The Favorite Team Thread
 

Go ahead and post your favorite squads.

My purpose is threefold:

1. I'm curious as to the sports demographics here. I want to see if the fan bases are actually as bizarrely skewed as they appear to be.

2. Everyone has a place to challenge everybody else's allegiances, hopefully preventing every single sports thread from devolving into a "you're not a real fan" piss-fist that nobody wants to read.

3. When your lightly-regarded team wins a title, you can point to this thread to prove to everybody that you were backing them even when they sucked.

I'll start:

NFL: Colts
MLB: Reds
NBA: Spurs
NHL: meh
college football: Notre Dame
college bball: Purdue
college hockey: Cornell
English soccer: Liverpool
International soccer: Ireland

One more thing. No cop-outs in the vein of "I like Team X and Team Y equally." No you don't.

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NFL: Cowboys
MLB: Cubs
NBA: Spurs
NHL: Stars
Everything college: Texas

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I can honestly care less even if someone claims to be a fan of a team, if they have no real allegiance.

If you are choosing any of these teams over your home team, then I honestly don't view you as a true fan. I dont dislike you, I dont think you cant like team x, but you are not a real fan.

I was born and raised in Philadelphia. I have liked the Eagles, Phillies, Sixers, and Flyers my whole life. And thats it.

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soccer: Sevilla Futbol Club
NFL: San Francisco 49ers
MLB: San Francisco Giants
NBA: Portland Trail Blazers
College everything but volley: Oregon
National team soccer: Spain
NHL: DNE

edit to add:
college volleyball: Hawai'i

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NFL: Chargers
MLB: Padres
NBA: If they had more chinese guys, i would watch
NHL: why even include the nhl?
college football: USC
college bball: Texas
college hockey: pointless
English soccer: Arsenal
International soccer: Japan

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I can honestly care less even if someone claims to be a fan of a team, if they have no real allegiance.

If you are choosing any of these teams over your home team, then I honestly don't view you as a true fan. I dont dislike you, I dont think you cant like team x, but you are not a real fan.



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That's fine. I've found that people with this attitude are very likely to come from a major metropolitan area. If you grew up in a place that wasn't filled with teams playing at the highest level, you might feel differently.

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NFL: AFC / Pats -- NFC / Panthers
MLB: Red Sox (AL) / Cubbies (NL)
NBA: Meh. Grew up a Hornets fan, they left town and suck. I like teams that play good basketball and are fun to watch. I follow the C's somewhat.
College: UNC forever, bitches!
NHL: Bruins.

NT

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First three are all spend good hunks of BR to buy tickets and attend games variety....
MLB - Cubs
College - Illinois
NFL - Bears
teams that I care but don't really care...
NBA - Bulls (so spoiled when I was kid....)
NHL - Blackhawks

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NBA: Mavericks
NFL: Cowboys
MLB: Red Sox
NCAA: OU
International Soccer: Brazil

I was never really interested in baseball, but I started getting caught up in the Red Sox two-three years ago, mainly because of how passionate Bill Simmons is about them. It felt awesome to me that they won last year, but I feel kinda dirty about it at the same time. Put a gun to my head, and they're my MLB team. But you can call me bandwagon if you want.


I've been fans of the Mavs and Cowboys for as long as I can remember. My dad used to take me to Mavs games during the awful 9 and 11 win seasons, but I remember them winning more than losing when I went. This is through the rose-colored lens of childhood, but I'm 90% positive that as bad as they were, they still had a winning record in games I attended.

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NFL: <--- (Niners, favorite of all teams in all sports)
MLB: Oakland A's
NBA: Kings
NHL: Sharks (Don't really care)
NCAAB: SDSU Aztecs
NCAAF: Cal Bears
NCAAH: Colorado College
International Soccer: Germany

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This is unfair to those of us who didn't grow up in just one place I think. For instance, being born in Maine, I've rooted for the Red Sox/Pats/Celtics/Bruins for a while, and I was stoked when the Sox won, but you won't ever see me grandstanding like I can compete with sublime or daryn or JT, etc. Likewise, I've been over the UK connection enough that if no one should be pointing fingers at me if I brag on them. I'm going all ATL for this, but understand that I don't like it. Not one bit.

NFL: Falcons
MLB: Braves
NBA: sigh...Hawks
NHL: Thrashers
college football: Georgia Tech
college bball: Georgia Tech
college hockey: Maine (Holla homestate! You have one team)
English soccer: Chelsea
International soccer: United States

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soccer: Sevilla Futbol Club
NFL: San Francisco 49ers
MLB: San Francisco Giants
NBA: Portland Trail Blazers
College everything: Oregon
National team soccer: Spain
NHL: DNE

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i like the oregon pride, national team soccer i take England (got dual citizenship), NFL i got Tampa bay...dunno why....MLB i got Athletics. They are GREAT. Premership i got Man U...relatives from manchester...

favorite sport: soccer, squash

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MLB: A's. This is really the only sports team of which I consider myself a hardcore fan. All the others you could accuse me of being bandwagon and I couldn't argue too much.

NBA: Kings

NFL: Broncos

CFB: Cal Bears (alum)

CBB: Cal Bears (alum)

There are no other sports worth watching.

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MLB: A's
NBA: Sixers
NHL: Flyers
NFL: Eagles
Golf: Mickelson
Soccer: don't follow

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I can honestly care less even if someone claims to be a fan of a team, if they have no real allegiance.

If you are choosing any of these teams over your home team, then I honestly don't view you as a true fan. I dont dislike you, I dont think you cant like team x, but you are not a real fan.

I was born and raised in Philadelphia. I have liked the Eagles, Phillies, Sixers, and Flyers my whole life. And thats it.

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You didn't think this through very well. I want to call you a complete moron but i won't. I was born in Idaho which has no pro teams, does this mean i can't be a fan? Sure the tv stations consider the Jazz, the Rockies and the Avalance, and the Seahawks our "local" teams, but i am not fans of all those teams. My dad lived in Baltimore most of his life and attended many Orioles games, so when i grew up we watched the O's and i became a true fan. I am, however, a fan of temas in some sports where I know im not a true fan, such as the Steelers. I never really had an NFL team, i just liked the steelers when i was young and i still like them.


NFL: Steelers (psuedo fan) - I'll labe them just to make blank happy.
MLB: Orioles (true fan)
NBA: no team i really follow
NHL: Avalanche (true fan)
college football: Michigan (care more about mich than my own college, so true fan?)
college bball: Mich
college hockey: Mich
English soccer: Man U.
International soccer: USA (watch every game, no matter if its at 4 am, def true fan)

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Illini
Cardinals
Bulls

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UConn
Red Sox
Patriots

2004 was so cool.

Also awaiting the return of...

http://www.nflnut.com/store/media/whalersl.jpg

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NCAAH: Colorado College

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I hate Colorado College.

GO ST. CLOUD STATE HUSKIES!!!

(yes, even if we DID suck ass this year)

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MLB: Yankees
NBA: Knicks
NFL: Jets
NCAAB: UConn, Duke

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MLB: (AL) M's and Yankees (slight edge to the M's, fu ck you all). (NL) Giants
NBA: Sonics
NFL: I guess the Seahawks
NHL: None
NCAAF: Notre Dame
NCAAB: None

This list is hard for me only in baseball. I simply like to many teams, but those three I listed I like the most, with the M's and the Yankees in a wide margin over the Giants.

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Illini
Cardinals
Bulls

[/ QUOTE ]I didn't know you were a Cards fan...

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Bandwagon fan.

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NCAAB: UConn, Duke

Dude. Seriously.

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MLB: Atlanta Braves. My grandfather was a huge fan due to TBS, and there's no local team here, although Lafayette has a huge Houston ex-pat population, so they're the popular team.
NFL: New Orleans Saints
NCAA anything: University of Louisiana-Lafayette, then LSU. I grew up on LSU but attend UL.
NBA: I don't have any alligiance to that farce of a team.

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The sports I watch:

NFL: I follow the Texans the most closely, but I'm not really a fan of any one team, I just like watching games.
MLB: Astros
NBA: Rockets, I don't really like basketball though
college football: Texas

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NFL: Niners
MLB: Giants
NBA: Warriors
NHL: What is NHL?
college football: Cal
college bball: Cal


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Listed in order from Teams I love the Most to teams I only like a little
NFL: Patriots
MLB: Red Sox
NHL: Bruins
college football: UMass
college basketball: UMass
college hocky: UMass
college Lacrosse: UMass
HS football and Lacrosse: Holliston HS
college football: BC
college basketball: BC
NBA: Celtics
International Soccer: USA

Teams I Hate (listed from I hate the most to I just don't Like)
MLB: Yankees
college football: Notre Dame
college basketball: UConn
college Basketball: Duke
NASCAR

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fine.

MLB: Red Sox
NFL: Patriots
NBA: Spu...OK OK, Celtics
NHL: I "root" for the Bruins but I could care less.
College Everything: Penn State

I wish I had an old Sox hat that I could wear to show that I've been a fan through their terrible years. The thing is, I bought one while on a cruise at the Dominican Republic this summer. When we had left they were about 10 games behind the Yankees and out of Wild Card. When we came back they were in the middle of their run to the playoffs. So now my hat is new and I look like a bandwagonner when i wear it.

Oh, and I was more of a Celtics fan back when they were coached by M.L. Carr. If THAT doesn't spell devotion...

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Da Bears
Reds
Spurs
Les Canadiens...(i lived in quebec for a bit
THE Ohio St University.
UC bearcats
>>??
Man U
Argentinia Gooooooooooooool Gooooooooooool

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Illini

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wow, with the success of the basketball team this year I'm surprised you hadn't mentioned being a fan before this thread.

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NHL: Vancouver Canucks

NFL: Any team with Doug Flutie

NBA: I hate basketball

College basketball: The lower seed

MLB: Montreal Expos or anyone not named Yankees or Braves

Golf: Mickelson and Weir



rJ

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Illini

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wow, with the success of the basketball team this year I'm surprised you hadn't mentioned being a fan before this thread.

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funny [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

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NFL: 49ers
MLB: Giants
NBA: Warriors

Anybody wanna guess where I'm from?

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2 Daddys and an egg donator??? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]

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I could actually care less about College Hockey (hockey in general). I just put Colorado College because I have a friend who goes there and he said that the hockey team is good.

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MLB: Dodgers
NFL: Packers
NHL: Kings
NBA: Spurs
NCAA B: Duke
NCAA F: USC
NCAA Baseball: USC
European soccer: Bayern Muenchen

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NFL Giants
MLB Yankees
NBA Knicks
NHL Rangers

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I can honestly care less even if someone claims to be a fan of a team, if they have no real allegiance.

If you are choosing any of these teams over your home team, then I honestly don't view you as a true fan. I dont dislike you, I dont think you cant like team x, but you are not a real fan.

I was born and raised in Philadelphia. I have liked the Eagles, Phillies, Sixers, and Flyers my whole life. And thats it.

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Good. This is how it's supposed to be

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what the...

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NFL: Da Raiders!
MLB: (AL) Halos, (NL) Dodgers
NBA: Lakeshow
NHL: Kings, though I really don't care that much
college football: Golden domers
college football (D3): Pomona (gotta represent my team!!)
college bball: Irish
college hockey: don't care
English soccer: could care even less
International soccer: US though I could really care less other than i want the US to be the best at everything!