Minor fanpost on a comment on Laker fans I shouldn't have made at all. No this isn't a Laker bashing post like the many posts that have been hitting this blog.

Yeah, so in the game thread, in which I try to be a cool head with no caps, no cussing, and all the other ingredients to be a classy poster, I made a bad comment towards the Lakers fans saying in short, I hate them. Let me evaluate why I made that comment. Simply enough the game was frustrating me. We got the crap beat out of us, I expected more, so there were many reasons to why I was upset. And so I go and post that comment. A few of the Laker guys responded well after I'd left the thread and I know they probably wouldn't go back to read anything I posted there, so I want to apologize here and hope they read this. I know Laker fans get crap for rooting for the Lakers even if they are nice, educated people which is the majority. It's only a game, but when a team wins a lot on a regular basis, year after year, and other teams just get squashed by the dominant team, you know that the bandwagon of haters will grow as fast as the bandwagon of supporters. It's just natural to either root for the big dog, or root against them, especially when your real team of choice is not playing in something as big as the Finals.

I know it's gotta be as hard to root for a big winning team because of the backlash fans of other teams give, and besides the Magic in more recent years, I've rooted for the opposite of Laker-esque teams. The Kansas City Royals and Chiefs? Obviously this man love a winner. Mizzou? Football has been great but should decline with the loss of it's senior class and Basketball was stellar after a major slump, but then there are Laker-esque teams like Oklahoma and Texas in football and Kansas in basketball to root against (especially Kansas). Orlando has obviously got tons better in the D12 Era, but are still seen as underdogs in many people's eyes (mine included) They have gone against the Celtics, a vastly successful program that recently won the Finals last year, Cleveland, toting the best regular season and the MVP, and now the Lakers, easily the greatest program in the NBA's history. And I don't hate the fans at all, certainly not because I think they're stupid or bandwagon jumpers. I just wish the teams I root for could be more dominant. I'd love to see one of my KC teams win 3 straight championships and get in the postseason every year for a decade (and win postseason games, KC Chiefs). I'd love to see Mizzou grow into a football team that contends for a BCS Bowl game every year, and have a basketball team that can A) get into it's first Final Four, and B) maybe become a team that can contend for the Final Four, or heck, the National Championship every year too. Orlando is growing int o what could be a dominating force in the East, but we'll just wait and see on that one (Oh, and I've grown up an Orlando fan because I watched the Shaq era in the younger days, and I became a huge Orlando fan in the process without a team in KC anymore).

Meanwhile in LA and California there are plenty of combos for the sports you have. Just looking at all the great programs:  the Lakers, the Dodgers, UCLA or USC or Cal, ect. A lot of winning teams, and in the process, it makes me feel a little depressed of what I root for and what some guys can root for. And that's basically why the Lakers are hated, although you probably already knew. No disrespect meant to the Laker fans a Silver Screen and Roll, it was just frustration from Game 1. Hopefully we can play better and win Game 2, or at least compete. Last night just left a bad taste in my mouth is all, and of course winning can cure that, but KC's in a poor shap with sports, the Magic and Mizzou are all I have right now, and the underdog nature makes a little more dislike of the big name teams.

So all in all, I never was meant to enjoy Laker-esque teams simply becaue I've grown up rooting for the more underdog type teams, especially as of late. And if you've read all of this, which I don't think even I would, just remember that if I had stayed at that game thread, it would have been boiled down to this: "I'm sorry, I overreacted, no harm meant and I know you guys get a ton of crap for rooting for a great team." And if you've read this whole thing, wow. You have a gift, you reader you :)