A long distance bandwagon fan is a specific variety of bandwagon fan. Typical bandwagon fans are local, they ignore the particular sport altogether when their local team is doing poorly, and suddenly become superfans when they're doing well. Meanwhile, long distance bandwagon fans will become superfans of any team in the country when they're doing well, and then just as quickly pick a different team when the tables are turned.

They are often spotted wearing team merchandise which is later donated to a thrift store. Just like the regular bandwagon fans, they will swear that they've always liked their current team du jure, and vehemently deny ever being a fan of any other team.

Most common in sports, a bandwagon fan is a fan of a team simply because they are the reigning champions/have the most championships/doing the best at the moment. The second these fans notice that they're team is starting to do poorly, they'll jump ship and hop on the bandwagon of a different team that is doing well. As a result, they will have little to no knowledge of their current team and the true fans of said team will hate them for it.

Bandwagon fans are typically fans of the New York Yankees, Boston Red Sox, Dallas Cowboys, New England Patriots, Miami Heat, Los Angeles Lakers, Duke basketball, and Alabama football.

What people will "ride" or get on when they want to be accepted, espescially in the NFL. People will get on the (Colts) bandwagon and suddenly become their fans because they are doing really good or because they have a large number of fans so they can be accepted.

People will ride a bandwagon even if they dont give a shit about football or whatever the bandwagon is.

Switches support to whatever team/game/allegiance/belief happens to be successful at the time

The first fans to leave when their backs are to the wall. These fans often more commonly resemble spectators.

See: Bandwagon
Also see: Worst fans in the History of sports.

The team with the most ridiculous, stupid, bandwagon, don't know their ass from their mouths fans in all of sports. Here's the problem with red sox fans: You win a couple times and all the sudden you think the whole sports world needs to bow down to you. They are a bunch of contradicting fans that think they KNOW EVERYTHING. They rip on the Yankees and their fans thinking it makes them look superior, but it makes them look SO STUPID! They have such loud mouths for a team that hasn't won much in their history. They spend their entire days trying to find ways to put the Yankees down, almost bully like. And we all know that bullies do that because they feel incompetent and have low self-confidence. They're also the team that doesn't know how to win properly. The Yankees in their years won with grace, sportsmanship and pride. The Red Sox win with disgusting sportsmanship and gross actions (ex. dancing on the yankee dugout after you beat them in game 7 in 2004. Smoking cigars and dancing on busch field after you beat the cardinals). Find me a Yankee player that did that in Fenway Park and tell me all of Boston wouldn't be up in arms. Plain and Simple: Boston fans have a lot to learn. Their like a really disrespectful and immature child. They need to grow up.

Anyone who claims they are a "fan" of a particular sports team, even though they had no prior support for/interest in the team until that team started winning. These types of fans only show playoff interest, have probably never watched a regular season game, don't own any type of team merchandise, nor would they buy any.