The article pretty much describes the exact kind of character one would expect to find in a Niners/Baseball-Giants fan.
This is some bullshit and the author is a disgraziato. Fair weather or bandwagon fandom is a blight upon the world of sports and those who advocate it are beneath contempt.
Even the rationale given is pathetic. To share with his bandwagon child? How about setting the proper example? True story: I am 100% Yankees/Giants/Knicks/Rangers.
Eww, really?
When my firstborn child began watching sports with me, he announced he would be a fan of the Mets/Jets. He maintained this for a while, but in time, once realizing it was not irritating me as he had hoped, he abandoned the dark side and returned to the light. I was confident this would be the end result. Why? Because he was raised right.
Whereas this wuss of an author has demonstrated to his son that values are malleable, and it's perfectly fine to go along with the crowd, wherever that might lead. But, what else should one expect from the NYT?Yet another sign our civilization is doomed.
It reminds me of the late 90s, when Rudy Giuliani was an unabashed Yankees fan, and when the Subway Series finally happened (after interleague play had been around just long enough to take the novelty off), he didn't back down, even with half his city on the other side. Compared to Senate candidate Hilary Clinton who tried to claim "I like both." There were probably Democrat Met fans who respected Giuliani more for sticking to his guns and appreciated his honesty more than Clinton's pandering. Might explain why, on the same ballot, Al Gore won NY by 5 points more than she did.
“Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions.” GK Chesteron
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Deus Vult!
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