Hall of Shame: Contrarian Fan

There is no more despicable character than Contrarian Fan. Contrarian Fan is the guy that vociferously roots against his friends teams when they are doing well. These guys will drop every allegiance they have to talk trash about your team while hopping on the bandwagon of whoever you’re playing. These guys always reveal themselves during the playoffs, they also tend to be angry bandwagon jumpers because their flavor of the month didn’t make the playoffs. One of my brothers friends (an original member of the Warriors), we’ll call him BS because those are his initials and, frankly, it fits, is the prototypical Contrarian Fan. As you may have gathered from the previous posts I am from the D and am a fan of the teams that represent the D, as is my brother. As of this writing the Detroit Tigers are up 2-0 in the ALCS, well on their way to their 5th World Series title. BS has taken this opportunity to openly root for the Yankees against the Tigers, and once the Tigers vanquished "the greatest line-up of all time" BS hopped on the Athletic’s jock. Pretty soon he’ll be all over the Mets/Cardinals nuts like white on rice. Once he discovered that we root for the University of Michigan Wolverines he started rooting for the msu spartans (good call on that one BS). He’s also the only chicagoan that I know that pinballs his support from the Cubs to the White Sox, and back. He’s a Cubs fan when they’re in the playoffs and mysteriously becomes a White Sox fan when they’re in the playoffs. When he hops on a bandwagon he does it with full force, acting like he’s been there for years. Pathetic. These are all classic traits of the Contrarian Fan, one of the biggest a-holes in the sporting world…welcome to the Hall of Shame. Have fun hanging out with sox fan, at least you'll be rooting for the same team every so often.

By the way, Tiger’s sweep the A’s and then win the series at home in game 6. Bank on it.