Most Casual Fan Thing You've Done

[8893]

Let's see...

☑ Been to first night
☑ Been to Jim Calhoun Celebrity Classic
☑ Have gotten autographs, pictures "for my kids." (I mean they were with my kids and I gave them to them but still..)

Guilty of all three, multiple times each.

 

[NJHoops]

Officially became a UConn basketball fan on 3/22/18?

 

[imno1]

Made love during a uconn NCAA tournament game commercial. But finished before the game resumed. Tv timeouts are way too long in the tournament

Sounds like your committed. Casual you would have said “got laid”

 

[jollari]

Officially became a UConn basketball fan on 3/22/18?

Hurley landing recruits on the court and in the Boneyard. Nice! Welcome aboard

 

[Deepster]

I've done things I shouldn't have done in the old Jonathan costume.

 

[pj]

Stopped reading the football board.

 

[intlzncster]

Read a Chief post as if it had merit

Ice cold

 

[Stainmaster]

I participated in the “Dress Like the Huskies” contest twice, and won both times.

 

[Bezzz]

I've left games early. More so recently, because, you know. BB and FB. I live a 5 minute walk from XL. The worst was the MBB game when we were down 30-9 at halftime (UMass, when was that?). We came back to win. Still feed bad about that one.

 

[Son of Robert]

Officially became a UConn basketball fan on 3/22/18?

Hurley landing recruits on the court and in the Boneyard. Nice! Welcome aboard

I'll second that jollari welcome. Appreciate your reasonable and informed view.

 

[8893]

I participated in the “Dress Like the Huskies” contest twice, and won both times.

Like which Husky did you dress?

 

[Mokum]

Drove to Hartford in a blizzard and paid $100 per ticket from a scalper for me and my son. Wait, that’s more like hardcore, not casual.

 

[Stainmaster]

Like which Husky did you dress?

I don’t remember the number on the jersey they gave me. Probably Charlie V or Rudy.

 

[Husky25]

Made love during a uconn NCAA tournament game commercial. But finished before the game resumed. Tv timeouts are way too long in the tournament

Wouldn't have been If you were at the game.

 

[Kenny11]

Sounds like your committed. Casual you would have said “got laid”

I'm just keeping it PG for the casuals.

 

[August_West]

I've done things I shouldn't have done in the old Jonathan costume.

thats the opposite of casual. Thats straight up baller level.

 

[CL82]

I've done things I shouldn't have done in the old Jonathan costume.

Casual fan or UConn royalty?

 

[nashusky109]

Deciding i didn't want to shell out the cash to go see UConn vs Syracuse at MSG this year even though I've gone three years straight.

 

[ZenConn]

Not basketball related but I did casually pass gas by a coworkers desk and walk away.

 

[dennismenace]

Recording a game because of a family affair; hearing that they lost and didn't even look at the game or it's highlights.
This only in the last couple of years which assures me that I am indeed a casual fan or at least a fair weather fan. I just could not bear the lack of hustle more than anything except maybe the hangdog faces of KO.

 

[intlzncster]

Honestly, for the past 2 seasons, people turning off or doing other more enticing things is not the mark of a casual fan.

It was simply flat out bad basketball, and brought no joy watching. The losing wasn't even the biggest issue, it was just so putrid to watch, that you shouldn't be ashamed to say you were wanting to do something else. There were a million better ways to invest your time than watching the Huskies in from Fall of 2016 through Spring of 2018.

If you don't watch this year, you are 'casual' for sure.

 

[Chin Diesel]

I'd like to call this out separate from Chief's Casual Fan Night thread.

What is a casual fan? The term gets thrown around so loosely it's sometimes tough to know what casual fans actually do.

For example, chicken wings are sacreds. One time I got casual and ordered boneless wings since it was less effort to eat. I was later told boneless wings are nothing more than adult chicken nuggets.

Wait.

You had to be told that?


So before someone told you that you pictured elves back in the kitchen removing bones from wings?

The best jokes are jokes that are missed by some in the audience. It's not even an original joke. The whole "boneless wings are chicken nuggets for adults" joke has been around for years. It's perfect to bust out in a group environment at a sports bar or something like that. Only cool to do it to a dude. Don't ever expect that joke to go over well when thrown at women.


Another thing I've done as a casual fan is go down rabbit hole debates with internet trolls. Real fans know when they make a fantastic joke and it goes over the head of smelly hippies to just let it ride and move on in life. Casual fans take up valuable time of other posters by postings posts that are too long and in length with out adding anything to the conversation. Real fans find it annoying; casual fans don't even know they are being drawn in to a troll fight and feed the fire.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

Went to a game with no gear

 

[CL82]

Not basketball related but I did casually pass gas by a coworkers desk and walk away.

I think this only counts if you casually fanned it.

 

[ConnHuskBask]

I have to watch a bunch of games on DVR, which is usually fine, but last season I would start ffwd if we got down by 15 and only watch in real time if they ever cut it past 15.

Needless to say I wore out the ffwd last year.