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In the latest episode of Low Rent Life Coach, Chris Smith and I face, among other things, the ethical dilemma of whether or not to pass the burden of being a Buffalo sports fan down to your kids.
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TrendingBuffalo Im “helping” my oldest (3) daughter to like the #Sabres What she does w/ the Bills is up to her. Some w/ my 2nd
TrendingBuffalo die hard BFLO fan in PA. Wife from western PA. My kids love BFLO teams, and I prefer them not to cheer for any PA team…
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BradRiter I won’t listen to this one bc we both know the answer. and shame on you for asking it.
BradRiter ChrisSmithAV Back in my day, we had to root for the Blizzard! You kids don’t know how good you got it these days…
As a former Tonorontonian/Buffalonian current guy living in a College town in Central New York with two kids I have a different take. My dad was born in London, England and lived on the street that Arsenal FC played on. They’ve since moved two streets over, but you get the point. When he emigrated to Canada, he tried to pass down his Arsenalness to me and my siblings. It didn’t take for me until the Internet.
I am passing down my fandom of Arsenal to my kids for two reasons. 1. So they can aspire to visit London to see Arsenal play. These days, kids can be a fan of any team. They should be fans of the local team, so I do force my kids to watch the Sabres and my wife forces them to watch the Bills, but one day I hope they’ll jump on a plane and watch Arsenal play the Spurs. I hope they’ll learn and sing the songs. I expect they’ll live Tweet (or the thing they do 15 years from now).
So, I’m saying this: pick another team from away. Like local, aspire international.
BradRiter ChrisSmithAV As a father of four boys, I often struggle with this topic.
I’m leaping through the horns of dilemma by raising a kid to not give two shits about sports. It’s a lot of bread-and-circuses nonsense. Get invested emotionally in the degree to which a bunch of complete strangers perform in a game they are paid absurd amounts of money to play? Not any more.
TrendingBuffalo ChrisSmithAV BradRiter I’ll refer u to a previous tweet of mine…yes.
its about being the underdog…and about being true fans…since I have moved to Maryland I have gone to a couple sabres/caps games…and the caps fans seem like zombies they all have Ovechkin jerseys on, and their chants are generic (like something you would hear at a little league game) there are bills backers bar that are packed in D.C. (not matter how bad they suck)