More Annoying: Bandwagon Fans vs Someone who roots for a team based on Politics

[OSR stands with Israel]

Both of these annoy me a lot but I would say bandwagon fans from my experience on them from  sports forums.

IMO someone who roots for a team based on politics are just taking away from their own enjoyment out of sports while the bandwagoners are typically ignorant of their "favorite teams" history before they became great , gloat non stop as they only tend to root for contenders  , tend to make outlandish predictions, constantly bring down the quality of sports discussions on these forums to an extremely low level .

Also as a diehard Blazers fan these teams they root for also tend to be teams I despise the most(Lakers from 2008-2013, Heat from 2010-2014 and Warriors from 2016-Present)

[Lechasseur]

I can see how your politics would affect which football club you supported in Europe (for example Celtic v Rangers in Scotland, or Barcelona v not Barcelona in Spain), but how would your politics affect who you support in American sports? Don't all cities bar NY and LA basically only have one franchise in each sport? If so it seems to me the team you support would simply be determined by location (especially given US sports leagues are way more competitive than most European sports leagues so people don't have to pick between one of the bigger teams).

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

A lot of us cheer for the Patriots because Tom Brady has a MAGA hat.

[Lechasseur]

At anyrate to answer this question, I'd say a bandwagon fan. At least pulling for a team for political reasons is still some form of real "link" between the fan and the club, while bandwagoning just means the fan pulls for whoever's winning at the moment.

[dead0man]

I can't imagine ever meeting someone in real life that roots for a team for political reasons.

default to bandwagoners being more annoying

[S019]

Politics, because if you root for a team based on politics, you have no idea about sports


Bandwagoners are just disgruntled fans, upset by the failures of their hometown teams

[OSR stands with Israel]

A lot of us cheer for the Patriots because Tom Brady has a MAGA hat.

And the fact that they win all the time



So you guys meet both options in this poll

[RINO Tom]

Nothing is worse than bandwagon fans, and - as stated above - cheering for certain European soccer clubs based on politics actually SOMEWHAT makes sense (unlike claiming to do the same in the United States).

[Pessimistic Antineutrino]

I can't imagine very many examples of the latter in the US other than Trumpers liking the Patriots bc of Brady, and those fans may as well be bandwagoners. Latter is worse in theory, but bandwagoners are more annoying.

[Don Vito Corleone]

I can see how your politics would affect which football club you supported in Europe (for example Celtic v Rangers in Scotland, or Barcelona v not Barcelona in Spain), but how would your politics affect who you support in American sports? Don't all cities bar NY and LA basically only have one franchise in each sport? If so it seems to me the team you support would simply be determined by location (especially given US sports leagues are way more competitive than most European sports leagues so people don't have to pick between one of the bigger teams).

[100% pro-life no matter what]

I will always have my primary team in a sport and will root for them against anybody else.  But, I can't get into a game if I don't care who wins, so I tend to hop on and off secondary bandwagons.  In any given sport, I usually like a couple of the top teams and don't like a couple other of the top teams, and those teams may not be consistent within eras (for instance, my not liking the current Warriors wouldn't mean that I couldn't pull for a version of the Warriors in 20 years).  But, my actual team I am a die-hard fan of is something I keep constant.

I do tend to root for other teams in the South in postseasons if I don't otherwise have a rooting interest.  That could be framed as political, but I view it more as cultural similarity.  This is especially true in college sports, where I will root for any SEC team over any non-SEC team (with a couple exceptions, such as Kentucky basketball), but it applies to pro sports to a lesser degree and is one of the later considerations of who I will root for.

[Lechasseur]

I will always have my primary team in a sport and will root for them against anybody else.  But, I can't get into a game if I don't care who wins, so I tend to hop on and off secondary bandwagons.  In any given sport, I usually like a couple of the top teams and don't like a couple other of the top teams, and those teams may not be consistent within eras (for instance, my not liking the current Warriors wouldn't mean that I couldn't pull for a version of the Warriors in 20 years).  But, my actual team I am a die-hard fan of is something I keep constant.

Yeah, I see what you mean. My only "die hard" loyalties are in European sports (Go PSG (my soccer club) and go Stade Français! (my rugby club)), so in the US I don't really have "a team" (except for LSU in college sports, but I don't follow college sports much), but in the pro sports there are teams I like and teams I don't like and I'll generally have somebody to pull for, and my team choice is generally due to either personal links to a place or due to finding a place attractive. If I move to the US I'll surely end up pulling for the local teams in the area I move to.