Over the years I’ve done many columns on sports fan etiquette. Because being fan of any team is important, it’s more important that you don’t act like a douche doing it.
Being a fan of any team also means there are rivalries, Red Sox and Yankees, Redskins and Cowboys, Lakers and Celtics etc. When there are rivalries, this means there is smack talk, the most fun part of being a sports fan. It’s when you get to tell a Cowboys’ fan they haven’t won crap since the Clinton administration, it’s how any Celtic fan can just say “Kobe” and “Denver,” or how Yankees fans can no longer chant “1918” because Sox fans come right back with “2004.” It’s awesome, it’s fun, but also know that there is a time and place, and a way to tell the guy in the Ben Roethlisberger jersey “no means no.” Continue reading Eat My Sports: Talk smack like a man, fan