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Heat-Mavs 2011 NBA Finals

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I have to give credit to Buckeyefool for finding this article and posting it on Facebook. It does a real nice job of summing up what the Heat's loss means for the city of Cleveland and its fans:

http://www.onionsportsnetwork.com/articles/cleveland-pathetically-celebrates-greatest-sports,20819/

Reports also indicated that grown men and women, unaware of what their bitter, shriveled souls have been reduced to, continued to high-five their coworkers at the mere mention of a young man losing a basketball championship.
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buckeyegrad;1941721; said:
I have to give credit to Buckeyefool for finding this article and posting it on Facebook. It does a real nice job of summing up what the Heat's loss means for the city of Cleveland and its fans:

http://www.onionsportsnetwork.com/articles/cleveland-pathetically-celebrates-greatest-sports,20819/
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How is Cleveland fans taking joy in the bron's failures any different from the joy most of us get from m*ch*g*n's recent blunders? Seems like a double standard to me.
 
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NFBuck;1941758; said:
How is Cleveland fans taking joy in the bron's failures any different from the joy most of us get from m*ch*g*n's recent blunders? Seems like a double standard to me.
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I don't know about you, but most Buckeyes have never cheered for scUM or wanted anything to do with them. Never have they placed any hope in them, nor have they identified in any shape or form with scUM.

Cleveland fans are acting like a jilted bride when it comes to LJ. They had placed hope in him and they had identified with him. When they were left at the alter, they became bitter and turned against their former sports messiah.

World of difference in the two.
 
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buckeyegrad;1942347; said:
I don't know about you, but most Buckeyes have never cheered for scUM or wanted anything to do with them. Never have they placed any hope in them, nor have they identified in any shape or form with scUM.

Cleveland fans are acting like a jilted bride when it comes to LJ. They had placed hope in him and they had identified with him. When they were left at the alter, they became bitter and turned against their former sports messiah.

World of difference in the two.
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I would buy this more if every NBA fan sans the 12 actual miami heat fans weren't reveling in the squalor of their defeat.

If Lebron had acted like a man from the start of FA last summer and made his intentions clearly known, some of the venom towards him would have been reduced. If he didn't make jackass tweets about karma 2 months into the season, some of the venom towards him would have been reduced. if he didn't make asinine comments about his former teammates dieing in the moment, only to be reduced to a shell of himself in the finals, some of the venom towards him would have been reduced.

add to that the queer-bag spectacle of the 3 of them being announced to miami fans along with the retarded statements about 5,6,7+ championships.

contrary to the beliefs of some, lebron and miami alienated a whole lot more people than just cleveland fans.
 
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buckeyegrad;1942347; said:
I don't know about you, but most Buckeyes have never cheered for scUM or wanted anything to do with them. Never have they placed any hope in them, nor have they identified in any shape or form with scUM.

Cleveland fans are acting like a jilted bride when it comes to LJ. They had placed hope in him and they had identified with him. When they were left at the alter, they became bitter and turned against their former sports messiah.

World of difference in the two.
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Okay, what if a highly regarded recruit came to tOSU promising titles and saying he wouldn't quit until we got it only to transfer someplace else in very public fashion. You don't think a sizable majority of Buckeye fans would take joy in his failures? Please. People acting like this is something exclusive to Cleveland fans are just looking for an excuse to kick Cleveland fans. That's not to say we/they don't deserve it at times, just not in this instance, my IMO.
 
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buckeyegrad;1942347; said:
I don't know about you, but most Buckeyes have never cheered for scUM or wanted anything to do with them. Never have they placed any hope in them, nor have they identified in any shape or form with scUM.

Cleveland fans are acting like a jilted bride when it comes to LJ. They had placed hope in him and they had identified with him. When they were left at the alter, they became bitter and turned against their former sports messiah.

World of difference in the two.
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So? What's the problem with rooting against a douche?

I was rooting against Bosh, Wade and Riley just as much as I was Lebron. I don't understand why people care about the rooting tendencies of others.
 
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buckeyegrad;1942347; said:
Cleveland fans are acting like a jilted bride when it comes to LJ. They had placed hope in him and they had identified with him. When they were left at the alter, they became bitter and turned against their former sports messiah.
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You are making an unfounded assumption here. Cleveland fans are nowhere near the only ones irritated with LBJ. I'm not sure why some people so quickly jump to that conclusion. I hope it's just failure to think through or consider the issue and not some childish bitterness toward Cleveland fans.
 
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buckeyegrad;1942347; said:
Cleveland fans are acting like a jilted bride when it comes to LJ. They had placed hope in him and they had identified with him. When they were left at the alter, they became bitter and turned against their former sports messiah.
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Not sure how you can come up with the "jilted bride" anology. Cavs fans, and others, were pissed at how LeBitch handled his leaving the team, not necessarily the fact he did leave the team. He was a pompous, spoiled, arrogant little fuck, and now Karma comes along and shoves its big Dick of Irony right up his ass. I think he deserves every hard thrust Karma gives him...
 
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The most legitimate criticism the Heat/Lebron have received is the BS celebration after the free agent signings. It was arrogant, entitled and ultimately foolish.

And it proved that each of these three guys thought that's all they had to do to dominate the league. They jumped around with their fireworks, proclaiming future domination with relative ease. They were wrong and they deserve every last bit of hate/criticism for it.
 
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Just for the record:

A) I was also glad to see the Mavs win, but that has to do with my preference for Western Conference teams.

B) The "jilted bride" analogy actually came from a good friend of mine, who is a Cleveland sports fan and who is embarrassed by the way the city is celebrating LJ's failure. Then again, he was one of the few Cavs fans who three years ago was saying everything the entire fan base now says about LJ. So, he was one of the few that was glad to see him go and wasn't surprised by how he did it.

C) I live in Stow and work in Cleveland. I've seen the reaction of Cleveland fans to LJ's failure on the tv and I've had to listen to them for the last two weeks of Cleveland radio (850AM and 1100AM). There is an unhealthy obsession with LJ; there was an over-the-top celebration of the Mavs win (exemplified most by Gov. Kasich's ridiculous resolution naming the Mavs players honorary Ohioans); and there remains a lot of bitterness that comes across in radio airwaves every time I hear someone talk about LJ. A lot of the Onion's mockery of Cleveland is particularly funny because it hits pretty close to the mark of what I have been observing.

D) It's not like Cleveland sports fans don't have a long history of being bitter and delusional. One of the reasons I've been a hater since I was a boy growing up in North Central Ohio.
 
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so does it all die down now, or will there be this much celebration every season if he loses until he retires? What will it take for Cav's fans to actually move on?

My guess is the simple success of the Cavs. Success to the point where they are back in the playoffs.
 
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WolverineMike;1943306; said:
so does it all die down now, or will there be this much celebration every season if he loses until he retires? What will it take for Cav's fans to actually move on?

My guess is the simple success of the Cavs. Success to the point where they are back in the playoffs.
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I'm pretty sure I'll always hate Lebron and celebrate his failures. This year was probably an anomoly in the amount of celebration, but you're never going to convince Cavs fans to be indifferent towards Lebron. That's impossible at this point.

I know several people that hated Jordan and/or hated Kobe. I didn't see anybody telling them to get over it, primarily because no one knew what "it" was. At least we have a pretty good reason.
 
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OH10;1943311; said:
I'm pretty sure I'll always hate Lebron and celebrate his failures. This year was probably an anomoly in the amount of celebration, but you're never going to convince Cavs fans to be indifferent towards Lebron. That's impossible at this point.

I know several people that hated Jordan and/or hated Kobe. I didn't see anybody telling them to get over it, primarily because no one knew what "it" was. At least we have a pretty good reason.
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yeah, I meant the amount of celebration. I doubt anyone will get over it. I hated Jordan and I hate kobe. But I actually have my reasons for that too.
 
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