Comments on: Into the Penalty Box of Love http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/04/16/into-the-penalty-box-of-love/ I FORGET WHAT EIGHT WAS FOR Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:44:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: DED http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/04/16/into-the-penalty-box-of-love/#comment-141647 Sat, 18 Apr 2009 02:54:38 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=7082#comment-141647 ROFLMAO! I’m a big hockey fan and that was hilarious! Thanks for sharing! =D

]]> By: Hal O'Brien http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/04/16/into-the-penalty-box-of-love/#comment-141634 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:47:51 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=7082#comment-141634 #7 & #19: There is no such thing as a “Yankees fan.” That’s like saying the schoolyard bully has “fans.” There are only Yankees supporters. Why they support the record-holding 13-time World Series losers is a mystery, but there it is.

]]> By: Jeff Hentosz http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/04/16/into-the-penalty-box-of-love/#comment-141519 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:58:14 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=7082#comment-141519 Ryan@21: Oui! Excellent short. Here’s a much better version, though, right from the source.

]]> By: John Scalzi http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/04/16/into-the-penalty-box-of-love/#comment-141516 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:32:33 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=7082#comment-141516 Rational, you’re thinking about this one way too hard. Unless you believe mascots actually roam about, enforcing arbitrary rules concerning being a sports team fan, and that anyone would take such mascot-enforced rules seriously.

]]> By: rational being http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/04/16/into-the-penalty-box-of-love/#comment-141515 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:31:53 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=7082#comment-141515 What is it with sports fans hating anyone who dares to do anything to support the wrong team? It’s stupid, that’s what it is.

It’s probably this excessive team rivalry, in many cases learned from birth, that teaches kids that it’s OK to hate blacks, or hispanics, or gays, or anyone else who is different.

Grow up.

]]> By: Blue Raven http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/04/16/into-the-penalty-box-of-love/#comment-141506 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:36:04 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=7082#comment-141506 Man, I thought I was risking certain argument when I married my husband. At the time, he was registered Republican and I was raised a MA Democrat. But his fan loyalties lie in WA unless the pro league in question lacks a team there, so the sports issues only get a little hairy when the Sox play the Mariners. I trust our marriage’s integrity against the low odds of a Seahawks/Patriots Super Bowl.

To be painfully honest, I will be friends with Yankees, Habs, and Ducks fans, but I will not now nor will I ever date one. It’s the closest I get to bigotry, except I know damn well the ribbing and fake fighting that I can do with a friend is not anywhere near as workable if I’m romantically involved with the person.

As for why the Ducks, I’m also a Sharks fan. This NHL playoff cycle is going to suck ass until I can be sure I won’t be facing my worst nightmare Stanley Cup Finals.

]]> By: Abe http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/04/16/into-the-penalty-box-of-love/#comment-141488 Fri, 17 Apr 2009 02:03:53 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=7082#comment-141488 I’m a Pittsburgh Penguins fan. I got kind of jealous reading that wikipedia article on Good, Clean Hate.

Yes, we Pens fans hate the Philadelphia Flyers. . . but we have no traditional hate practices other than screaming, “FLYERS SUCK!” I feel this cheapens the quality of our rivalry. I mean, sure, they do suck. But what else can you say? Now Detroit Red Wings-Colorado Avalanche, that was a rivalry. I still recall the massive brawl that took place after Claude Lemieux cheapshot-ed and injured one of the Wings. You had Chris Osgood and Patrick Roy going goalie to goalie, Peter Forsberg’s face was all messed up.

And then, of course, there was this tragic event.

]]> By: RyanMcN http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/04/16/into-the-penalty-box-of-love/#comment-141480 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:12:42 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=7082#comment-141480 One of my first childhood acts of rebellion was choosing to like the Habs – My dad being a diehard Toronto fan, of course.

Hockey rivalries are a quintessential part of Canadian culture. And with the Montreal/Toronto rivalry, I have to toss in a reference to Roch Carrier’s classic story “The Hockey Sweater”:

]]> By: Eddie Clark http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/04/16/into-the-penalty-box-of-love/#comment-141469 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:24:32 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=7082#comment-141469 I look forward to the Habs getting slaughtered over the next week… I lived in TO for a year so it’s kinda compulsory to hate them :). Of course, I also hate the shitty leafs, too…

So, yeah. Go Bruins. Will be good to see a team that’s been useless for years do well for once.

]]> By: ntsc http://whatever.scalzi.com/2009/04/16/into-the-penalty-box-of-love/#comment-141434 Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:45:39 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=7082#comment-141434 My wife’s nephew is a Red Sox fan, his second son is a serious Yankee fan. The boy will be spending a long weekend with us this summer, a family tradition when you are eight.

When JP was 8 he drove my wife nuts, now when he kvetches about the unfair indoctrination, she just yells: ‘Payback’.

[My spell check knows about kvetches ?!]

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