Losing season

What makes you keep going to games when your team keeps getting blasted? RSL and Chivas (to a lesser extent) drew fine crowds last year despite being DREADFUL.

The Thunder last year had a bad season. It was sad that Buzz’s final season as coach was one of very few where the Thunder didn’t get to the playoffs. Maybe it was a season too far for the great man, or maybe it was two—perhaps Buzz should’ve retired when the core of his original team did. But I’m getting off track.

We the fans continue to support our teams when they lose. Why? Loyalty is a large part of it, to be sure but what else causes us to be so masochistic? Some people measure how much of a fan they are by their determination to go to all the games even when their team loses by a large margin every match, but how is that productive? In the leagues in the US are set up all that tells the owners is that you’re willing to pay for a shitty product. Hardly the best way to get your team to be better.

But it’s a catch-22 as if no one goes to the games because the team is horrible the owners can just up and move the franchise somewhere else (seems to me there is a movie plot in here somewhere….)

My (only) regular reader, Lukacs pointed out that there’s quite a dichotomy to being a fan and a lot of toeing of the line that we have to walk.

I’m going to think about this one for a while and get back to you because for me especially it’s a question which is important at the moment.