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Hamhandler posted:it's the closest geographically located NFL franchise to the location of my birth, those are the rules and those of you who are violating it live in God's shame That’d put me basically equidistant from being a jags and panthers fan (Charleston) which somehow sounds much worse than a bears/chargers fan. God made an exemption for are troops and their children tho, if the nfl has taught me anything
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Hamhandler posted:it's the closest geographically located NFL franchise to the location of my birth, those are the rules and those of you who are violating it live in God's shame What's the closest team to the UK? Bunch of us Brits in here who ought to know which team we're violating God's rules by not supporting.
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dingo with a joint posted:What's the closest team to the UK? Bunch of us Brits in here who ought to know which team we're violating God's rules by not supporting. Ironically you’re a patriots fan now, condolences and congratulations
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dingo with a joint posted:What's the closest team to the UK? Bunch of us Brits in here who ought to know which team we're violating God's rules by not supporting. Pontius Pilate posted:Ironically you’re a patriots fan now, condolences and congratulations To attempt my best US-to-UK translation: Imagine if Mercedes pushed out Lewis Hamilton in order to limp along by someone who is at best worse than 4 other young drivers and that's being generous. Meanwhile, Hamilton goes to Haas or some other irrelevant team and then immediately wins the championship that next year. (Also, for this analogy, pretend that there was zero question that Hamilton was the greatest of all time.) That's part of why I hadn't yet posted in this thread, because I kinda don't root for any team anymore. I started following handegg around 2012 or so after the dual combo of playing a fair bit of Blood Bowl and a local rock radio station being turned into a sports station but keeping the same morning drive-time DJs. The Pats are my local team but hadn't won it all terribly recently at the time so it was easy to not feel like a bandwagon fan. They are easy to root for since they were always good and had a pretty good organization focused on trying to win games and not other bullshit. Both of those have changed a lot in the last 5 years or so, so they are a lot harder to root for. If they just sucked, I could deal, but the organizational stupidity is just awful.
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Oct 16, 2022 11:51
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Magnetic North posted:The Pats are my local team but hadn't won it all terribly recently at the time so it was easy to not feel like a bandwagon fan. They are easy to root for since they were always good and had a pretty good organization focused on trying to win games and not other bullshit. Both of those have changed a lot in the last 5 years or so, so they are a lot harder to root for. If they just sucked, I could deal, but the organizational stupidity is just awful. as a pats fan: lol, lmao, are you doing a bit
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CFB - I did my year abroad at Florida and that was my introduction to college football NFL - Played as the Raiders on Madden because their uniforms/logos are cool. Why yes I do hate myself and my choices.
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Oct 16, 2022 16:59
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Because occasionally, Pandemonium Reigns
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I was a 90s kid outside of a real NFL market so my choices were the 9ers or cowboys. Of course, the choice was easy because gently caress the cowboys. Went to Idaho so that's college team. Their dome owns too.
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KYOON GRIFFEY JR posted:as a pats fan: lol, lmao, are you doing a bit Joe Judge parachute account spotted.
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kidcoelacanth posted:when i was a kid i wanted to be a contrarian dickhead so i decided i hated the giants (my family's team) and i decided on the bucs because they were fun at the time (~2000) and i liked them in nfl blitz. this was rad for a couple years then it sucked for 20 years and now it's cool again. the end lol this is pretty much how I also became a Bucs fan. My parents were big Viking fans so that's who I mostly watched then the Bucs hired Tony Dungy and I told my Dad that he would turn that team around and he laughed at me saying the Bucs will always suck. Then they drafted Derrick Brooks (I'm a Noles fan from Charlie Ward days) so it stuck. It especially took root when they drafted Warrick Dunn and got the new unis. I also was a huge Drew Bledsoe (also Ben Coates and Ty Law) fan but never really took on the Patriots and in retrospect I kinda hosed that decision up.
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I actually didn't have any family ties to the Jets. Grew up in Connecticut where the fan splits in elementary/middle school for the few who liked football were like 50% Giants (Simms Super Bowl era), 40% Patriots, and 10% Jets. My best friend across the street was a Bears fan because of the 85 team. The Jets were coming off 2 playoff seasons in a row so they had reasonable juice and I liked that they had green jerseys and a guy named Toon. They were also not the Giants or Patriots, which was important.
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I'm from metro Detroit, as is my whole family, so I was always going to be a Lions fan. They were mediocre when I was a young child, but they had Barry. My dad got season tickets from 2001-06, which was a horrible time to be a fan, and yet I have never fully abandoned them despite moving away. I do usually quit watching around week six these days though. Both my folks went to Michigan State so I was raised a Spartan fan too and have way more passion toward them (particularly after Dantonio's golden era). I went to a D3 school with horrible football so there was never really competition. I am thinking about getting into Washington football now that I live in Seattle though. Seahawks not so much but shout out Kenneth Walker.
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I spent three years in South Florida so when my mates and I were choosing NFL teams I had an actual connection to Miami so it was unavoidable. Fins forever baby
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Henchman of Santa posted:Both my folks went to Michigan State so I was raised a Spartan fan too and have way more passion toward them (particularly after Dantonio's golden era). I went to a D3 school with horrible football so there was never really competition. I am thinking about getting into Washington football now that I live in Seattle though. Seahawks not so much but shout out Kenneth Walker. I have no regrets about where I went to college but I am always a little jealous of people who got the college football experience. My school's team sucked so bad they couldn't even compete in the CAA and eventually disbanded a few years after I graduated. I went to one total game in 4 years and I would estimate attendance in the low hundreds, so mercy killing the team was absolutely the right call. But the upshot is I have zero college sports allegiance and cannot get excited about it at all which is kind of a bummer. One of my good buddies went to Texas during the peak Mack Brown years and he has some stories.
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I've been a Ravens fan since landing on Super Bowl 35 channel flipping at a young age. The uniforms looked slick and Baltimore just crushed it. It's the first super bowl I can remember watching and then the network followed it up with a showing of Little Giants. I didn't become a true sicko watching any game that was on until the past few years but I always kept up with Baltimore. On the college side I spent most of my life hating the whole thing coming up in a hardcore Bama household but now that I'm enjoying the NFL more than ever I'm considering giving some love to the local team in the South Alabama Jaguars even though I didn't go there.
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I’m from Athens Ohio, which is like 1/3 Browns, 1/3 Steelers, and 1/3 Bengals since all three cities are 3-4 hours away. I thought sports were dumb until I moved into my college house and my roommates were Bengals fans. This was in 2004-5, a brief window where Bengals fandom was enticing, and they got me. Then it was terrible for 15 years and then got okay again. And now everyone back home is a Bengals + LSU fan because of our lovely hometown lad.
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Docjowles posted:I have no regrets about where I went to college but I am always a little jealous of people who got the college football experience. My school's team sucked so bad they couldn't even compete in the CAA and eventually disbanded a few years after I graduated. Yeah, I was basically always gonna wins up at a liberal arts school but my one issue with it was not having that real College Town experience with gamedays and such. The only D1 schools i even applied to were Michigan and MSU and I had no intention of going to either.
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Grew up on Staten Island and liked Green, so Jets it was. I wasn't big on sports other then baseball till the 90s, and what a wild ride it was: The Mets started sucking in the 90s I started following the Jets for O'Brien's final season starting I started following the Islanders during their 93 run At least the Knicks were mostly competitive. I'm also an Eagles fan since I moved to NJ and could switch between NY and Philly Markets. plus I eventually moved to Philly (and I hate the Patriots so I love anyone that beats them) and since everyone was talking about the Eagles I figured might as well.
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I started watching football in northern California during the 1980s. Also I liked Montana and Rice because somehow four year old me found the idea that ordinary words could also be someone's name absolutely enchanting.
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Grew up going to Washington games with my dad at old dilapidated RFK stadium which had an incredible raucous college-like atmosphere. Like so many others here, it was a bonding thing and after I got older and moved away, it was the easiest way to start up a conversation with my dad. Then Dan loving Snyder bought the team and the joy gradually died, but my dad also died. It would feel like a betrayal of his memory to give up on his team, even though Snyder totally deserves it and most of the once-rabid fan base is long gone. I went to college at a school that was a national power in football back in the Stone Age, but then abandoned all sports for several decades. It restarted in Division III but no one went to the games. So when I went to grad school at Michigan, I glommed on to the Wolverines as my college team. pretty boring - similar to lots of people in this thread
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My sister was a huge fan of Joe Montana, and since I looked up to her that meant that despite growing up in Texas, I rooted for the Niners instead of the Cowboys. Then Montana got traded to the Chiefs and so she started rooting for the Chiefs, and so did I. Then Montana retired and she promptly stopped caring about football, and I was just old enough to have developed a allegiance. And that's how I ended up buying a 350 dollar Alex Smith jersey.
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I've lived in Minnesota all my life, but never really had any interest in football because I knew from a very young age that the Vikings were a loving joke. I think I learned the "why don't the Vikings eat cereal?" joke at age twelve or thirteen if not younger -- that was in 2003. When I finally started to pay attention to football because I loved the Twins so much that it actually hurt me to watch them when they failed, I've been more interested in other teams -- I like underdogs. The pre-Watson Browns, the Bills, the Chargers, the Lions, the Falcons. I wouldn't call myself a FAN of any of them, though, I just like watching underdogs. Things like the Secret Base Bois-Rubenstein Falcons documentary started to make me more interested -- less in football as a game, really, and more as the event and the history. That even got some interest in the Packers, despite them having so much success, because of their unique structure and all the history packed in with that. But then that brought me back to the Vikings, and why I ultimately started to start wearing the label of Vikings fan anyway, because holy poo poo is this team weird. No other team in the NFL -- maybe no other team in major league American sports -- has been that successful without, at some point, winning it all. No team this consistently good and successful has ever looked so outrageously mediocre at the same time for so long. They rock back and forth between extremely forgettable and impossible to look away from like a metronome set on high. Look at the current Vikings team and you'd never guess that this was the franchise that had the Sex Boat. It's nuts. There's no other team like the Vikings.
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Redeye Flight posted:No other team in the NFL -- maybe no other team in major league American sports -- has been that successful without, at some point, winning it all. Maybe the Phoenix Suns? But you are right, the Vikings are pretty alone among NFL teams for edging so long and never getting there
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I was born and raised in Dallas, I remember in the early 90's when I was helping my folks out at our family business how utterly dead the city was during those Cowboys Superbowls, because everyone was watching. The normally busy intersection our business was at was completely dead, you could set up a chess or checkerboard in the middle of it and play an entire game uninterrupted. Completely surreal, the only other thing I could think to compare it to was the Covid shutdown of The Strip here in Vegas 2.5 years ago at the start of the pandemic. In the interim quarter-century plus since the last title, I've simultaneously come to also hate Jerry Jones, his almost Shakespearean hubris he refuses to learn from, constantly derailing the team because marketing them is just as important to him as winning is, and it shouldn't be. And I've reached a weird zen-status with the team over the last few years where I've come to the realization if I hadn't been born in Dallas and they weren't literally my hometown team, I'd probably be part of "gently caress the Cowboys" crew like 90% of TFF. Consequently whenever Dallas wins now, I'm happy because it's my childhood team, and if they lose, there's a huge silver lining of "Well, at least Jerry Jones isn't happy." It's a bizarre situation of constantly feeling like I'm in a win-win situation regardless of outcome. When they lost tonight, blowing a 14 point lead in the fourth quarter to lose for the first time in team history, I found myself almost equal parts mildly annoyed and very bemused because this is what I've come to expect from Dallas. I enjoy their regular seasons, come what may, and I know in my heart if they make the playoffs, they'll invariably let me down...BUT they will also be letting Jerry Jones down, which is good. Go Cowboys!...and gently caress Jerry Jones
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This week is exactly why I'm a vikings fan The specific kind of heartache the team specialises in has helped me enjoy the ride so much, if we don't make the super bowl I still have a memory that'll keep this season a positive one in my head
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Redeye Flight posted:I've lived in Minnesota all my life, but never really had any interest in football because I knew from a very young age that the Vikings were a loving joke. I think I learned the "why don't the Vikings eat cereal?" joke at age twelve or thirteen if not younger -- that was in 2003. When I finally started to pay attention to football because I loved the Twins so much that it actually hurt me to watch them when they failed, I've been more interested in other teams -- I like underdogs. The pre-Watson Browns, the Bills, the Chargers, the Lions, the Falcons. I wouldn't call myself a FAN of any of them, though, I just like watching underdogs. Things like the Secret Base Bois-Rubenstein Falcons documentary started to make me more interested -- less in football as a game, really, and more as the event and the history. That even got some interest in the Packers, despite them having so much success, because of their unique structure and all the history packed in with that. TIL that Minnesotans don't know that the Buffalo Bills exist.
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the 4 sbs thing is the same but they're not on the same level. the bills started 1 year before the vikings and have 55+ fewer wins and 14 fewer playoff games. the vikings are on the tier just below elite franchises and are the only team with a .500+ all-time record without a super bowl ring. and they're 7th in winning percentage. they're my favorite team and they're unique among all teams. Admit it
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A.o.D. posted:TIL that Minnesotans don't know that the Buffalo Bills exist. The Vikes have been pretty consistently good and the Bills have been dog poo poo for extended periods of time. The Vikings phenomenon is a lot weirder than the Bills.
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Just for a fun bit on the Bills/Vikings thing, FootballOutsides did their "Dynasties of Heartbreak" over the summer about the teams that didn't win championships, and the Bills from 88 to 99 finished 4th, with their 1990 season being considered the most painful single season by their methodology, but the 68-82 Vikings ended up 1st, and the 86-00 teams finished 10th. Fun series or articles to read if you have some time.
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Cavauro posted:the 4 sbs thing is the same but they're not on the same level. the bills started 1 year before the vikings and have 55+ fewer wins and 14 fewer playoff games. the vikings are on the tier just below elite franchises and are the only team with a .500+ all-time record without a super bowl ring. and they're 7th in winning percentage. they're my favorite team and they're unique among all teams. Admit it The Suns were definitely a good cross sport comparison. Also I would kill for that kind of team in my life.
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Action cookbook did a podcast on cursed sports fanbases and the minnesota episode 1)was the only one to have two parts and 2) caused him to stop the podcast because it couldn't be topped
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I've spent most of my life in Green Bay. One of my earliest memories is during the 1992 season watching my dad going nuts over this Brett Favre guy. I think I've been to 30 or so games at Lambeau. Most of them were wins 
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Grew up in Maryland before the Ravens existed, Dad was a New Yorker from a family of Giants fans and he converted my mom who was a bitter former Baltimore Colts fan. My mom never liked the Ravens when they came to town because she felt it was wrong to root for a team that was stolen the same way the Colts got stolen. So I got indoctrinated into Giants fandom early but my Dad never managed to convert us to any other New York teams
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My family is from the Philadelphia area, and both my parents grew up as Eagles fans. (My dad's parents even had season tickets and were allegedly at the game where they threw snowballs at Santa). But after they got married they moved to Ohio (Where I was born), Pennsylvania (where my sister was born), North Carolina, and finally to the Detroit area, where they still reside and where I spent most of my formative years. Growing up, I was aware of football but didn't really follow it outside of knowing who was in the Superbowl and having a lingering fondness for the Panthers. My dad is a firm believer in rooting for the hometown team, however, and started watching the Lions regularly - which, this being in the early 2000s, was an awful decision. In 2003-ish he even took me to a Lions game and told me to root for Joey! (we lost) In high school I started taking more of an interest in the sport, and became more and more invested in the Lions, especially as they started rebuilding with Stafford. Then in 2011 I started posting here and oh god I just turned 30 what happened
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Didn't have much of a choice, I grew up in Minneapolis and watching the early '80s Vikes on the Curtis Mathis in the finished basement at my grandparents house is a formative memory of mine. Who knew a vinyl sectional couch could take such a beating? It's been 35ish years, but my uncle and I still laugh at his calling Isaac Holt "Ike Dolt". Grandpa hated the packers and was very happy about Minnesota getting a team.
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I grew up in Minneapolis and was vaguely aware of the Vikings and likely would have been a fan no matter what (I think I liked playing as the 49ers in football video games in the early '90s, because they were good?), but then the 1998 season happened before I could really glom onto another team, and then I was all in. It sucks knowing they'll probably never win a super bowl but they win a playoff game every few years and are typically fun to watch at least so I try to enjoy the ride
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My dad was a football player at UCLA in college, so he enjoyed watching the sport quite a bit but I think I got my overall rooting nihilism from him because he didn't really care about specific teams, not even his alma mater where he was a defensive end. I grew up in Santa Cruz and used to go to 49ers and Raiders games semi-frequently with him, I will never forget when the car battery out of our family minivan was stolen while we were at a Raiders game and we had to call triple A to even get home. That being said I didn't actually get much into football besides watching it sometimes with my dad until well after college. It was the intricacy of offensive and defensive schemes and playcalling that really drew me in; it's unlike any other sport in that way and I found it fascinating. These days I kind of root for west coast teams overall since I'm from and am back living in that area, but that only goes so far. Most games I mainly root for the underdog, or for teams with players I really like, or against teams I don't like which involves an intricate and ever changing tier list.
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Because I am a broken husk of a human being who can't stay away i.e. a typical Commanders fan.
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