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Who has the Most Delusional Sports Fanbase?

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bjaelke said:
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Your argument is invalid.

but it's true :(
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Liverpool the city. We both are very delusional


:P
 
I dunno if the Husker fans are delusional, but they're definitely fanatics. I lived in Northeast Nebraska for the first half of my life and I can attest to how much those folks love the Huskers. Especially in smaller towns. It was something everyone could get excited about and in a small town that goes a long way.
 
pgtl_10 said:
Nebraska Cornhuskers - At least this fanbase has a good past where they won five titles. These days Nebraska fans think they are still an elite program on the down swing. They can't realize they are in the middle of nowhere with very little recruiting grounds and cold weather. Bo Pelini was doing a lot with next to nothing.
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Meh - Bo Pelini, if he had a a decent QB in 2009, wins the national championship with Bill Callahan's recruits. The defense was filthy. He certainly wins 1-2 conference titles. Nebraska can certainly stockpile talent if the recruiting emphasis is there --- and that is now happening again under Mike Riley.

Bo was a solid coach that didn't understand the importance or Challenge of national recruiting and didn't hire good assistants to develop players. He ended up having teams like Wisconsin break off 70 points on him. That means you are failing. Even if you don't think Nebraska can recruit at an elite level, they can recruit at a level that shouldn't have them give up 70 points to the Badgers.

He'd probably do better at an SEC school or something where he doesn't have to leave the state to recruit. He does breed a toxic internal culture though. Works great for a while, then becomes a nasty grind on everyone.

Nebraska fans aren't delusional though. we long for the 90s and we are painful aware there has been no hardware in the trophy case in 17 years.

We also understand the value of recruiting - it's why we have top flight facilities, top flight fans (sold out since the early 60s). No one expects us to just pull kids off the farm any more. But we demand excellence.

Alabama and Oklahoma were once lost and searching for the promised land (coach) - that's where Nebraska is right now.
 
tfw when you come in to post your home team (Nebraska Huskers) and the OP already had it to start


it's pretty accurate though. Everything still thinks it's 1995.


Congrats on firing a winning coach and hiring the incompetent Riley, though! Hire a losing coach and get losing results.
 
Patriots fans. Guess you can't really blame them though, the team went from irrelevancy to "dynasty" almost overnight, it's just that everything regarding the team including the fans has been intolerable since.


Cowboys isn't a wrong answer either. They've been mediocre at best for ages and yet they are still supposedly "America's Team". Get the fuck out of here with that.
 
jstevenson said:
Meh - Bo Pelini, if he had a a decent QB in 2009, wins the national championship with Bill Callahan's recruits. The defense was filthy. He certainly wins 1-2 conference titles. Nebraska can certainly stockpile talent if the recruiting emphasis is there --- and that is now happening again under Mike Riley.

Bo was a solid coach that didn't understand the importance or Challenge of national recruiting and didn't hire good assistants to develop players. He ended up having teams like Wisconsin break off 70 points on him. That means you are failing. Even if you don't think Nebraska can recruit at an elite level, they can recruit at a level that shouldn't have them give up 70 points to the Badgers.

He'd probably do better at an SEC school or something where he doesn't have to leave the state to recruit. He does breed a toxic internal culture though. Works great for a while, then becomes a nasty grind on everyone.

Nebraska fans aren't delusional though. we long for the 90s and we are painful aware there has been no hardware in the trophy case in 17 years.

We also understand the value of recruiting - it's why we have top flight facilities, top flight fans (sold out since the early 60s). No one expects us to just pull kids off the farm any more. But we demand excellence.

Alabama and Oklahoma were once lost and searching for the promised land (coach) - that's where Nebraska is right now.
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You proved my point. Thinking you have the advantages that Oklahoma and Alabama have is the definition of delusion.
 
Pretty much any Turkish football (soccer for 'muricans) team.

About every couple months something happens in some match, some people start a huge-ass fight between two teams and someone gets stabbed/ beaten to death solely due to the team they were supporting.
 
as a Dallas Cowboys fan

its the Dallas Cowboys fans

every fuckin week of every fuckin year, its them talking about how godlike they gon be, they have the best o-line, best WRs, best RBs, our QB is just :wow:

like omg shut uppppppppppppppppp we haven't been to the superbowl in forever
 
NY Yankees fans.

Especially the ones who were kids/young teens when they went on a run in the mid-late 90s.

You'd swear they think that MLB should find loopholes so the Yankees make the playoffs every year and get a bye to the World Series itself.
 
Dishwalla said:
Patriots fans. Guess you can't really blame them though, the team went from irrelevancy to "dynasty" almost overnight, it's just that everything regarding the team including the fans has been intolerable since.


Cowboys isn't a wrong answer either. They've been mediocre at best for ages and yet they are still supposedly "America's Team". Get the fuck out of here with that.
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Check the receipts.

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So many of the answers here are from teams that have actually won something.

The answer is the Philadelphia Eagles. From the perspective of not being an Eagles fan, yet living in the Philadelphia suburbs my entire life (and typing this from Philadelphia) there's never been a fanbase so delusional with thinking they're somehow owed a title.

Chip Kelly (also equally delusional) and the Eagles deserved each other. The only shame of it is they fired him before we ever got the opportunity to see what the true bottom of the barrel looked like. Now he'll go to SF and run them (even further) into the ground before going to a high profile college job where he'll win a ton in the regular season and gag in the playoffs.
 
pgtl_10 said:
You proved my point. Thinking you have the advantages that Oklahoma and Alabama have is the definition of delusion.
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You're putting words in my mouth.

my point was, Nebraska is without a doubt a blue blood program (albeit dormant). Other blue bloods have gone through significant down stretches too.

Nebraska has unique challenges given its location, but also some unique advantages.

Can Nebraska be a perennial Top 5 team again? Who knows. Can Nebraska win a conference title and be the best team in the B1G West every year? Definitely. Gotta walk before you can run though.
 
The Cowboys continued relevance despite consistent mediocrity is something to be admired.

Also, sports Fandom is inherently delusional.
 
Dishwalla said:
Patriots fans. Guess you can't really blame them though, the team went from irrelevancy to "dynasty" almost overnight, it's just that everything regarding the team including the fans has been intolerable since.


Cowboys isn't a wrong answer either. They've been mediocre at best for ages and yet they are still supposedly "America's Team". Get the fuck out of here with that.
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No need to put dynasty in quotation marks
 
Ron Mexico said:
So many of the answers here are from teams that have actually won something.

The answer is the Philadelphia Eagles. From the perspective of not being an Eagles fan, yet living in the Philadelphia suburbs my entire life (and typing this from Philadelphia) there's never been a fanbase so delusional with thinking they're somehow owed a title.

Chip Kelly (also equally delusional) and the Eagles deserved each other. The only shame of it is they fired him before we ever got the opportunity to see what the true bottom of the barrel looked like. Now he'll go to SF and run them (even further) into the ground before going to a high profile college job where he'll win a ton in the regular season and gag in the playoffs.
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He had one bad season.
 
pgtl_10 said:
He had one bad season.
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Again, delusional if you really think that's the case. There's a reason there hasn't been a true revolution in offensive philosophy since Bill Walsh. It's a gimmick. Just like the rise of the read option before it and the run & shoot years before that. Gimmicks. Give defensive coordinators an offseason to work through it and watch it collapse.
 
Wanted to say Liverpool but its actually Leeds United.

Not even a century old, won literally nothing until the late 60's and 70's, and only 1 title since, maintain a self appointed (and mostly one sided) "rivalry" with Manchester United and still sing "We are the Champions of Europe" about a European cup final they lost over 40 years ago. Have won just 3 league titles, 1 FA Cup and a League Cup, almost all of which during a period they are most famed for as being one of the nastiest cheating sides the game has known (and in the words of Brian Clough, the medals for which should be in the bin). Haven't been in the Premier League for 13 years.

Absolutely bizarre bunch.
 
Duane Cunningham said:
Two or three weeks ago, I'd have said the defending World Series champion Royals, but they've come alive.
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Why do American sports leagues put "World" in front of their main championships or call the winner the "World Champions"? In most of these leagues it's either all American cities, or sometimes 1 Canadian team (NHL started in Canada). The entire American sports leagues is my pick for most delusional fan base. Plays by themselves, thinks they're world champions. How do you top that for delusional?
 
Poodlestrike said:
Seattle Mariners fans. I had a 4th grade teacher who was absolutely NUTS about them, totally convinced they were elite (this was that year they won some absurd number of games and then lost the Series). They exist, and they're nuts.
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Naw. Mariners fans haven't been crazed for almost 15 years.

And the year you're talking about was the year they tied the 1906 Cubs for most wins of all-time in a season: 116. Record still stands. Doesn't make up for a World Series though :(
 
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