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Is using "we" acceptable when talking about a sports team?

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  • dragonslayerdragonslayer Posts: 712 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    "We" is completely fine if you love the team

    Does scholarship count?

  • muttley1211muttley1211 Posts: 229 ✭✭✭✭ Senior
    "We" is completely fine if you love the team

    I went to UGA. I am part of of it. We


    For pro sports I typically don’t say we.

  • 914Dawg914Dawg Posts: 315 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    "We" is completely fine if you love the team

    Happily paying (not the actual paying part) for 2 kids to attend UGA and loving the Dawgs makes me honestly feel "ok" but not "great" saying we, but I'll say it to other Dawg fans.

  • gdawg4lifegdawg4life Posts: 799 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    "We" is completely fine if you love the team

    While I understand what you are saying regarding taxes and it being a state school, I'm not sure our tax dollars are funding the football program (or the athletics program for that matter). The entire athletics department had revenue of almost $177 million last year and about $134 million in expenses. The football program had $129 million in revenue and $45 million in expenses. Which means a profit of $84 million. That also means the football program is funding other sports as is typical at most schools.


    For reference: https://www.savannahnow.com/sports/20190207/latest-ncaa-financial-report-university-of-georgia-athletics-profit-42-million-in-2018

  • dragonslayerdragonslayer Posts: 712 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    "We" is completely fine if you love the team

    I was present at all of those games. Also at the 81, 82, 83 Sugar Bowls.

  • mattmd2mattmd2 Posts: 2,420 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    "We" is completely fine if you love the team

    Flip this around too..

    When talking to my UT friends (secret confession, I have a few living here in TN)...

    I say "hey, how do you like your new head coach" or "how good do you think y'all will be this year."? Obviously my friends aren't on the team, but when you become a fan, you take a sense of "ownership."

    I also work in automotive so I work with a lot of people from Michigan, so I say "Man, y'all really sh*t the bed against Florida didn't you?" knowing dang well they didn't suit up on the football field.

  • texdawgtexdawg Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    "We" is completely fine if you love the team

    You have been tortured my friend.

    I was at the 81' sugar & 84' cotton bowl and those turned out great.

    Maybe I should attend more bowl games.

  • dragonslayerdragonslayer Posts: 712 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    "We" is completely fine if you love the team

    Yes, the 81 was the good one. Forgot to include this years SB.

  • TNDawg71TNDawg71 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    "We" is completely fine if you love the team

    I don't like it when someone says they when the team is struggling and we when things are going well. But it's a sport, it's entertainment, we enjoy it.

  • WCDawgWCDawg Posts: 17,293 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    I'm fluid. Within a paragraph I'll sometimes use both we and they. Is it acceptable ? as long as ''we'' don't grab ''their'' arse without permission, I don't see why not.

  • DawginSCDawginSC Posts: 792 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate

    Neither answer works for me.

    I believe it's odd to say "we" about a professional sports team. But on the flip side... I think anyone who went to a college is fine saying "we" about anything relating to their college. They might not have been on the football team or the quiz bowl team or whatever... but they are by definition a part of that school.

    So yeah... WE won the SEC championship in football in 2017, WE'VE had 24 Rhodes Scholars and WE had 10 gold medals in the 2016 Olympics.

    I'm a Georgia Bulldog. I have the degree to prove it. That makes me part of that "team" and allows me to say "WE" about all the things the University does.

  • donmdonm Posts: 10,241 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    "We" is completely fine if you love the team

    Of course it's fine to us "we". You have formed a bond, while not the same as a teammate, a bond nevertheless. You rejoice when the team does, you hurt when it does. To me, that earns a "we".

  • RetiredRedcoatRetiredRedcoat Posts: 754 ✭✭✭✭✭ Graduate
    No, you're not on the team, you don't get to use that word.

    Can I qualify my "no?"

    If we're pulling for a victory or mourning a defeat, sure. In that case it's "we." Being emotionally invested is why we're here in the first place.

    But when it comes to bellyaching about football decisions that go against fan desires...I think then it is appropriate to draw the line and make a distinction between what the fans may want at any given time and what the best football decision is. Those two are not always the same thing. We are not "we" in the sense of the word that we bear any real responsibility for those decisions.

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