When do you draw the line with a bandwagoner and a fan from the start?

Question

When do you draw the line with a bandwagoner and a fan from the start?

Answer 1

fan from the start- someone who notices a driver has talent from the beginning, and will win plenty of races over many years on a consistent basis, and roots for that driver.

bandwagoner- a band that plays music while standing on a red ryder. in NASCAR terms, someone who sees a driver win and may like their personality and begin cheering for them. bandwagoners can be converted into full time fans over time, and basically any new fan of a good driver will be labeled as a bandwagoner at the start, even if they are still their fan 20 years from now. a true bandwagoner is someone who jumps off the drivers high horse the moment they lose and moves on to the next winner.

Answer 2

That's a hard one.

I think you just have to feel them out a little and listen to your instincts, I don't really know.

Good question.

Answer 3

good answer "i like racing" - at least most of it - the pun/joke was pretty bad... ;-)

i liked the busch brothers since they started, and not because they were winning races (and kurt was, fairly quickly) - they were my hometown boys when i lived there.  that's a fan from the start, or so i think.  

a true "bandwagoner" is someone who LOVES "driver X" for a while when he is doing well, then drops him like a hot radiator cap once either: "driver X" starts losing or "driver Y" becomes the flavor of the week.

there's gray area - am i a bandwagoner for liking logano, or a fan from the start?  he's been a winner, and i wasn't there for his start in nascar racing (lower series), but i've seen him drive a few times and read a lot about him (and listened to guys like mark martin call him "the real deal").

and when your favorite driver leaves or retires and you have to find a new one, or if you're new to nascar, if you happen to pick a driver who's hot at that time instead of a newcomer, does that make you a bandwagoner? i don't think so, as long as you stick with him.  you needed a new favorite driver to cheer on (or you are a "fan from the start" of your nascar experience), so there's a grace period there, IMNSHO.

Answer 4

A bandwagoner just likes a driver when they are doing good and if they hit a dry spell they jump ship to another driver who is winning at that time and so on and so on.  A fan from the start is loyal to their driver and stays with them even when things aren't looking to good but the true fan just keeps cheering them on week after week and waits for their time to shine again in victory lane!!!

Answer 5

I've been a fan of Rowdy from day one, the band wagoners just joined the party.