Post by Jack Quinn on Aug 11, 2007 12:01:55 GMT -5
Eagles and Lions, but mostly the Eagles. Like Mike said, if they were to meet in the playoffs, it is all Eagles all the time. Being this close to Detroit, I have kind of adopted them.
But the Eagles have been my team all my life
<I guess this is where the jokes start>
The Phillies are everything I hoped the Mets would be - a team that plays their fucking asses off for all 27 outs. They're never out of a game. Solly 10/20/09
That's kinda my dilemma. Growing up in the Carolinas, we didn't have a team. And I adopted the Dolphins somewhere along the way because I loved Marino. Several years later, the Panthers open up shop in Charlotte. So then what?
I can't just drop my Dolphins, but the Panthers are my home state team. SO I cheer for both and make no apologies for it.
Mike you're in a different dilemma than Moose. You liked a team because your area didn't have one. Fair enough to like your home team. Moose had a favorite team, and moved...no need to add a 2nd team.
And I'm a disgruntled Giants fan. Strahan needs to retire, Eli needs to stop sucking, and Coughlin needs to go away.
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Post by williamssl on Aug 11, 2007 14:26:08 GMT -5
I was born in Southern Ohio (Dayton area and yes - my being from there adds even more fuel to the Ohio is the gateway to hell notion), so first exposure to football was the Bengals. I've always followed them through the good times (those handful of years) and the bad (all the rest).
And when we moved to Dallas area 9 years ago I went full tilt Cowboys. Yeah - everyone's favorite team.
Post by The Canadian Content on Aug 11, 2007 14:28:43 GMT -5
williamssl said:
I was born in Southern Ohio (Dayton area and yes - my being from there adds even more fuel to the Ohio is the gateway to hell notion), so first exposure to football was the Bengals. I've always followed them through the good times (those handful of years) and the bad (all the rest).
And when we moved to Dallas area 9 years ago I went full tilt Cowboys. Yeah - everyone's favorite team.
Post by williamssl on Aug 11, 2007 14:31:33 GMT -5
I still follow the Bengals and route for them hardcore. Went back to Cincinnati last year to do a "so this is where I grew up" tour and scheduled the whole thing around when the Bengals were in town and took in a game (last time I had seen them play live in Cincy was back in the early 70's at Riverfront).
And besides, Fishie, aren't you supposed to be routing for one of those Canadian teams in your own league?
Mike you're in a different dilemma than Moose. You liked a team because your area didn't have one. Fair enough to like your home team. Moose had a favorite team, and moved...no need to add a 2nd team.
But the thing is, it's not like he moved to the Detroit area for the sole reason to cheer for the Lions/Tigers/Wings and that he felt the Iggles/Phillies/Flyers were dogshit. [Insert joke here.] Life just happened to take him to an area with those teams. So long as he vows to cheer for his Philly teams first and foremost, I don't see a reason he can't support the local clubs, as well. It's like Bill Simmons buying his L.A. Clippers season tickets every year here lately.
Now if he were to claim he'd ALWAYS been a Detroit fan, then it'd be time to cut all ties with his Philly teams. But Moose has never said that, so he's cool with me... for now. The difference with me is that the NFL moved to me, not the other way around.
Post by The Jewish Cunthead on Aug 11, 2007 14:50:49 GMT -5
Whatever. I moved away from my teams and still managed to follow them despite having local teams in the Bay Area and now in San Diego.
It basically comes down to Moose being a jerk who only gets pleasure from spooning with Korean boys with cleft palettes and wooden legs. What does that have to do with football? Absolutely nothing.
"You were part Canadian as soon as your dick took up permanent residence in Moosejaw." - Hoodge
"and 29 Fingers, what the fuck is that shit? Who wrote a song about your anal world record set at the Stuckeys just outside of San Diego?" - Moose
"But yeah, I'd rather stick my dick in a dead guys asshole then watch Anchorman again." - Creeps
I just love fucking with Moose. I don't really care about the two teams thing. Cept for last postseason in baseball when it seemed like he became the biggest Tigers fan on the planet.
Post by Jack Quinn on Aug 11, 2007 15:54:55 GMT -5
Come on Sop, that is being a little unfair isn't it? It was great watching the Tigers last season, they finally broke through and were a really good team. I have family and friends who are Tigers fans, and had been waiting over twenty years for that moment. It is really hard to live that close to such a good team and not get caught up in the hysteria. Since the Phillies weren't in the playoffs, I WAS the biggest Tigers fan in the world, I wanted them to win, that doesn't mean I abandoned the Phillies or anything, I just wanted the Tigers to win for friends, family, and this area. They would love to have a winner here, and they embrace winning teams (and stick with losing teams too, even when the Tigers were horrific, they drew decent crowds)
The Phillies are everything I hoped the Mets would be - a team that plays their fucking asses off for all 27 outs. They're never out of a game. Solly 10/20/09
I just think some of us get chapped when folks really jump full into their secondary team when they win and take on the persona of it being their primary team. I know I think your Tiger fandom is perfectly reasonable given your location. But in my own weird little sports rules there should be a ceiling on how much you can truly embrace the Tigers as long as you identify yourself as a Phillies fan. I know I've adopted a lot of teams in a lot of sports to root for when my team wasn't backing me up. And I've pulled for teams because friends and family were pulling for them. But I always felt like there was a line there. I'm a St John's fan. And because St John's sucks a long time ago I sorta found a 2nd team in Georgetown. Ewing, Thompson, Zo, Iverson. I spent a lot of time in Washington growing up and had quite a few Georgetown connections. They were Big East and their uniforms kicked ass. And when they were making a run last year I got behind them and got a little pumped. But I thought there was a line as to how much it really was my team and how much I could really get behind it and celebrate it. In a similar way as to how I wouldn't feel comfortable boasting a Jets playoff run if I wasn't upfront and present about my fandom all season. Or getting on the team on a good year when I wasn't there to take the lumps on the bad years.
But who the hell cares? Its sports and we all have our own little interpretations of "rules."
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Post by Jack Quinn on Aug 12, 2007 10:47:54 GMT -5
college = crap?
What a bleak sad little world you live in
The Phillies are everything I hoped the Mets would be - a team that plays their fucking asses off for all 27 outs. They're never out of a game. Solly 10/20/09
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...Until I moved to Alabama. 15 years being down here, and college football is incredible. But I don't really compare to the NFL. They're both fantastic. Unlike basketball, where only the college game is fantastic.
For whatever reason, college football doesn't resonate as much in the northeast and in some parts of the mid-Atlantic as it does in the south and the midwest. I've never actually seen or read the reasoning for this though, but I'm sure it's interesting.
The south and midwest seem to just be obsessed with it and eat and breath it. We don't have big schools who are powers. Its only slightly more present than Nascar so its easy to ignore. And the very static nature of the sport where it seems like its just the rich who always stay rich and a system basically designed to always give the same guys the favor probably seems unreasonable to us. Not to mention the theoretical racism. I just think its easier to notice the flaws in college football when you're not in the heart of it. And there's a perfectly great football league already present and a bunch of other sports options, so who needs it? When you're there you probably overlook the flaws because you're having so much damn fun being in this world. Up here the only presence college football has is Notre Dame and even that is kind of a passing thing. I have half a dozen friends who are ND fans like me and I've sat to watch a game with any of them maybe twice and we talk about the team maybe once a week during a big game or after a big win.
Its not like college football isn't popular up here. I mean, most of my sports friends are fans, watch, and gamble on it. But there's no culture of it (except maybe a gambling one). I get together with friends to watch baseball playoffs, basketball playoffs, march madness, the Super Bowl, and even occasionally the Stanley Cup playoffs. But never a Bowl game.
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And the very static nature of the sport where it seems like its just the rich who always stay rich and a system basically designed to always give the same guys the favor probably seems unreasonable to us.
Where's Moose at?
Not to mention the theoretical racism.
By this statement, I presume you mean an institution using highly talented black athletes to pad the pockets of the rich, white folks running the universities, while simultaneously hindering and in some cases, discouraging said athletes from effectively chasing a quality education from the school for which he competes for. If that's not what you meant by that, what did you mean? Ya got me curious.
That. The lack of black coaches. The stories I've seen of blacks being held out of quarterback positions for decades and at young ages (which I really have very little knowledge of so I'm not saying I believe it, just that I've heard it). You hear/read a lot of stories about this sort of stuff when you're on the outside.
I know I was opening myself for a Yankee comparison with that rich get richer thing, but NCAA football seems basically designed to always have the same 30 or 40 schools always competing and the same 20 or so powerhouses. Or whatever numbers make sense. The big schools are where the best talents go. You need those institutions. When a lesser school has a season like Auburn they're at an immediate disadvantage because they weren't big before. And then teams like ND get picked for Bowl Games because they are the big schools NCAA wants in there, not because they're the most deserving. Seems like a system basicaly designed to keep the powerful in power and the lower class where they are. In basketball its wide open. You may not rank high in the polls but you've got a shot at a bid into the tourney and then your fate is in your hands. Baseball, for whatever free agency or payroll issues may have, has plenty of room for folks to compete and doesn't reward the Yankees any extra points because they've been good for a long time.
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Post by Jack Quinn on Aug 12, 2007 18:30:08 GMT -5
luckylopez said:
And the very static nature of the sport where it seems like its just the rich who always stay rich and a system basically designed to always give the same guys the favor probably seems unreasonable to us.
I don't necessarily disagree with you here in regards to college football, but to hear a Yankees fan say that.....hilarious
The Phillies are everything I hoped the Mets would be - a team that plays their fucking asses off for all 27 outs. They're never out of a game. Solly 10/20/09