"We" when referring to sports teams (1 Viewer)

[FUBAR]

How many points did you score?

How many internet points did you score with your ######-### friends with this ingenius comment I've heard 800 times before? Also: why do you even watch sports?

Does this correlate to other areas?Did we defeat the Germans? This seems to be clearly "yes"Did we blow up the Death Star? Most will say "no" I assume, but how is this different than pro sports?

 

[zamboni]

How many points did you score?

How many internet points did you score with your ######-### friends with this ingenius comment I've heard 800 times before? Also: why do you even watch sports?

Does this correlate to other areas?Did we defeat the Germans? This seems to be clearly "yes"

Forget it - he's rolling.

 

[Spike]

Psychologically speaking, it's actually weird if you DON'T say "we" when referring to a team you are a fan of. It becomes more intense if you go to/graduated from the school or have some deeper emotional investment in them some other way.

The theory is basically Heinz Kohut's theory of the selfobject, applied to sports. Try The Analysis of the Self. Philip Rieff applied it to celebrity, it can easily be adapted to sports as well, especially after considering Rieff's work.

The people who think something is wrong with "we" or make the used-so-often-they're-no-longer-witty-at-all remarks are actually the morons in this situation.

We don't agree.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

A coach once told me that there is no "I" in "We".

 

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I just find it awesome that people get bent out of shape over this

 

[Shtaym Syek]

I just find it awesome that people get bent out of shape over this

This.

 

[Finless]

Just admit it, you heard this on Jim Rome or Tony what his face and ran with it. Get original. I'm a Bostonian when the Red Sox win, I win. We win. Get over it.

 

[Juxtatarot]

A coach once told me that there is no "I" in "We".

No, but there is a "U" in "Suck".

 

[Sam Quentin]

Can you apply this to individual sports, if you're a fan of that individual?

We won the Masters!

We won the Kentucky Derby!

We won Celebrity Apprentice!

 

[Leroy Hoard]

A coach once told me that there is no "I" in "We".

No, but there is a "U" in "Suck".

Oddly enough, he also told me that.

 

[adrenaline]

A coach once told me that there is no "I" in "We".

No, but there is a "U" in "Suck".

 

[shuke]

Its ridiculous for a grown man to say, face facts. Mostly because "we win" and "they lose".

If you're a ###### who's not a true fan this is fair game. However when I say we won I speak on behalf of the collective fanbase whom I have bonded with and I use the collective we when we are defeated as well. Only super try-hards who are trying to be extra trendy and have no idea what it's like to be a diehard will criticize this, usually when they're trying to score points on sports talk radio or identify with some psuedo celebrity bandwagon fan has some greater purpose than sports cause they are way too cool to get emotionally invested. Those people can #### off and pursue their other morally and intellectually superior interests. Hopefully we win on Sunday.

 

[Raider Nation]

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