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Is Drake An Annoying Sports Fan, Or Just Living the Dream?
ESPN The Magazine
|May 23,2016
Drake might just be the most annoying sports fan in the universe, but the rapper and Raptors ambassador is living his best life—one that any of us would follow if given the chance.
“I can relate to kids going straight to the league / When they recognize that you got what it takes to succeed / And that’s around the time that your idols become your rivals / You make friends with Mike but got to A.I. him for your survival / Damn, I swear sports and music are so synonymous / Cause we want to be them, and they want to be us” —Drake, “Thank Me Now”
VIEWING FROM AFAR, Drake can look like the worst type of sports fan. There he is warming up with the Kentucky Wildcats. There he is at a Seahawks practice.
There he is cheering on Manchester United … then Manchester City … then Chelsea. There he is with LeBron’s Heat and wooing Stephen Curry like he’s got a high school crush, laughing too loudly at jokes and pushing through the crowd to get next to them. Those of us who commit fiercely to one team, through the good and the bad, and the bad and the worse, can’t abide him. He hops bandwagons. He grabs glory. He arrives just in time for the victory parade and leaves as the last drop of champagne runs out of the bottle. It’s absurd, but maybe worthy of empathy too. On “Weston Road Flows” from
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