Do fans take losses harder than players?

[viper0220]

After reading this site and others, I think it is safe to say that fan take losses harder than players.

Why is this?

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[Alexei Yashvalev]

The players still get millions of dollars after they go home.

The fans just get emotional damage.

 

[Adam da bomb]

After reading this site and others, I think it is safe to say that fan take losses harder than players.

Why is this?

They can’t let themselves as they have to bounce right back and get right back to work. No time for pity parties.

 

[HTFN]

The percentages are probably the same, it's just that the numbers are bigger.

It seems like most players can take their losses and every once in a while you've got a guy going milkcrates like Tuukka Rask or some extra screaming and venting, smashing shit...

But you amplify the number of players to 20k instead of 20 and you're already going to see an issue

 

[Outl4w]

After reading this site and others, I think it is safe to say that fan take losses harder than players.

Why is this?The fans pay to support the players and the players get paid nicely no matter the outcome

 

[Henry Miller]

It’s a job and they’ve been through losing plenty of times. I’m sure they move on quickly. You need a short memory as a pro athlete

 

[capfit9]

After reading this site and others, I think it is safe to say that fan take losses harder than players.

Why is this?

if that's the case you should probably get different players

 

[habamillions]

Yes fans take it harder. Fans have jobs and watch hockey for the enjoyment. For the players hockey is their job. After tbeir job they go home and put it in the rearview mirror. Plus they make millions so the loss doesn't hurt as much.

 

[Dust]

The players definitely take it harder, they just usually have a PR team working with them so they don't post ridiculous stupidity after they lose. It's the exact opposite for a lot that post here, they post when they are emotionally at their worst.

 

[Guttersniped]

Fans complain more about everything, that’s always been true.

That’s customers for you.

 

[Gnome17]

Probably, some for sure. A lot of regular people dont have it easy.
For some, if they dont have sports, they dont have much.
Where as the players in the biggest leagues are rich, fit, popular, famous.

 

[Bandit]

The players still get millions of dollars after they go home.

The fans just get emotional damage.

This.

 

[8999]

Fans have a more desperate need to have the ammo to trash talk each other than the players do.

 

[Givememoneyback]

Some fans. I don't participate in a lot of the your team sucks stuff, and don't expect a team I root for to improve my life. A good smile, sure. And if a player has put it out there for the team, I feel more for them losing than myself. I'll go to work tomorrow, regardless. If they win, I'll feel a bit better, but if they lose, I'm sure they'll feel worse than I could

 

[Matty Sundin]

Well at times I might get disappointed for a bit, it’s not healthy to let something out of your control like sports to ruin your day and mood.

Hockey is usually an escape route for some people to turn their brain off on life or to socialize and bring people together. You win, you celebrate. You lose, you get disappointed and maybe rant and get over it within a half hour.

 

[Givememoneyback]

Well at times I might get disappointed for a bit, it’s not healthy to let something out of your control like sports to ruin your day and mood.

Hockey is usually an escape route for some people to turn their brain off on life or to socialize and bring people together. You win, you celebrate. You lose, you get disappointed and maybe rant and get over it within a half hour.

Great response

 

[JMCx4]

Fans have more loyalty to sports franchises than most of the players do, with that loyalty reflected in the widespread use of "we" when fans speak of wins & losses & trades & signings & all other sorts of team business. "Fan identification" is the term for this behavioral dysfunction. It can be cured, but sports fans are too distracted by trade rumors & box scores & off-seasons to seek help.

 

[Mike C]

After reading this site and others, I think it is safe to say that fan take losses harder than players.

Why is this?

Because I'm not eating shrimp cocktail and drinking designer beer after games while laughing myself to the bank

 

[bobbyking]

if they do they're truly pathetic

 

[Mike C]

Well at times I might get disappointed for a bit, it’s not healthy to let something out of your control like sports to ruin your day and mood.

Hockey is usually an escape route for some people to turn their brain off on life or to socialize and bring people together. You win, you celebrate. You lose, you get disappointed and maybe rant and get over it within a half hour.

Haven't been on Leafs board lately I see!

 

[digitalUID]

I guess it probably depends on the fan, but I doubt it in most cases. For players, there are a combination of factors that are impacting them at the end of a loss or elimination. There's the competitiveness factor, which is probably at a much higher level than the majority of fans. Then there's the business factor. Is their contract up and does this mean an impending trade or free agency? Where will their family need to move to? Are they foregoing a bonus or other salary for losing? Is retirement on the radar?

 

[Mike C]

Fans have a more desperate need to have the ammo to trash talk each other than the players

Fans have a more desperate need to have the ammo to trash talk each other than the players do.

Evander Kane says hello

 

[Matty Sundin]

Haven't been on Leafs board lately I see!

I’m a leaf fan and I usually try to avoid my owns teams board. That’s a different topic lol

 

[Givememoneyback]

I’m a leaf fan and I usually try to avoid my owns teams board. That’s a different topic lol

As a Panthers fan, I do the same.

 

[Mike C]

I’m a leaf fan and I usually try to avoid my owns teams board. That’s a different topic lol

Islanders fan here. Interesting how guys on the board go from pre season Norris winners and execs of the century to trade bait and unemployable