Posted by djsunyc:
Posted by GKFv2:
I don't know. I guess you can do what you want but I can't respect someone quitting on their team. So either your dad or something forced you into being a fan of the team and your heart was never into it? Or did you just quit on the team because they went through all that losing? I think people wouldn't care if you just never liked the team in the first place. Is that what you're saying? That you never liked them and realized this after many years? Because the timing of when you stopped being a fan hurts your credibility. I don't have anything against you. It's your decision.
i became a knicks/basketball fan when i first got cable in queens in 1987. i never watched or played basketball until that year. it was pitino's first year as a knick coach and i was hooked. followed them blood, sweat and tears since then. but this whole "i can't respect someone quitting on their team" stuff is, for the lack of a better word, nonsense. when you get sick, the knicks ain't coming to the hospital to visit you. when you lose your job, the knicks ain't paying your rent. again, it was my mistake to renew season tickets all those years but try paying your money and sitting at the garden all those years and tell me how you feel then. the "timing of it" hurts my credibility? what credibility is that? is it credible for you to post about completely hating all the players and gm of the team 2 years ago but loving everything now? that, according to your own standards, should be considered hypocritical.
Yes it is credible because when I was hating there was something to hate on and now there isn't. Being a fan of a team is being in thru the good times and the bad. It seems like right after the 90's the Knicks hit a rough patch in the 00's and you basically gave up on them only 4-5 years removed from their last playoff appearance. You act like the team was losing for 30 years.
I've payed plenty of money to see the Knicks, even in the Isiah years, the years I was really disgusted with the team. Maybe I didn't have season tickets but I wasted money I didn't need to waste to watch the team. Me buying tickets doesn't make me a better fan than anyone else though. The point is I still cared. Good or bad.
I still don't understand your argument. Knicks visiting you in the hospital? And? The Raptors are? You got fed up with a losing team and just picked a new team to root for that didn't have nearly as bad as a roster/GM combination as the Isiah Knicks. You left the team when they were down. You were a fan but stopped being a fan because they were "costing you money." Sports isn't about money. It's about loyalty. It's about passion. It's about the love for your team. Don't you think it will feel better for all of us when the Knicks win a title? Going through all that to see your team finally win? This is what sports is about. The ups and the downs. You stay with the downs because one day there will be an up. And one day you will get to celebrate like the other fanbases have before you in the Finals.
But to each their own. I wont argue with you. It's your decision to do what you do. There was never any malice in my post, just confusion. I no longer wish to discuss the issue.
[Edited by - gkfv2 on 02-01-2009 8:30 PM]Thank you, Rick Brunson.
2/1/2009 8:25 PM
