Rooting for a team with a Soviet Red Army Hockey Mentality?

halfcentman

QUESTION:

What if your favorite sports team had great success, but played with as much emotion as the Soviet Red Army hockey team?

For those of you a little young, it's like playing "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" ice hockey, or any sport for that manner.

Would you find it hard to root for them. Would the casual enthusiast find it hard?

It's hypothetical Saturday.

Greg

JoeBanzai

Al Davis said it best. "Just win baby."

WTCG

A winner is a winner.

Honestly it's a lot more fun and fufilling to cheer for a team that wins over a team that loses a lot but has "heart".

This reminds me of little league sports when coaches of losing teams would make a huge deal about how he was teaching discipline, character, humility and all that other stuff. They forgot to teach how to play the sport and win.

halfcentman

<< <i>A winner is a winner.

Honestly it's a lot more fun and fufilling to cheer for a team that wins over a team that loses a lot but has "heart".

This reminds me of little league sports when coaches of losing teams would make a huge deal about how he was teaching discipline, character, humility and all that other stuff. They forgot to teach how to play the sport and win. >>



Your post hits the nail on the head.

Personally, if I want to be entertained with a side show I will go to the circus. As many of us are sports enthusiasts, my entertainment is watching crisp, professional play where my team dominates by physical and/or psychological means.

Brick

"It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game." - Grantland Rice

"Rubbish." - Woody Hayes

I'll go with Woody who also rightly said "Show me a good loser....and I'll show you a LOSER."

perkdog

Winning solves everything

halfcentman

<< <i>"It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game." - Grantland Rice

"Rubbish." - Woody Hayes

I'll go with Woody who also rightly said "Show me a good loser....and I'll show you a LOSER." >>



TOP WOODY HAYES QUOTE:

After OSU got picked off in 1969, they clobvered UM in 1970. With no need to go for a 2P conversion, he went for it anyway. When asked why, he said "because they would not let me go for three!"

ziggy29

<< <i>QUESTION:

What if your favorite sports team had great success, but played with as much emotion as the Soviet Red Army hockey team?

For those of you a little young, it's like playing "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" ice hockey, or any sport for that manner.

Would you find it hard to root for them. Would the casual enthusiast find it hard?

It's hypothetical Saturday.

Greg >>


I was a Sharks fan in the 1990s when they had 2/3 of the old Soviet KLM line (Larionov and Makarov) playing for them, so sure -- why not?