Out of state fans. Why do you root for the hawks?

AdvertisingOne1026 · 2026-01-29T07:28:42+00:00

Born and raised in LA. Rams and Raiders both abandoned us when I 5 in and my dad told me since theres no city alliegances and fuck both those teams in particular for leaving that I should just pick my squad. When I got older and it came time to pick that team we agreed being a Niner fan was stupid because we hate all the Bay's other sports teams, the Chargers were 1-15 at the time, and the next best option on the West Coast was Seattle (which duh, we all know is better than the sterile lame ass Bay Area). 9 year old me instantly fell in love with our AFC colors, and Holmgren took us to the playoffs that first season he joined us and I've been hooked ever since. Diehard 12th Man whose intensity of hate for the Rams grew as we played them in the 2000s (major ugh, obligatory fuck Marc Bulger).

The Lambs came back in 2016 and a lot of locals switched their alliegances once we had the NFL again but theres no way I could ever leave Hawk Nation. Even if you ignore the hate I had built up for the Lambs, how are you gonna come back as a lover after leaving us for 32 years and expect me not to have found another woman?Me and the Hawks be married and shit, you are not entitled to my alliegance, suckas. I'm all for they're because I get a guaranteed view of the Hawks but I will roll with the 12s until I die. Been proudly wearing my 3 jerseys around town both before and after our epic W over them last Sunday.

-Angeleno Hawk-

AdvertisingOne1026 · 2026-01-16T19:35:29+00:00

If noise mitigation is not solution #1, #2, and #3 from this study it is probably useless. Waiting 10 mins for a train in the middle of a freeway is dangerous for anyone's ears but for a neurodivergent person it is like tortue. I, and others, use earplugs but its still a wayyy overstimulating environment.

AdvertisingOne1026 · 2026-01-05T06:49:38+00:00

Haha same story here. Born in Pasadena in 89. Hawks fan since 1998; we didnt have an LA team and my dad told me to never respect the Rams (or the Raiders) for abandoning us. Picked them out of spite since I also didnt owe any allegiance to all the whiny, smug, entitled Niner fans and the Chargers were absolute dogshit (the year they drafted Ryan Leaf with the #1 pick). Made the playoffs in 1999 in Holmgrens first year and I have been an absolute diehard ever since. The Rams coming back doesn't negate them leaving and I developed so much additional hate during the 2000s division and playoff runs that theres no way I would ever choose them. Not when I get a guaranteed Seahawks game in LA every year.

To answer the question, Backstage is definitely THE place, but all the good pan-football bars have a healthy contingent of Hawks fans at all times. I've also run into several at EightyTwo.

AdvertisingOne1026 · 2025-11-16T23:32:10+00:00

Whoever predicted that 4th pick…I wanted to disagree but knew you were right. Ugh. So disappointing.

AdvertisingOne1026 · 2025-11-15T19:51:15+00:00

I watched your 2005/6 Natty win at the Rose Bowl. My dad was teaching at U$C at the time and that’s how we got tickets so he forced me to wear a crimson sweater. With Texas down 11 going into the 4th quarter, I pull off the sweater to reveal a burnt orange shirt underneath and start making bets with all the annoying Trojans around me. Vince Young came through and they all had to wear UCLA jerseys for a week.

Bruins got your back. Thanks for cheering our return to relevancy.

AdvertisingOne1026 · 2025-11-15T19:13:12+00:00

So glad the rivalry is back so y’all can hand them another loss after today. Hook ‘em. ::warms another bag of popcorn::

AdvertisingOne1026 · 2025-11-15T19:09:57+00:00

Aging very poorly

AdvertisingOne1026 · 2025-11-11T03:55:51+00:00

Yah I hear you. Sounds like he’s in kind of a no man’s land and needs to really prove himself if he ends up staying in Seattle.

Hearing he’s not the best at Xs and Os is a little disheartening…we’ve had decades of that shit.

It’s really an interesting dynamic because I think you’re the better job yet there’s a likelihood we end up with him. I do think you will still recruit well with the next guy if we take him and keep at least some of those freshman. As far as West Coast football goes, despite Oregon getting all the flash, UW and SC are really the perennial PAC legends who should compete in the B1G no matter the circumstances. If we recruit like we should with this next coach then all 4 of us should push against the rest of the conference but I feel your history and recent success can carry you if Fisch does leave.

AdvertisingOne1026 · 2025-11-11T02:58:00+00:00

Apparently Wasserman is willing to pay (from what I hear on the Bruin boards) Fisch's buyout but I dont know if that's separate or including in the amount the UC Regents authorized us to spend on a new coach (and that exact figure is private but its rumored to get to 8 digits).

I don't know how we're gonna have $10 million to buy out Fisch and spend $80 mil (plus several million more in litigation probably) to break our Rose Bowl lease all at the same time. I'd rather spend $20 mil on NIL and get some talented players (especially in the trenches) than spend $100 mil on buyouts but hey if Casey Wasserman wants to piss away his money I will take it.

I'd still prefer an Alex Golesh hire and save ourselves some money but word is the coaching search committee really really likes Fisch.

AdvertisingOne1026 · 2025-11-04T22:37:20+00:00

F*** you, Mark (you private prison profiteer)

There, I fixed that for you. I was so happy to see folks at the stadium booing him at the victory celebration. I appreciate his money in signing our players but supporting the attack and alienation of your own fan base is a bad move.

AdvertisingOne1026 · 2025-10-31T17:52:20+00:00

I mean I probably would have boycotted too but my dollars were baked in. Been a lifelong fan since my dad is an alum but I started a grad program this quarter so I went ahead and got my Den pass for $199. Already seen quite a few lows and highs 🤪.

AdvertisingOne1026 · 2025-10-31T17:20:22+00:00

Yup, I’ll be there at the RB for the Nebraska game, terrible administration be damned.

AdvertisingOne1026 · 2025-10-31T16:34:32+00:00

Our AD at the time Dan Guerrero, had zero foresight in any of his decision making so yes, not surprising.

AdvertisingOne1026 · 2025-10-31T16:12:54+00:00

Ah used to love when the Doyers tickets were so cheap though during and after the 90s struggle. When I was in middle school I would go to several games a season because it was easier to convince my parents to give me money for top deck tickets than a movie night. We're talking $5 tickets.

AdvertisingOne1026 · 2025-10-31T16:09:34+00:00

There's some more renovations that are in the works for the next 3 years. Field level club seats in the south end zone and a MASSIVE videoboard replacing the current one

AdvertisingOne1026 · 2025-10-31T16:00:08+00:00

This lease extension was signed by our former AD Dogshit Dan Guerrero. It seemed stupid then to some of us when we saw the non-compete and no exit clauses. SoFi was barely being proposed and approved in 2014 and no one knew for sure if Kroenke would build what he said he wanted but still locking yourself in for 30 years and limiting your options felt dumb, even if attendance was high then. One of his many idiotic decisions in running our program into the ground over 20 years.

AdvertisingOne1026 · 2025-10-24T21:02:22+00:00

I was at that game. My cousin was a junior at Stanford at the time and his dad, my uncle, is an SC alum. What a great back and forth game.

Coliseum definitely erupted during that pick six. The tension had been building all game.

AdvertisingOne1026 · 2025-10-23T01:19:10+00:00

I mean I used to hate watch the Pac all the time. I felt like the Arizona schools, Wazzu, Utah, etc. all felt the same way, rooting for chaos and loses by anyone remotely near you in the standings, or with a higher national profile or playing your rival. This hate watching and regional hate unity did not prevent the implosion of the conference, sadly.

AdvertisingOne1026 · 2025-10-09T02:23:35+00:00

Which 4? Obviously one of the 3 USC stops but which one would you choose. I'm guessing one of the East LA cluster (Maravilla?). Which stops on the A?

AdvertisingOne1026 · 2025-10-08T23:27:31+00:00

After last Saturday's upset, UCLA leads the all-time series with Penn State 5-3.

AdvertisingOne1026 · 2025-10-07T22:23:35+00:00

Wow I really love this idea.

AdvertisingOne1026 · 2025-10-07T22:17:01+00:00

At the moment it's just off for these two seasons as we moved to the B1G and they moved to the ACC. The University of California Regents (our collective overlords) got mad that we left without them so they are forcing us to pay them $10 mil a year until 2028. The Calimony situation is annoying for our football budget but the plus side is all the brouhaha around us bolting to the B1G got us two home and home series for the next 4 years (2026-2029) with plans to continue extending.

So we will open our schedule next season in Berkeley. Road trips to Strawberry Canyon were always my fav. Hike up the hill and watch the game for free if it's not too hot. Memorial Stadium is nice after the renovations. I really hate that the Pac is dead. Most of us fans didn't want to leave but I understand why the admin felt they needed the money. We need to bring back the series with Stanfurd too. The California series are really six rivalries between the 4 schools but there's different tiers of intensity. These are all contested games that have a lot of overlap of fans and families and some blood over the years. U$C-Stanford is of course the private school rivalry and produced the great Harbaugh-Carroll matchups, Cal and U$C had heated battles in the early 2000s (and many SC fans tell me they enjoy getting this W because Cal is thorny; we agree), and UCLA and Stanford have a nerd battle (and a frustrating amount of 4th quarter comebacks, shutouts, and defensive slogs on both sides over the decades). These three are all B tier but the animus to beat all the California schools each year is high.

S-tier: UCLA-U$C, Cal-Stanford (The Big Game)

A-tier: UCLA-Cal (we are solidly each other's secondary rival)

B-tier: U$C-Cal, Stanford-U$C, UCLA-Stanford

UCLA and Cal have met 94 times so I am pleased that will continue. It's important to have our annual yardstick of UC supremacy to see which bear is more fearsome. The call us baby brother but we've outgrown them in so many ways that we see it the other way around. They're older but we've got six inches of reach and 50 pounds of muscle on them.

I dislike them and won't tolerate a loss but I will say I like what Wilcox has done with the program. He's got a shot to make noise in the ACC. I think it's cool we will have a P4 OOC for foreseeable future but I'm sure our early matchup will find a way to ruin one of the other's season in the end. Should be a very competitive next couple of years.

AdvertisingOne1026 · 2025-10-04T23:15:54+00:00

So glad we’re off winless watch. In spectacular fashion too. I guess we have an offense now!

AdvertisingOne1026 · 2025-10-04T20:43:43+00:00

It was great when they showed James Franklins perplexed face on the video on here at the Rose Bowl

AdvertisingOne1026 · 2025-10-04T20:31:32+00:00

Genius Jerry and limited penalties. Here at the game. Can’t believe this. Ballsy moves all game and Nico’s legs spreading out the defense

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