Yes, sports content in this entry, please skip it if you're not interested.
So, every once in awhile during the Sharks/Avs series, I'd read the Avs LJ community or look at the Avs message board, and just like with the Sharks, there seemed to be an interesting split between the classy fans and the asshats. I had *thought* that there were more classy fans on the Avs side of things than the asshats, but as it turns out, I was pretty well wrong.
Check this out: (quoted exactly--spelling and grammar errors are the responsibility of whoever wrote them)
the sharks deserve to die.
damn straight they do. a painfull death too. i want there to be a SLAUGHTER OF TEAL IN GAME 5 TO RUB IT IN THOSE SHARK-FANS FACES!!! see how they like them apples.
don't want san jose to be a cup contender, i want to see the sharks humiliated and the fans to be as pissed off as i was last week. sorry, i'm just that vindictive. in the past i've really disliked calgary, but they took down detroit, and therefore, i cheer for them. i'm sure if sj got into the cup finals, they'd lose, but i don't want to see them hoisting a cup, that would just be unbearable.
You know...trust me, I can understand bitterness at losing, I really can. It sucks when your team gets punted out of the playoffs, and sucks when it happens multiple years in a row. I spent a long time as a Jazz fan, remember.
But shit like that makes me laugh at the ones who said that Sharks fans have no class.
First of all, don't lump us all in the same group--some of us, though we might not have been happy about the OT losses, didn't stoop to the trash-talk level, we just kept our heads up and hoped for the best. Ie, some of us are actually classy, and not snarky winners.
Secondly, let he who is without sin cast the first stone and all that shit. Yeah, okay, so you're upset your team lost. If it were the Sharks, I'd be disappointed, too. But seriously. Get a fucking grip. Shit like that makes you into exactly the sort of fan you seem to hate.
I thought about posting a reply, but then decided that dealing with the subsequent flames it'd produce didn't make it worth my time.
Bah. Grow up, bitches.
Posted by Liz at May 11, 2004 10:06 AM