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A Clipper State of Mind - By NUMB3RFIFTY
Posted by: TheCalmInsanity on Dec 07, 2008 - 05:18 AM
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Becoming a Clippers fan, is usually love at first sight. If you felt suddenly drawn to the team, as i did, consider yourself someone who's naturally drawn to underdogs. An individual, and not someone TRYING to be an individual. There's a big difference between supporting the Clippers for one game and being a Clippers fan. It quickly becomes a lifestyle. You enter a seemingly vicious cycle of going to sports stores and asking for Clipper jerseys and getting a blank stare from the workers in return. A requirement is a high tolerance for heartache, and an uncanny ability to look on the bright side. A true Clipper fan will be an expert in keeping hope alive. Down by 20 in the 4th with 2 minutes left? No problem, all we need is 7 threes in a row and some missed free-throws and we're right back in this.
Every year that the Clippers amount to nothing, makes the year they amount to something, a little bit sweeter.
The Clippers play for everyone who has little to look forward to. Everyone who's been forgotten, left for dead, and often times leads a difficult life. It's a team that doesn't end the year with simply a win/loss record but builds on a character that has accumulated for years. Built on 8-second violations, fingers crossed on draft day, game winning shots, players who have come and gone, Reggie Evans, players who we let slip from our fingers and talented rookies to look forward to. As a fan, all situations, no matter how broken, are fixable.
I live in the Bay Area and I remember a year when the Clippers had only 2 nationally televised games that i could watch. One on ESPN, and one on Telemundo. I watched that crappy game vs the Sonics on Telemundo and enjoyed every second of it, even though i couldn't understand a word coming from the announcers.
The people on this forum are all here because they care about the Clippers. Otherwise nobody would have signed up. We all want them to succeed and whoever has kept this ship going and not quit on the team, fully understands how sweet victory will taste when the Clippers finally get that ring. It could be this year, it could be next year, it could be 10 years from now; but whenever it comes we'll be waiting.
I don't know if this is completely accurate or even applies to most people on this forum, but holler at me if it does. And feel free to add to whatever you feel personifies a Clipper fan.
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Re: A Clipper State of Mind - By NUMB3RFIFTY
by lakers.sympathizer on Jan 05, 2009 - 06:49 PM
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Great blog! It's funny; for Laker fans, most of us are spoiled by past victories and whine about every little thing, acting as though we're entitled to everything. It's a breath of fresh air to see fans who're a lot more grounded and, more importantly, optimistic about their team.
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Re: A Clipper State of Mind - By NUMB3RFIFTY
by dee on Jun 12, 2009 - 08:29 PM
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i have been a clipper fan since the '92 manning harper days. i have to say that is is really hard with all the ups and downs (mostly downs), with all the botched 4th quarter plays, all the lack of effort, all the penny-pinching sterling moves, all the complaining, all the career ending injuries and all the hope on lottery and draft day. it's been hard to see the flakers win so easily while their pampered fans sip their coffee and be one of the few clipper fans in a sea of purple and gold. but you're right, on the day that the clippers win the nba title, (and they will) it will all be sweeter that we had to endure all this. i can't wait to see all those smug and complacent flaker fans spill their coffee all over themselves in surprise when that happens. we saw a taste of it in '06 and i can't get enough. believe me, i still hate raja bell. thanks, you guys for being here so that i know that there are other fans like me other there. CLIPPERS FOR LIFE!!
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Re: A Clipper State of Mind - By NUMB3RFIFTY
by owner94 on Jul 30, 2009 - 08:40 PM
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Yeah it is true I just joined today (Thursday30July09) and your teaching me a fact.
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Re: A Clipper State of Mind - By NUMB3RFIFTY
by owner94 on Jul 30, 2009 - 08:42 PM
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I think a blank stare is a little bit silly.
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Re: A Clipper State of Mind - By NUMB3RFIFTY
by owner94 on Jul 30, 2009 - 08:47 PM
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I know. I listen to ESPN news radio bla bla bla. I don't really understand a word they say either. Something like....... Oh yeah that payment problem. Well I started to listen to it late. But anyway I wouldn't understand it even from the begining.
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