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[Carlos del Vaca]

So, this dude I know from years back is exulting on Facebook that Duke is on the verge of a national title.  Not that he went to Duke, mind you.  He also likes the Dallas Cowboys, and Alabama football.  He's from PENNSYLVANIA.

Am I alone in finding this obnoxious as fuck?  I've suggested he also root for the New York Yankees, and UConn women's hoops.

[pmcd9]

I've always only ever rooted for the home town team so I know the meaning of suffering.  When my beloved/hated Oilers left town it broke my heart and now I root for no one.  It's been very freeing, not being chained to a team like that. 

Even at the high school level when I go to see my niece or nephew play in the marching band.  I'll cheer for the opponents too.  It's not my high school, I don't give a shit if they win or lose.  I've gotten some dirty looks for this.  What?  It was a beautiful play.  Actually though, I think that's more about sportsmanship than rooting for a team.  You know, "It's not whether you win or lose it's how you play the game" that old adage that seems to have absolutely no meaning at all anymore having been replaced by "winning isn't everything, it's the only thing."

[miles]

I just had this conversation last night after the Duke game. I can't decide whether I hate Yankee fans or Red Sox fans more. Probably Red Sox fans, even though I don't really hate the Sox like I hate the Yankees, because I'm tired of people lying to me about how they were fans way before 2004. Also I never want to hear the term "Red Sox Nation" again. FUCK!

[pmcd9]

Fever Pitch was a really cute movie.

[miles]

It was better when it was a book about soccer. Just kidding, I haven't seen it.

I don't have a problem with my friends from Boston liking the Red Sox, but I do get sick about hearing about them from people who couldn't give two fucks about the team in 2003.

[littlefallsmets]

Growing up a Mets fan, the idea of there being a shared level of magnitude with the Yankees and Red Sox is kind of unthinkable.

The Red Sox are a semi-friend you're kind of outta touch with. He was a schlub as a teenager and always complained about how the girls didn't go for him but he got lucky with his finances and now he's annoying in the opposite way, he can't help but keep talking about how he's getting laid all the time now.

And that's annoying, sure.

The Yankees, in contrast, murdered your parents in an alleyway over a necklace while you were getting out of screening of Zorro at the age of eight.

The Red Sox, eh, they're grating after a while but if they're feeling generous that night, they might buy all the rounds.

The Yankees fill my throat with a bileous rage wherein I'd throw up if I didn't think the acid would burn holes in my cheeks.

This is the Metfan perspective, of course.

[JorgeFabregas]

I attended a  White Sox-Yankees game in Chicago and sat near a Yankees fan who cheered highlights of the Red Wings on the jumbotron. Annoying? Agreed.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Red Sox fans were sort of cute before 2004.  Now they have an obnoxious sense of entitlement.  Yankees fans are generally a little self-aware that their team has major built-in advantages; they just don't give a shit.

[AugustWest]

Go Butler!

[pmcd9]

Growing up a Mets fan, the idea of there being a shared level of magnitude with the Yankees and Red Sox is kind of unthinkable.

The Red Sox are a semi-friend you're kind of outta touch with. He was a schlub as a teenager and always complained about how the girls didn't go for him but he got lucky with his finances and now he's annoying in the opposite way, he can't help but keep talking about how he's getting laid all the time now.

And that's annoying, sure.

The Yankees, in contrast, murdered your parents in an alleyway over a necklace while you were getting out of screening of Zorro at the age of eight.

The Red Sox, eh, they're grating after a while but if they're feeling generous that night, they might buy all the rounds.

The Yankees fill my throat with a bileous rage wherein I'd throw up if I didn't think the acid would burn holes in my cheeks.

This is the Metfan perspective, of course.

Yeah, it's really nice to not give a shit.

[Choop]

FUCK BOBBY COX

[lprkn]

The Yankees, in contrast, murdered your parents in an alleyway over a necklace while you were getting out of screening of Zorro at the age of eight.

Sure it wasn't The Ring Cycle?

[Lister]

I was an Alabama fan until 1992, the year of their last championship before this one.  I quit because the fans got more obnoxious/insufferable than normal.

Congratulations, the paid-under-the-table 'roid freaks that pretend to attend class at a university you couldn't get in to managed to have enough games handed to them by the officials and got voted to be number 1 despite playing only two of the best teams of paid-under-the-table 'roid freaks!  You certainly should enjoy that, because nearly $5 of the $180 you paid for that replica jersey you refuse to take off went to the general education fund for that school!  Go you!

I may appear bitter in that last paragraph.  I guess what I mean is: Fuck you, college bandwagon jumpers.  Right in the #####.

[theinevitable]

I get supporting national-level teams that are not from your home-area (I mean, it is not like the Carolina Panthers are made up of people from the Carolinas) but I don't get rooting for college teams unless you went to college there.

like, in Charlotte, everyone is all about whether you are a Duke fan or a UNC fan. I do not go to either of those places, my parents did not go to either of those places, why would I have a preference?

(UNC.)

[KeithHernandez]

Cause Duke is WASP City?

I am from Oklahoma and graduated from OU.  I grew up an OSU fan because OSU fans are not dicks, and mainly went to school there.  All of the people too dumb to get into college in Oklahoma root hard for OU, and that kinda takes the fun out of it.  Now that I went to school there I am a vocal fan of neither, want both to do well generally, and will root for OSU without hesitation when they are playing each other.  I actually went to OSU my freshman year despite it being in the middle of nowhere and looking like a mall.  Even though based on test scores and high school grades I was qualified to go somewhere way better, I didn't even think of going anywhere but there.  I learned quickly that just because some people that come around 6 or 7 times a year (there are like 80,000 of them though) root for someone, I can still go to school there if it is way better.

I grew up a Red Sox and Redskins fan.  The reasons for that are many.  My dad was born in Boston and spent a lot of time in D.C. as a child (and Germany, Tennessee and Hawaii-air force) so he rooted for them.  Also, there aren't really teams in Oklahoma, though most people root for Dallas or St. Louis based teams.  I also hated the Yankees and Cowboys instictually, so that helped.  St. Louis teams are boring and the other Dallas teams had no souls at that point, especially the Rangers.  So yeah, just went with rivals of the teams I dislike that my dad also happened to root for honestly.  I hate the Yankees more than I like the Red Sox, Cowboys Redskins is a tie.  I never really followed the NBA.  Now that I live in Denver, and after the 2007 Red Sox douchebagon parade, I kind of have the same thing going on with the Rockies and Red Sox as I do with OU and OSU.  No reason not to like the Rockies, and I get to see their games and live in their city, but if it comes down to it I have no hesitation to root for the Red Sox.  It is just, childhood wins, once you pick those teams you can't start rooting for someone else or it all feels fake, even if you went to school at their rivals or don't really want to be associated with them and have a much stronger association with another team.

The weirdest thing with me?  I really like the OKC Thunder and want to see them do well, even though they came after I left, have an awful name, and I didn't even start watching the NBA until I came to Denver.

So yeah, am I doing any bandwagon jumping?  Maybe to the Rockies?