I am a female fan. Hear me ROAR!
by RebelRogue on Jun 1, 2008 12:51 PM PDT
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PrintOkay, I confess. I'm really not a woman. But fortunately for me, my wife is. Now, for the unfortunate side; she is not a fan of the Blazers or of any team of any sport. She thinks sports are just a macho male thing and a complete waste of her time. Despite that, believe it or not, I still love her (she has many redeeming qualities I won't get into here;-). There is a somewhat bright side to the siituation. Of all the sports, she finds basketball the least offensive - though if she's in the same room with me, she either makes me mute the tv or turn it way down, because she simply can't stand the squeaking noises their shoes make.
So, she's often made me wonder just how much of a minority are female Blazer fans, anyway? Personally, I know only one devout Blazer she-fan, and she's my aunt, while I know numerous men who are fans.
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My girlfriend is a blazer fan
and was before I came along. She hadn’t been following but is catching up again now that it’s a respectable team and… well… now that she’s dating me.
"We play for one thing and one thing only, and that's championships." - The Devil Spawned
Buy a couple of 100 level tickets and take her to a good game
My first date with my wife was a 2000 game against Indy…. she had fair warning that the Blazers will be my lifelong mistress. Over time she has become interested in watching the games on TV too…. and it’s because she is personally interested in the players now… She loves Blakie, Roy, Jack & Oden.
Take her to the game and talk to her about what good guys they are… not explaining basketball terms, rules, salary cap & etc.
Can’t help you with the squeaky shoe noise.
I would love to take her to a game,
but she would never agree to make an eight hour round trip just to watch one. Or even two.
Personally, if they invented a non-squeak rubber sole, and Stern made it an NBA requirement, I am quite certain I wouldn’t like that. It would be like watching a silent film from the early 1900’s. The players would make up for the lack of noise with excessive dribbling and facial distortions with exaggerated body gestures.
"...and that loud noise you hear coming is the Portland Trailblazers." - Charles Barkley
same boat...
my wife has come to learn that she needs to AT LEAST tolerate my insatiable obsession for our hometown heroes. And to my surprise, she actually cares enough to pretend that she is interested in the Blazers.
You too?
Cool. I thought there might be a few fans of Floater here, being as they’re a local band and all. But mostly for the simple fact that they rock!
"...and that loud noise you hear coming is the Portland Trailblazers." - Charles Barkley
Now I want to listen'
can U Link Me Up?
"Always Willing, Ever Able" - rivbike.com
"If you don't want to get banged. Don't go in there" - Van Gundy
Sure...
Here’s their official site. www.floatermusic.com CD Baby has 60sec clips of all their stuff. http://cdbaby.com/found?allsearch=floater
The Floater Lives dbl disc is my favorite. Highly recommended. Though it’s all good.
"...and that loud noise you hear coming is the Portland Trailblazers." - Charles Barkley
show her some of this
ain’t nobody can resist
by Jarrett Jack's Booty on Jun 1, 2008 5:37 PM PDT reply actions 3 recs
My wife says he has a "bubble butt,"
whatever that means. She also said his eyebrows look like two caterpillars clinging to his face. She delights in making comments like that. You should hear what she says about my goatee. But she does say he has the coolest sounding name.
"...and that loud noise you hear coming is the Portland Trailblazers." - Charles Barkley
Man
My wife told me I can’t be gay anymore. If I could still be gay, then I’d say that is one fine lookin’ booty.
What's love got to do, got to do with it?
Who needs a point guard when a center can be drafted?
And you know this man
Last time I was gay, I was at a party and there was a guy there who spent more time getting ready than anyone else in the party, and I’m including about 10 women. I kept telling he was so hot that should be on the Real World. He was so offended, that he was going to beat me up. The next day my wife told me to stop being gay.
What's love got to do, got to do with it?
Who needs a point guard when a center can be drafted?
Lots of female fans, I think
in just my little area of Section 323, I can think of several very enthusiastic females who never missed a game last season—well, none that I went to, which was about 75-80% of them.
I think women are less likely to come to site like this, though. I love the sport, I love the team, but I’m not a stats hound, even though I crunch numbers at work—perhaps because I crunch numbers at work. I don’t follow the college prospects or care at all about most of the detailed fanpost topics. I like the banter and the game threads. From what I’ve seen, a high percentage of the women here are of the, I love the guys on this team variety and more likely to be saddened by all the trade talk than most of the men (#25!) I’m sure that’s not universally true of female fans, of course.
Ironically, while I’ve been a sports fan and participant my entire life, I’ve never once dated a guy who could stand professional sports. I attend the Blazer games with my dad. My love of the Blazers is really at odds with the rest of my granola, vegan, cynical personality.
You can be a cynic and still love the Blazers. Trust me. That doesn't matter if you're male or female.
"Besides, AnntheFan will be here any minute to #25 you." T Darkstar
yeah, cynical wasn't really where I meant to go
I fit more into that “I’m too progressive to be a sports fan, unless it’s something obscure” part of Portland, except, of course, that I love the Blazers, plus those I’m too progressive to be a sports fan people are kind of annoying. Hopefully the punctuation in that sentence won’t turn this post all wiggy.
It's hard to be cynical and progressive...
unless you are becoming progressively more cynical. For the longest time, I thought cynicism meant almost the same as sarcasm. But it really means to live a virtuous life in harmony with nature – simple, without ambition for fame or materialistic desires. True cynics believe this is the only way to true happiness.
I tried it once. It lasted a year. Then I started missing my car, my music, my Playstation, my tv to watch my Blazers, and yes, even a non-leaky roof over my head. I didn’t miss my job, true, but there’s a price to pay for everything in life.
I’m not a true cynic, either. But I am sarcastic. It keeps me amused.
"...and that loud noise you hear coming is the Portland Trailblazers." - Charles Barkley
You're correct in the root meaning of the word.
I think now what you describe might more aptly be called a luddite.
"Besides, AnntheFan will be here any minute to #25 you." T Darkstar
Hmm...
Even if I’d known that term, I don’t believe I would’ve ever called myself a “luddite.” It sounds like an insult or some type of igneous rock. At the time, I considered myself a modern hippy. I was one hip dude – a pakalolo tokin’, long-haired, guitar-playin’ fool.
"...and that loud noise you hear coming is the Portland Trailblazers." - Charles Barkley
It's not an insult. I went that road myself for awhile.
But working and trying to keep up that kind of lifestyle is pretty difficult.
"Besides, AnntheFan will be here any minute to #25 you." T Darkstar
I know it's not an insult.
It’s just the way it sounds like a drunken slur asking for another Bud Lite.
"...and that loud noise you hear coming is the Portland Trailblazers." - Charles Barkley
I think your are ironic, not sarcastic (which involves to be offensive).
"If OJ Mayo falls to the 2nd round We should risk one of our 3 second round picks on Mayo". Mortimer.
Darnit! You're right.
I always get those “ic” words messed up.
"...and that loud noise you hear coming is the Portland Trailblazers." - Charles Barkley
Being Offensive
Is my shtick.
What's love got to do, got to do with it?
Who needs a point guard when a center can be drafted?
We are a second wife for you.
You can´t roll here as you used to do and get the same results.
"If OJ Mayo falls to the 2nd round We should risk one of our 3 second round picks on Mayo". Mortimer.
Marxism gave a new sense to "alienation".
Religion and sport fandom are, in that marxist concept, tools to keep people ignorant and docile. Keeping in mind what those great brains bring to humankind in the form of the soviets and all those marxist institutions, I affirm that we need to be alienated at least a few hours per day. Perhaps sex, breathing and eating are primitive tools for the human of future and we should cut them too.
JOINING ALIENNATION!
"If OJ Mayo falls to the 2nd round We should risk one of our 3 second round picks on Mayo". Mortimer.
Well,as long as you keep blogging,
all is well with the world.
"...and that loud noise you hear coming is the Portland Trailblazers." - Charles Barkley
Yes,
I sat next to a female fan for all our quarter season games and she was enthusiastic and knowledgeable and always wore her Prz jersey. I’ll miss her next season, but will contact her if my second seat goes begging.
Are you continuing in Section 323? I couldn’t bear it that by upgrading to half season tickets I was relegated to worse seats than we’d had last season so we (me and the grandkid) wandered around and settled on closer seats in … wait for it …. section 323.
ooh, we'll be neighbors!
We thought about upgrading, but the next seats were twice as much. I come from frugal stock, and we couldn’t bring ourselves to do it. I would also have had to decide whether to change my name here, though, and I’m glad to keep it.
This dude
Is the same way! Everyone’s always pretty surprised by my obsession with the Blazies (as my girlfriend has come to call them). I’m a vegetarian/barista/musician/struggling ‘artist,’ but I have been finding ways to go to games nonetheless. I got a pair of tickets and met a fine young woman whom I took to see the Knicks game this year, and she was more vocal than I was. But here’s the icing: She wants to go to more games! I do feel blessed. She’s a vegetarian former barista with a painting degree! It’s good to know there are more of us out there. Maybe we’ll have to track you down at a game next season!
"... and with the first pick in the 2008 NBA draft, the Portland Trailblazers select: David Bowie, of space"
Here's my story.
I don’t live near Portland and I’ve never been to a game but I’ve loved the Blazers most of my life.
I’m really the only person I know who follows the Blazers as closely as I do, so in that way I guess I could be considered lonely. I watch or listen to games with earphones so that I don’t disturb anyone else. I think it is probably safe to say that many men are here for the same reasons. I had never been interested in participating in a blog before, and it’s true there are many intelligent men here that I enjoy exchanging barbs and banter with. I’m not at all interested in feeding a bunch of names into a trade machine and wading through the statistics that come out the other end like so much poop. I have to mess with spreadsheets and SPC charts all the time, but a lot of people here do enjoy that kind of thing and I’m happy that they get the opportunity to come to the Bedge and share with like-minded people. I think we can all co-exist.
"Besides, AnntheFan will be here any minute to #25 you." T Darkstar
I am like-minded with you.
I too live far from Portland if you can call four hours away (Southern Oregon) a long distance. I am a one team fan, and it’s been the Blazers since 1989. I too, have never been to a game. I never knew anybody else who went, so I was content to save the money and watch them on tv mostly by myself. I’ve been a regular lurker on the Bedge for a couple years now, enjoying the posts and comments.
I finally started a membership here, because it seemed like all there was to read was trade and draft stuff. Boring! I wanted to see if I could introduce some fresh topics and just connect with some fellow fans. It’s been better than I expected it would be. Do you know if there’s a bumper sticker that reads, “Addicted to Blog?” Or maybe I’ll just make one up that says, “Bedge Head,” or something.
"...and that loud noise you hear coming is the Portland Trailblazers." - Charles Barkley
When I lived in Medford
I came to a couple of games. My wife got the tickets and we came up and stayed in a hotel for the night. Was fun. Now that I am up here (for good I guess) I have been to many games. While a case can be made that watching on TV is a more comprehensive way to watch a game, there is nothing quite like being in a building with 20,000 other people all screaming for the same goal. I was at the Denver game (game 10 of the streak) with my Dad. OMG that was loud. I commented to my Dad that this is what it sounds like when 20,000 all fall in love simultainously. All that to say…..come on up and try it out…It will be worth it
"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors... and miss" Robert A. Heinlein
I'll find some way to go next year,
even if I have to make the drive by myself. I’m too excited about next year. Even on TV, those home games during the streak sent shivers up my spine. I can only imagine what it would be like in the Rose Garden without my wife telling me to turn down the volume.
"...and that loud noise you hear coming is the Portland Trailblazers." - Charles Barkley
BE ON YOUR GUARD!
Annthefan is just a lonely woman looking to strike up relationships with men!
Oh, oh, here she comes,
Watch out boy, she’ll chew you up!
Oh, oh, here she comes,
She’s a Maneater.
I wouldn’t if I were you,
I know what she can do,
She’s deadly, man, she can really rip your world apart.
Don’t be fooled by the lovable Travis shtick. Annthefan is on the prowl!
(Hey, Annie, does that count as banter with intelligent men? Just wondering if I’m scoring any points here….)
Other people don't have as much practice at being wrong as I do -- HT, timbo
Ummmm. What makes you think I count you as among the intelligent men here?
How do I know you’re scottish? How do I even know you’re really the Master of the Universe?
"Besides, AnntheFan will be here any minute to #25 you." T Darkstar
Wasn't that He-Man?
"...and that loud noise you hear coming is the Portland Trailblazers." - Charles Barkley
As the White Witch said
in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, “You shall know us better hereafter.”
How do you even know I’m one of the men?
I might just be an 11 year old girl.
I might be KP.
I might even be Travis.
Haven’t you noticed that every time I’ve suggested the possibility of trading Travis, it’s been for a Very High Price in return? I figure if I keep talking him up, eventually N.O. will want to trade Chris Paul for him.
Other people don't have as much practice at being wrong as I do -- HT, timbo
I was going to ask you how you even know I'm a woman. Do you have spies everywhere? Shudder.
Chris Paul is small and pouty. Give him a few years and he’ll be Damon Stoudamire
"Besides, AnntheFan will be here any minute to #25 you." T Darkstar
Just look at your picture!
So cute and young looking, with all that curly, fire-colored hair! Are you even old enough to drive?
"...and that loud noise you hear coming is the Portland Trailblazers." - Charles Barkley
Some of us are ageless. Just call me Doris Gray.
And obviously you’re just a young whippersnapper if you don”t recognize that I’ve taken that icon of american comic strips, Little Orphan Annie (Thanks Bluooby) as my avatar.
"Besides, AnntheFan will be here any minute to #25 you." T Darkstar
This is why I'm upset with you
I actually AM Li’l Orphan Annie. Since you stole my identity, I have to pretend to be William Wallace or Robert the Bruce, or something.
That’s why all my trade proposals are so heartless. I’m actually the Bruce, and my heart is buried at Melrose Abbey.
Other people don't have as much practice at being wrong as I do -- HT, timbo
Ha! I know your flitting ways. You steal from person to person,
down through the years, taking their identities and souls, turning them into shoe leather. You must be stopped. You know you left Bob all alone on that stone slab to have his entrails strewn around for chicken fodder. Annie has very powerful weapons of her own and she was able to fend you off you skirted skunk!
"Besides, AnntheFan will be here any minute to #25 you." T Darkstar
Is your name really Ann?
I’m sooo confused. I just don’t know what to believe anymore! That’s false self-representation! That burning man in my picture is really me. I’m hideously scarred because of it, but it was the closest I could actually feel to being a Blazer myself. Totally worth it.
"...and that loud noise you hear coming is the Portland Trailblazers." - Charles Barkley
I'm sorry about your scars. Have you been hanging out with LMA?
"Besides, AnntheFan will be here any minute to #25 you." T Darkstar
No...
He thinks I’m a leper.
"...and that loud noise you hear coming is the Portland Trailblazers." - Charles Barkley
You've never been to a game?!
Wow! I highly suggest you make the trek. It’s a great experience. I’ve been to tons of Blazer games but there is a chance I’ll be moving down south (I won’t say the name of the state) for work before the season starts, and if that is the case, I’ll be ridiculously bummed.
There is room for fandom at all different levels and we are all free to make it whatever we want it to be about for ourselves.
Happy to see some female Blazer fans… I danced with a girl the other night who had a Roy jersey on…
i am female
and a big fan of the Blazers. i started following the team in 1991, but between 1997 and when Rasheed was traded away, I took a sabbatical from being a fan. when was that, 2004? i like talking about the team with other fans and probably get inappropriately excited about it at times, especially during the past year. i can’t help it.
i am happy to root for a team full of men with good character. there are a few (#25, and yes #1) on this team that i am more attached to than others but i reckon i trust KP after all this time. pursue everything!
You think you're excited now?
Wait ‘til next year!
&^$%!
No, I can’t wait! Does anyone have a time machine?
"...and that loud noise you hear coming is the Portland Trailblazers." - Charles Barkley
My girlfriend is from England
and she has been learning about the blazers on her own so she can impress me with he knolledge. I’ve given her some of my shirts, she wears a Bill Walton dunking shirt, and ROY rookie of the year shirt… how luck am I?
Very.
And I’ll bet she has the most adorable little accent. Of course to the English, we’re the ones with the cute accent. So, you’re both lucky. Enjoy each other.
"...and that loud noise you hear coming is the Portland Trailblazers." - Charles Barkley
Haha
I’m not so sure about that. Although when I was little, I did do a fake American accent when playing cars, or guys. Now it’s real, and I kind of wish it wasn’t.
"... and with the first pick in the 2008 NBA draft, the Portland Trailblazers select: David Bowie, of space"
Is it true, in regards to what they say about female Blazers fans and menopause?
What's love got to do, got to do with it?
Who needs a point guard when a center can be drafted?
I'm not sure, it was just a rumor I heard
I heard Blazers stave off menopause for up to a year if they have a winning record.
Life is like a cherry tomato; it tastes like chicken.
Knowledge is currency. Mystery is power.
I may be a female, but I am at least probably a Blazer fan.
BLZRS FRVR
How do I know you're even human?
It’s hard to tell from your picture. I mean, it’s obviouss what Tom is, but gosh darn, you look cute and cuddly, you little bushbaby you.
"...and that loud noise you hear coming is the Portland Trailblazers." - Charles Barkley
I'm a Spectral Tarsier
If you’re going by my avatar. Neither monkey nor lemur—unclassifiable!
We are sexually dimorphic, though.
BLZRS FRVR
by nightbluefruit on Jun 3, 2008 8:35 AM PDT up reply actions
And all this time
I thought I was looking at an upside down picture of a fruit bat. (Ok, with fruit & night in your name it sort of made sense, though had I looked at the larger picture I would have seen the fingers, and a few other things, weren’t right.)
Yours still looks like a cat in a little boat
And every time I look at it I think simultaneously of Noah and the line from Radiohead’s “Pyramid Song:” “We all went to heaven in a little row boat.”
BLZRS FRVR
by nightbluefruit on Jun 3, 2008 11:13 AM PDT up reply actions
Love it!
Not what I intended, but that would make an awesome add campaign. I can see the poster now.
"...and that loud noise you hear coming is the Portland Trailblazers." - Charles Barkley
Red Hot and Rollin'
The book, which came out last year, is a must read for all Blazer fans… and it has a great story in it told by a female fan. It could be my favorite story in the whole book. She gets horribly addicted to the 77 team and finds different ways throughout the season to get into games.
I don’t know about you guys… but I love females.
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