about the team. It's the old peer pressure thing, I suppose, but does it really matter that much what they may think or say if you truly enjoy being a Kings fan?

I guess I'm just old-school, but I couldn't possibly care less what fans of other teams might think about the Kings. People saw us as losers before, too, and I didn't care then either...

If you're a fan, IMHO, you're a fan. It shouldn't matter if your friend laughs at you. If you are overly impacted by his/her reaction, then perhaps you are more worried about social acceptance than fandom?

Just thoughts, of course.

Maybe so, but it does get really tiring and frustrating to have people constantly dump on you because of the team you root for, as if it somehow changes the person you are in life. As a matter of fact, there are a ton of laker fans that I know that are nowhere near as good of a person/as smart a person/as well off as me yet because they root for the lakers and I the Kings it somehow makes them a better person than me? In some circles, thems fighting words.

 

[bajaden]

hey wait a minute...

I don't want to get them all...I just want the best looking one.

Patience, she's out there. Just build up your stamina!

 

[K F Jay]

I wish I could relax. I've never been part of a young rebuilding team. I don't see a rebuilding team. All I see is confusion, players and coach not happy.

 

[bajaden]

By the way..age doesn't guarantee wisdom. I've known plenty of ignorant people who are "older" than me. Me I'm in between. I'm not old, nor young (32).

Well, your right, age guarantee's nothing other than your closer to death. I remember Lee Marvin ( the great philosopher ) heh heh, was on the tonight show with Johnny Carson and was talking about life in regards to himself. He said when your born, you know nothing. By the time you reach 8 or 9 you've learned a little something. By the time you reach 19, 20 or 21, your pretty sure you know everything. By the time you reach 35, you discover you really don't know anything, and by the time you reach 55 or 60 your realize that none of it mattered.

Sometimes by the time you reach the age of the person you thought was ignorant, you realize that maybe he wasn't that ignorant after all. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go punch that 70 year old ignorant bastard that lives next door to me.

 

[kennadog]

...and by the time you reach 55 or 60 your realize that none of it mattered.

Which is okay. because if you're lucky enough to make it to 85 or 90, you may have forgotten most of what you knew and and the only thing that's matters is the moment. Which is all that really mattered from the beginning.

 

[DocHolliday]

Not really responding to you as much as using your comments to voice a question/observation I've had for some time...

It seems some Kings fans are unduly worried about what their "friends" may say about the team. It's the old peer pressure thing, I suppose, but does it really matter that much what they may think or say if you truly enjoy being a Kings fan?

I guess I'm just old-school, but I couldn't possibly care less what fans of other teams might think about the Kings. People saw us as losers before, too, and I didn't care then either...

If you're a fan, IMHO, you're a fan. It shouldn't matter if your friend laughs at you. If you are overly impacted by his/her reaction, then perhaps you are more worried about social acceptance than fandom?

Just thoughts, of course.

For me it has nothing to do with "peer pressure", or caring about what they think necessarily. The part that bothers me is that they are right! Just because a person is not a fan of the Kings doesn't mean they aren't an intelligent sports fan that knows a lot about the game, or the functioning of a team.

So, when you take blind homerism out of it, and get an objective, and unbiased intelligent sports opinion, that's going to be more true, and less rosey then what you get from some Kings fans many times.

All of us here are biased, and not completely objective. That goes for blind homers, and the one's wanting to curse everyone as well.

 

[VF21]

For me it has nothing to do with "peer pressure", or caring about what they think necessarily. The part that bothers me is that they are right! Just because a person is not a fan of the Kings doesn't mean they aren't an intelligent sports fan that knows a lot about the game, or the functioning of a team.

So, when you take blind homerism out of it, and get an objective, and unbiased intelligent sports opinion, that's going to be more true, and less rosey then what you get from some Kings fans many times.

All of us here are biased, and not completely objective. That goes for blind homers, and the one's wanting to curse everyone as well.

Maybe that's why we're here, on a message board named KINGSFANS.com and not pureobjectivesportsfans.com?