Single White Fan Seeks NFL Team

http://www.singlewhitefan.com/2009/09/lights-camera-action_28.html?showComment=1254239198153#c220189051784624804

I got a chance to see this gentleman's interview today on ESPN First Take. I like the way he is going about picking an NFL team, he isn't jumping on a bandwagon like many other fans have in the past, and he's not simply picking the team closest to his home which is how many fans are raised into loving their team. He has to decided to let the fans of each team try to convince him to be a part of their team's fanbase. He sent letters to each NFL team and has gotten responses from a few. His criteria for his final pick is:

1) Team Analysis -

a) History/Tradition (20 points)

b) Location (15 points)

c) Logo/Colors/Uniforms (15 points)

d) Fanbase (15 points)

e) Current Team (20 points)

f) Intangibles (15 points)

2) Weekly Events

3) Replies to Team Letters

4) Fan/Reader Response

5) Playoffs

***I challenge the fans on Yardbarker(the sports fans I consider the most passionate on the web) to go to this man's website and convince him to become a fan of your team. Show pride in your team in a different way, for once there will be someone listening when you defend your team and shout it's praises. When he makes his final decision I want him to have made that decision because the fans at Yardbarker told him to.... let's show him what it takes to be a true NFL die hard Fn fan!

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• BenPhranklin said September 29, 2009

  this guy could learn a lot from theYard

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• mitressehc said September 29, 2009

  If my boy's season keeps going the way it's going I might put an ad next to his. J/K.

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  • BenPhranklin replied September 29, 2009

    haha, its a pretty funny way to find a team.... a regular classified ad... who woulda thought?
  • BenPhranklin replied September 29, 2009

    I see they signed Tyler Thigpen.... I honestly think he should be the starter in KC still and they didn't need to waste the pick on Matt Cassel. They could have used that to build a defense. I hope he works out for you, my buddy has been waiting for Henne to start for awhile though and he wants to see him tear it up.
• mitressehc said September 29, 2009

  Thanks Ben. I hope he does too. To be honest I don't care which one becomes a world beater just as long as one of them does. Lord knows we have been waiting for one at that position since Marino left.

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  • BenPhranklin replied September 29, 2009

    I was actually impressed with Thigpen late last season when he was starting in KC. I added him to my fantasy football roster and won that league with him starting the last 3 weeks of the season.
• Wheelman said October 06, 2009

  I think its a most ingenious idea, make the teams do the convincing. Never understood the concept of `you live here, so you have to support the nearest franchise`. How many have uttered the line of football being a business, and if true, why chose the one nearest your home? Why haven`t Americans eschewed foreign makes of cars? Detroit IS a lot closer than Tokyo or Seoul. Cars are a business.
  
  For me, the Seahawks came into my sphere of consciuosness via their team plane. Imagine deciding for a team on the opposite side of the continent, in the days before the Internet or NFL Sunday Ticket. Those media make accessing info on any team just as easy, whether they be 3000-miles away, or an hour down the Interstate.
  
  Kudos to a man who thinks for himself.

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  • BenPhranklin replied October 06, 2009

    great point.... theres almost nothing you can't do from seated at the computer nowadays.... and if you're near an NFL city you can see your team when they visit to play.... I like the well thought out process he is using to become a fan.... it's unorthodox but we shouldn't be fenced into our immediate surroundings.