The difference at WDW

I wear my Manning jersey and no one bugs me.

I wear my Favre and I'm a celebrity.

One nasty run-in with yet another overbearing Pats fan (is there any other kind?)

He bellowed to his boy: "Son, show him what a 16-0 team looks like!"

I told him to "shove it up your asterisk!"

I know, Walt wouldn't have approved.

Or would he?

Comments

[stuart abrams]

I'm one of these "fans of the underdogs" who resisted geographical determinism, so I've been a long-time (and long-suffering) fan of the Jets and the Red Sox (not really underdogs anymore). I was watching the Jets-Patriots game and I said to my son (who dubbed the game, "Operation Break Tom Brady's Legs"), who is a gegraphically-constricted fan of the Jets and the Yankees, that these Patriots fans act just like obnoxious Yankee fans. My son pointed out that when the season changes, the Patriots fans turn into Red Sox fans, and that they're the same people. That struck me as scary. I'd rather be a fan of the rule-set, than being bound by loyalty to the land.

[Michael]

Rule-set loyalties can produce some peculiarities as well. The only theory I've heard for the abundance of Raiders fans in my home town (in Colorado) is that they had a hispanic coach several decades ago.

I wonder how many "land" or "rule-set" fans are really just "habit" fans?