CrushAlot wrote:firefly wrote:As a serious soccer fan with a proper understanding of what real rivalries are, some of the comments on this thread make me want to vomit.
I have a hard time with anyone telling me whether I know what a rivalry is. I know a bit about soccer but it isn't my favorite sport. I am not sure why you posted this on this forum.
Happy to explain. Just glad to get back to a topic, any topic.
Markji Having Gallo in the area would be fine with me, although I have to say that with no cable and League Pass Broadband, I have more of a chance of seeing him if he is playing for Denver than the Nyets.
Paladin, I agree with you. I am getting more intrigued with the Nets, especially when they move to Brooklyn. I'll always be a Knicks fan, but I too loved watching Dr J play. Nets could be interesting as a #2 team to root for. Love to have Gallo play there.
Paladin55
I would love to have him back, but I would not mind him playing for the Nyets.
Unlike some around here, I was a pretty big NY Nets fan when they were in the ABA, and followed them from their Rick Barry years to that terrible time when they joined the NBA and got rid of Dr. J. Having Gallo in the area would be fine with me, although I have to say that with no cable and League Pass Broadband, I have more of a chance of seeing him if he is playing for Denver than the Nyets.
Here are two examples from people whos opinion and debating skills I amire greatly on the board. And yet, one seems delighted to be able to follow the Nets, while the other seems to have originally been a Nets fan before switching to the Knicks. This, notwithstanding Nalods glorious, Shakespearean love affair with the Nets and Prokhorov in particular, surprises me greatly. I find it highly unpleasant. When you are a fan of that team, you support them. You pay money to watch them play, you care about their performance, you exult when they do well and shed tears when they do not. The essence of fan-dom, the way I always understood it, is you stand, shoulder to shoulder with thousands of other fans who share the same love, the same dreams. You can b!tch about your management, you can complain about your players oryour coach. But you do it because you care about your team. Because you love them. And yet theres a team not 50 miles from MSG, whos owner has publicly stated that he deliberately tried to sabotage the team you love and people are finding that favourable?!?!
Take Boston as another example. Or Chicago. Teams who in the past have striven with every ouch of sinew to belitte and crush your team. You can respect them if you want. Respect of a opponant is important. But how can you call yourself a fan and say you look forward to following your greatest rival and indeed to quote Markj "root for them"?!?!
Its just incomprehensible to me. Like I said, maybe its a cultural thing.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. I dream things that never were and ask why not?