Are your favorite teams the same as when you were a kid?

sherman · Aug 6, 2004

I hate when people change for no reason other than their team is losing.

Red Sox have always been my baseball team
Cowboys have always been my football team
Whalers were my favorite hockey team but now hockey is dead
Celtics were my favorite team growing up but I hate the NBA now.
I never had a favorite college football team but it is now UCONN
The only one I changed was Georgetown being my favorite College B ball team, it is now UCONN. Bandwagon? Yes, I can't deny it.

Guest · Aug 6, 2004

Phillies
Eagles
Flyers
Sixers
Penn State
BBall is tough: PSU is 1 (Hail Alma Mater...with your white and blue!), Temple, St. Joe's, Drexel, LaSalle, Villanova, Penn..they're all ok to me.

sherman · Aug 6, 2004

same as when u were kid?

REDEYE · Aug 6, 2004

Dodgers,Rams were my top 2 teams growing up,ams moving ended that,Packer fan for several years,Piazza traded kind of ate away at my loyalty their. Cubs have been my team quite along time and have been a Trailblazer fan since inception in 70

G.MONEY · Aug 6, 2004

WHEN I WAS A KID, I LOVED THE BEARS AND THE STEELERS IN FOOT'S.

NOW MY FAVORITE TEAM IS WHO EVER GET'S ME THE COVER ON THAT DAY............G..........

RobFunk · Aug 6, 2004

the only thing that changed is I was always a giants fan but then I became a bucs fan in like 97 or 98 I think it was . . the bears were the best team on the first tecmo bowl

Journeyman · Aug 6, 2004

lol@ tecmo bowl...Rob that game sucked!

RobFunk · Aug 6, 2004

it was the best at the time

sherman · Aug 6, 2004

Journey, TECMO BOWL sucked? BEST video game of ALL TIME! Are U crazy?
And Rob Funk, I played the original Tecmo Bowl as early as close back as about 3 yrs ago and it beats all these fancy games today!

Mr NJ Sports · Aug 7, 2004

Tecmo Bowl ,Rbi Baseball and NHL 94 and 95 were the greatest ever.

Christian Okoye was a monster.

Fav teams have always been same Devils,Giants,Mets (although strawberry to LA and then Piazza back to the Mets is the reason why)

stlrocker · Aug 7, 2004

Tecmo Bowl, Rbi Baseball, that is awsome...of course the greatest video game of all time is Pong.

St Louis Cardinals
St Louis Cardinals/Rams
St Louis Blues
Missouri Tigers
St Louis Billikens

Have never changed any of the above!!!

wilheim · Aug 7, 2004

Boston College Eagles

I was lucky enough to go to a lot of their games in the early 60's. I saw the late (and great) Ernie Davis play for Syracuse at BC in his senior season when he won the Heismann Trophy. He scored 3 TDs in a big Orangeman win.

wil.

Kevy · Aug 7, 2004

As a kid and an aduly I've always been
an oddball and had two favorite teams in
most sports:

NFL: Chicago & Seattle
NBA: Chicago & Portland
MLB: Chicago Cubs & Seattle
NCAA Hoops: Depaul & Illinois
NCAA Football: Oregon & Washington State

AirForce1 · Aug 7, 2004

<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by sherman:
I hate when people change for no reason other than their team is losing.

Red Sox have always been my baseball team
Cowboys have always been my football team
Whalers were my favorite hockey team but now hockey is dead
Celtics were my favorite team growing up but I hate the NBA now.
I never had a favorite college football team but it is now UCONN
The only one I changed was Georgetown being my favorite College B ball team, it is now UCONN. Bandwagon? Yes, I can't deny it. <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Then = Yankees / Now = Yankees
Then = NY Giants / Now = NY Giants
Then = Hartford Whalers / Now = NJ Devils
Then = Boston Celtics / Now = NJ Nets
Then = SU Orangemen / Now = SU Orangemen

sherman, I used to go to the Whalers almost every week. Jimmy Roberts used to give me free tickets all the time, he lived a few houses next door to me for about 10-12 years.....man, I miss those days.

TheFunkMonkey · Aug 7, 2004

NFL, Raiders and Niners
NBA, Lakers
MLB, Dodgers and Angels
NHL, Caps and Kings
College, UCLA and USC

Go figure, I was born in California (but I only lived there for a few months).

These days, I really don't have "favorite" teams. Some of it is because of gambling. Kind of hard to have a favorite team when you're betting on them to lose by 9+ points.

But it is mostly because of free agency, greed, etc. Players switch teams every 2-3 years, so you can't build any loyalty or history.

ppeter · Aug 7, 2004

I have been a Dolphins fan since 12 years old. Never changed.

I was a Dodger fan as a kid, now I like the Angels.

I was a Celtic fan as a kid, now I hate the NBA.

I have been a University of Hawaii fan most my adult life.

I have always hated hockey.

Marco · Aug 7, 2004

Never followed baseball, baskets, or hockey much, so I had no favorite teams among those sports, either pro or college...

I did like the Lakers of old when Magic, Kareem, and Worthy were playing....that team faded away, and so did I from basketball...

Big time Steelers fan...grew up watching Bradshaw, Swann, Lambert, Mean Joe Greene, Donnie Shell...I can honestly say I will never have as much passion and emotion for a team since then....since then my passion for the Steelers has waned...if they win or lose, it's all the same whereas before, it would be a big downer if they lost and total elation when they won. Even the superbowl in 92ish against Dallas had little effect on my emotions...they got beat but it wouldn't have effected me that much to see them win.

Times change, and teams change, what with all the free agency and trading and the chase for the dollar going on, if you are a Tennessee fan, just wait about three years and you will have most of the players from another team playing for Tennessee.....in 2008 you will be a Tennessee fan cheering for the 2005 Miami Dolphins.

Maybe time has dulled my enthusiasm of being a fan....when I was young it was all new, now I'm older and I have watched 20,000 more games...its more of an old, dull routine.

Maybe we were all just bigger fans before we started gambling.

rugby · Aug 8, 2004

My team was always the raiders when we played neighborhood football, and still today my fav team are the raiders. Red Wings on the ice, Pistons on the court, and the tigers and A's in bases. College foots has always been the Wolverines.

Rugby.

mgspooky · Aug 8, 2004

A'S SINCE 1968
METS SINCE 1969
DETROIT LIONS SINCE 1970
NETS SINCE DR. J DAYS
DEVILS SINCE THE MOVED TO JERSEY

SECRETARIAT SINCE 1973
NIATROSS SINCE 1979

Same when I was a kid, same to this day.

Even married to the same girl for the past 20 years

jdodger · Aug 8, 2004

Brooklyn dodgers as a kid.

When they moved, they broke my 9 year old heart so bad I have never been able to root for any team the same way ever since. Seriously.

The closest I came was the Mets. They were so bad, they needed all the help they could get - you HAD to root for them. Besides, they had Snider, Hodges and Craig, old Dodgers anyway.

But the series of strikes soured me on major league baseball, so the only teams I really can root for are my alma maters - Woodlands High School, Augustana College and Northwestern.

Rooting for Pro teams now would be like rooting for General Motors and Microsoft - I just can't get emotional about business corporations.