Seattle: Do You Really Want to Be a Jailblazers Fan?

This is a personification of why America agrees when Clay Bennett says that Seattle doesn’t care.

Part of being a Sonics fan is hating the Blazers, and part of being a Blazers fan is hating the Sonics, and there is no wiggle room.

Can you imagine Philadelphia becoming Steelers fans if they lost the Eagles? Red Sox fans becoming Yankees fans? Giants fans becoming A’s fans? Knicks fans becoming Celtics fans? Or the Cubs faithful jumping ship and rooting for the South side? I can’t.

Basketball will be back in Seattle, if it’s post-Stern or not. When that happens, and the day of judgment occurs, when the Sonics meet the Blazers yet again, do you really want that sin on your resume?

That is one of the most devastating things about the loss of the Sonics. While the Mariners interleague play “natural rival” is the San Diego Padres, and most of the Seahawks rivals either play in the AFC West, and/or are indifferent to the Seahawks in comparison to their own rivals, the one truly relevant rivalry on equal footing in Seattle is gone.

If you must become a fan of another team, that’s fine, you’re a basketball fan and it's hard not to become a fan of a team when watching basketball.

If I can put it simply, my message to those who will inevitably become Blazers fans is simply this; When you became a Sonics fan, the loyal ones out there, you were a fan through and through. It took the non-existence of the Sonics to change you, that’s part of being a fan, so if you become a Blazers fan, stay one.

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