There are many iterations of Griz fandom. After fallout from the Loss of the Century, I believe I have identified a few obvious fan classifications. Some fans may exhibit traits of more than one classification:
-Fans who will accept the Loss without "too much" hysteria and blame gaming and move on fairly quickly. (May be the smallest classification of Griz fan only a day after the Loss of the Century).
-Fans who will never accept the Loss, who are at least mildly hysterical, and have found multiple culprits to blame for the Loss (including other posters, who know nothing about football and have never played the game).
-Fans who point out the team record, say that it exceeds virtually everyone's preseason expectations and therefore the Loss of the Century really isn't that bad and, anyway, we will crush teams in the playoffs, including the Cats, who we will likely meet again to obtain sweet revenge.
-Fans who point out that the team record, pre Loss of the Century, justified an expectation that the team would not lose big in a lackluster fashion to the team's biggest rival.
-Fans, who recently were sure the team had RTD'd, now evince the opinion that both O and D lines suck and the team needs to recruit Pro Level linemen as the answer and that will make everything really RTD.
-Fans, who recently were sure the team had RTD'd, now suddenly realize that hasn't happened and suspect the evil twin UNLV Bobby stepped in for the rivalry game and will now remain to return the team to mediocrity.
-Fans who just go on the forum for the pure joy of engaging in rude, insulting, and at times nonsensical arguments with other fans, which argument often continue for pages without resolve and often veer so far off topic that no one can remember the subject of the original post.
Well - these are a few fan classifications that I have noticed. I'm sure I have missed some and some of the classifications appear miraculously joined in some fans who cross the classified lines or engage in more than one consistently.
What classifications can you add to the list, criticize or argue with? Have a little fun the day after the Loss of the Century!!!
-Fans who will accept the Loss without "too much" hysteria and blame gaming and move on fairly quickly. (May be the smallest classification of Griz fan only a day after the Loss of the Century).
-Fans who will never accept the Loss, who are at least mildly hysterical, and have found multiple culprits to blame for the Loss (including other posters, who know nothing about football and have never played the game).
-Fans who point out the team record, say that it exceeds virtually everyone's preseason expectations and therefore the Loss of the Century really isn't that bad and, anyway, we will crush teams in the playoffs, including the Cats, who we will likely meet again to obtain sweet revenge.
-Fans who point out that the team record, pre Loss of the Century, justified an expectation that the team would not lose big in a lackluster fashion to the team's biggest rival.
-Fans, who recently were sure the team had RTD'd, now evince the opinion that both O and D lines suck and the team needs to recruit Pro Level linemen as the answer and that will make everything really RTD.
-Fans, who recently were sure the team had RTD'd, now suddenly realize that hasn't happened and suspect the evil twin UNLV Bobby stepped in for the rivalry game and will now remain to return the team to mediocrity.
-Fans who just go on the forum for the pure joy of engaging in rude, insulting, and at times nonsensical arguments with other fans, which argument often continue for pages without resolve and often veer so far off topic that no one can remember the subject of the original post.
Well - these are a few fan classifications that I have noticed. I'm sure I have missed some and some of the classifications appear miraculously joined in some fans who cross the classified lines or engage in more than one consistently.
What classifications can you add to the list, criticize or argue with? Have a little fun the day after the Loss of the Century!!!