Regarding people's favorite teams

[ProfessaPackMan]

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I guess I might as well ditch the Packers and Nets starting rooting for the Redskins and the Wizards because well.......I live in DC, duh!!!

[nyisles16]

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Is it just me or do you lose any and all respect for someone who's favorite teams in each sport are in different cities? Like some one liking the Yankees in baseball then the Lakers in basketball. I mean, really?! That's just a plain old bandwagon fan right there.

Another pet peeve of mine is someone who has professional teams in his city/state but end up rooting for whatever team is doing good in that sport at the moment. I mean have some respect for your city/state's team man.

Am I alone in the way I'm thinking or am I just spoiled being a New Yorker? Btw Giants will come back stronger next year!!

A bandwagon fan is someone who roots for a winning team for "winnings" sake... I find no problem whatsoever people having different teams to root for - heck, I root for the Raiders (which, by the way dates back to the early 80's -- NOT a bandwagon by ANY means) and live in NY..


The second point you make is EXACTLY what a bandwagon fan is... I hate those people too, because they really cannot be called "fans" of that team..

[Marino]

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I guess I might as well ditch the Packers and Nets starting rooting for the Redskins and the Wizards because well.......I live in DC, duh!!!

Sounds like a good idea to me.:wink:

[kehlis]

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i'm lucky, since I live in between Philly and Pittsuburgh I guess its okay that I recently became a Steeler fan and became a Phillies fan in October!!

My teams rule!!

[SlimKibbles]

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Not at all, I think you're an idiot if you do.

My best friend (we grew up in CT) is a Bengals, Sonics (Thunder), White Sox, Bruins, Georgetown basketball and Notre Dame football fan and he's been that way since before elementary school. How is he a bandwagoner if he's never liked a team outside of those six?

A Bengals fan who grew up in Connecticut? How in the world did that happen? I figured it was just a Cincinnati tradition where the torture of being a Bengals fan is passed from father to son.

[colkilla]

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i root for all of the local teams, that includes baltimore and dc. i grew up in northern va but moved to montgomery county after college. no dc baseball as a kid so i loved the o's. no b'more football so i got the skins. when the nats and ravens came along i just started rooting for them too. it is easy since the o's/nats and 'skins/ravens are in different conferences. i also have no problem seeing local people root for other teams around the country. you get use to it since in the dc area a large part of the population consists of people who are from somewhere other than here. what i cannot stand is when someone who likes an obscure team, like the broncos or something, finds out i am a 'skins fan and is like "why the hell do you like them?" as if i am the oddball being from here and liking the local team? makes no sense...

[The GIGGAS]

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I guess I'm part of the people you don't think as highly of.

I never tried to pick the best teams. The Jaguars are my team because I saw them when I was 8 and wanted a team of my own to cheer about, not the Cowboys or 'Skins. I was different, and the Jags were new.

The Hokies and Highlanders are due to proximity, and the Highlanders more for attending RU.

The Cardinals are because I was a huge fan of McGwire and his chase of Maris.

The Red Wings are due to Dominik Hasek, once my favorite player.

The Wiz are because of His Airness.

[superjames1992]

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Seriously.

It's like he expected us, when we were younger (in my case, 6-7) to say "I better be careful in picking my teams and pick all teams close to me or else people will call me bandwagon". Please. I didn't even know what bandwagon was until I was way older.

Apparently, LOL. I know I didn't know about any of these rules when I was seven and watching the Red Sox on TV a lot. I also wasn't aware of these rules when I started watching NBA games with my friend when I was younger, who was a Spurs fan. I didn't know that I couldn't be a Tampa Bay Rays fan when I've been to a lot of their games in Saint Petersburg. I guess I followed the rules, though, for the Carolina Panthers, LOL.

So am I just supposed to all of a sudden start liking the Bobcats since they moved in here? I have no connections and no history with them. I wouldn't mind them doing well and I think they'll alright, but the Spurs will always be my #1 team since I just have that connection from watching them in my childhood. Am I just supposed to drop teams whenever I move? That's not right and you truly don't love your teams if you do that IMO.

Should I have had to have been a Marshall fan since I lived about 30 minutes from Huntington as compared to about three hours from Morgantown? I don't think so...

Should I drop WVU now and kick them to the curb and start liking Wake Forest since I live about 30 minutes away from them now?

Should I like Brian Vickers in NASCAR since he's from Thomasville, just a short drive from my house, even though I've loved Jeff Gordon my entire life?

I mean, C'mon, you like who you like. I didn't intentionally pick these teams; it just sort of happened when I was young. It seems sort of bandwagon-like to start liking teams just based on location to me...

[theaub]

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If anyone calls me a Blackhawk bandwagoner (or an Auburn one, or a Bills one), I just smack them upside the head. Easier than explaining it IMO.

[duke776]

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My (former)favorite college teams came out of spite of my brother, he like UNC, I liked Duke...he liked Michigan, I liked OSU. But, I really don't have any favorite college teams anymore besides Wright State in basketball.

In baseball my favorite teams are the cubs and the reds. I always grew up watching the cubs on wgn and fell in love with them. The reds are my hometown team...

And funny stuff about how I used to choose my favorite nfl teams(when I was 7 or 8)...by their colors and logos, if they looked cool I was a fan. I don't follow the nfl anymore, so I don't have a favorite team, and if it had to be someone it'd probably be the bengals becuase I used to watch their games at my friends every week a few years back.

I don't get why you have to cheer for teams in your hometown ecause you were born there. I can see why people would lose respect for someone if they chose all the best teams and they didn't have any other reason besides that they're good...but IMO, I don't really care if someone is a bandwagoner or not, they can do whatever they want for all I care.

[SlimKibbles]

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...but IMO, I don't really care if someone is a bandwagoner or not, they can do whatever they want for all I care.

Amen, brother. However, I don't like bandwagoners that act in such a way that makes the rest of us fans, who have been there a long time, of whatever team look bad. The Bengals gathered quite a few over recent seasons.

[The GIGGAS]

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Should I drop WVU now and kick them to the curb and start liking Wake Forest since I live about 30 minutes away from them now?

I would be in favor of it.

[ehh]

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A Bengals fan who grew up in Connecticut? How in the world did that happen? I figured it was just a Cincinnati tradition where the torture of being a Bengals fan is passed from father to son.

Haha, yeah he's def the one and only Bengals fan I know. He loved them in the late 80's when they were good, stuck with them ever since to his credit. He still busts out the Icky Shuffle when we play flag football on Thanksgiving Day.

[BunnyHardaway]

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Amen, brother. However, I don't like bandwagoners that act in such a way that makes the rest of us fans, who have been there a long time, of whatever team look bad. The Bengals gathered quite a few over recent seasons.

:cough:redsoxfans:cough:

It's amazing how different Sox fans are. The real, actual Red Sox fans are some of the most knowledgeable in all of baseball. Then you have the "Pink Hat Nation" bandwagoners that make them look absolutely awful. After they came back against the Yankees in 2004, there were 50+ kids in my high school (out of like 400) wearing Sox stuff the very next day. I've had several bad run-ins with them at Camden Yards...not fun.

[superjames1992]

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I would be in favor of it.

Of course you would, LOL!