Your Favorite Team
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Why is your favorite team your favorite team?
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Blazers, live and die by the Blazers, I grew up with them, we moved to Oregon the year they started up. We had the greatest radio announcer of all time, the Schonz, he made you fall for the Blazers whether you wanted to or not. R-r-r-r-i-p C-i-t-y! Man those were the days for B-Ball, when Mo Lucas, Bill Walton, and the boys were in the house. Then we had Clyde, 'Sheed 'Ball don't lie' of the Jail Blazers, the B-Roy, it is only recent times that the so-called stars went no where for what their expectations were and their pay rate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Schonely
But I am loving this terrible star-less team they have on the floor right now, we are gonna find a couple gems out of that motley crew and get a good draft pick. I would be happy to see Lillard also leave since they just cleaned house by moving all of the underperforming alleged stars (okay, CJ is not part of that group but he needed to go too, he'll be back to help run his new winery with his wife). Start over.
Then therez the SF Giants, and the Edmonton Oilers, but for another day....................
I've thought about your question, and I have come to the conclusion that the only reason I am a Carolina Panthers fan is due to the fact that I live in North Carolina. It is unacceptable to me that I must suffer every season because of geography. Perhaps I will one day move to New England, start my life over as a Patriots fan, and then my team will have won 6 Super Bowl's and my favorite player will be Tom Brady, the greatest of all time, and I can finally be proud of my team's accomplishments. Yes Bobo, this is what I will do Bobo, start making the necessary arrangements immediately Bobo. Thank you Bobo.
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Geography is one of, if not the, most common catalysts for fandom. Nothing wrong with that. Stay strong. If, when, they win it all..you'll be happy.
NE Patriots.
I love all the Boston teams, but football is my favorite sports. In the 80s I might have answered Red Sox or Celtics.
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I guess geography accounts for my favorites, the Royals and Chiefs.
As for the KU Jayhawks, geography is only part of the story.
In the grade school playground of my youth, it was common for the older kids to
approach the younger kids and ask, 'KU or K-State'? So I was probably 6 or 7 years old
when I was first asked and having never thought much about it before then, I simply blurted out 'KU'.
I think I mentioned this incident that evening to an older brother and he commented that if asked
the same question by the same older kid I better give him the same answer. It seems that if you
changed your answer from one day to the next the playground toughs would hand you a few of
your vital appendages on a wooden platter. So to make a short story long for the next 50 years or
so I have never wavered rooting for KU. I've made it this far and I'll be damned if I'm going to have
some 65 year old grandpa punch my lights out now if I switch to K-State.
My favorite teams are my favorites because of geography. Michigan football, Detroit Red Wings hockey, Detroit Tigers baseball, Detroit Lions football, Gonzaga basketball - all geography. I grew up 5 minutes from the Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan so rooting for the local teams was natural. Moved to Spokane in 1998 without any real affection for any college basketball team. That year was the start of Gonzaga's consecutive NCAA appearances and it was easy to get caught up.
I'm sorry, I tried, but I can't do it. I want to be a fan of a team that has a normal quarterback. Tom Brady doesn't dress like Mrs. Doubtfire when he goes grocery shopping, and yes, this is a real photo until proven otherwise!
Growing up in Massachusetts I’m default a Patriots and Red Sox fan, the long suffering paid off and both teams have put many a smile on my face.
My favorite team is the New York Yankees. The Mets were a popular pick in the days of my youth as the ‘86 team attracted lots of attention and new fans but only the Yankees had…
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The suffering made the rings all the sweeter. I am sure there were Pats and Red Sox fans who gave up before we won. And regretted it.
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I decided to give you a like. It's hard, with all of that Yankeeness in my face. lol. But I respect you for sticking with your team. And, even though I am not currently a card guy, as a kid/teen my favorite cards were those 1980s Topps baseball cards.
Denver Broncos, because of geography (born and raised in Denver).
I appreciate that. Really. The Yankees were pretty terrible in my youth. I’m too young to remember the 70s teams but I remember Donnie Baseball and Dave Winfield and Rickey Henderson lighting up the basepaths…
…but unfortunately the Yankees opponent often lit up the scoreboard a bit better due to our lack of pitching. 😉
Donnie got old, the Yankees got Tino and the rest is Yankees history. But Donnie was my guy.
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Baseball Cardinals except during the La russa era.
Mets, due to history of family Brooklyn Dodgers fandom and childhood worship of Seaver.