SOR
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Post by SOR on Jan 10, 2014 20:19:35 GMT -5
my NINE favourite american football teams BALTIMORE RAVENS CAROLINA PANTHERS CHICAGO BEARS CINCINNATI BENGALS JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS NEW YORK GIANTSOAKLAND RAIDERS SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS TENNESSEE TITANS and my most HATED!!!!!!!!! DALLAS COWBOYS MIAMI DOLPHINS NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS lol, jets ..... How the hell can you have NINE favorite teams? Either a very casual fan or a bandwagon fan. Go Denver.
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Post by thetower52 on Jan 10, 2014 21:11:34 GMT -5
I hate them both
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Post by Red Impact on Jan 10, 2014 21:25:40 GMT -5
How the hell can you have NINE favorite teams? Either a very casual fan or a bandwagon fan. Go Denver. Being a bandwagon fan would imply that he's only fans of winning teams. Bandwagon fans would get hit by a meteor before claiming the Titans, Bengals, and Raiders.
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Waffel113
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Post by Waffel113 on Jan 10, 2014 21:53:45 GMT -5
Two West Side Story references in this thread. I love this place.
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Post by Jimichiro Likes Erick Rowan on Jan 11, 2014 0:57:36 GMT -5
I've always been curious as to what the percentage of Jets fans were Mets fans, Giants fans were Yankees fans and vice versa.
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Post by kamero00 on Jan 11, 2014 1:11:47 GMT -5
We could also ask how does one decide to be a Laker/Clipper fan, but until recently that might have been a no-brainer. LA is a bit of a different city, knowing a significant portion of their population comes from other places. Generally who ever is winning, is the more popular team in LA. When they had the Rams and Raiders playing in LA, there were far more Raiders fans, yet the Raiders only spent a total of 13 years in LA, and the Rams were there for almost 50 years. People liked the LA Raiders because they won a Super Bowl. More evidence: The Clippers have more sell outs than the Lakers this year. LA simply loves a winner.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 11, 2014 9:20:11 GMT -5
If you like the feeling of winning something every few years, you obviously pick them.
Because: J! E! T! S! JETS! JETS! SUCK!
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Post by Shy Guy on Jan 11, 2014 9:50:20 GMT -5
The better question:How do people decide to be Lions fans? I'm from Michigan and I have no idea. my dad grew up in a real shitty small town (which shouldn't even qualify as a town because its legit one road and a gas station), and he was a bills and lions fan. PS: we lived near hamilton, ontario. he grew up a die hard bills AND lions fan, because those were the only teams he'd be able to listen to on the radio (because it took forevs to get nfl on tv in canada). so a million years later when the bills go 0-4 at 4 consecutive superbowls and the lions...are the lions...that was my dad's reasoning for it. once i started to follow football, my brother and i would bet against each other during the playoffs. i took the giants all the way through one year, and won a total of $25 off of my brother. and thats why i'm a giants fan
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Post by HMARK Center on Jan 11, 2014 14:22:38 GMT -5
I've always been curious as to what the percentage of Jets fans were Mets fans, Giants fans were Yankees fans and vice versa. Given how much time the Giants spent playing in the Bronx and how long the Jets were in Queens, the percentage used to be pretty damn high. Like I said before, if you live on Long Island the biggest fandom percentage is still pretty much Mets/Jets/Islanders...used to be Nets, too, since they played for awhile on the Island, and maybe it will be again now that they're in Brooklyn. North Jersey, if I'm being fair, is definitely still more Yankees/Giants, though not to some huge percentage. Overall though, there's a ton more mixing between the fandoms today than there used to be. Like I said before, I'm a Mets/Giants fan, and it's not all that weird to see around here. Come to think of it, I'm sure a lot of Mets/Giants fans were created when both teams won their respective championships in 1986/1987.
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Post by AdamAFL was sooooo wrong on Jan 11, 2014 15:26:29 GMT -5
Well with most sport fandoms location and family history is key but when it comes down to me being a Jets fan none of that is applicable since I'm from England and none of my family watch NFL. My love of the Jets came from the fact that they were in the very first NFL game I watched. It was the Monday Night Miracle, and even though the TV channel cut the feed before the end of the game (I'm still pissed about this) I managed to get on our dial-up internet connection and find out that the Jets did indeed win later on.
So with me it's just chance, I was only up late that night because I couldn't sleep, and I just chanced upon that channel. But with most people it is generally to do with family connections/location.
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