Son: Dad?
Father: Yes, junior.
Son: What’s a Bruin fan?
Father: Somebody who works for the Ringling Brothers.
Son: What does that mean?
Father: It means they are a bunch of clowns
Son: So, they’re bad people, right?
Father: No, not exactly. It just means they are a little foolish
Son: How do you know this?
Father: I’ve met them – all 100 of them
100 Types of UCLA “Fans”
100 – The guy who clamors incessantly about the John Wooden era and the 88 game winning streak like he actually lived through it
99 – The guy who wears baby blue and gold crocs
98 – The guy who leases DeShaun Foster SUVs
97 – The guy who spends more time talking about USC than he does about his own favorite team
96 – The guy who will always tell you that UCLA is a basketball school just 5 minutes after an embarrassing loss in football
95 – The guy who owns a second home in Las Vegas in order to have somewhere to stay during the Bruins’ annual trip to the Las Vegas Bowl 94 – The guy who insists that Sam Gilbert did nothing illegal
93 – The guy who refuses to stand for the national anthem
92 – The guy who believes clapping eight times counts for a battle cry
91 – The guy who has sent death threats to Kevin Craft
90 – The guy who wears a Maurice Jones-Drew Jacksonville Jaguars jersey to a home football game
89 – The guy that yaps about politics and world issues during the middle of a game
88 - The guy who actually has a crush on Mrs. Joe Bruin
87 – The guy who has misspelled UCLA on more than one occasion
86 – The guy who wanders around the Rose Bowl looking to buy a beer before realizing that no Pac-10 school sells alcohol during football games
85 – The guy who thinks it’s still cool to sport a foam finger
84 – The guy who tries to grow a goatee just like Jordan Farmar
83 – The guy who will wear a UCLA basketball jersey to a UCLA football game
82 – The guy who thinks that people actually care about non-revenue NCAA sports
81 – The guy who thinks you care about UCLA’s position in the U.S. News and World Report’s national ranking
80 – The guy who tries to enter the game on his old student ID card
79 – The guy who tries to tell you about UCLA’s academic prestige when the Bruins are trailing by three touchdowns
78 – The guy who constantly refers to the Bruins as we even though he never took classes at UCLA and actually went to Cal Sate LA
77 – The guy who wears a tie-dyed shirt, because well, Bill Walton wore one
76 – The guy who thinks its cool to yell profanities in front of his seven year-old son
75 – The guy who is really a Raider fan, but needs something to do on Saturdays and in the winter
74 – The guy who thinks its okay to be just a UCLA basketball fan and roots for USC football during the fall
73 – The guy who will do the eight-clap every five seconds
72 – The guy who named his kid Troy in 1990 after Troy Aikman only to forget that Troy is home of the Trojans
71 – The guy who buys a Red Sox hat and paints it baby blue and gold
70 – The guy who never misses a home football game against Stanford, because he likes to watch the Bruins win
69 – The guy who throws darts each night at a poster of Pete Carroll
68 – The guy who’s all-time hate list includes Adolf Hiter, Joseph Stalin, and then Karl Dorrell
67 – The guy who thinks being a Republican is far worse than being a USC fan
66 – The guy who will make Sarah Palin jokes in the middle of the 4th quarter
65 – The guy who is constantly checking the BCS standings even though the Bruins are three games under .500
64 – The guy who thinks USC is spelled with a dollar sign
63 – The guy that swears there was no Heisman Trophy winner in 2005 62 – The guy that Tivos the UCLA-Cal State Long Beach basketball game and then Live Blogs it in the morning
61 – The guy who goes crazy when he’s on the jumbo tron
60 – the guy who secretly loves the FUCLA t-shirts and regrets that he hadn’t come up with the idea of FUSC t-shirts beforehand
59 – The guy who makes fun of USC’s location, calling it ghetto, yet lives two blocks past the campus
58 – The guy who thinks 48-44 defensive battles in basketball are really fun to watch
57 – The guy who is in the same office pool as Rick Neuheisel
56 – The guy who spends the entire game complaining how Pete Carroll, Tim Floyd, and all of the USC coaches pay their players
55 – The guy who refers to every UCLA player by his first name like they were high school buddies
54 – The guy who has the eight clap for his ringtone and lets it run until the last second
53 – The guy who bought a Kevin Love jersey and then watched him leave for the pros three months later
52 – The guy who will constantly tell you that 2002 World Series MVP Troy Glaus went to UCLA
51 – The guy who is then shocked to learn that Mark McGwire, Randy Johnson, and Barry Zito, all suited up for the Trojans
50 – The guy who thinks O.J. jokes are still funny 15 years after his famous trial
49 – The guy who will constantly make White Bronco references and be the only the only one to laugh
48 – The guy who still reminisces about 1998
47 – The guy who is terribly afraid of hurricanes
46 – The guy who tries to start the wave at a basketball game
45 – The guy who eats four hot dogs at the football game and then asks where a good place to eat in Pasadena is
44 – The guy who hopes 5 Pac-10 teams crash the BCS so the Bruins could possibly go to the Rose Bowl
43 – The guy who is excited that 4’9″ cutie Shawn Johnson may attend UCLA
42 – The same guy who also appeared on NBC’s To Catch a Predator earlier that week
41 – The guy who wears a UCLA Final Four t-shirt even though he tells you national championships are the only thing that matters in Westwood 40 – The guy who can pronounce Dan Gadzuric’s name perfectly
39 – The guy who owns more hair gel then Steve Lavin
38 – The guy who will tell you that the football program hasn’t been successful because coach X hasn’t been able to “bring in his type of players.”
37 – The guy who has seen more USC victories in the Rose Bowl than UCLA victories in Pasadena
36 – The guy who checks Rivals.com everyday and gets excited when the Bruins get a commitment from a four-star prospect
35 – The guy who thinks a big football tailgate consists of 10 people
34 – The guy who thinks that December college basketball matters
33 – The guy who keeps his ticket stub
32 – The guy who tells you about NCAA/USC conspiracy theories throughout the game
31 – The guy who missed several basketball games as a student, because the school was welcoming “an interesting speaker”
30 – The guy who complains about the officiating in a game when Kevin Craft throws five interceptions
29 – The guy actually bought a “Dump Dorrell” t-shirt and now wonders what to do with it
28 – The guy who drives to Westwood for the football and then realizes there is no on-campus stadium
27 – The guy who thinks the 2006 football season ended after the Bruins’ upset over USC (note: so did the actual team)
26 – The guy who predicted the 2007 football team to go undefeated, because they had so many returning starters
25 – The guy who thinks he is Jason Kapono in pickup basketball games; yet his shooting range doesn’t extend much further than three feet. However, this doesn’t stop him from “chucking it”
24 – The guy who wears a headband when watching games, because well, Kapono wore one
23 – The guy who apparently has inside information regarding the NCAA’s investigation of USC, because he knows all the wrongs they committed
22 – The guy who wears a 13-9 t-shirt three years after the Bruins’ upset victory
21 – The guy who believes Norm Chow was entirely responsible for USC’s success from 2002-2004
20 – The guy who will tell you that USC never won back-to-back national titles in football
19 – The guy who constantly wears a UCLA hat to show his loyalty; when in reality, he’s covering up his bald spot
18 – The guy who thinks it’s still cool to paint your face before a sporting event
17 – The guy who will check his iPhone for scores just to show you he has an iPhone
16 – The guy who tells you about his college experiences from the 70s like you actually care
15 – The guy who buys his wife a pink UCLA hat, even though the school’s colors are blue and gold
14 – The guy who refuses to take his kids to the bathroom, because the games is heated…in the middle of the first half
13 – The 50 year-old guy who tells you he participated in the famous undie run as a student and makes you vomit from the thought of it
12 – The guy who helped John Sciarra Jr. come up with a cool alias
11 – The guy who sits through a Bruins baseball game and asks why they don’t also use metal bats in the major leagues
10 – The guy who checks the college basketball out of town scoreboard religiously…in December
9 – The guy who refuses to use Trojan condoms because of the USC reference, and therefore, contracts syphilis and gonorrhea in one night
8 – The guy who will send you a 250 character text about how well the women’s gymnastics team is doing
7 – The guy who complains that the LA Times is biased towards USC
6 – The guy who actually reads the Daily Bruin
5 – The guy who says college athletes should be paid, yet complains about Reggie Bush and O.J. Mayo
4 – The guy who sends twenty tweets during the game – like people can’t check the score on their own
3 – The guy that taps your shoulder after every great play
2 – The guy that impatiently waits for the UCLA marching band’s rendition of Sons of Westwood after a loss
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