Spider2024
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Post by Spider2024 on Aug 31, 2015 14:56:30 GMT -5
St. Louis Cardinals, I don't know why, but they've just always come off as mind-numbingly boring and invincible. Even the Yankees have bad years where you're like "Hah, serves you right", but the Cardinals are almost too consistent and too "Aw shucks" as a team personality to like. So basically they're the Cena of the MLB. I like to call them the St. Louis Ortons. Enough of them already. I'd honestly rather see the Yankees win if the two played in a World Series.
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Burst
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Post by Burst on Sept 1, 2015 12:54:45 GMT -5
Too lazy to post the video, but a video has been floating around my Facebook of Urban Meyer teaching a class at tOSU and making two students do push-ups in front of the class, solely for wearing blue shirts. Not even Michigan navy, light blue. That's nuts, and that reactionary cult mentality is one of the reasons I really do tend to loathe the mentality of Buckeye Football.
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Urethra Franklin
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Sept 1, 2015 18:43:37 GMT -5
- Any Boston-area team - Yankees - Liverpool - Canucks - Habs - Dolphins - Arsenal - Sens - City - NY Jets - Orioles - 'Bama - FSU - Chelsea
My hate is diverse and widespread.
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Post by HMARK Center on Sept 1, 2015 19:44:02 GMT -5
Too lazy to post the video, but a video has been floating around my Facebook of Urban Meyer teaching a class at tOSU and making two students do push-ups in front of the class, solely for wearing blue shirts. Not even Michigan navy, light blue. That's nuts, and that reactionary cult mentality is one of the reasons I really do tend to loathe the mentality of Buckeye Football. Ugh, I flat-out can't stand college sports anymore. The NCAA is a cancer on American higher education. I attended Rutgers back from 2003-2007. The Rutgers football team was pretty much garbage my first three years there, then suddenly it was good in my last year (beating Louisville at home for arguably the biggest win in the school's history), and everybody began acting like they gave a shit about it (spoiler alert: nobody cared before then). That would be fine, except what inevitably followed was Rutgers dumping every available dollar into the football program, all the while losing tons and tons of experienced, tenured professors, and lots of classes that were removed from the course selection catalog as a result. The stadium was given more seats, the team was given more perks, the coach was the highest paid "public employee" in New Jersey, and all the while the school itself took a dive into the shitter. Here we are a bit less than a decade later, and Rutgers is absolutely mediocre, at best, but "HERP DERP FOOTBALL WILL SET US FREE UPSTREAM HOO RAH RED TEAM" blah blah blah. Screw Rutgers.
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Burst
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Post by Burst on Sept 1, 2015 19:50:09 GMT -5
^ I honestly think that's more specific to college football in particular. I rowed both in high school and college and one of my buddies from high school crew was recruited for Rutgers' varsity crew team... and then immediately un-recruited when their rowing team lost their varsity status when their football team was suddenly prioritized as you said. It was at the eleventh hour after he had already declined all his other college acceptances so he wound up having to sit out for a year.
I heard it constantly throughout college rowing, about other teams across the country, many with storied histories, being unceremoniously kicked down to club status (and thus losing 90% of their budget, etc) because football or because lacross or because those sports make teh monies.
I have to give my own alma mater credit though. Our team was solidly division II, was like a killer whale in a koi pond versus the other schools in the conference (just because the school grew exponentially from when the conference was founded versus every other school in it) but I've never ever heard talk of trying to go Division I. People like it the way it is, and I frankly think the school takes pride in not being a "football school".
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fw91
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Post by fw91 on Sept 1, 2015 20:27:35 GMT -5
-Also in baseball, I will only "cheer" the Yankees if they have to play the Phillies in the World Series again. In all seriousness, people ask sometimes what I could possibly have against the Yankees, since the Mets and Yanks don't play in the same leagues, etc. It's pretty simple: I was bullied like crazy as a kid for daring to wear Mets gear to school in a predominantly Yankee-fan-filled area, and beyond that there's also a bit of a cultural divide between the NY team fans here. I hear Mets fans whine a lot about wanting the team to be able to spend as much money as the Yankees do on free agents and whatnot, and I just want to say "If you want a team that spends like the Yankees, then go cheer for the freaking Yankees." Don't get me wrong: the Mets' owners, the Wilpons, are pyramid-scheme-sucker-level morons who I would love to see sell the team tomorrow, but even when the Mets were spending at the top of the NL in roster budget, a lot of those fans were still whining about not spending $200+ million like the Yankees. I was born/raised and currently live in Flushing Queens. My biggest resentment with the Yankees, was all of my friends growing up were Yankee "fans" during the dynasty because that was thing to do in NYC during that time period. You live in practically walking distance from Shea GODAMNIT! It was almost like a fad. They probably never visited the stadium, and they could never name anyone on the team besides Jeter and MAYBE Rivera, as well as only pledge their allegiance to the yanks come October . My fellow Mets fans were always more baseball people and actually could name players on the team and know what was going on. Perhaps being in Queens gave me a skewed opinion, but I was always under the impression that most(Not all) Yankee fans were following the trend and more baseball people were Mets fans.
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Post by Rolent Tex on Sept 1, 2015 21:21:16 GMT -5
St. Louis Cardinals, I don't know why, but they've just always come off as mind-numbingly boring and invincible. Even the Yankees have bad years where you're like "Hah, serves you right", but the Cardinals are almost too consistent and too "Aw shucks" as a team personality to like. So basically they're the Cena of the MLB. I like to call them the St. Louis Ortons. Enough of them already. I'd honestly rather see the Yankees win if the two played in a World Series. Just to spite you sir...right about at the bottom of the 7th inning we'll get our customary, "5 RUNS OUTTA NOWHERE!"
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LuchaBella
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Post by LuchaBella on Sept 1, 2015 21:33:45 GMT -5
The Anaheim Ducks. Screw them. Sorry Casey.
San Francisco 49ers, Seattle Seahawks, Denver Broncos, Greenbay Packers, The Steelers specifically because of Ben Rapistberger.
Pretty much anyone who isn't the Los Angeles Kings.
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Post by HMARK Center on Sept 1, 2015 22:18:54 GMT -5
^ I honestly think that's more specific to college football in particular. I rowed both in high school and college and one of my buddies from high school crew was recruited for Rutgers' varsity crew team... and then immediately un-recruited when their rowing team lost their varsity status when their football team was suddenly prioritized as you said. It was at the eleventh hour after he had already declined all his other college acceptances so he wound up having to sit out for a year. I heard it constantly throughout college rowing, about other teams across the country, many with storied histories, being unceremoniously kicked down to club status (and thus losing 90% of their budget, etc) because football or because lacross or because those sports make teh monies. I have to give my own alma mater credit though. Our team was solidly division II, was like a killer whale in a koi pond versus the other schools in the conference (just because the school grew exponentially from when the conference was founded versus every other school in it) but I've never ever heard talk of trying to go Division I. People like it the way it is, and I frankly think the school takes pride in not being a "football school". Ugh, I hate that that story about your friend doesn't shock me. Football is definitely the biggest culprit in all of this, but the sins of Division-I NCAA go beyond that, unfortunately (see: the stories of kids playing for Final Four basketball teams who don't have enough money to buy lunch while having to travel; or hell, just the South Park episode about it). You get football sucking up resources, kids who should be paid being left with nothing, schools not expecting kids on the "big clubs" to actually be students (while still calling them "student-athletes"), kids who want to play for other clubs losing scholarships because they lose varsity status, and all the while they want you, the student who's stuck paying God knows how much in tuition to declare allegiance to this institution that couldn't care less about you. Like, yeah, I know the Mets and Devils are out to get me to spend as much money as humanly possible on them, but at least I don't have to if I don't feel like it. College? Not so much. As for the Mets/Yankees thing, there was actually a really good couple of articles in the Wall Street Journal this season by one of their NFL beat reporters. He had moved from Florida to NYC, and only had one major league team allegiance (he's from central Florida, so he's an Orlando Magic fan), so he decided to experiment with being a Mets and a Yankees fan for a few months to see which he'd like better. He said while he was wearing the Yankees hat, many people around the city just assumed he was a tourist; while wearing the Mets hat, he'd actually get stopped in some places by people wanting to strike up a baseball conversation. That's what years of sucking will do, I suppose: leave the die-hards who can't wait to find a like-minded person who's gone through any similar suffering. Between that and some of the fun quirks of Mets history, along with a bunch of other factors, he wound up choosing the Mets.
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Post by karl100589 on Sept 2, 2015 4:46:41 GMT -5
Jimmie Johnson in NASCAR
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Post by RadcapRadsley on Sept 2, 2015 5:11:30 GMT -5
Baseball St Louis Cardinals- Such insufferable smugness and bs with the "we play the right way" shit. I agree their management is smart but their fans are the worst and full of a bunch of racists
Soccer-Manchester United,Millwall
College Sports Duke Penn St
And all Boston and Philly based sports team besides The Boston Bruins
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Post by RadcapRadsley on Sept 2, 2015 5:17:28 GMT -5
Any team that gets tons of media hype, deserved or otherwise - like every New York team, the L.A. Lakers, the New England Patriots, the Dallas Cowboys, Notre Dame's football team, and Duke's basketball team. I would say the 1 exception to that rule is the New York Giants. Despite being in NY their are about a dozen franchises that clog the headlines more then them. Aside from when Plexico Buresss shot himself it's a team that flies under the radar they might as well be some boring midwestern town Giants or Buffalo Giants.
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chrom
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Post by chrom on Sept 2, 2015 8:30:40 GMT -5
The Patriots, offer me a million dollars to cheer for them and I still wouldn't.
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Post by Brandon Walsh is Insane. on Sept 2, 2015 13:53:19 GMT -5
The Anaheim Ducks. Screw them. Sorry Casey.
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