Are you a MAVERICK?

[Mike]

Like I said, I didn't intend for my ideas to be well received. It seems to be taboo to speak out against these types of things here.

About this time last year everybody was talking about NERDs. We were trying to guess what it stood for, when the website would be released, what was a NERD? Am I a NERD? Why is he a NERD and shes not a NERD?

Then we found out what it was, a group trying to promote pride in the Northeast. Cool. Everytime you saw a new picture on the front page, you'd go over and see whos the newest NERD.

The latest NERDs were initiated over half a year ago. They were what... around #20ish? I'm not about to go look up statistics on what teams are represented by these people, or the average member count per team, or any of that so bear with me here. There are about 1100 active teams globally. Lets say a lowballing count of 110 (10%) of all teams are located in the Northeast (the area represented by NERD). Average another lowball count of 25 people per team. Thats 2,750 people! How can 20 people represent 2,750?

I'm not trying to single out NERD here, its just the latest in a long list of groups like this. Maybe i'm doing it subconsciously because of the way I also disagree with the pride shown in exactly what we are trying to get the FIRST stereotype away from (that it is for geeks, NERDs and other such social outcasts)... but thats another completely different post.



EDIT: I have no problem with rivalries and such, but why do we need to identify ourselves as group Z. Why can't I just say northeast defense is better than midwest offense?