Posted by codeunknown:
Of course, this stance is also very separate from being indifferent since the overall success of the team remains my priority.
Does it?
I’ve submitted to your psychological analysis of my choice to root for the team to win as misplacing the virtue of loyalty by reverting to the “rooting for the Knicks no matter what” default. Allow me to form my own wildly inexact profile of your fandom.
I actually think your emotions are more galvanized by an intense dislike for Isiah Thomas than any desire to see the Knicks succeed, now or in the future. You don’t want them to win in the short term because that means Isiah would remain, even if they are, in fact, winning. Yet its erroneous to say that this somehow means you are actively rooting for success in the long term because even you must admit that Isiah's removal is no guarantee that MSG will suddenly become a successfully run organization. In fact, I'm sure you understand that it likely will mean very little.
So when you made the transition from indifference to actively rooting against the team it couldn’t be out of a firm belief that things will get better when Isiah is gone. You have no strong reason to believe that. However, you do have a strong belief that you dislike Isiah Thomas. As you yourself made clear earlier in the thread, it isn't Isiah's players, it’s the man himself.
So while a rooting interest in the Knicks remains, it couldn’t be said that this interest in any way relates to the team’s current probabilities of sequalae or success. It is, at best, a kind of nostalgic fandom. You feel a connection to other fans because, like them, you long for those good old days when the Knicks made the playoffs every year, played hard nosed defense, and never took a night off.
You still call yourself a Knick fan because you liked those Knicks. But of course, those Knicks aren’t here anymore.
[Edited by - rembee76 on 11-04-2007 7:10 PM]Its like a groupie website, or bitter ex-wives club. -Sebstar
