Whos YOUR team and WHY?
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So i should like the Rangers, Astros, Cowboys and Texans............fuck all that, the Rangers are cool but they need pitching (as usual)FUCK THE ASTROS......THEY CAN EAT A DICK. The Same can be said for the Cowboys (i didnt like them when they were the dynasty and i absolutely hated Aikman, he was fucking everywhere i looked, on posters at my school as well as at my friends houses, on the local channels, tv commercials, pepsi cans, lawnmower ads, car dealerships named after him, it got annoying as hell(Brady's not like that, he chooses not to do all these commercials and shit cause he's rather use that extra time for his pesonal life, the partying, dating of supermodels and etc)........and the Texans? lol, i'll stick with my Pats and Cubs.
Pats: Yeah I remember when they did that introduction, that was cool. Sounds to me like it's really just a more casual liking you have for them, if you just decided to start rooting for them in the last couple years. Unless you're like 13 or 14 now, you had to be older than what I would consider the formative years with sports teams. So I'd say you probably grabbed them too late in your life to really feel them.
Cubs: Cubbies are a little more complicated b/c you are right, they are famous for being losers and second, a lot of people nationally liked them because of national WGN coverage. My boy is from Colorado and likes the Cubs best b/c the Rocks weren't around as a child and all he had was Cubs on WGN. And that Dish package is tight, I'm going to get that once I have a real job and some real cash. The thing about the Cubs is that they are basically a magnet for all the yuppies who relocated to Chicago from all over the country. You definitely seem serious with that avatar of yours.
So I don't know, just from this internet board I would say that you definitely ain't no real Pats fan but the Cubbies are a little bit of a unique circumstance. A lot of times random people are attracted to them just b/c of Wrigley Field culture.
1) No b/c you can only have 1 in each sport, so pick a city, is it H-Town or D-Town rather than root for all four. I do know, however, that the Texans being so young does present somewhat of a unique situation, as there are probably a lot of Astros fans who pull for the Cowboys. Are you closer to Houston or Dallas? Do you get more Houston or more Dallas media?
2) That is kind of what I'm talking about right there, that's why I don't like the out of area fans. What if when I was 5 years old in 1989, I said to myself "The Seahawks are cool, but they need an offense and a defense and some special teams." That is the dictionary definition of a fairweather fan.
2) That is kind of what I'm talking about right there, that's why I don't like the out of area fans. What if when I was 5 years old in 1989, I said to myself "The Seahawks are cool, but they need an offense and a defense and some special teams." That is the dictionary definition of a fairweather fan.
XPanther you have the right and are entitled to YOUR OWN opinon! But to me, what you are trying to explain or discuss is basically an assuption which I do not agree with.. By saying that people who cheer and go for another sports team located in another city or state ain't a true and die-hard fan is basically absurd to me. How do you know how I feel when my Redskins or Spurs win or lose?? How do you know how it feel when all your friends are going for the home team when playing them? When you are the ONLY guy backing up your team at a Sports bar full of 49ers, Raiders, Lakers and Warrior fans? I feel just like any other teams true fan would, mad as hell when we get beat down and happy as a motherfucker when we get the W.... Whether I'm 5 miles or 5,000 miles away, location does not mean SHIT... I've been to Washington 1 time to watch a Redskins game and been to San Antonio twice to watch Spurs games... Win, lose or draw the only thing that matters and counts is that your proud and down for your squad! If you knew me in person you would see how much of a great and dedicated fan I am for my teams. I got jerseys, autographs, helmets to blankets of my teams.... Every year I expect my teams to do well but sometime it don't work out like yet I LOVE THEM and wouldn't trade my squads for the world not even if we never get championships again or even got professional football or basketball teams in San Jose! My Spurs and Redskins tattoos speak for themselves of how much dedication I got for them.
For real, you picked the two teams that everybody likes now.. In the mid 90s, you would've been a huge cowboy fan, I'm guessing.. I bet your college team is probably Notre Dame, as well... To me it seems like 90% of ND fans are also Cubs fans... Can you at least explain why you like those teams.. That's what the thread was about, not just listing the teams you like..
My teams:
NBA: Pistons.. Hometown team, but I was like four when they won the first championship, and I could name every single player on the team down to the 12th man.. i was obsessed with them at that age. Isiah was my favorite player and I used to just be mesmerized when i'd watch him play.
MLB: Tigers.. Not a fairweather fan at all.. Always been rooting for the team even when they lost 119, I went to four or five games that year.. Going to baseball games is fun as hell.. I grew up obsessed with Cecil Fielder.. Him and Griffey were my favorite players growing up. I had huge trading card collections for each player.
NFL: Lions.. Shit they suck and they'll always suck, but I don't care. They're my team. I'm not a huge NFL fan, and the Lions may be a reason why. I dunno, maybe it's because they always lose, but I have to root for them.. Usually when watching NFL games, i tend to root for the teams with more Michigan players on it now.. Like I've always rooted for the Pats in the Superbowl since Brady's a Michigan guy. When the Bears drafted Terrell and Thomas five years back or so, I started getting into them, even though they were divisional rivals of the Lions, but neither of them really panned out int he NFL... I root for the Jets a lot since they have a good amount of Michigan players. And I rooted for the Steelers last year because Larry Foote was one of my favorite players when he was in college.
College: Michigan Wolverines. Born and raised a Wolverine fan.. Fond memories of the Fab Five. Always watched Michigan, and have always been more into College Football than pro football. Never became a state fan or anything like that just because my dad was a Michigan fan since the late early 70s, and that's who me and my brother were raised to watch every saturday in the fall.
NHL: Really, I hate hockey. Never have really liked it.. I've hated the Red Wings just because of all the fake fans that popped up in 95 when they had that really good season, and then when they all started going nuts when they won the cup in 97. I tended to root for the Aves just to piss people off, but I can't really name you a player on the Avs anymore besides Sakic if he's still on the team.. I liked them best when they had Lemieux, Roy, Foresberg, Foote, and shit. But hockey as a whole is just gay as hell to me.
My teams:
NBA: Pistons.. Hometown team, but I was like four when they won the first championship, and I could name every single player on the team down to the 12th man.. i was obsessed with them at that age. Isiah was my favorite player and I used to just be mesmerized when i'd watch him play.
MLB: Tigers.. Not a fairweather fan at all.. Always been rooting for the team even when they lost 119, I went to four or five games that year.. Going to baseball games is fun as hell.. I grew up obsessed with Cecil Fielder.. Him and Griffey were my favorite players growing up. I had huge trading card collections for each player.
NFL: Lions.. Shit they suck and they'll always suck, but I don't care. They're my team. I'm not a huge NFL fan, and the Lions may be a reason why. I dunno, maybe it's because they always lose, but I have to root for them.. Usually when watching NFL games, i tend to root for the teams with more Michigan players on it now.. Like I've always rooted for the Pats in the Superbowl since Brady's a Michigan guy. When the Bears drafted Terrell and Thomas five years back or so, I started getting into them, even though they were divisional rivals of the Lions, but neither of them really panned out int he NFL... I root for the Jets a lot since they have a good amount of Michigan players. And I rooted for the Steelers last year because Larry Foote was one of my favorite players when he was in college.
College: Michigan Wolverines. Born and raised a Wolverine fan.. Fond memories of the Fab Five. Always watched Michigan, and have always been more into College Football than pro football. Never became a state fan or anything like that just because my dad was a Michigan fan since the late early 70s, and that's who me and my brother were raised to watch every saturday in the fall.
NHL: Really, I hate hockey. Never have really liked it.. I've hated the Red Wings just because of all the fake fans that popped up in 95 when they had that really good season, and then when they all started going nuts when they won the cup in 97. I tended to root for the Aves just to piss people off, but I can't really name you a player on the Avs anymore besides Sakic if he's still on the team.. I liked them best when they had Lemieux, Roy, Foresberg, Foote, and shit. But hockey as a whole is just gay as hell to me.
SO if every single person in Washington was a Seahawks fan...who the hell would we brag to??? the tv?? or even better our INTERNET BUDDIES!! WHOOO..
That takes the fun out of everything....I like talkin shit to my homies that are Seahawks fans, they love talkin shit to me about the Cowboys.
Even though most of the Seahawks fans in this city are bandwagon fans....its all to the good.
For me it started out as a casual thing, i was 21 or 22 at the time they won the first of those 3 super bowls, i'm 27 now. The following year they didnt make it to the playoffs, and i didnt watch any of their regular season games that year (2002) in 03 and 04 i was watching regular season and playoff games every chance i got. That continued until December of this year untill DishNetwork or Congress should i say put an end to that, taking away distant networks and shit, now i dont get any games and i've been pissed ever since.
I'm definitely a real Pats fan...just not a DIE HARD fan as baseball is my first love. The Cubs i'm very passionate about and will always be...test me if you like.
If that were the case then it would be Dallas...i'm 2 hours from there and 8 hours from Houston. The media is about equal as far as sporting teams go.
ah but i never said the Rangers were one of my fave teams...i just said they were cool, i've always thought they were cool and i love their ballpark. But they are not and never will be my fave team...that honor belongs to the Cubs. If the Rangers actually win a World Series for once, i'm not gonna change my opinion on them, it will be the same.
if you would have read one of my above posts, you would have seen my true opinion on the Cowboys and it was opposite of what you guessed. I didnt pick my teams because of somone else, i picked them (or they picked me)for my own reasons....not to jump on an fuckin bandwagon. I hate college football, i find it very boring and i could give a shit less for ND...that movie Rudy was aight.
The Reason I Like:
1)Patriots.....I the team, the colors, the attitude, New England region, I like watching a guy in his prime building on his HOF stats, I find it funny when Brady is calling plays he yells girls names like Sarah instead of the usual BLUE 32, I like the coach but dont ask me to spell his name, I like Mike Vrabel, Ted Bruschi, Cory Dillon, Laurence Maroney, I liked Deion Branch and Adam Vinateri until they left. I like the fact that they overtook the cowboys as the most recent dynasty. I like the fact that they kicked the colts, steelers and eagles ass that last time they won the superbowl as i was the only person i knew rooting for the Pats, all my other friends were against them. Oh yea and they are just simply fun to watch.
2)Cubs....this could take awhile, you know how the media claims or claimed the Sosa/Big Mac homerun chase brought the fans back...in my case they were right, i used to watch baseball all the time as a kid with my gramps, we'd go to minor league games (Midland Angels at the time). As the years passed by i grew up and out of baseball, then in 98 the homerun chase renewed my interest....I was pulling for Big Mac at the time, go figure. The next spring i found myself watching baseball again and it started out with the Cards(briefly) but for some reason i started watching the Cubs instead, maybe cause of the coverage. I'm not really sure, the Cubs were horrible in 99 but i watched anyway...Mark Grace quickly became my fave player (and still is)Sosa was at the time "a gladiator" but the Cubs sucked and i still watched, and it continued that way, by 2004 i couldnt take only seeing 80 something games on WGN so i ordered the MLB package and i've gotten it every year since then. I love everything about the CUbs. From the Wrigley Field, to the Ivy, Chip & Steve calling games(best announcers out there, please bring them back), the tradition, the fans, the players. The Cubs sucked but i kept watching...in 2001 i was teased with a decent season but in 02 they sucked again....then we hired Dusty after the Giants lost to the Angels and had a year that i had been waiting to see. It was beautiful, i still have all those postseason games from 03 on vhs. 5 outs from going to the world series...when that bartman shit happened and after game 7...i had never been that heartbroken (the only other time that could compare would be when my gramps passed away. It pisses me off when people question my loyalty to the Cubs...since 04 i've seen practically every game and during the season i scour the deepest darkest corners of the internet keeping up with cubs news that i already know about from watching the mlb package and in the offseason i delve even deeper looking for news....i'm an addict to everything Cubs and will remain that way till i die...As long as Jim Hendry keeps up the good work maybe 2007 will be the year they win, but regardless win or lose the Cubs are my team.
since this is prolly the longest post i've ever typed i'm gonna make it even longer and include my projected 2007 cubs roster. with this roster maybe 07 will be the year...
Starting Rotation
Carlos Zambrano
Ted Lilly
Rich Hill
Jason Marquis
Mark Prior
Bullpen
Neal Cotts
Ryan Dempster
Scott Eyre
Bob Howry
Wade Miller
Will Ohman
Kerry Wood
Starting Lineup
Alfonso Soriano (RF)
Mark Derosa (2B)
Derek Lee (1B)
Aramis Ramirez (3B)
Jacque Jones (CF) [until further notice]
Michael Barrett (C)
Matt Murton (LF)
Ceasar Izturis (SS)
Bench
Henry Blanco
Ryan Theriot
Angel Pagan
Daryl Ward
Cliff Floyd (Pending his signing)
Waiting in the wings
Sean Marshall
Carlos Marmol
Angel Guzman
Mike Wurtz
Roberto Novoa
Eric Patterson
Felix Pie
I'm definitely a real Pats fan...just not a DIE HARD fan as baseball is my first love. The Cubs i'm very passionate about and will always be...test me if you like.
If that were the case then it would be Dallas...i'm 2 hours from there and 8 hours from Houston. The media is about equal as far as sporting teams go.
ah but i never said the Rangers were one of my fave teams...i just said they were cool, i've always thought they were cool and i love their ballpark. But they are not and never will be my fave team...that honor belongs to the Cubs. If the Rangers actually win a World Series for once, i'm not gonna change my opinion on them, it will be the same.
if you would have read one of my above posts, you would have seen my true opinion on the Cowboys and it was opposite of what you guessed. I didnt pick my teams because of somone else, i picked them (or they picked me)for my own reasons....not to jump on an fuckin bandwagon. I hate college football, i find it very boring and i could give a shit less for ND...that movie Rudy was aight.
The Reason I Like:
1)Patriots.....I the team, the colors, the attitude, New England region, I like watching a guy in his prime building on his HOF stats, I find it funny when Brady is calling plays he yells girls names like Sarah instead of the usual BLUE 32, I like the coach but dont ask me to spell his name, I like Mike Vrabel, Ted Bruschi, Cory Dillon, Laurence Maroney, I liked Deion Branch and Adam Vinateri until they left. I like the fact that they overtook the cowboys as the most recent dynasty. I like the fact that they kicked the colts, steelers and eagles ass that last time they won the superbowl as i was the only person i knew rooting for the Pats, all my other friends were against them. Oh yea and they are just simply fun to watch.
2)Cubs....this could take awhile, you know how the media claims or claimed the Sosa/Big Mac homerun chase brought the fans back...in my case they were right, i used to watch baseball all the time as a kid with my gramps, we'd go to minor league games (Midland Angels at the time). As the years passed by i grew up and out of baseball, then in 98 the homerun chase renewed my interest....I was pulling for Big Mac at the time, go figure. The next spring i found myself watching baseball again and it started out with the Cards(briefly) but for some reason i started watching the Cubs instead, maybe cause of the coverage. I'm not really sure, the Cubs were horrible in 99 but i watched anyway...Mark Grace quickly became my fave player (and still is)Sosa was at the time "a gladiator" but the Cubs sucked and i still watched, and it continued that way, by 2004 i couldnt take only seeing 80 something games on WGN so i ordered the MLB package and i've gotten it every year since then. I love everything about the CUbs. From the Wrigley Field, to the Ivy, Chip & Steve calling games(best announcers out there, please bring them back), the tradition, the fans, the players. The Cubs sucked but i kept watching...in 2001 i was teased with a decent season but in 02 they sucked again....then we hired Dusty after the Giants lost to the Angels and had a year that i had been waiting to see. It was beautiful, i still have all those postseason games from 03 on vhs. 5 outs from going to the world series...when that bartman shit happened and after game 7...i had never been that heartbroken (the only other time that could compare would be when my gramps passed away. It pisses me off when people question my loyalty to the Cubs...since 04 i've seen practically every game and during the season i scour the deepest darkest corners of the internet keeping up with cubs news that i already know about from watching the mlb package and in the offseason i delve even deeper looking for news....i'm an addict to everything Cubs and will remain that way till i die...As long as Jim Hendry keeps up the good work maybe 2007 will be the year they win, but regardless win or lose the Cubs are my team.
since this is prolly the longest post i've ever typed i'm gonna make it even longer and include my projected 2007 cubs roster. with this roster maybe 07 will be the year...
Starting Rotation
Carlos Zambrano
Ted Lilly
Rich Hill
Jason Marquis
Mark Prior
Bullpen
Neal Cotts
Ryan Dempster
Scott Eyre
Bob Howry
Wade Miller
Will Ohman
Kerry Wood
Starting Lineup
Alfonso Soriano (RF)
Mark Derosa (2B)
Derek Lee (1B)
Aramis Ramirez (3B)
Jacque Jones (CF) [until further notice]
Michael Barrett (C)
Matt Murton (LF)
Ceasar Izturis (SS)
Bench
Henry Blanco
Ryan Theriot
Angel Pagan
Daryl Ward
Cliff Floyd (Pending his signing)
Waiting in the wings
Sean Marshall
Carlos Marmol
Angel Guzman
Mike Wurtz
Roberto Novoa
Eric Patterson
Felix Pie
I was born a SF Giants fan because my parents took me to Giants games when I was in little league, rarely went to A's games as a kid. As a youngsta I was a big fan of Will Clark and Kevin Mitchell.
Became a Niner fan because that was the only team reppin the bay area when I was growing up during the golden years.
Warriors and Sharks because only bay teams for each sport.
Thats my reasoning for being a Giants and 49er fan born and raised in the east bay.
Became a Niner fan because that was the only team reppin the bay area when I was growing up during the golden years.
Warriors and Sharks because only bay teams for each sport.
Thats my reasoning for being a Giants and 49er fan born and raised in the east bay.