I must say...

[Ranger REG]

RE: NBA

I have never been a Lakers fan, not even when Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar were a part of that arguably fantastic team and masters of the fast break.

Despite my location, I have never been a fan of any Western Conference NBA basketball team, I'm always rooting for the East, mainly the Bulls, the 76ers, and the Celtics, but oddly enough, Knicks are an exception. I hate Knicks as much as the next Western team if not moreso.

This season, I don't have any one favorite.


RE: NFL

I used to like the Cowboys when Aikman, Irvin, Harper, and Emmit Smith were on. This season's team does not impress me. But the one thing remain constant: I'm not a fan of the 49ers, not during the Montana's, Young's, and even the Garcia's team.

This season, I don't have any one favorite.

 

[drothgery]

RE: NBA

This is the only sport where the team I consider "my team" (the Kings) was one that I picked solely because I like to watch them play (okay, and a little bit because I understand bashing LA teams is considered a Good Thing in San Diego, and so couldn't follow the Lakers after moving out here).

The Cavs (my hometown team) were too bad for too long for me to keep up any affection for them, but hadn't reached that point yet when I was living in Wisconsin (so I never gravitated to the Bulls or Bucks). Neither the Knicks nor the Celtics of the late 1990s were all that ineresting.

But I moved out west a few years ago, and the Mike Bibby, C-Webb, and Peja show has always been fun to watch. So I'm a Kings fan now.

RE: MLB

This is the only sport where my loyalties are still with my original home team (the Indians). The Indians with Thome, ManRam, and Roberto Alomar while he was still good spent the second half of the 1990s as the best hitting team in baseball, after all.

RE: College Sports

Here, I favor the team from where I finished high school, and the region where I lived longer than almost anywhere else (except northern Ohio, but I left when I was in 7th grade; I remember a lot more of Syracuse, Buffalo, and Rochester). It's the Syracuse Orangemen, without question (at least during basketball season; Coach P's ineptness often has me remembering that I was born a Buckeye). Though since moving out west, I've become kind of an unfocused fan of Pac-10 football in general; eastern writers often say they don't play defense inside the Pac 10 -- western writers say they don't play offense outside the Pac 10 (we're talking good, solid, non-gimicky, pass-first but not pass-only offense).