(10-25-2009 12:05 PM)dahbeed Wrote: ...you girls throw this out all the time...you ladies always copy and paste the 2 idiots and act like it is representative of the whole.
That about sums it up.
Troy gets their fair share of this as well. One or two fans go off spouting how good Troy is and it starts a massive 8-page thread fight. Because of that, earlier this year (it seems to have subsided) if
any troy fan said
anything good about Troy, we were "thumping our chests."
I personally think there are some individuals who intentionally look for the bad apples in the group for the sole purpose of:
a) causing a stir
b) getting a rise out of a fan base
c) using it as some backwards way to feel better about themselves, it may be the only emotional stimulation they feel all day, you have to feed when you're hungry, right?
You can tell it's one of the things I dislike about message boards. From time to time, we'll do prediction threads, and most of them this year have been pretty close predictions, like 32-28, a close game. 18 or 19 will post a close score, and 1 or 2 will post something like, 55-7, and without a doubt there will be a thread titled "Troy fans think it's gonna be a blowout."
It's not a fan base thing, it's an individual thing. Most of the time it's a few UAB and MTSU fans, but definitely
not their entire fan base by any means.
The few bad apples always stick out like a sore thumb and I guess people will always find the few, yet most negative examples, of a fan base in which to judge them by. It's sad.
