Indie Hipster Sports Teams

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Who's the ultimate indie hipster sports team?

For years teams like the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Sacramento Kings were totally indie, but now they're all overplayed and sold out. Right now, the most indie rock team is:

http://www.thenorthwest.com/image_pillow/clippers.gif

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

also AMERICANS who are into EUROPEAN FOOTBALL TEAMS.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

my friend has an official fulham tracksuit/shorts set, but i don't really think it makes him hip. my celtic scarf, though... that's hip.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/threecounties/sport/images/luton/luton_badge_100.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

*REAL* Indie Hipsters read French Poetry and think sport is vile, don't you know?

http://www.thelollies.co.uk/images/nmesingle.gif

― Apostrophe Catastrophe (kate), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

damn how could I forget??

http://www.e-cookbooks.net/aprons/brewers.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

they fit in well with the PBR logo gear

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

http://collegefansites.com/big-bold/NFL_BB/Raiders%20BB%206050%20300.jpg

― ddb (ddb), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

eye patches are the new trucker hats

― ddb (ddb), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

when I saw Royal Trux when I was 16 Jennifer was sporting a Raiders jacket.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh shit I was at Amoeba last night and there was this guy wearing an eyepatch, a trucker hat, AND dark sunglasses. Momus crossed with Jason Mraz basically

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

http://mm.iit.uni-miskolc.hu/Data/scum/SLAYER/slayer.gif

― ddb (ddb), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Funny thing about certain places in L.A. is that if I wear a Cubs hat I'm a total rube, but if I'm rocking an old-school Padres hat I'm totally hot.

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Padres are kicking ass this year.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.mdsportsclub.com/dodgeball.html

― Jon in R'lyeh (ex machina), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

so the correct hipster reaction to sports is..

what?

― cutty (mcutt), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Padres are kicking ass this year. Soon enough they'll be too good to be indie.

And the White Sox, definitely. They're the blue collar alternative to the Cubs. I'm waiting for the inevitable Conor Oberst tune "The Ballad of Jose Valentin"

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

hahahahahaha! I see more White Sox gear on "urban hiphopsters" than hipsters, tho.

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"Valentin, Chicago Shortstop"

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.otpro.com/Houston%20Astros%201980%20HomeRYAN34.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

"The shortstop hits 28 HR/and slugs .463/Valentin Chicago shortstop/are you tough or are you twee?"

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 14 June 2004 15:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Jaymc is probably otm, as long as we're not talking about discontinued-leagues and such (though what would I know). Though I, despite hating hockey, propose some alternatives...

http://www.4abasket.com/Patches/islanders.jpg http://www.hockeyhound.com/ngqnbz.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Maybe I need to try hockey more...

http://www.propagandamachine.net/images/isles_duck_web.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

San Diego, 3 games above .500 and 5-5 in their last 10 games, and they're putative ace closer chokes up two 9th inning HRs, one to a guy hitting .190 for the past week.

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Brookyn Robins

http://www.baseballhalloffame.org/exhibits/online_exhibits/dressed_to_the_nines/pictures/timeline_1916.jpg

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Brooklyn

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

www.kingdomofloathing.com

― Jon in R'lyeh (ex machina), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:39 (twenty-two years ago)

from home:

http://www.lesitedeschampions.ca/minnesota_north_stars_1982.gif

from here:

http://www.lequipe.fr/Football/logos/FootballLogo1426.gif

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Partick Thistle? You must be joking!

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)

In the same vein as JMC:

http://www.thesportsauthority.com/graphics/product_images/p918285reg.jpg

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Partick Thistle? You must be joking!

what are you talking about? we're hip, we're cool, we're.....this is not going to fool anybody is it? *sob*

― zappi (joni), Monday, 14 June 2004 16:59 (twenty-two years ago)

For baseball, pretty much any 'old school' east coast AL team excluding the Steinbrenner Death Star.

The ultimate indie guilt nhl teams had to be the Whale and the Jets.

I believe ironic enjoyment of golf and bowling is also permitted.

― bnw (bnw), Monday, 14 June 2004 17:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Worst use of the Flanders Duck ever.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 14 June 2004 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

golf for sure.

for brits, pretty much any american football team, maybe Raiders being a strong one

manchester fucking city (still! somehow!)
Spurs
crystal palace? (btw, is ambrose the only palace fan on here?)

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 14 June 2004 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

also, in a twist on what hstencil said, any brit with a european football team. ajax springs to mind

― charltonlido (gareth), Monday, 14 June 2004 17:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Ailsa, I picked PT because Bis explained to me once (seroiously) that people chose them to avoid footy sectarianism, plus they're shambling and quite rubbish - like most indie hipsters. I'm partial to Celtic, which makes about as much sense as Alan McGee liking Rangers.

ARRGH. Crouch End Ex supports Crystal Palace and is the most indie male on the planet not in a band. I believe one of the factors in our split was, despite his impeccable lefty politics and vegetarianism, his refusal to acknowledge the talent of any woman in a band who was not Elizabeth Fraser. I pointed out that of all the people in the world he picked the one who sounded gorgeous but didn't actually SAY anything. Dork.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 14 June 2004 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

http://zephyrsbaseball.neworleans.com/admin/images2/thumbnails/thumb_ZephyrsLogo10.jpg

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:46 (twenty-two years ago)

sinister fitba, obv!

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)

and in logoaic form

SINISTER
f i t b a

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:48 (twenty-two years ago)

While some of your are close with those retro hockey teams, you have clearly forgotten about the most indie-hipster of them all:

http://www.curtiswalker.com/jets/logo1.gif

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Monday, 14 June 2004 18:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Exeter City?

― the finefox, Monday, 14 June 2004 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.negroleagueshop.com/media/homptee_3.5.jpg

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Monday, 14 June 2004 21:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Calton Athletic.

― Stephen X (Stephen X), Monday, 14 June 2004 21:43 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.nodata.org/honey/sinister/picnics/FC-SlotJockey.html

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 14 June 2004 21:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Duh, that was never going to work.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 14 June 2004 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.nodata.org/honey/sinister/picnics/FC-SlotJockey.jpg

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 14 June 2004 21:51 (twenty-two years ago)

How dare you Ailsa!

Anyway, Partick Thistle are the ultimate team full stop.

― Keith Watson (kmw), Monday, 14 June 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.txrollergirls.com/hotrodhoneys/images/sp_02.gif

The Hot Rod Honeys of the Texas Rollergirls league.

― j.lu (j.lu), Monday, 14 June 2004 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

also, in a twist on what hstencil said, any brit with a european football team. ajax springs to mind

or racing santander? ;)

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 14 June 2004 21:59 (twenty-two years ago)

anyway the ABA owns this thread:

http://www.remembertheaba.com/ABALogos/PipersLogo2.GIF http://www.remembertheaba.com/ABALogos/PipersTriangleLogo.GIF

http://origin.nba.com/media/allaccess/retro_BaltimoreBullets_sm.jpg

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 14 June 2004 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha. Cheers m' Gear.

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 14 June 2004 22:05 (twenty-two years ago)

also cuban and negro league baseball:

http://www.negroleagueshop.com/media/nycubans_holidaypromo.jpg http://www.negroleagueshop.com/media/atlanta_fuzztee_thumb.jpg http://www.negroleagueshop.com/media/santx_fuzztee_thumb.jpg

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 14 June 2004 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

― Gear! (Gear!), Monday, 14 June 2004 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha, sorry Keith, I forgot that the only Partick Thistle fans I know really are all indie-schmindie types. It's just that if you go and see them, the crowd is all about a hundred years old - people who know fuck all about football pay them lip service as "the non-sectarian Glasgow team". I'd rather watch Queens Park.

However, to increase Partick's schmindie cred I once knew a bloke who claimed to have heard "Missing the Moon" by the Field Mice over the PA system at half-time at a Partick v Dundee Utd match at Firhill in about 1992. If anyone could verify this, I would be most grateful as the veracity of this has bugged me periodically for over 12 years.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 14 June 2004 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha! The Fieldmice at Firhill. Nice one.

I've been a Partick Thistle fan since before indie existed; although, on occassions and especially when playing for Scotland, Alan Rough's hands did appear to operate "independently" of his brain.

Respect to Queen's Park; they invented football. Their crowd are about 200 years old and there are only about 5 of them. My Grandfather was a fan.

― Keith Watson (kmw), Monday, 14 June 2004 23:02 (twenty-two years ago)

teeny no Kentucky Colonels?

― hstencil (hstencil), Monday, 14 June 2004 23:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I married a Clyde fan, so am well aware of the lowlier side of Glasgow football. I don't think Partick deserve their friendly cuddly reputation (though I may be being further swayed by the aforementioned Clyde fan on that).

Aren't Ayr United are the indie hipsters team of choice in Scotland? They have had a www.belleandsebastian.co.uk advertising hoarding for a few seasons now. But I once saw Stephen Pastel, Joe McAlinden and Gerry Love all together at a Celtic match, so maybe not hipsters, but surely the embodiment of Glasgow indie? Also Chris Geddes sits quite near me at Parkhead.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 14 June 2004 23:06 (twenty-two years ago)

in the late 80s partick had a very indie following, the mad monks etc. i remember once 20 people starting a "theres only one stephen pastel" chant to the bemusement of the rest of the crowd (ie the other three men & dog). so field mice music is very possible.
oh and cherry red records used to sponsor kingstonians.

― zappi (joni), Monday, 14 June 2004 23:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Doesn't Fatboy Slim sponsor Brighton & Hove Albion?

(Wet Wet Wet used to sponsor Clydebank, but this takes this into a whole other realm that we really don't want to enter - also Clydebank are no more, which may or may not be connected with the amount of self-respecting West of Scotland gentleman wishing to parade around in Wet Wet Wet tops)

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 14 June 2004 23:27 (twenty-two years ago)

corny indie fuXors love to lose ... and what better team for said fuXors to love than the baseball franchise with the WORST record ever?

http://philadelphia.phillies.mlb.com/phi/images/history/logo_1992.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 05:19 (twenty-two years ago)

(except that this year, they're kinda good -- or are in 2d place, anyway)

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 05:19 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.georgesstamps.com/sports/Autographed_Cards/Phillies_1982/Bake_McBride_1982.jpg

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 05:21 (twenty-two years ago)

hstencil is OTM with the Expos.

I've wondered if the abhorrent Vancouver Grizzlies will ever achieve kitch immortality, but my conclusion is increasingly NO. People would rather forget the experiment altogether, it seems.

― derrick (derrick), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 05:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Eisbar I thought you were totally going to go with the Detroit Tigers, because they've been terrible for so long, plus there's the Magnum P.I. kitsch factor AND the heavy coolness factor of ex-Tiger catcher Mickey Tettleton.

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 05:52 (twenty-two years ago)

(Mickey T because low avg, good power, high OBP, and a weird and dangerous looking batting stance is so fucking indie rock)

― Gear! (Gear!), Tuesday, 15 June 2004 05:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Gear's pic is one of the best picture posts EVER to ilx.

― the tweefox, Tuesday, 15 June 2004 07:38 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

boca juniors, ajax, st etienne, celtic, afc wimbledon

― -- (688), Friday, 4 August 2006 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

I'm partial to Celtic, which makes about as much sense as Alan McGee liking Rangers.

But Alan McGee supporting Rangers makes perfect sense! At least he admits it. Does Bobby Gillespie?

― My Mind's Not Made of Gravel (Dada), Friday, 4 August 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

Slot Jockey FC, surely

― ken c (ken c), Friday, 4 August 2006 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

Celtic are the ultimate Indie Hipster Sports Team

― My Mind's Not Made of Gravel (Dada), Friday, 4 August 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

i remember lotsa indie fuXor love for lattrell sprewell when he was a knick!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Friday, 4 August 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

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