The Definitive Fan #8 – The Violence Hater
Welcome to The Definitive Fan – The online guide from PowerPlayGoal.com to the types of fans who you’re likely to meet (or not meet) at a hockey game.
Some of these fans love the game, while others don’t really seem all that interested, for example:
Fan Type #8 – The Violence Hater
An example of which we’ll go into more detail later in this article
Bio:
The polar opposite of the Fights Fan. In fact, this fan type usually isn’t even a fan at all. They dislike violent sports such as Hockey, labelling it as being cruel and barbaric despite the fact that the athletes taking part have chosen to do so theirselves, and that Hockey players are usually well educated.
Violence Haters generally just don’t go to Hockey games, so have no idea as to how it plays or what the aim of the game actually is – they simply assume that it’s violent, and therefore is one of the most evil and unethical things going.
They will go out of their way to make their opinions known, with their favourite (and usually only) place to protest being the internet. They will find news related websites, usually the more generic ones that don’t belong to any particular TV channel, and find a hockey related article. They will post drivel such as “Hockey is horrible and barbaric and should be banned!”, then becoming a subject of ridicule for anyone else commenting on the article.
Characteristics:
Either gender, but more notably female – usually with no distinguishable characteristics. You won’t actually see them protesting in public because they at least know well enough that they’ll probably be laughed at.
Favourite Team:
None… well, maybe the Pittsburgh Penguins, because penguins are cute and fluffy and everyone loves them. Therefore that team isn’t violent at all, right?
Other:
One real-life example we can actually name for once is a user who responded to a question on Yahoo Answers: the user asking simply wanted to know how the fight strap in hockey jerseys work, and one user who responded decided to label all hockey fans as “low class, bloodthirsty creeps.” Oh, thanks! Real nice of you. So nice that I’m going to put a link right here for everybody to see.
I’m Wildwing64, and this is The Definitive Fan.