PDXsooner
10/12/2006, 03:19 PM
i should have posted this in the south oval in the first place:
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Have you ever stopped to wonder how much our perception of other schools and their fans have changed since the inception of the message board? It used to be after a tough loss against Nebraska, you'd wait until the next morning and peruse the paper, then on Monday you might run into the one Nebraska fan in the office and he was either cool or an idiot -- and from there you decide whether "Nebraska fans are handling it well" or "Husker fans are a bunch of pricks."
Now it's a quick jaunt over to the opposing team's message board, take a quick look at some of the subject lines, and scurry back over to report what the other team's fan base is saying. God forbid you get one renegade poster who posts a "the refs cheated" thread, then a lurking longhorn runs back to their site and claims "All Sooners think the refs cheated - what a bunch of whiners!!!".
It's really wierd. I think that most message boards are the extreme 5% of fanbases and in no way reflect the majority of fans. For example, I think the OU fanbase as a whole is pretty knowledgable and realistic, but most posters (especially on OUinsider) are temperamental, moody, bandwagoning idiots.
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Have you ever stopped to wonder how much our perception of other schools and their fans have changed since the inception of the message board? It used to be after a tough loss against Nebraska, you'd wait until the next morning and peruse the paper, then on Monday you might run into the one Nebraska fan in the office and he was either cool or an idiot -- and from there you decide whether "Nebraska fans are handling it well" or "Husker fans are a bunch of pricks."
Now it's a quick jaunt over to the opposing team's message board, take a quick look at some of the subject lines, and scurry back over to report what the other team's fan base is saying. God forbid you get one renegade poster who posts a "the refs cheated" thread, then a lurking longhorn runs back to their site and claims "All Sooners think the refs cheated - what a bunch of whiners!!!".
It's really wierd. I think that most message boards are the extreme 5% of fanbases and in no way reflect the majority of fans. For example, I think the OU fanbase as a whole is pretty knowledgable and realistic, but most posters (especially on OUinsider) are temperamental, moody, bandwagoning idiots.