I, Anonymous May 13, 2010 at 4:00 am

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Well said.
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Are you serious? Who gives a fuck what you think? If somebody wants to leave the game they can leave the game. They don't owe anything to you or the Portland Trailblazers.
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YES! I couldn't agree more.
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In regards to the previous comment-- its not about owing the team anything. its about feeling a burning desire to express your support for your beloved players! Its a chance to say "thank you for working so hard. You make winter seem less bleak." I, anonymous, I couldn't agree with you more.
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The true Blazers fans of yesteryear are gone. Gone and replaced by weak, fair-weather, pretentious fucks (or family fucks) mostly interested in the potential for a free Chalupa (and the 30 grams of fat it guarantees) than anything else when attending a game. The Rose Garden (and/or any establishment/household televising games) more closely resembles a nursery than an arena these days. All Blazers fans do is constantly whine and complain: whine about injuries, complain about the refs, complain about the coaching, complain about the trainers. Did I mention complain about the refs? Oh, and the refs - they have it out for the Blazers, right? Jesus-fuck it's annoying. I'm so sick of hearing from implants how great the Blazers fans are. I've been here long enough to know what they WERE like, but those days have long since passed. Cheers to I Anon for the rant, but that's just what I expect from the Blazers "fans" of today...
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Agreed, Anonymous. You are lucky enough to still have an NBA franchise, the least you could do is act like you care. You wouldn't like it if you woke up one day and found that your beloved franchise, laden with young talent, had been stolen by some inbred hillbilly and moved to some God forsaken Midwestern hell-hole.
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I agree with pdx4shame, I remember going to many Blazer playoff games in the 90's and the vibe was different. Not to mention the idiots that are fans because Rudy fernandez is "cute". Seems to me I run into far to many white bread transplants who never played a sport in their lives and are clueless about basketball in general. I realize they do not represent every Blazer fan but it is still pathetic. There is nothing worse than watching a game in a bar where the crowd is largely comprised of hipster asshats who know about as much about the NBA as most Mercury scribes know about subtlety.
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I'm with gomphiasis, but it's always nice to see that elitism and self-righteousness extend all the way to basketball fandom. Ever think maybe some people just don't care? That they're okay with being a fair-weather fan? Get your wallet out, Anonymous, buy yourself that season ticket and sit there for as long as you like. Some of us have other things to do and are pretty confident that the multi-million dollar salaries are sufficient thanks for the players hard work. Better luck next year Blazers.
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Not for nothing, pdx4shame, but what exactly is a "family fuck"? I assume most people come from some sort of family, even if it's not their own biological one. And I believe there would be no families at all without fucking of some kind. In fact, there would be no YOU you big galoot! However, if you and other Blazer fans have no families to speak of because they abandoned you, I can understand your resentment and rage at those of us who are family fuckheads, and would like you to consider possibly befriending one in your neighborhood. Maybe they will invite you to a Blazers game where you can sit with other family fucks and cheer the fuckin' Blazers!
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Resentment? Rage? Ha, I'm not even a Blazers fan. Nice try, though. A family fuck is the idiot who brings his family to the game only to get a Chalupa (or 5), then bolts once it is realized that the Blazers won't get to 100. A family fuck is the person who drags their disinterested children to the arena so then others around them have to put up with their whining all game long until the parent(s) finally caves and takes them home. A family fuck is a person like you (assuming you have kids) - getting all in a tissy because you don't understand how to infer. You obviously don't care and possibly don't have an understanding that home playoff games can be won or lost largely based on the crowd. That's okay though, from reading your post I could see how certain things may be difficult for you...

Why did you have children in the first place, Mr. Freedom? For your own selfishness? Because "God" "told you" to multiply? I'm not going to make any stupid inferences like you did, but I can pretty much guarantee that you are an insanely large hypocrite with a GED (if that). I know it's not your fault you couldn't continue school because you got your high school sweetheart pregnant at 16 and had to help care for the baby and provide. I can assume it's been rough too - so how many times have you cheated on her? I have a very loving family and am more than elated it doesn't contain anyone like you. My family members have brains and they use them well. So go to church, keep dragging your kids to Blazers games, and stay the fuck away from me. I'm actually happy.
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here is what Bill Simmons, who recently wrote the book of basketball, said after his trip to Portland on his ESPN blog.

"Everyone else stays in their seats. At halftime, those same people pour into the concourse like it's halftime of a football game. I've never seen anything like it. I don't know whether the Blazers have the most loyal, passionate, dutiful fans in the NBA, but at the very least, we can say nobody else tops them. Here's what I took away from my Rose Garden experience: Portland loves the Blazers the same way a single mother would love her only child. The city's revulsion toward the "Jail Blazers" makes a lot more sense to me now. The team and the city are intertwined, and if one side isn't holding up that bargain, it's even more painful than usual. Anyway, I couldn't be happier that I got a taste of it. Great NBA city."
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yeah, pdx4shame, you sound it.
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Yeah! A bunch of millionaires running around in their underwear need our support. Just because they are happy to cut their season short so they can go some place nice and hang out with their homies, is no reason to try to avoid traffic. Just remember, these guys will be back next season (in a month or so)driving up the price of lap dances and pot, interrupting half of my favorite TV shows, and showing the country how diverse we are here in Portland. Support the team! Go Sixers!!!
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I believe Anonymous and Bea Foroni should be forced to square off in a moderated public debate.
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pdx4shame's rant was WAY better! thanks for bringing the column back...
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get a life buddy. you pay for the ticket, you have the right to do whatever you want within the rules. anonymously calling out fans for leaving a game 2 minutes early makes you a better fan than i, i guess. you are such a loser.
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I totally agree with the sentiment behind the comment by "Anonymous". However I hate how fans turn against other fans. We are all different in the way we support the team. I am one of the ones that am standing up 90% of the time yelling at the top of my lungs and I always stay til the end. And yes, I would love it if every other fan in the building were the same way. But they aren't, and I don't believe in criticizing them for being "bad fans". If a lady behind me with her kid nicely asks me to sit so she can see the game and her child doesn't have to hear me screaming I get that and can adjust my actions for the good of the section. They paid their money just like I did. I witnessed several fights between fans during the playoffs because one drunk guy thought another drunk guy was not a "true fan". It just makes me sad. The team is supposed to bring fans together in a fun way. I hate to see this kind of negativity.
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Also, I was nearly involved in one of the near fights among Blazer fans I mentioned. There was a guy several rows behind me at the end of Game 6 loudly booing and shouting profanities at the court at the end of the game while the majority of Blazer fans were applauding the team for a great season. I was wishing at the time that he had been one of the many to exit prematurely and I told him so. While he was spurting out anger and hatred, I fought off tears. Not because we lost, but because the remaining blazer fans were on their feet giving an incredible ear-piercing ovation for an amazing season-long effort by our players at the end of a Game 6 loss on national TV. Amazing.

I would much rather people leave early than stay to boo our franchise at the end of the final game of our season. That just makes the team and the city look bad. Don't believe me? Ask a Cleveland Cavaliers fan what they think about having boo'ed their star player off of the court in what could be his last game ever in their jersey...
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Whatevs. They paid for their seats just like everyone else. They can do whatever they want.
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Get off my lawn!
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after reading your reply to me, pdx4shame, i stand by my original comment that you need a family. and, apparently, a backrub as well. i actually have more than a GED -- i have a gift certificate left over from Christmas 2008 that I forgot to spend, and damn if it just expired the other day! don't you hate when that happens, I do?! Anyway, I don't know of anyone who "has kids for their own selfish reasons" since if spending thousands of dollars on children for two to three decades is your definition of selfishness, i'd hate to see your definition of altruism, since I imagine I'd have to die in battle while breastfeeding an abandoned kitty or something. As for teams having to have the home crowd on their side to win a game, yeah, there's something to that, but I believe you win games because you play better, not because family fucks like me are protecting our children's ears from the latest profane tirade you're spewing because you can't handle your watered-down beer, so we have to leave since if there's one thing the average single, perpetually unlaid male in America doesn't understand is how to actually behave in a manner that can get them laid and, oh, maybe skip the basketball game for some real layups.
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Yeah, so true - I sat there and watched with disbelief. Man, I come from Toronto, and that level of apathy is positively Torontonian! Trust me, Portland doesn't want to go there. The Blazers lost, but what the hell, show them some love, for Chrissake! Otherwise, why are you there, exactly?
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My favored sports team will surely trounce your favored sports team in tonight's upcoming competition match. Then we will see proof, once and for all, which of us is the superior human.
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WAH WAH It's not like you where at a Cleveland Cav's game? No LeBron no reason to stay! I salute you Suburbanites for your lack luster half ass attempt of being fans of this mediocre basketball team.
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All I can say is I'm glad I'm not in Portland. It'd be really easy to find, and then skull fuck with a wrench, the inbred prick that tells me what I can and cannot do with my ticket that I paid for and he/she/it did not. It's fairly obvious that you'd be the only assbag (according to your own whining) that stayed around like a "true fan", so I don't think I'd have to go far (around to the other side of the stadium at most) to beat you to death with your own ego (a considerable blow, even if it's not carrying much weight around here) and then rob you of the cost of my ticket. Why take the cost of my ticket, you ask? Two reasons: if I'm gonna beat you to death, I may as well be compensated for my time, and if I'm gonna listen to your assbaggery, you're gonna pay for my ticket so that you earn the right to an opinion about my life. And here's another little interesting fact about economics: money = team. If those "soul-less, hellbound" people you're so quick to piss and moan about were so terrible, they'd be spending their money elsewhere. Which means not supporting the team. Which means the team fucks off, ala every other franchise that fails due to lack of support. So remove head from sphincter, then attend public events.

And if you won't do it willingly, I can bet there's many a person in the audience of those games that will teach you the process, repeatedly.
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All that hard work by young men who make millions and couldn't care less about which team they're playing for? Do you really think they feel that "connected" to the Portland fans? Do you get mad at people who leave movies and concerts early?
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Do people still watch spectator sports?
How sad.
I hear the attendance rates for that type of thing has been plummeting for some time.
And I can think of about a hundred better things to spend my money on.

So, um, hmmm, where's that witty, snazzy, insult when I need it?
Oh yeah: "Walk it off."

There ya go.
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After all the bullshit that the Blazer's put their fans through over the years through their myriad illegal activities, I can understand if their so called fairweather fans don't want to sit and watch them plow one more game into the ground.
I know some will say that all of these legal issues happened in these Blazers personal lives. Granted, Granted. It is their personal prerogative to do as they please, so I will exercise my personal prerogative and walk.
PS You think that it's bad now give Portlanders a few more years of this off court shit, and they will get to the same place as the Jacksonville Jaguars fans. They will begin talking about the franchise leaving the state with a yearning hopefulness.

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