May 25, 2013

On “True Fans” and Hope

Urrg - True Fan Drive Redskin Car!

Urrg - True Fan Drive Redskin Car!

In the past few weeks I’ve seen in the comments here one of my biggest pet peeves about being a sports fan – the term “true fan”.  I have no idea what it’s supposed to mean, only that it’s supposed to make certain people feel inferior in their fandom when compared to “true fans“.

I can really only speak from my own experience as someone who grew up in Northern Ohio, went to Ohio State, and moved to the DMV area, but here’s my take on the whole thing. [Read more...]

Well, that was pretty uneventful

Build to a crecendo aaaaannndddd?  TMZ has the LeBron dunk video. Between the fact that it was cross-gym, there was a dark pad behind the hoop, and the cell phone it was taken on was probably the first video phone ever, not much can really be seen.  There was a dunk, some yelling, and some giggling.  LeBron and Nike, it should’ve come out earlier.  Nobody would have cared, and now people are laughing at you.  Whatever, at least ESPN has something to talk about for the next three days.

Jordan Crawford has now been freed.

WFNY Edit (4:34) – Another angle with a much better view has been put up on Ebaumnation.com