Why do you support your team?

[Buckeyes_Doc]

Thanks to sb24 for posting this in another thread, but I think it's an interesting question and deserves its own thread.

So I almost thinks this deserves a new thread but why do we support a team? Are we supporting the city? The owner? Players? Do you just blindly follow an organization that does nothing you agree with? Are you a fan because of the family? Are we choosing a team based on something as simple as the colors or logo? Are you stuck with a team just because as you were growing up you picked that one for various reasons? At what point do you get to choose to stop and become a fan of team you actually like?

And what do you do when a team moves or changes names?

I support the Cincinnati Bengals because I grew up liking them. My dad was a fan of them, and when I first started watching pro football and going to football games it was always the Cincinnati Bengals. I've liked them all my life, and can't imagine supporting another team. The Bengals have my loyalty, even with the terrible ownership. I have hope the Bengals will get new ownership someday, hopefully soon, and turn things around. When that happens, I do not want to be supporting another team. When the Bengals finally do win a Super Bowl, I want to be able to say I stuck with them through the good and bad.

If the Bengals were ever do relocate and/or change names I will still support them, but I really hope that day never comes.

So why do you support your favorite NFL team?

[Kobalt]

Re: Why do you support your team?

Because Eagles are always fighting for a playoff spot every year

[ZM Punk]

Re: Why do you support your team?

Because I'm an idiot that likes to be constantly tortured.

[Buckeyes_Doc]

Re: Why do you support your team?

Because I'm an idiot that likes to be constantly tortured.

Glad I'm not alone.

[TracerBullet]

Re: Why do you support your team?

Lions: Barry Sanders is the original reason I started rooting for them. I had thought about not rooting for them once he retired, but decided to stick with them for whatever reason. I'm glad I made that choice though even with all the laughter I've faced in recent years.

Eagles: Weren't my second favorite team until Madden 2002 (before then I kinda liked the Bengals because of their helmets. I was only 9). I liked McNabb, Staley, Vincent, Trotter, and Martin on there and decided to start following them. They are not on the level of my loyalty to the Lions though.

[chilli311]

Re: Why do you support your team?

Chargers for me. Moved to SoCal in 98, from Alabama, so it was the first pro team that I was near. Growing up in Alabama, it's college football or nothing, so as soon as I went to a pro game, I was hooked (Thanksgiving weekend 1998, lost to the Seahawks).

[iAM-IncReDiBLe-]

Re: Why do you support your team?

I'm young an didn't get into sports until I seen Micheal Vick play. He's the reason why I became a Falcon fan. Now I root for the Falcons as a die hard fan as I have grown extremely attached to them.

[Segagendude]

Re: Why do you support your team?

I grew up in Cleveland and was a Browns fan ever since I started watching football. I vividly recall watching the playoff loss to the Raiders (Red Right 88), and was there live at the Drive against Denver in the AFC Championship game of 86...then watched again as The Fumble occurred......this time on tv, not live in person....


Had my heart ripped while serving my country overseas in the Navy when Modell moved the team to Baltimore. Recorded the return game against Pittsburgh in 99. And once again watched in horror as they squandered a halftime lead to lose to Pitt in the 02 playoffs.

Why am I a fan after all that? It's in my blood.....and I don't want/need a transfusion!

[Evan_OS]

Re: Why do you support your team?

I didn't give a crap about football until the Titans came to town and I've loved them ever since. Gone to countless games, met a ton of players, went to all the training camps as a kid. I'm like Doc, I can't imagine rooting for another team.

[Chrisksaint]

Re: Why do you support your team?

I grew up in Breaux Bridge,LA for about 10 years. I have pictures of me in a Saints onesie(sp?) at like 2-3 months old and I still even have my old Deuce Mcallister jersey in my closet for sentimental purposes.

My earliest memories are of me, my grandma, and my mom watching Saints game every sunday. I can vividly recall throwing a tantrum on the floor after a close loss to the Titans I think. Pretty much I've been a Saints fan since the day I was born and have never lost the passion for them.

[MrNFL_FanIQ]

Re: Why do you support your team?

I grew up in a small town in northern Indiana, which is explains the Colts, that and the families' loyalty explains the Cubs. As a kid, I cheated and rooted for both the Bulls and Pacers (Now I don't care about the NBA) No one in my small town cared about hockey, so I didn't until I moved to Michigan, and because they were on TV and I found that I liked hockey, I became a Red Wings fan.

I generally don't have any college loyalties except for my school (Central Michigan) and Ferris State's hockey team, because I lived there to finish high school and they got me addicted to college hockey. Never adopted a college basketball team and never liked college football thanks to the BCS.

[TheMatrix31]

Re: Why do you support your team?

Never truly had a favorite team (the Niners, kinda), so when the Texans were announced, I figured why the hell not. Start out fresh with a franchise, I liked the color scheme and logos, and once it became apparent that David Carr was going to be the #1 pick (I'm from Fresno), it just sort of cemented it.

9 years later, it all makes sense. They torture me, just like all my other teams do. They have a classy organization and players I can root for. At the very least, the games are almost always entertaining from an unbiased standpoint. I think something like 11 out of 16 games were decided by 7 points or less this past year.

[SouthernBrick]

Re: Why do you support your team?

Ladainian Tomlinson is the entire reason I started watching football in the first place. He is the best runningback I've ever had the pleasure of witnessing. He had it all the speed, power, and most of all that bad *** visor. I live in Kentucky so we don't even have a professional football team even though they follow the tennesse titans. I was originally a fan of LT and not so much the team because they weren't very good. I was 13 or 14 when I started watching football and that was around 03' or 04'(and I think they were the worst team that year or just really bad) I didn't care though because LT is all I wanted to see at first but the team grew on me and 6 or 7 years later I'm still waiting for that superbowl.

[thedudedominick]

Re: Why do you support your team?

I am a Vikings fan due to my dad. I grew up in Arizona and Nevada so outside the cardinals not really anyone to root for. I really got into football in the 90s being born in '87 and Cris Carter was who sold me as a Vikings fan for life. I will always be a Vikings fan even though my interest in the NFL itself has faded.

[rdnk]

Re: Why do you support your team?

For me, all of the teams I like were in my home state. However, for each one there was a different reason. The Wings because although I was young, after watching us get so close in 95' and 96', it was such redemption to see them have all this success since. As for the Lions, I loved watching Barry Sanders, and I followed part of the Millen era before giving up and essentially boycotting them until they got a new FO. Although they were mediocre in the 90s and horrible in the early 00s, the fact that my uncle took me to games at Tiger Stadium and later Comerica Park was awesome, so I got hooked on them. Finally, I attend the University of Michigan, so I rot for those teams. Although it must be unfortunate that the three years I'm here were all under the RichRod era; I'll be gone next year for Hoke but hopefully I can go see one game.