For my presentation, I focused on Hockey Fans as a subculture. My main idea was to question and see if the fans of hockey qualified as a subculture. One way of doing this was to look at Gelder’s six logics that we have discussed in class. The two that I focused on were territory and excess and exaggeration. Although hockey fans are all over the world, particularly Europe and North America, they have specific areas they tend to stay around, such as living rooms, hockey arenas, and sports bars. For the second of the two logics that Gelder mentions, I saw the exaggeration part obvious as many fans put face paint on when they watch hockey games, this is particularly the case when you go to a game at an arena. You want to show your support and sometimes …show more content…
The different levels of hockey, such as minors, professional (like Quebec Major Junior Hockey League, QMJHL, National Hockey League, NHL), and Olympics. Each of these levels have fans and each to a different degree of extremes, when it comes to fans. The fans who are really obsessed would be those who cannot miss a game and often show their fandom to everyone. Where the levels of fandom play out in such a unique way, I wondered whether or not the fans of hockey would be considered a weekend or evening subculture. Especially, where the games usually take place in the evening or on the weekend. It is definitely something to consider when looking at sports fans because of the timing of games and of how fans show their support to a …show more content…
One thing that stood out to me was how everyone thought of sports fans differently. For example, Haenfler breaks his cultures down into a table and each category in that table he has listed the types of cultures that he feels, from research, best fit under these categories. He argues that fan culture is where sports fans fit and not under subculture. Whereas, in the other document I previously referenced, they argue it is apart of subculture depending on your definitions that you use. This document also states that, when looking at sports fans, you should consider whether their career choices affect their status within that subculture. An example of this was brought up in class, is Don Cherry apart of the subculture? And it is an interesting question because, yes, he is fan, but because of his career choices to be a coach, then a broadcaster for hockey, should he still be apart of the subculture? Where so much of his life was spent being involved in hockey related activities or jobs you could argue that he is no longer apart of that subculture, but just a well known public figure. Because he is so well known to the public and even mainstream people, (those who are not really fans, but they know who he is), he really is not apart of the subculture anymore. Often subculture is looked at as not being
As stated in my thesis statement, the sport of hockey has been forced to compete with the growing mass popularity with other sports such as basketball and football. There once was a point in time where hockey had just as much popularity as those sports but because people are finding more interest in those sports, the National Hockey League found itself in a “drought” of unimportance with other sports. With not televising the sport as “commonly” as other sports.
“Also, almost half the fans are family oriented with 48.5% have at least one child in their household (Sports Business
Lets look into the psychology of being a sports fan shall we? A loyal fan likes to represent his/her team in the best possible way. Loyal fans cannot stay away from the game. They will support their respe...
But, the most meaningful way I have connected myself to Russian culture is through ice hockey. I have played hockey throughout my entire life and many of my favorite players are Russian. I realized this connection when my teammates and I were watching the movie Miracle at a hockey tournament in Lake Placid, not in 1980 though. In the movie, it showed the Soviets having the best ice hockey program in the world at the time, while the young U.S. ice hockey program was developing. Throughout the entire movie, I was cheering for the Soviet Union because it was my homeland. But what I didn’t know at the time was that I was the only one in the room who had not seen the movie. During the first game that the U.S. played, the Soviets crucified the U.S. 10-3. … And then came the Olympics
Sport fans, sometimes also called sport devotees, followers, or supporters, are persons who are enthusiastically devoted to a particular athlete, team or sport. They may show their enthusiasm by often attending sporting events or watch on television, being members of a fan club, follow sport news through newspapers, online websites, and creating fanzines. Their disposition is often such that they will experience a game or event by living through their favored players or teams. These behaviors manifest itself in different ways. To enable better understanding of these behavioral patterns, we have to classify these sports fans into groups based on their devotion to teams: fair-weather fans, bandwagon and the super-fans.
Ice hockey is a sport that is played and loved all around the world. The hockey culture is like no other. I have firsthand experience with this culture and it’s different from many things. Hockey gets the reputation as a brutal sport with a bunch of goons trying to kill each other, but most people don’t get to see on the other side. Hockey brings people together whether you are a different race, have different beliefs, or a different gender it’s like one big happy family. Ice hockey wasn’t invented or it didn’t have a specific year it began. It all started around the 1800’s in Windsor, where three college students from King’s College, adapted their knowledge of the game field hockey to the ice, where a new winter sport was born. The boys called the game Ice Hurley which later got called to what we know today as Ice Hockey. As the years went by, the game was being played by soldiers across Canada, where it was carried o...
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Canadian hockey is an important component to Canadian identity and way of life and if hockey had a less prominent place in Canadian society, this would change Canadians in many ways. Hockey impacts Canadians at all levels including youth hockey, minor hockey and professional hockey in the NHL. As hockey is one of Canada’s national sports, it demonstrates how valued the sport is in Canada. Hockey to Canadians is not just a sport, but is also a means of community and unity. It is also one of the most widespread sports across Canada and influences Canadians directly through individual or family participation or indirectly by cheering for local or professional NHL teams or by watching Olympic hockey.
The importance of fans is vital because in addition to skill talent and hardwork, fans greatly affect how a team performs in their games. They affect the way a player plays because fans have a way of getting into their players heads and the opponent's head, even the referees are affected by the fans and we rarely notice the importance. In 2001 a Sports Ethics article “ The Ideal Fan” by Myles Dichter he explains the importance of fans and connection between fans
I was interested about this subculture because I am a dancer, and I have always been obsessed with cheer teams since I was little. I have always admired the teamwork and strength that it takes to throw 150 pound people in the air and then safely capture them from many feet up. At first when I first started studying the meaning of subcultures, I would not have even thought about cheerleading being an option to be a subculture. As soon as I found out that it was, I was assured that I would be writing my paper on this. This is something that I am very passionate about and a great pastime. From this study I truly hoped to learn how a couple of people throwing others in the air and doing various variations of flips across the floor could be considered a subculture. With much research and interviews, I soon learned that there is way more than meets the
When I think of what it means to be Canadian, one of the first things that come to mind is hockey. This is true for many Canadian’s as hockey was and is an integral piece of the formation of the national identity. However, when people think of playing hockey their attention usually turns to the men in the National Hockey League or other top men’s leagues and tournaments. Even so, Canada has come a long way from its beginnings, when women were not even considered persons under the law until 1929. While it has taken many decades for women to receive more recognition in the world of sport, today shows great improvements from the past. A key reason that women are not treated the same way as men in regards to hockey is due to how the game began;
hockey team and the fans that support the team. After viewing a video on the Montreal
This research will jump forward in time to the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. Starting from youth hockey where the interest in the sport is developed, was a great way to see why there has been an increase in the popularity of the sport across the nation, especially in regions not normally known as hockey areas. According to USA Hockey and the NHL, youth hockey has been on the rise for the last decade in almost every state. This research is aimed at finding out where and why this increase is happening.
is on a "what you see is what you get" basis. Many of the fans take the
Fandom is a term that refers to a subculture that consists of fans who share a feeling of camaraderie with other fans who share a common interest. Those that consider themselves to be part of a fandom are typically interested in even minor details of those interests, spend a large amount of their time on their interest and are usually members of social media sites that allow them to discuss this interest in detail. This is what differentiates them from those who only show a casual interest.