Just in case any Caps fans want to argue that they are not a bandwagon fanbase, here is proof from...

Just in case any Caps fans want to argue that they are not a bandwagon fanbase, here is proof from their former coach.

"The success part is the growing of hockey in the D.C. area from 5,000 people a game when I got here to the team getting good and this becoming a hockey town and having a waiting list for season tickets," he said. "All of those things really is the successful part and the most important part. I think the growth of hockey is what I'm really happy about."

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2011/hockey/nhl/11/30/bruce.boudreau.ovechkin.feud.ap/index.html?eref=sircrc

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I don’t understand the criticism of a “bandwagon fanbase.” I imagine the vast majority of fans who don’t inherit fandom from a close relative are “bandwagoners” initially. The issue is pretending to know stuff when you don’t, not deciding you like a team after they get good.

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by red army line on Dec 3, 2011 12:33 PM EST reply actions 1 recs

I thought a bandwagon fan was one who switched ‘fan alliance’ from team 1 to team 2, because team 2 was currently doing well (and obviously better than team 1). And as a byproduct of this, but not always, has a lack of knowledge of team 2.

But if the criticism is that Capitals fans initially didn’t support a lousy product but waited until it became an entertaining product to support them by showing up to games, well, okay. Not really a devastating crime.

by fiveredapples on Dec 3, 2011 6:38 PM EST reply actions

I always thought a bandwagon fan was one who only jumps on when the team is doing well and jumps off when they are doing poorly, which is true of just about every fanbase.

Frontrunners wait to see which one is doing well and join that team’s fanbase. They are the ones I can’t stand. i.e. This week they are a Pats fan; next week San Fran and so on. I actually know people like this. It physically pains me.

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by doubleh on Dec 3, 2011 7:47 PM EST up reply actions

I think you’re right. My definition sounds more like ‘front runner’. Thanks.

by fiveredapples on Dec 4, 2011 12:48 AM EST up reply actions

I call that “fair-weather,” not “bandwagon.”

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by red army line on Dec 8, 2011 1:05 AM EST up reply actions

Fair weather and Front runner are 2 different ways to ride the bandwagon. Fair weather fans stick with the same teams, but disappear when the bandwagon crashes, front-runners jump to another contender.

But by far the most annoying are the fans who grew up like half an hour outside the city, like Wilmington, Collegeville, or Upper Bucks, and root for teams like the Mets, Cowboys, or Devils, just because they hate Philly.

Flyers, Phillies, Union, Eagles, Phantoms, Wings.

by Pelti on Dec 11, 2011 6:41 PM EST up reply actions

Contrarians. And don’t be hating on my town of C-Ville! LOL.

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by doubleh on Dec 12, 2011 7:24 PM EST up reply actions

Living in this area I almost feel like the rise of the Caps has just as much to do with the disdain towards Daniel Snyder and the hatchet job he has done with the Skins as it does with the Caps themselves.

This is the case of opportunism where they became a really exciting product right around the time the public here finally grew fed up with Daniel Snyder and was looking for an alternative for their passion.

Don’t get me wrong, people still love the Skins here, but DC is slowly turning into a Hockey Town.

by Chewy59 on Dec 7, 2011 9:52 PM EST reply actions 1 recs