A Brief Memo To Fans Of The Other 31 NFL Teams

It’s called respect.
I’m a Viking’s fan living between Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin; originally from Stillwater, MN. I hear those cute nicknames all the time over here about my beloved Vikings. Let’s just say I keep the dentists busy over here! :-)

As it is just general annoyance. (-:

GATES SMASH! GATES DESTROY! GATES BAN! :)

HUH?

Is that when I ban idiots for doing these kinds of stupid things and they send in complaints saying that I was oh so mean to them, they have nothing to whine about.

They’ve been warned, after all.

I’m tired of the “sniff, sniff, but you’re so meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeean to us” garbage from certain opposing fans.

One of my other favorite SB Nation blogs is Stampede Blue, the Colts’ site. Their head blogger, BigBlueShoe, and I have spoken on numerous occasions about different topics. We’re a lot alike in the fact that we’re not afraid to admit that we’re fans, first and foremost.

He has one of the most successful sites on the network. Come to think of it, there are plenty of fans from the Colts’ rival teams that don’t much like him, either.

I’m starting to think that that sort of thing means that I’m doing something correctly.

but that’s just me…

wait…gonzo is Chris Gates???? ;-)

On a Minnesota Vikings post, ‘Aints’, ‘Cowgirls’, ‘Fudgepackers’, etc. are OK. And on APC or WCG, ‘Viqueens’, etc. are OK. Look, if I go to their forums (which I do lurk from time to time), I don’t get my panties in a bunch when I see it. And I’m also not going to say ‘Fudgepackers’ on APC. That’s THEIR forum.

Likewise, I don’t expect Pack fans to come over here and use ‘Viqueens’. We actually have a few Pack fans who post from time to time- I don’t see them saying it. They’re respectful and I appreciate it, because, as Gonzo points out, they’re guests. Likewise, should I ever post on APC, I will in turn be a guest and mind my manners.

Back when we had ‘5 Good Questions With…’ posts, I felt the same way. It was like a ‘mixer’, if you will- I felt, as hosts, we should avoid the name calling for that particular team in that particular post. It works both ways. And because I feel we should hold ourselves to those standards, they in turn should do the same.

Think of it like being at a bar with a friend who happens to be a fan of another team. Many of us having taken pity on the poor souls who are Bears or Packers fans, and have befriended them in hopes of increasing their humanity. (:P) I don’t say ‘Fudgepackers’ when I’m with my Packer fan buddy watching a game. Sure, we’ll crack our jokes. But we keep it ‘respectful’. Same here. If I’m replying to the post of a Packer fan here, I don’t say ‘Fudgepackers’. If I’m replying a Vikings’ fans’ post here, I might and will.

There’s a reason we have 32 NFL sports blogs. It’s so fans of each team can have their own home, to use 31 derogatory names without hearing the one they don’t want to hear. Each blog has that right and ours should be no different.

And Mr. Gates is therefore entirely not only within his right, but really fulfilling a RESPONSIBILITY, in ensuring that.

I don’t shit in their living room. I’d expect them to return the favor when they’re in mine.

what I took a little bit here was Mr. Gates warning them, and making the rules clear. Although, they probably shouldn’t HAVE to be made clear- in which case I agree with you some. Honestly, if I ever go to APC and say Fudgepackers there, please feel free to call me a moronic a-hole both there and here.

In this country, we even give second chances to sociopaths. A few juvenile idiots insisting on using stupid names should certainly get some chances.

Kind of a good feeling when you know people resect your opinion. The main thing is to always stay klassy.

Very well said.

And the policy that, unfortunately, is having to be ENFORCED here on our board. I do agree- again, when on another team’s board, you are their guest. Act like it.

what an ironic comment from one of the primary guys who ridiculed me over at APC no matter how respectfully I posted there — and then made up posts that I supposedly made when I called him on mischaracterizing me, and answered with response when I linked to the search page of all my posts to that point and asked him to show me just one where I was doing what claimed I did “all the time” — and them when I permanently stopped posting at APC about a year ago, could not resist the urge to troll me over here and make non-sequitor replies to many of my posts last season with comments like “haven’t you changed what team you’re rooting for yet?”

What irony. Look in the mirror TSSC. You were a major contributor to crating that toxic, ugly environment. Not a victim of it. If you were a victim of it, then you apparently are one in the sense of “two wrongs make a right” — you didn’t like how others treated you, so in response you lumped all people who had similiar POVs to the people you felt injured by and dished out to all of them out the same bad irresponsible venom that you denounce them for utilizing, and even escalating the venom (lol, even in this post youequate using mocking nicknames to being a “hate filled bigot.” Yeah the nicknames are childish I agree, but … puhlease. You triviliaze real bigotry and hate with disproportionate responses like that.) . How ironic.

The two or three intelligent Packer fans that actually contribute something meaningful to this site have nothing to worry about.

Everyone else is on notice.

but u d-line

That should be spelled, “but ur d-line”

- Spelling Cop