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A bandwagon fan is a phrase used among sports fans and sports writers to describe a fan that only roots for popular and successful sports franchises, then when they fall and are unpopular they switch to the new team. Sometimes people may change teams due to many factors, such as bad management, scandals involving the team, poor draft decisions, or unfavorable conditions in the current residence (which often could cause them to adopt their hometown's rival team as their own). Bandwagon fans are almost always located outside of the city or town "their" team is based in.[citation needed] Much of the time, they live in or near a metropolitan area that has their own professional sports franchise. Bandwagon fans are usually despised by fans who consider themselves die-hard.[citation needed] Image File history File links Broom_icon. ...
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It should be pointed out that fans who switch teams because they either moved to another city or their original team moved out of their location are usually not considered "bandwagon fans", and labeling such fans in that situation as bandwagon fans is controversial.[dubious – discuss] Other similar terms for bandwagon fans are fair-weather fans, fake fans, frontrunners, t-shirt fans, pseudo fans, moody fans, Lehigh Valley residents, and disloyal fans. For other uses, see Lehigh Valley (disambiguation). ...
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A bandwagon fan, also called a "fair-weather fan" supports their team only when it is winning. [1] They will often ""jump" on and off the "bandwagon" of the teams having the most recent success in the major professional and college sports. They generally don't care if their adopted team has a bad season, or even a bad game, as they ultimately don't care too much about the team.[2] Boston Herald sports columnist Tony Massarotti equates bandwagon fans to church patrons who show up only at Christmas. [3] Ali Hasnain of the Daily Utah Chronicle calls bandwagon fans, people (who) root for teams or players who they have no clue about. [4] The Boston Herald is a tabloid newspaper (not to be confused with tabloid press periodicals), the smaller of the two big dailies in Boston, Massachusetts, with a daily circulation of 230,543 in September 2005. ...
A bandwagon fan will often leave a game before completion should their adopted team be losing.[5]
A bandwagon fan will cheer for another team than his own if his own team is not doing well enough. [6]
A bandwagon fan will only support “their” team when they are successful, but claim they have always supported them.
However just because a sports team wins frequently does not mean the team will have bandwagon fans. A team must not only win but must have dynamic and popular players to be on the team for successful bandwagon fandom. [7]
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The term may also be applied to fans are considered latecomers, even if they are genuine. For example, Star Trek became mainstream popular after the success of Star Trek The Next Generation and its spinoffs including Enterprise and they are credited with ushering in fans who were introduced to, and remain more familiar chiefly with the TNG era of Trek.[original research?] This article is about the entire Star Trek franchise. ...
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