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The Definitive Fan #14 – The Film Fan

April 14, 2010   kevkev   No comments

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)

I’m KevKev, and this is PowerPlayGoal.com

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The Definitive Fan #13 – The Bandwagoner

March 18, 2010   wildwing64   No comments

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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 have a true passion for the game, and will proudly support their chosen team through and through. Other folks, on the other hand…

Fan Type #13 – The Bandwagoner

Look at this lovely wagon, conveniantly available to hop on when that other one is breaking.

Bio:
Often confused with the Fair Weather Fan. As the name suggests, the Bandwagoner has a tendency to hop on a particular team’s bandwagon, as in, conveniently become part of said team’s fan base when they happen to be winning.

They’ll continue to go and watch games for as long as their team is constantly doing well: they’ll then buy merchandise, such as a pennant, talk about the team, and hockey in general, with their friends and (temporary) fellow fans all while making themselves sound like they know everything about this team… but the very moment something bad happens, like the team suddenly losing its playoff spot in the standings, they will suddenly be overcome with a feeling of disappointment. Generally, sports fans do feel unhappy when their favourites have just lost a game (or their playoff spot), especially the passionate fans of said team, but they never go as far as to follow another one instead.

Usually, no matter what the team is going through or how bad they are doing, the more passionate hockey fans will still continue to attend and watch games to support them. As for the Bandwagoners however, while the team continues to struggle during a losing streak, they’ll conveniently change their allegiance to a different team instead, one that just happens to be winning (especially common if there are multiple teams within an area), usually being part of a crowd in doing so. But then suddenly, this team has a bad spell near the end of the season while their previous favourites have made a big, final push to clinch a playoff spot: guess what this fan does next.

Characteristics:
No distinguishable characteristics, they seem to blend in.

Favourite Team:
Guess.

Other:
This fan type tends to be more noticeable during the postseason. Sometimes you’ll find that even the most loyal fans of a team that have missed the playoffs still need their hockey fix, and will root for a particular team that they want to win: fans like this could be classed as Bandwagoner Type B.

I’m Wildwing64, and this is the Definitive Fan.

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The Definitive Fan #12 – Uninterested Children

February 02, 2010   kevkev   No comments

Welcome to the definitive fan. The PowerPlayGoal.com guide to the types of fans your likely to encounter at a Hockey game, whether you like it, or not.
Some of these fans have a true passion for the sport, others are just there because they like have nothing better to do.

Fan Type #12 – Uninterested Children

Often, they really shouldn’t be there

Bio:
Forced to go along to a game because their parents cannot be bothered to hire a babysitter, or because they feel that their child needs to be immersed in everything they do – else its not right, Uninterested Children distract other fans around them because they would much rather be outside with friends, or playing Lego.
They have little understanding of the game, and will often just shout what they know from other sports; for example at a recent game, one child a few rows back spent much of the game shouting that players should be “sent off” and that they should get a “yellow card”. For those of you not in the know, they are both popular terms for Soccer Fans.
They then, still bored and confused resort to kick the seat in front to them for a period of time – a quick glare back normally stops this, for a few minutes and the kicking will then resume.
They then spend time wandering around and in particular seem to go out of their way to make sure that they invade as much of your personal space as possible.
By the time that the 2nd period has ended they are climbing on the seats around shouting to their mum that they are bored, and spilling a jumbo sized Pepsi down your back.

Characteristics:
Over dressed in fan gear, as the parents keep buying it for them.

Favourite Team:
Whatever team their parents support.

Other:
Most of this type of fan will gradually disapear as they become a disillusioned teenager.

Favourite Phrases:
Send them off ref!
I wanna see a fight.
When’s the period end?
He’s not allowed to catch the puck. Handball!

I’m KevKev, and this is the Definitive Fan.

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