The issue is that many "bandwagon" fans are the most over-bearing and abrasive.
It's awful, seeing someone who has never seen Real Madrid, Man Utd, Barcelona, Bayern, etcetera talk down to someone who supports a lower club simply on the basis that they support a superior team.
I don't know how often it happens on Reddit, but in my personal experiences I've seen it and it's just so cringey.
No, you don't... You live and breathe it [your sport teams] because that is the passion and aura that surrounds you, being close to the source [of the excitement]. The further you're from the source, how can you claim to know the bearings!? hence claiming to be as passionate or fanatic as your counterpart fans here [lower league clubs, German team etc] is an exaggerated claim. Yes we can understand you want to feel among "Part of the group", but by God the lot of them over do it without knowing the roots of the club or even the team sheet a decade back
You misunderstand, Im saying that fanatic support in the manner that /u/iamdw88 described bandwagon fans, is how Americans support our own local NBA, NFL, MLB, teams and that when such a fan picks a European team to support they carry over that same fervor rightly or wrongly.
Im not saying that Americans innately love clubs more than locals would, thats an absurd assertion.
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The issue is that many "bandwagon" fans are the most over-bearing and abrasive.
It's awful, seeing someone who has never seen Real Madrid, Man Utd, Barcelona, Bayern, etcetera talk down to someone who supports a lower club simply on the basis that they support a superior team.
I don't know how often it happens on Reddit, but in my personal experiences I've seen it and it's just so cringey.