THE PAC 12 THREAD v.3

[trojanfan12]

This is why I started calling you guys "USCdirectional". If you ever manage to get rid of your inferiority complex, maybe you can have the USC label back.

Because what you've pretty much laid out is - sure, my team lost, but I'm still a superior person/fan because I don't use "we" or "us" when talking about my favorite team. You need to view the other teams fans in the worst ways possible in order to feel better in yourself.

And that is just pathetic.

OH NO!!! 4d20 has started calling USC, USCdirectional. I'm so upset. What ever will I do?

 

[WhiteMamba]

And love the fact that you and I were on with our UCLA thoughts. Only one game.

I also love that UW and OSU struggled.

I don't nutswing on PAC teams. I like it when other PAC teams struggle or lose.

 

[4down20]

What are you talking about? Besides self loathing?

I am still not buying the "poor 4d20 and his fellow Bammers" being fans that take more abuse than others.

The reason for blasting the dumb has zero to do with the Ducks. But is more about the knee jerk idiocy that I have seen. Including your team actually. And many others. I find it very funny that after game 1 people have determined what teams are made of and the season is settled already.

And not once has Oregon been brought up in these convos

If the only thing you find dumb on the forums is a fan having a knee jerk reaction then we aren't even in the same ballpark.

The hoop will continue to be a place for trolls rather than serious discussion. But I'm fine with that, I've long accepted it. I think it's a shame, but it is what it is.

 

[4down20]

OH NO!!! 4d20 has started calling USC, USCdirectional. I'm so upset. What ever will I do?

I'm guessing you'll pretend like it doesn't bother you while secretly getting upset as most USC fans do simply for calling South Carolina USC.

 

[socaljim242]

This is why I started calling you guys "USCdirectional". If you ever manage to get rid of your inferiority complex, maybe you can have the USC label back.

Because what you've pretty much laid out is - sure, my team lost, but I'm still a superior person/fan because I don't use "we" or "us" when talking about my favorite team. You need to view the other teams fans in the worst ways possible in order to feel better in yourself.

And that is just pathetic.

We're pathetic because we don't latch on to others accomplishments like you Bamma fans? Yeah, keep telling yourself that. You've got the whole inferiority complex reversed.lol

 

[trojanfan12]

I'm guessing you'll pretend like it doesn't bother you while secretly getting upset as most USC fans do simply for calling South Carolina USC.

I'm guessing you'll be wrong as usual. I personally couldn't possibly care less. I do, however, find it entertaining that YOU care so much.

 

[socaljim242]

I'm guessing you'll pretend like it doesn't bother you while secretly getting upset as most USC fans do simply for calling South Carolina USC.

No , we laugh when people do that because if you go anywhere other than where people marry cousins and say USC they know it's the school out west. But nice try. lol

 

[4down20]

We're pathetic because we don't latch on to others accomplishments like you Bamma fans? Yeah, keep telling yourself that. You've got the whole inferiority complex reversed.lol

You're pathetic because you actually need to worry about how the fans of other teams feel about their teams and consider it a victory for yourself because of it.

Never in my life has anyone even remotely given a crap about it. The only time it does get mentioned now is because of what you did in your example - looking for anything to save grace and make yourself feel superior.

 

[4down20]

I'm guessing you'll be wrong as usual. I personally couldn't possibly care less. I do, however, find it entertaining that YOU care so much.

Good, you'll have plenty of laughs for the future then.

 

[socaljim242]

You're pathetic because you actually need to worry about how the fans of other teams feel about their teams and consider it a victory for yourself because of it.

Never in my life has anyone even remotely given a crap about it. The only time it does get mentioned now is because of what you did in your example - looking for anything to save grace and make yourself feel superior.

You have serious reading comprehension issues. Where did you read I "worry" about that? Be sure to show me that. I think it's pathetic and funny but I hardly worry about it. You're the nut here on the Pac thread trying to justify it. So you obviously feel insecure about it.

 

[mrwallace2ku]

I'm just glad to win game1...no matter how pathetic it was. I listened to the 2nd halfer, Beavs D had some takeaways.

Game2 sounds a bit more testy after seeing Washington struggle as they did against Hawaii. I'll take another ugly win there as well.

 

[trojanfan12]

Good, you'll have plenty of laughs for the future then.

Well, you ARE the gift that keeps on giving.

 

[mrwallace2ku]

Well, you ARE the gift that keeps on giving.

Speaking of "giving" TF, why don't WE just pencil in that Sept 27th ballgame as a Beaver winnah and YOU fly some Beav colors for a week NOW? no? yes?

 

[4down20]

You have serious reading comprehension issues. Where did you read I "worry" about that? Be sure to show me that. I think it's pathetic and funny but I hardly worry about it. You're the nut here on the Pac thread trying to justify it. So you obviously feel insecure about it.

Yes, because having an opinion on something and being able to express it means I'm insecure about it. But you laughing about it and referring to other peoples fans as K-Mart cousin fuckers is a sign of your security.

Got it.

 

[4down20]

Well, you ARE the gift that keeps on giving.

I'll be surprised if I'm not banned in a month.

 

[socaljim242]

Yes, because having an opinion on something and being able to express it means I'm insecure about it. But you laughing about it and referring to other peoples fans as K-Mart cousin fuckers is a sign of your security.

Got it.

Are you gonna cry?

 

[4down20]

Are you gonna cry?

That would make you feel better wouldn't it?

 

[TheRobotDevil]

Yes, because having an opinion on something and being able to express it means I'm insecure about it. But you laughing about it and referring to other peoples fans as K-Mart cousin fuckers is a sign of your security.

Got it.

GIFSoup

 

[4down20]

GIFSoup

Auburn fans always taking things too serious.

 

[SUBuddha]

4D20-

!!!!Warning this will get wordy!!!

Tl;DR I have my reasons for not using we/us, and I really do not feel it is about some kind of superiority complex. I find it disingenuous to say we.

I get what your are saying on the we/us thing, but it is not about putting your "self" (as in the true self, not the looking glass or social self, as per Cooley and Mead) above others, to me. at least. I very rarely use we or us to refer to just about anything I do not do. It is how I was raised. My father always taught me to not take credit for the accomplishments of others.I refer to the Stanford Alumni Association (of which I am a member) as we, but stopped referring to Stanford as we when I graduated. I can take credit for only those things I did when I was there. I referred to the Rugby (almost made the final 4 my Jr. year) and Lacrosse teams as we, when I played, but when I graduated I reverted to they.

I am a major homer for the program, I have many friends that are now on the faculty or coaching there, but I find it hubris (again my father's lessons) and snobbish to think that I, as a fan, have anything to do with a team winning or losing when I am watching it on TV. Outside of my contributions to the Buck Cardinal Club, I have nothing to do with those young men succeeding. If my donations, meager as they are, help a player to succeed that is great, but that young person found the path to success with their own will and the help of their coaches and teammates, I did not call them up and tell them how to fix their stance, why they had a hitch in their throwing motion (Hogan had a major one last year and is trying to fix it) or why the 3-4 is tougher to recruit than the 4-3 in terms down linemen. The most I can do as a fan is cheer for them, and if my voice gives them a boost on the few occasions I can travel to a game, that is great, then it was we the fans that helped the team.

I will always be proud of the institution win or lose, because I know D-Shaw and all the other coaches there are doing it the right way, putting academics first in recruiting, helping those kids graduate etc. When they become alums, WE will be peers and WE will do what we can as fans and supporters to help THE TEAM.

I do find it, as Wiz mentioned, a bit grammar nazi'esque to correct people on it, and I do not think I have here. It is one of those to each his own, but it came up in the thread so I voiced my opinion. I find it actually quite demeaning to the players to say we, so you an I again will have to disagree. However, that changes not iota, my view of you or your fandom. Heck if you leave I am the lone Stanford apologist.