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Most Casual Fan Thing You've Done

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.
 
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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.
 
Kenny11 said:
Made love during a uconn NCAA tournament game commercial. But finished before the game resumed. Tv timeouts are way too long in the tournament
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Wouldn't have been If you were at the game.
 
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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.
 
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.
 
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 said:
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.
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August_West said:
Wait.

You had to be told that?


So before someone told you that you pictured elves back in the kitchen removing bones from wings?
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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.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
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.
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There is no such thing as a boneless wing. It’s a chicken tender with sauce.
 
August_West said:
There is no such thing as a boneless wing. It’s a chicken tender with sauce.
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Last time I went to Tavern House Grill I ordered buffalo wings and they brought out a platter of chicken tenders and poured Franks all over them.
 
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Chin Diesel said:
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.
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Great post.
 
During his redshirt season, I incorrectly believed Ruslan Inyatkin's last name to just be Yatkin.
 
I watched the UConn Syracuse 6OT game in my apartment in Manhattan because my wife didn't want to go with me and I didn't want to go out leaving her at home alone.

Almost exactly a year later we decided to separate and then divorced.
 
Chin Diesel said:
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 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.
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Uh-huh.

HuskyHawk said:
So instead I'll provide something "Boneyard casual", I won't drink Rolling Rock. At all. But I also did not drink it in 1999, 2004, 2011 or 2014.
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RR does indeed suck. But one can hold one's nose and drink a bottle. However, if the stunod who decreed RR a "sacred" had done so with a Michelob Ultra, I'd sooner be a Cuse fan. There are limits.

Anyway, I never liked the Gay/Charlie V era. Just never warmed up to them. Usually had the games on, but wasn't invested. And I've given Penn State's dairy bar a better review than UConn's.
 
I don't think I've ever been a casual fan. The first Christmas present with a plug I ever received was an AM clock radio. UConn was playing the next day and I've been a fan ever since. But I was taken for a casual fan once. I was at a Vegas sports book the week before the 1990 BET. They had the tournament odds posted in front of us, the top 3 were close but UConn was listed first (8-5, 9-5, 2-1, iirc) and I said out loud what I was thinking, "Can you [freaking] believe that UConn is favored to win?" Thinking in my mind, "look we're finally a player." But the ticket puncher chimed right in like I was a casual fan, "UConn deserves to be the favorite, they're for real this year!"
 
I went on a first date with a girl from Tinder the night of the Villanova game in the 2014 run.

However, at half time I ended the date early because I couldn't stand not watching it and went to a sports bar to watch the 2nd half.
 
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