Can someone explain to me (RIGHT FUCKING NOW) the rule of The REAL SPORTS FAN,

that says that you have to root for the team of the city you live in.

Now if someone could explain to me as someone who lives equi-distant between to city with professional sports teams. Let's delve into the issue a little further:

Football: We have the Ravens and Redskins, which by default would also include the Indianapolis Colts and Cleveland Browns. PICK 'em. This brings up a whole nother conundrum in that I lived equidist between Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Indianapolis. Add to that fact, that the old Cleveland Browns are now in Baltimore and the old Baltimore Colts are in Indianapolis and the Cincinnati Bengals were formed by the former owner of the Browns. To top it off, the original Cleveland team (RAMS) moved to LA and became the LA Rams who are now the St. Louis Rams who replace the St. Louis Cardinals who moved to Arizona. Don't forget that if I'm rooting for a team that played in LA moved back to Oakland which means that I should be rooting for a team in the bay area. I guess that means I should be a 49'ers and rooting for a team that was owned by a convicted felon.

Baseball: We have the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Reagan Nationals, which by default would include the St. Louis Browns and Montreal Expos. I could root for the Phillies, but then if I did that, I would have to consider the Athletics who moved to Kansas City (oh shit, now do I need to be a Royals fan??) and then to Oakland. Which means that I really should be rooting for a team in the bay area and teh roid ragers by that logic.

Basketball: Well, there's only one here, the Baltimore/Washington Bullets/Wizards. So that's easy, I root for the Celtics!!

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Maybe the choices in teams are not so bad!

fit into all this....what connection to do you have to the felons?

referred to earlier. I guess, the connection would be to the owner of the 49'ers.

to former owner Eddie DeBartolo?

Have you lived in Texas?

Were you born in Texas?

Just what is your connection to the Cowboys?...If you have none, you are a bandwagon jumper and have violated the rules that cboy layed out.

of cboy's post and one that I happen to agree with...

You should cheer for the teams from where you're from and you should be consistent like me in that regard.

You really should actually read what I posted, before posting. Sheesh!

Read the part about the conundrum, cboynupton!

or presently live would be, in my mind, acceptable to root for...

You still have not answered my question about your connection to Dallas...do you have trouble comprehending the question or, as I suspect, are you avoiding it?

and am still ed from two teams, then what the fuck is your suggestion cboynupton??

You second question is irrelevant, cboy.

just as I, being from the Bay Area, have a choice of the Giants or the A's, the Raiders or the 49ers.

However, it is not okay to root for some club 2000 miles away that you saw on TV.

On edit, I am well within the mileage you have defined. So I guess the argument is over. See it was easier than either of us thought!!

:hi:

I can still be a Cowboys fan and you can still be a forty-niners fan!


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It's actually just over 1100 miles driving to Turner Field from my house (according to mapquest, I've never made the drive). Yes, I'm a Red Sox fan first and foremost, but I've been a Braves fan as well since 1984. I've been to the city only 2 times, have no family from the area and no personal connections to the Braves. None of my family members are Braves fans, so I didn't "inherit" it from a parent or anything. I became a Braves fan for 1 reason. I saw them on TV.

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Go Philanderers!:woohoo:

I'm dizzy...:crazy:


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:shrug:

Is that too much too ask?? Oh yeah, cboynupton spent some time in the bedroom as Boss suggested.

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keep track of the dozens of teams he "roots" for .. depending on how they're doing in the standings, of course.

It's a chump's game.

the team I like.

Guess, I'm ok!!

have you ever even been to Texas?

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And even if it were true, that doesn't qualify you to adopt them as your team.

:)

:wtf:

you're a big Detroit Red Wings fan. :eyes:

then it should be ok for me to root for the celtics.

BTW, I'm not a hockey fan. No rinks within an hour of us. Kind of hard to play hockey on a frozen corn field.

he sees the participants in the finals then he will suddenly become a fan of the favorite....yeah it's all about jumping on the bandwagon.

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Root for whatever team you like. That's what I do.
It's fast, it's easy and it's okay.

Now as far as WashDC-Balti baseball is concerned, you would also have to root for both the Rangers and Twins since the Washington Senators moved to Minn in 1961. In the following year DC had another team and they eventually moved to Texas and became the Rangers. I think that was in '71.

Oh hell. I think I just added more confusion!

what is your old sn?? confound madinmaryland!!

:rofl:

at the very least.

i mean considering when you became a fan of these teams,
exactly how hard was it to be a Cowboy fan? :eyes:
oh and you're really brave for being a Celtics fan... :rofl:

i mean, it's as if you decided your favorite teams back in 1979 while looking at the standings chart. :eyes:

Yeah, it kind of hard not to like Bill Russell, John Havilcek, Dave Cowens, etc. with the Celtics.

Also, who can forget Dandy Don Meredith and Bob Lilly for the Boys, and then there was the hero of the 1960 World Series, Bill Mazeroski (sp).

Shit, I have no idea who played for the indians in the 60's!! :rofl:

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Nothing more obnoxious in fandom than someone who only seems to root for the hot team du jour.

Lots of downs in Pittsburgh!!

Redskins. Lived in DC as a kid.
Senators. RIP. Same.
Red Sox. Lived in RI and Conn. as a kid
Bruins.
Celtics.
Mets. Lived in Norfolk worked at AAA ballpark.
Caps. A DC thing, again.

I agree with that. I am a Detroit fan through and through. I've had a few other teams I've liked over the years. But even though I live in Seattle now, I have never abandoned my teams (even the Lions) and the Seattle teams likewise did not move upwards in my hierarchy of whom I root for.

Of course, I have a rule of thumb: I only root for the teams that my great-grandfathers cheered for. I realize not everyone has that luxury, but it's worked for me and helps me shut people up who think I should root for Seattle (the city has been on the verge of losing every pro team it's had, and in fact finally did lose one, so what would be the point, anyway?)

I have a very hard time rooting for teams snatched away from the fans, too.

I think Pittsburgh had a professional baseball team in the latter part of the 1800's. I'll have to ask the "REAL SPORTS FAN" what they think of that idea!!

Football: dne.
Basketball: had not been invented.

Racing: Kentucky Derby.

:D

I've been rooting for some of my teams since '67. Mets since the late '70s.

Only the Caps are something new.