Being a rider fan is like being a Calgary Fan shortly after the cup run in 04. As much as most of you hate the riders fans, you ARE the riders fans, just 5 or so years removed.
It is amusing to watch the similarities between what happened in Calgary after 04 and what is happening currently in Riderland.
I became a Flames fan in 1980, not 2004. The people who became Flames fans in 2004 are today either (for the most part) no longer Flames fans, or are twelve years old or younger.
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Being a rider fan is like being a Calgary Fan shortly after the cup run in 04. As much as most of you hate the riders fans, you ARE the riders fans, just 5 or so years removed.
It is amusing to watch the similarities between what happened in Calgary after 04 and what is happening currently in Riderland.
I don't recall hear stories of provoking a bunch of fights at games. The most wild we got was pack a street and show boobs. The comparisons are pretty off base.
I'm talking about being both a long time Rider and Calgary Flames fan. The new fans for both franchises in the last ten years are near identical. Drunk dumbasses, who are as funny as they are ######ed at times.
Ridernation is just the new Sea of Red of dipstick new age fans.
To me, that's not it at all. No one had a problem with Rider fans until about 5 years ago. It's not Rider Fans people have a problem with (there's a lot of intelligent Rider fans out there that care a whole lot about the CFL and the state of the interior league in general), it's the new breed of Rider Fan people (including most older Rider Fans) have come to loath.
This new breed of Rider fan is someone in the 20-27 demographic who has determined that the "cool" thing to do if you are from Saskatchewan is to get absolutely F'n bombed before, during, and after a CFL game and shout as abnoxiously as possible that you are from Saskatchewan the greatest place on earth (even though ironically they can't live there and sustain your line of work). They are straight out of the U of S, got their first 50K a year entry level job in the corporate sector of Calgary , and think their really important because of it. These aren't CFL fans, these are a bunch of drunken morons that would rather create a scene than enjoy a good football game. Older Riders fans are awesome, they've been through it all, been as low as you can get, seen their team on the brink of extinction, and stuck through it to the end. These new dults look at you like your lying when you ask them if they remember when Taylor Field was half empty and the Riders were on league life support. They are an embarassment to their team, the CFL, themselves, and more importantly the Province they seem to think in some twisted way they are supporting.
I know for a fact that in the midst of any Edmonton/Calgary rivalry it never got like this on either side. When a man I work with, a die hard Rider fan, refuses to bring his child to any game featuring the Riders you know something is wrong. Concidently enough, he has no problem bringing them to any other game of the year fully-decked out in their Rider gear. TSN can play up this "Great fan" BS for one of their key demographics all they want, but ask most fans in Edmonton, Calgary, and BC have had enough and their reputation is fast-spreading and it has nothing to do with the players on the field or their record either.
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I have cousins that are Rider fans, around my age. They had no problem with the loveable losers role, and took everything in good nature.
Heck, one of them was as hardcore as they got driving 2h to every home game, painted up and shirtless for every game and for the 97 Grey Cup, and long time president of the Dan Farthing Fan Club (probably the only one, although he held that post long after Farthing retired). Talked to him a few months ago, found out he gave up his tickets a few years back, as Taylor Field was unbearable with all the dolts that have arrived on the scene in the past 4 or 5 years. Its who can be the drunkest and who can come up with the most creatively obnxious/degrading personal attack on an opponent player and repeat it at the top of their lungs.
This is in the home stadium that the inmates have overrun the asylum, let alone the ones that pile into the F150 and drive 2-4 hours west to go 5 to a hotel room in Motel Village, drink until they puke, and figure its a good idea to go grab at a cop's gun. Pretty sad to hear the stories my cousin was telling me, but having been to a few Riders games here in the last few years, its clear that the Rider fans that enjoy the actual football aspect of football games, are in the severe minority, at home and on the road.
Doesn't help that TSN and others sensationalize this behavior as "passion", as that just validates the behavior and the acts they do under the guise of "passion" in these dolts mind.
Just all be safe on the roads today and this evening, especially up in the NW and downtown. In my 8 minute walk downtown at lunch yesterday, saw 2 Sask license plate cars turn left onto 7th Ave, another 2 go through red lights cluelessly. This is before the booze started flowing (maybe not), and the Sask drunk driving slogan of "you're good as long as you keep it between the ditches", is often carried over to the big city.
Jesus, you people need to experience how other countries show their passion for their sports, and you will quickly come to realize how tame Riderfans are.
That's really only cable TV. If you get the NFL package there is a lot less commercials. In response, CFL isn't much different, their commercials are just shorter because they can run their league on about 1/100th the NFL can.
While the NFL needs billions in advertising money to sink into their league, I'm sure that the CFL can run an entire season on the 10% off ride-on lawnmower sale commercials that Canadian Tire pays them for. I still notice CFL to have a lot of commercials.. Series, commercial, punt, commercial, series, etc.
So, you're telling me that if I pay to watch the NFL, the game magically gets condensed without the commercials, or instead, do I have to sit through 40 interviews where various NFL stars tell viewers how they have to 'bring it'?
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Jesus, you people need to experience how other countries show their passion for their sports, and you will quickly come to realize how tame Riderfans are.
Why? We're not in other countries. Why would we want to act like people in other countries? Should we start eating dog? I hear they do that in other countris as well.
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Why? We're not in other countries. Why would we want to act like people in other countries? Should we start eating dog? I hear they do that in other countris as well.
Nope. YOU should jam your head in the sand and never leave!
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At least Calgary has never had a child molester as a GM (Eric Tillman). We also don't dump manure on a players driveway if we lose a game (Paul McCallum). The Riders have no class. Hope they never win another Grey Cup.
The irony of that there is amazing, a very good source told me last year Dwaine Carpenter told the fans at Mosaic to suck his d**** after the Western Final.
When the Riders won the west last year, there was one VERY classy Stampeders fan who told me he hopes everyone in Mosaic stadium dies in a car crash that night.
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When the Riders won the west last year, there was one VERY classy Stampeders fan who told me he hopes everyone in Mosaic stadium dies in a car crash that night.
The irony of that there is amazing, a very good source told me last year Dwaine Carpenter told the fans at Mosaic to suck his d**** after the Western Final.
I'm talking about being both a long time Rider and Calgary Flames fan. The new fans for both franchises in the last ten years are near identical. Drunk dumbasses, who are as funny as they are ######ed at times.
Ridernation is just the new Sea of Red of dipstick new age fans.
Are you actually Calling the Sea of Red dipstick age of fans? If I recall I'm pretty sure that we were praised around North America for the lack of destruction that happened in relation and a city that partied without rioting or some crap.
Anyway, Riders suck and it will be a cold day in hell before I take lessons in class from them.
So, you're telling me that if I pay to watch the NFL, the game magically gets condensed without the commercials, or instead, do I have to sit through 40 interviews where various NFL stars tell viewers how they have to 'bring it'?
Well if you knew what you were doing, you have the NFL packge.... you change to other games during the commercials.
when the riders won the west last year, there was one very classy stampeders fan who told me he hopes everyone in mosaic stadium dies in a car crash that night.
