How much do fans matter on a fan-driven network like SB Nation. They mean everything. It’s a network with the founding conceit of giving fans voices to communicate with other fans. Ideally, at the end of it everyone is an expert, doing away with the type of lowest-common denominator approach that defined traditional sportswriting for so many generations.
No more.
Before this became my full-time job, I was a fan like you. I’d spent several years reading BON and other sites around the network for my teams and I decided that I could find no more perfect outlet for the sports writing that I was becoming aware of wanting to produce.