(Part 3) Best sports fan patio, lawn & garden products according to redditors

Thanks Smakin', I'm also a new-ish fan. I hadn't seen a pro hockey game in about twenty years, but last year I became a Minnesota Wild fan as a sort of self-help project focused on managing my own expectations. Here are a few things that "helped" me to quickly become an obsessive compulsive follower of the Minnesota Wild.

• Involvement: Check r/wildhockey at least once a day. I post a lot, but I also read every single post and comment (unless it's a twitter redirect). r/wildhockey has a Great mix of news, stats, and exactly the sort of low-brow humor that keeps me interested in stuff. I also check r/hockey every once in a while, but I think it can be safely ignored. I don't post there because every time I do, the mods chirp at me for breaking some weird-assed rule I could only have known about had I taken the time to read the rules.
  
• Investment and Commitment: Buy this spatula. Lot's of people have hats and shirts, but buying a team spatula obligates you in a way that other sports merch never can. Of course, buy hats and shirts too, but don't put bumper stickers on your car---Sheesh! What kind of fucking hillbilly ARE you?
  
• Community: Go to a hockey bar and ask them to put the Wild game on. This is hard for me because I live in South Texas where asking to put on a hockey game at a bar is like asking them to put the chess tournament on TV; they WILL, but you gotta tip well, early, and often.
  
• Indoctrination: Find friends and family members who know less about hockey than you do, then ask them to watch games with you. Show them your spatula. Buy them some fan merch targeted toward their personalities. They will ask you questions for which you will have to look up answers---always answer them. I converted our "family pit" into something like a dive sports-bar, and during most Wild games you'll find everybody (including the dog) decked out in jerseys, noshing on a cheese try, and screaming at the flat screen.
  
• Wisdom: Embrace disappointments (vodka) and celebrate victories (bourbon).
  
• Attendance: Go to or watch every game you can, and be sure to watch other games with rival teams every once in a while, especially when it's likely they will lose. (schadenboner)
  
• Rivalry Cultivation: I started this spreadsheet (here is the archive) to understand how the regular season worked, but early on, I started making little notes about rival teams. There is a surprising amount of controversy surrounding what exactly constitutes a rival, so the column on the left of the S/S shows a mix of the accepted cannon (flame icons), along with few personal grudges (Just Real Dicks)
  
• Personality Integration: Everybody is different. People tell me I'm extra different---you can probably deduce a few things about me from the above. Look deeply into Lake You, and try to align your hockey habits with your existing character assets and, most importantly, with your character defects. Sure, there are some character flaws you probably don't want to reinforce or aggravate, but if you can align your efforts with a few mild peccadilloes like good-natured malevolence or recreational alcoholism you stand a much better chance of fully integrating hockey into your daily life and submersing yourself into following the Minnesota Wild at a sustainable level.
  
  Let's Go Wild!

Edit: NEVER MIND KEEP THE BEVELS. THEY HATE THEM SO MUCH.
I honestly had no idea the bevels were so contentious lol.
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Thats what I was expecting. It follows the same theme as this.(dont murder me) The Aggies use stars in many of their logos and seals anyways. It would fit best if the star was beveled though like in their T logo.

Or from Amazon with free shipping.

It's the 'look out for foul balls' logo if that helps.

http://www.amazon.com/Wrigley-Field-Alert-Fremont-Die/dp/B00IDEBHAM

I'm totally buying one of these now...

I received this for christmas, very high quality, really nice.

edit: Amazon link

I think this is more of a "fan flag" thing. The basic idea of putting a college athletics logo in a solid canton of the university's major color, and then stripes of the canton and white or the school's secondary color are very common. 1 2 3

I think it's mostly that one company's (Sports Flags and Pennants Company) doing. Coincidently, given the number of schools with some shade of blue and white as their colors, half of them look like Greece.

You need one of those house divided flags! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VBHHUOA

Here you go: SOCCER New York City FC Vertical Flag, 27" x 37" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIWHR3C/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_CCSxxb7J3A58C

The Battalion commander didn't care for that flag flying over my commo shop in Iraq. Made us take it down, we still had it hanging on the wall outside the shop though.

Here you go...

I have this from Amazon. I quite like how it looks. https://www.amazon.com/Tottenham-Hotspur-Authentic-EPL-Flag/dp/B00O30ECKW

NHL Detroit Red Wings Deluxe Flag, 3' x 5'

This should be the one. 2 left in stock though! Get it soon if you want it!

Sure thing! My Giftee had a lot of information for me to work with, so I knew their hobbies and likes instantly! I got lucky this year and got someone who filled out every area of their profile, and also gave me a lot of info on their likes/dislikes section.

I decided to focus on one of those likes that they had, since it also allowed me to connect the gift(s) to their other likes. For example: let's say someone loved collecting flags, but also liked AC-DC music, The New York Mets, and Harry Potter. I would focus on that flag collecting hobby and could get them these three flag/banners based on all of their likes:

• ACDC Flag
  
  
• New York Mets Flag
  
  
• Harry Potter Banner
  
  BOOM, easy gift researched and shipped (this is just an example).

So much cooler than our state flag!

I might pick one up for the front porch.

EDIT: Someone is selling 2x 3' x 5' banners on Amazon

http://smile.amazon.com/Louisville-Cardinals-Banner-House-Flag/dp/B00GIV2TDQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1413299458&sr=8-1&keywords=louisville+cardinals+flag


I use an older version of this one (with the undefined eye and more rounded feathers at the back of the head) as a curtain.

I couldn't find one with the L. Just the head and birdwing logos on red or black. I bought the 2013 National Title flag for my father's UofL themed garage.

Here you go.

Here's one that just has A's on it.

This is pretty cool too

I bought it here on Amazon

Any officially licensed flag will be expensive.

I have this one: Wincraft NCAA Notre Dame 02283115 Deluxe Flag, 3' x 5' https://www.amazon.com/dp/B010GM8EKE/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_hOGRCb1TFW5FK

And I like it.