Re: The Boston Celtics Mailing List Digest V4 #374

>>>Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 11:20:37 -0500
>>>From: "dan.p" <dan.p@MCI2000.com>
>>>Subject: Fairweather Fans and Back to .500
>>>
>>>>>Not following the NBA closely last year because of the Celts poor
attempt
>>>>>at playing basketball, this year watching all Celt and some selected
>>>
>>>>The Celtics did suck last year, but I still followed them closely as
well
>>>as >the NBA. The statement you made sounded just a little to much like a
>>>>fairweather fan and I really can't abide by those.
>>>
>>>>Suggestion: Stick with your team through thick and thin.
>>>
>>>Get off your pedistal. Losing interest in a team that's tanking its
season
>>>and that only winds up winning 15 games does not make one a fair-weather
>>>fan.
>>>
>This figurative "pedistal" you talk about is what some of us real fans call
CELTIC PRIDE. So the team sucked. So they tanked. Is that reason to not
remain faithful to the team? I think not. You suffer with your team when
they lose and elate when they win. In either case you follow them because it
is the team you like and you are a true fan. You sir are a fairweather fan.
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>Colin Hall
>http://www.inet-direct.com/colin/
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