• SPORTS
    AND
    GAMING
  • Welcome Guest!
    Posting RulesBluelight Rules
  • Sports & Gaming Moderators: ghostfreak

"sports towns" and how about them.

ChickenScratch said:
in atlanta you can get free entry to the cheetah with a ticket from any sporting event in town.

just throwing that out there.
Click to expand...

this changes everything.

Pander Bear said:
Lol only in Arkansas does a five hour drive to major cities sound like an ok proposition for great sports.

That's like saying Kansas is centrally located because its in the middle of nowhere.

I do love the ozaeka, tho.
Click to expand...

Arkansas has a weird relationship to sports. Remember that Frontline about Shiloh Christian? I didn't see much high school sports action while i was in ES because of proximity to Fayetteville, not going to a public school (or a christian one) etc, but i imagine that there is more of a Friday Night Lights scene or like when Jason Stackhouse went to Bible Camp and was playing football while this song was playing.

I guess it just depends on if a place loves what they've got. Arkansas doesn't have much but Hogs fans are wild, and everyone loves their county's best high schools. Does that make it a worse sports town than Chicago because they are lacking in the pro department?

I think it also helps sports towns if they have an inferiority complex or an axe to grind. Perhaps the Bulls are only so good because Chicagoians are always pissed about being second to New York? Is Alabama powered into the SEC top spots not just because of the Dark Lord, but because their fans are always trying to one up their hickfuck Auburn neighbors?

Perhaps that's why Atlanta is lukewarm to their lukewarm Falcons. who are you trying to one up? do you really hate New Orleans and my Saints that much? Not really. You beat Philly basically every year and I know you hate them, but what does that really matter? My little sister loves her Nuggets to beat any California basketball team because she came of age in a weird time in Denver when people started blaming the massive influx of Californians for everything they didn't like.

Sports towns. You need hate or grudges or a complex to be one.
 
Last edited:
Kenickie said:
Sports towns. You need hate or grudges or a complex to be one.
Click to expand...

I actually like this thesis, and it could shine some light as to why Boston is regarded as the quintessential sports town (as much as I hate to shine said light)

Boston pretty much lives as New York's little sister of a city, and in every way shape and form they are inferior to NYC (or America's place for the best and brightest)

this could be a huge reason as to why the Boston/NYC rivalry is so heated in basketball, but mostly in baseball

in the city of Boston, trust me, there are no shortages of axes and grindings
 
Although i wouldnt say San Francisco is the biggest sports town. The bay area is a sports area I believe. We have two NFL and two MLB teams, and an NBA, NHL and MLS. while we may not be as intense about it. I would argue that people in the Bay area do really root for our teams and it is awesome to have two MLB and NFL within 30 miles of eachother sets up a rivarly between the SF area and East Bay. So while we are not as intense about it. I would argue that this area is a sports area. We also supports our big universities Stanford and Cal.
 
Kenickie said:
this changes everything.



Arkansas has a weird relationship to sports. Remember that Frontline about Shiloh Christian? I didn't see much high school sports action while i was in ES because of proximity to Fayetteville, not going to a public school (or a christian one) etc, but i imagine that there is more of a Friday Night Lights scene or like when Jason Stackhouse went to Bible Camp and was playing football while this song was playing.

I guess it just depends on if a place loves what they've got. Arkansas doesn't have much but Hogs fans are wild, and everyone loves their county's best high schools. Does that make it a worse sports town than Chicago because they are lacking in the pro department?

I think it also helps sports towns if they have an inferiority complex or an axe to grind. Perhaps the Bulls are only so good because Chicagoians are always pissed about being second to New York? Is Alabama powered into the SEC top spots not just because of the Dark Lord, but because their fans are always trying to one up their hickfuck Auburn neighbors?

Perhaps that's why Atlanta is lukewarm to their lukewarm Falcons. who are you trying to one up? do you really hate New Orleans and my Saints that much? Not really. You beat Philly basically every year and I know you hate them, but what does that really matter? My little sister loves her Nuggets to beat any California basketball team because she came of age in a weird time in Denver when people started blaming the massive influx of Californians for everything they didn't like.

Sports towns. You need hate or grudges or a complex to be one.
Click to expand...

Believe me i know all about Shiloh Christian and its shenanigans. I lived in fayetteville during their golden age. Have you ever seen that fucking school? It's so god damn ridiculously nice and up to date.
 
thebay420 said:
Although i wouldnt say San Francisco is the biggest sports town. The bay area is a sports area I believe. We have two NFL and two MLB teams, and an NBA, NHL and MLS. while we may not be as intense about it. I would argue that people in the Bay area do really root for our teams and it is awesome to have two MLB and NFL within 30 miles of eachother sets up a rivarly between the SF area and East Bay. So while we are not as intense about it. I would argue that this area is a sports area. We also supports our big universities Stanford and Cal.
Click to expand...

The bay area also benefits from the fact that there are many highly populated areas around the bay with no pro sports (Sac Kings are the exception), which have fans like myself that root for bay area teams.
 
I say with confidence that the Bay Area is the sports mecca of Mexifornia

no other Cali city (meaning pretty much LA) comes close. well, LA does try with the Lakers, but I have a feeling if they weren't a dynasty no one would give two shits
 
I agree. A lot of people in cali are from other areas as well which i think has a huge affect on the sports in the area.
 
i finally read the "Atlanta is the worst sports town in the history of the planet" after the outrage finally reached sensitive vegan artist cat_lanta and he expressed skinny jeans anger about it:

210yj5k.png


if some guy who certainly doesn't give two shits about sports is more upset than i am, i figured i better read it.

holy fuck nuts.

Your typical Atlanta fan -- who is probably from another city since so few are actually from ATL -- will be preoccupied with something else. They might not even be sure what time the game is on.

In fact, at some point, they might ask a friend -- filled with sweet tea -- at a pork-saturated barbeque, "Are the Falcons playing today?"

Pathetic.

But it's Atlanta, known as Hotlanta.

It's not for their passion when it comes to sports, just the weather. Oh yes, it gets hot down there.
Click to expand...

who the fuck are you, new york faggot? besides some uppity east coast jackass who doesn't wanna believe that he's got fruit picking relatives down here in Georgia or sugarcane men in Louisiana or rice growing negroes in Arkansas. fuck you, northerner and your condescending bulshit attitude. do you realize how many things are wrong here? has anyone called Atlanta "hotlanta" since '87? also, we like booze. in red plastic cups. ugh. but this, this is the fucking win right here:

141l0m9.png


but, but i thought...

Giants fans -- even with a fresh Super Bowl in their memories after the 2007 season -- are living and dying with their team. Football is a part of their lifestyle, it's who they are. On Sunday, every single moment of the game will be pure agony until the clock shows all zeroes and the Giants have secured the victory.
Click to expand...

i know i have a vagina but i'm gonna have to ask you to suck my cock. kthxbai
 
Pander Bear said:
giants can't sell out their stadium because, tommyboy excluded, they're all being fornicated upon by their gay dads.
Click to expand...
Thanks. The Jets have WAY more of a home field advantage in Giants Stadium. 8) It might be because more of their fans can afford to go to the games, which I will explain more about in the remainder of my post.

To give you some perspective from a NYer, the Giants seem to be the team for the working class, whereas all the Jets fans I know are middle-upper class. Most people that live in Brooklyn are Giants fans, and on Long Island the Jets fans are from the richer towns, while the Giants fans are from the lower class areas. I don't know why the Jets "superfan" is Fireman Ed, because most NYC firemen are Giants fans, while the rich businessmen in NYC root for the Jets. It's pretty funny because the teams are the same way. The Giants are a hard working disciplined team, that develops their players from the draft, and the Jets are the rich bastards trying to buy themselves a Superbowl. Just look at the WRs of both teams. The Giants have an undrafted WR in Cruz, and both Nicks and Manningham were drafter a few years ago. The Jets though in that same period of time have bought/traded for WRs Braylon Edwards, Santonio Holmes, and Plaxico Burress, not to mention all the other players in other positions that they have acquired during that time.

So PB, the Giants fans can't sell out their stadium because they can't afford to, and/or their Jets fan bosses won't give them the day off to recover the next morning. :\
 
Last edited:
LMAO. I hope the falcons or saints play the niners next week. Im sure you got all kinds of Cali jokes.
 
nowdubnvr6 said:
They all want to be touched by the super sexy tom coughlin *OMG*
Click to expand...

let me use this as an aside to say that look at Tom Coughlin's fase during their Wild-Card Game

this coach's fase, AT ALL TIMES, looks like he is GETTING HIS CAR TOWED on the sideline parallel to him. at all times
 
tom coughlin could get it before bill belichek as far as im concerned

that guy is major creeper supreme
 
Last edited:
"Sports Towns" inherently make their team "better".

Look at big non-west coast sports towns, their teams are constantly over-hyped. I think having more fans that really care about their team makes certain teams seem better than they actually are, with some exceptions.
 
Last edited:
axl blaze said:
let me use this as an aside to say that look at Tom Coughlin's fase during their Wild-Card Game

this coach's fase, AT ALL TIMES, looks like he is GETTING HIS CAR TOWED on the sideline parallel to him. at all times
Click to expand...

Kenickie said:
tom coughlin could get it before bill belichek as far as im concerned

that guy is major creeper supreme
Click to expand...

LOL

And kenickie i figured you to be more of a Charlie Weiss kinda girl? Fish face lookin mo fucker
 
honestly? if we had to ask what coach kenickie would sleep with because they don't look like mutants, it would go to mike tomlin. that guy looks totally safe to bring home to my black man loving white mother.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top