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 game.
Some of these fans clearly have a true passion for the game, others, well, they are just there for something to do.

Fan Type #14 – The Film Fan

Bio:
The film fan has just seen a film at the cinema or on TV that featured hockey. Now it may have been a re run of The Mighty Ducks, a bootleg copy of Slapshot 3 (lets face it, no one is buying that film) or worse still; they just saw Dwayne Johnson (The Rock) in childrens “hit” comedy The Tooth Fairy.
Suddenly, they claim to love hockey. They think to know what its all about, even support a team- usually one that doesn’t play hockey; confusing either baseball, football or basketball team names for a hockey one; or in some circumstances, will claim to support the Mighty Ducks, not realising that they have since changed their name.
They even begged mum to take them to see a game, which they went to; the mum spent the entire time chatting on the phone, whilst the kid eats tonnes of sugary food and then spends the entire game getting in the way of people who actually want to watch the game.
In some cases, they even try playing hockey; then give up realising that its not so easy to play and that the movie lied to them epically about what real hockey is actually like.

Characteristics:
Often young kids, running through to 18 year old males. They will see a poster/standee/advert featuring hockey and shout/say/scream “ahhh coool”.

Favourite Team:
Miami Dolphins, New York Mets, LA Clippers, Mighty Ducks of Anaheim

Other:
Eat too much sugar, laugh at fart jokes, and think that hockey is made up of angry people who like to fight; and they have no real interest in any sport(though this again varies)

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