If I had to rank professional sports fans in terms of craziness, I wouldn’t even think twice:
1) NBA fans
2) Everyone else
While NFL fans are certainly insane in their own rights and passionate about their teams, NBA fans have multiple layers of crazy that can be peeled back to reveal a molten core of manic lunacy that is the universe’s greatest natural source of irrational behavior. I think this is because the NBA, unlike the NFL and MLB, is a star-centric league, in that fans focus on the best players above the actual teams. People love LeBron James no matter what team he plays for, and they’ll go absolutely apesh*t if you try to tell them that’s wrong.
Additionally, the NBA has more frontrunner fans than the other pro sports leagues because the same teams always win. When those teams don’t win, those fans get even crazier, because they’re supposed to always win. But when they do win, these NBA fans become even crazier because they don’t understand how anyone can possibly hate their Lakers or Heat. How can you hate them? You have no reason. You’re just a hater. YOU’RE A HATER, DAMN IT!
Well, good news, you crazy ass fans. You can now anonymously submit your craziest thoughts and questions to “NBA Confessions” so you don’t have to deal with us haters and sane people who just don’t get you and your undying love for Kobe Bryant. Much like the Tim Tebow Confessions site that we’ve previously examined, the submissions are a delightful blend of standard inquiries and batsh*t insanity.
As always, I’ve included some of my favorites after the jump.
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These are so good, but I have to disagree with you on “craziest fans”, Burnsy. Soccer fans are psychopaths.
Globally, yes. America, not as much.
I’d still argue that NFL fans are more crazy. It seems to me you hear more about NFL fans getting MDK’d at football games than you hear about it in the NBA.
On the other hand, you can’t discount hockey fans as the craziest fans. There may not be a lot of them in America, but the ones who are legit fans, are pretty damn nuts.
Soccer fans and Hockey fans are the craziest. Baseball only if you count cubs fans.
I went to an LA Galaxy game against NY this past season, and after NY crushed LA 1-0, I was confronted by a small band of Red Bull-clad hooligans who said “Nice game. Know where we can get a beer and some food?” They then invited me to join them for chicken wings and beer at the local eatery I recommended.
HOOLIGAN BASTARDS!!!
Deron Williams looks like a Nick Kroll character.
Rajon Rondo is perfect? His free throw percentage says otherwise.