Clippers Fans > Lakers Fans

by CLIPPERDEAN on Dec 20, 2011 2:36 PM PST

On Monday, I sat in the 6th row at the game against the Lakers. The crowd mainly consisted of Lakers fans. The few Clippers fans that I saw were children under the age of 12. For obvious reasons, I didn't talk any smack to Lakers Fans or make a scene, not that I really had to. When my team makes a good play, I stand up and cheer. I had no choice but to hop out of my seat when Deandre made that first incredible dunk. As I was standing up and cheering for my team a man behind me yelled "Sit down bandwagoner!". Even though I'm not a bandwagon fan, I didn't really care. Atleast the some of Laker fans have a little fire in them. For the most party majority Lakers fans were pretty lame.

How do the fans not get excited about a preseason opener against their new LA rival? How do they not make noise other than the times it says "make some noise!) on the big screen? How is it that they are able to boo at Chris Paul louder than they are able to cheer for their team.

The Staples Center was louder at the Clippers home game against The Heat than it was for a Lakers finals game against the Celtics.

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poor sports/not used to being on the bottom end

How do the fans not get excited about a preseason opener against their new LA rival?
Because LAL doesn’t look at it as a rivalry, because they have always been dominant..also its only preseason

How do they not make noise other than the times it says "make some noise!) on the big screen?
LAL fans tend to be fans because the Lakers are popular…not always the most NBA/basketball savy people

How is it that they are able to boo at Chris Paul louder than they are able to cheer for their team.
because they are sour…sour that the Clippers got a great player, sour that they didn’t

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by KidJustin on Dec 20, 2011 3:16 PM PST reply actions

these answers were spot on

but my questions were rhetorical :)

by CLIPPERDEAN on Dec 20, 2011 7:13 PM PST up reply actions

"bandwagon fan"

for this reason…I am hesitant on getting a Paul jersey. Paul has always been one of my favorite players and having him on my favorite team is even better…

but bandwagon fan? that is one of the reason why i became a LAC fan…because i didnt want to be labeled a bandwagon Laker fan

part of the reason i resisted on a Blake Griffin jersey, the other part was that the Team LA store didnt have my size haha. And that is why, for now, I will just sport my Gordon jersey.

IMO, a non-bandwagon fan will know what a “Gordon #10” is. not always true for a bandwagon fan

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by KidJustin on Dec 20, 2011 3:18 PM PST reply actions

i got 2 gordon jerseys!

by Worlock on Dec 20, 2011 3:31 PM PST up reply actions

just bust our your Piatkowski jersey,,,,,

doubt anyone would call you a “bandwagoner” lol

by big0lbad on Dec 20, 2011 4:06 PM PST up reply actions

I have a Gary Grant jersey somewhere

I’d buy a Danny Manning jersey if I saw one for sale.

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by ClipperChuck on Dec 20, 2011 4:16 PM PST up reply actions

i have my thornton and mobley jersey

bandwagon fans actually buying thornton jerseys??? i think not. :)

"Things change when something is taken away from you" -BG32

by JackduhSun on Dec 20, 2011 5:23 PM PST up reply actions

My Livingston jersey still gets plenty of play ;)

"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden

by Erik O on Dec 20, 2011 5:37 PM PST up reply actions

i got a mobley one too

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by KidJustin on Dec 21, 2011 12:59 AM PST up reply actions

Kids

those aren’t even 10 years old. The Gary Grant one is 20 years old and I can’t fit it anymore haha. To the General!

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by ClipperChuck on Dec 21, 2011 1:26 AM PST up reply actions

wish I still had that Pike jersey

by Piatkowski on Dec 21, 2011 1:47 AM PST up reply actions

my Pooh Richardson jersey somehow ended up lost in space :(

gone, but not forgotten

by Joe Wolf's Mullet on Dec 20, 2011 9:46 PM PST up reply actions

You can tell the bandwagoners apart by checking if they have the old jerseys or the new ones :)

by shay on Dec 20, 2011 11:30 PM PST up reply actions

I’ve never owned a jersey in my life. only caps and t-shirts. i was a poor kid.

by tenkaistar on Dec 21, 2011 12:58 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs

then we will know you are cool when you have the OLD logo

(basketball lines going the other way)

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by KidJustin on Dec 21, 2011 1:00 AM PST up reply actions

Should have told him to sit down....

But they usually are sitting down because they’re too cool to celebrate. They’re just bitter about everything. A bunch of whiners that hardly knows anything about basketball. I’m sure he didn’t wear any Lakers gear and probably was wearing Gucci sunglasses, a pressed long buttoned up shirt with his man-purse over his shoulder.

by Hengtime81 on Dec 20, 2011 3:40 PM PST reply actions

I still have a...wait for it!

Darius Miles jersey and a blue Livingston jersey!! Take that bandwagoners!!

by Skitzz on Dec 20, 2011 4:37 PM PST reply actions

SIGNED D Miles jersey

"[Fans are] not technically a lot of times savvy. They don't understand and they don't weigh issues the way that [I] weigh them."
Mike Dunleavy, Sr.

by Jax on Dec 20, 2011 5:29 PM PST up reply actions

A road red Miles...

and homer blues of EB and Livingston. Plus more t-shirts, jerseys and warm-ups than you can count.

by lilahsdad on Dec 20, 2011 5:33 PM PST up reply actions

SIGNED Eric Gordon jersey tshirt

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by KidJustin on Dec 21, 2011 1:00 AM PST up reply actions

damn i still want a blue livingston…

by Worlock on Dec 21, 2011 12:46 AM PST up reply actions

me too

road blues were my favorite jerseys. Too bad they never played very well in them, haha. I had a fake Griffin road blue, but gave it to a friend.

by osamu on Dec 21, 2011 12:56 PM PST up reply actions

It's not a team fan issue...it's just a fan issue

As the fanbase for the Clippers grows, we’re going to run into some of the same problems.

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by Newton Pham on Dec 20, 2011 5:11 PM PST reply actions

"We?"

Newty, I’ve seen your posts over on the Lakers Blog playing both sides, tattling on Clipper fans in this blog being “obnoxious” towards the Lakers. You, sir, are a mugwump and not a clipper fan.

Clipper Season Ticket Holder since '00.

by StudioCity.B.Free on Dec 21, 2011 8:56 AM PST up reply actions

Clipsters need to figure out a way to stay original, ya know?

by banandy on Dec 20, 2011 5:37 PM PST reply actions

"Clipsters"

Great term

"Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be." - John Wooden

by Erik O on Dec 20, 2011 5:38 PM PST up reply actions

Clippers + Hipsters = Clipsters?

OH DEAR HEAVENS NO

Jets, Cowboys, Mets, Islanders, Bulls & Clippers

by Xfactor26 on Dec 20, 2011 5:49 PM PST up reply actions

Clipster:

I was a Clipper fan.. before it was cool to be a Clipper fan

by CLIPPERDEAN on Dec 20, 2011 7:10 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs

My dad used the call the Clippers the “paper clips”…he was not a fan.

by tenkaistar on Dec 21, 2011 1:02 AM PST up reply actions

pass...why do the OG's have to settle for a new name

we are Clipper fans…the bandwagoners are Clippettes

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by KidJustin on Dec 21, 2011 1:02 AM PST up reply actions

Despite all the hate I've doled out over the years...

I must admit, I own a Baron Davis jersey. I’m still going to get a CP3 one though, because it’s freaking CP3.

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"The Lakers do win games. But things can change." - Blake Griffin

by 82-0 on Dec 20, 2011 6:07 PM PST reply actions

that is still a good reason too

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by KidJustin on Dec 21, 2011 1:02 AM PST up reply actions

screw what people say and think..you know if you’re a real clipper fan.

by tenkaistar on Dec 21, 2011 1:03 AM PST up reply actions

the irony of a laker fan calling a clipper fan a bandwagoner is too much

these people have enjoyed winning for far too long. Now that they are faltering they are lashing out at us. It’s pathetic, I will revel in their mediocrity this year.

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by flightofthegriffin on Dec 20, 2011 6:50 PM PST reply actions

I also find it hilarious

That they think they have these GREAT trading assets and that they deserve to basically get anything they want.
1. Bynum is NOT worth Dwight, or any great player at that. He is injured 50% of his career, and even when he is healthy, he is barely the 5th best PURE center. Many people say he is the 2nd best, but those are the idiotic fans. I would say that he is behind Dwight, Al Horford, Al Jefferson, Marc Gasol, and then he is around DeMarcus cousins and such.
2. They didn’t DESERVE Paul. They think that this deal was great, well, Hornets got a freaking crazy deal with the Clippers!
3. Why do they think their trade exception is worth gold? People are saying they should trade it for Josh Smith or Mo Williams? Just because they traded Lamar for it, doesn’t mean it holds any value.

by SurfinQ00 on Dec 20, 2011 7:32 PM PST reply actions

True

our deal with the hornets was on the table before the lakers deal. the hornets ended up winning out more with the clippers trade. now i don’t think stern handled things in the best way. but if he is technically the owner of the hornets than he would want to find the best deal for the team. that’s exactly what he did. but hey, we will never hear the end of it from laker fans.

by CLIPPERDEAN on Dec 20, 2011 8:12 PM PST reply actions

We are talking about the team...

that boos when they don’t get tacos, right?

by shay on Dec 20, 2011 11:29 PM PST reply actions

Currently own no jersey

Had an FElton one but it got thrown away the day he screwed us over. Didn’t even think about the cost of it – tarnished by betrayal!!!!!

Bingo! Oh me oh my!

by ClippersUK on Dec 21, 2011 1:55 AM PST reply actions

on the subject

my original jersey was darius miles… he was my favorite clipper and i thought he was going to be an all star..

by CLIPPERDEAN on Dec 21, 2011 4:06 AM PST reply actions

I beat all of you guys...

I have a Danny Manning and Doc Rivers jersey! I want a Loy Vaught and Ron Harper. Ever since Mark Jackson’s “hand down man down” phrase, I can care less to get his!

by Hengtime81 on Dec 21, 2011 10:07 AM PST reply actions

i want to get a World B. Free jersey

and say “take that Metta World Peace!”

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by KidJustin on Dec 21, 2011 11:01 AM PST up reply actions

LOL

by Hengtime81 on Dec 21, 2011 11:10 AM PST up reply actions

I have a Free t-shirt, haha

Love the San Diego Clippers colors.

by osamu on Dec 21, 2011 12:52 PM PST up reply actions

The table..... has turned... been waiting for this for a long time.......

For …YEARS, I heard it all…why are you a Clipper Fan!!!
And just like Monday night at Staples a few fans from the Lakers. Telling me to go home and that Staples belongs to the Lakers. But when the Clippers up by 20 pts, those same Laker Fans leaving early. (but its only a preseason game as they say) But anyways this Clipper season. will be a VERY GOOD ONE.
My EB & CM – jerseys still get alot of love. enjoy the season

Happy Holidays

by muthersucka on Dec 21, 2011 12:34 PM PST reply actions