SS1-sports allegiances?

[Guest akanalog]

SS1-i am trying to follow your favorite teams. i am confused. do you like the heat and the lakers and the cowboys and the browns? help me out here. i am concerned you are a fair weather fan except i think you like the browns. i just need some clairification. i appreciate you keeping the sports talk alive on here, though.

[Dan Gould]

  akanalog said:

SS1-i am trying to follow your favorite teams. i am confused. do you like the heat and the lakers and the cowboys and the browns? help me out here. i am concerned you are a fair weather fan except i think you like the browns. i just need some clairification. i appreciate you keeping the sports talk alive on here, though.

I'm pretty sure he remains an Indians fan, so I don't think he's the fair weather type.

[Guest akanalog]

oh. so he is a cleveland fan? but he isn't a cavs fan, is he?

sorry it is tough to keep up.

i am just curious.

once i know maybe i will enter the sports conversation as i need to get ready for fantasy football season.

no offense meant, i am just curious. like right now, doesn't SS1 have a shaq/wade avatar?

[Soulstation1]

the only time i like the cowboyzzz is when they play the steelers and i hope they win 66-0...

[Soulstation1]

for the record

my teams

NCAA

michigan football

GO BLUE

MLB

indians and royals during the george brett era

i followed baseball big time when i was young

NBA

lakers / heat... i am the biggest Shaq fan and an even bigger Magic Johnson fan

i am not happy with what went down with lakers and shaq

lebron's skillzz are incredible, so i kinda follow the cavs

never liked the cavs until the LBJ years

never liked the heat until shaq was traded

NFL

browns are my dawgs

teams i can't stand

1 - 99 steelers

100 cowgirlzzzz

101 spurs

102 pistons

103 notre dame football

104 ohio state

105 celtics, i ain't had to worry about them for years...

Edited August 12, 2006 by Soulstation1

[connoisseur series500]

Yeah, hard to figure the logic of SS1's teams.

Here are mine:

NFL: PATRIOTS Baby!!!!

NBA: Who cares?

MLB: Who cares?

NHL: Who cares?

[GA Russell]

When I was a boy my favorite football team was the Boston Patriots. But it took a lot out of it for me when they changed their name to New England, and they pretty much killed my interest when they changed their uniform and team color from red to blue. It's like a different team now. (Of course, in one sense it is a different team - they're winning!)

I don't pay much attention to any sport now except that I try to listen to all of the Canadian league games that I can on the internet. Not only are the ballgames exciting, but with only eight teams the league and the players are easy to keep track of.

I stayed up late last September and listened on the internet to the broadcast of the Australian rules football Grand Final. What a game! The best game of any sport I have ever heard on the radio.

Other than that, I root for the Red Sox. But with the players changing so often with free agency, I don't think it's as much fun to try to keep up with the baseball teams.

With the Hurricanes winning the Stanley Cup, I listened to all of the games of the finals. I was a season ticket holder of the New England Whalers in 1972, and I saw so many games I've been hockeyed out ever since.

I was a season ticket holder of the Philadelphia Stars of the USFL. The best game of any sport I have ever attended was a playoff game between the Stars and the Chicago Blitz. Lots of fun times going to the Stars games.

For college sports I root for Georgetown and Pitt. I'm pretty sure that Pitt's football games will be on Sirius this year, so maybe I will listen to them each week.

[Noj]

My squads:

NBA

Lakers

Clippers

*will root for Lakers against Clippers.

MLB

Dodgers

Angels

*will root for Dodgers against Angels.

NFL

Raiders

Rams

*will root for Raiders against Rams.

NCAA

UCLA

USC

*will root for Bruins against Trojans.

Noj=DIE HARD HOMER!!!

[BruceW]

MY Squads

NBA - Pistons

Lakers again (when Kobe learns to be unselfish leader)

Bulls when they start running over people

Cavs as LBJ and teams gets better and better

MLB - Angels

Cardinals - because they are a well greased machine

Athletics

NFL - Rams - (changed passing game) although can't forgive Frontiere for moving them to St. Louis

Dolphins - always like them since their inception, win or lose

NCAA - Mich State for green and white

USC for red and gold

Michigan U for tough hard nosed football

NCAA BASKETBALL - UCLA period

NHL - Red Wings (even if you do now have to speak Russian)

[Eric]

NCAA Hoops & Football

Kansas Jayhawks

NFL

Packers

NHL

Carolina

NBA & MLB

I wish I cared ...

[Edward]

NFL

Green Bay Packers (I was a die-hard Rams fan, but that changed once Georgia whisked them away. It was a sad day when the Rams won the Super Bowl as it served to legitmize the franchise's presence in St. Louis.)

NBA

L.A. Lakers (I was/am a HUGE Magic Johnson fan. I am not that crazy about Phil Jackson, who I heard (on good authority) wanted to make all sorts of changes (such as those being instituted by the new head coach of the Minnesota Vikings) when he arrived in L.A. - Dr. Buss laid down the law and that was that. Also I have always liked Shaq a whole lot better than Kobe.)

MLB

L.A. Dodgers

NCAA

UCLA - ALWAYS, even when they are playing one of my other two alma maters

[chris olivarez]

College football,basketball & baseball-Arizona State

MLB- LA Dodgers & Pittsburgh Pirates

NBA-Phoenix Suns

NFL-Denver Broncos,Oakland Raiders & San Francisco 49ers

NHL-Colorado Avalanche & Montreal Canadiens

[Dave James]

MLB - Yankees

NHL - Red Wings

NFL - Eagles

NBA - Could not care less.

Lest anyone confuse me with being a fair weather friend, the Yanks, Wings and Eagles have been my favorite teams since the '50's.

Up over and out.

[Guest akanalog]

mets/jets/knicks

because i had a friend in college who was a great guy from LA, he kind of get me into the dodgers somehow so i have a soft spot for them even with '88 having happened.

for college hoops-seton hall and st johns and due to the LA guy, UCLA has a soft spot with me also.

[Dan Gould]

Since we're all answering the question meant for SS1:

in order of overall significance:

NHL: who cares

NBA: who cares

NFL: Bears, Patriots

NCAA: Florida State Seminoles

MLB: Red Sox, Cubs

[.:.impossible]

Panthers just might have the thing wrapped up this year. I've been a fan since the beginning, which wasn't that long ago. It was a lot of fun to pull for them up in New England over the past few years. I enjoyed watching the Pats and the Red Sox while we lived up there, but its Panthers all the way.

[connoisseur series500]

  .:.impossible said:

Panthers just might have the thing wrapped up this year. I've been a fan since the beginning, which wasn't that long ago. It was a lot of fun to pull for them up in New England over the past few years. I enjoyed watching the Pats and the Red Sox while we lived up there, but its Panthers all the way.

Panthers look loaded this year. Still, you can never tell.

Pats, on the other hand, appear to be weaker. They had a great draft, but they're playing with a partial team right now. Belichick and Pioli will be checking the player cuts after August 29th. They need a couple of receivers and a couple of backup linebackers. Aside from that, the team looks very strong.

[jazzypaul]

MLB: Chicago White Sox. Will only root for Cubs if they make it into post-season. However, if the Cubs and White Sox ever make it to the World Series again, I'm bringing my Guillen jersey and living in Kansas for two weeks.

NHL: Philadelphia Flyers.

NFL: blasphemy for a Chicagoan, but I just can't get into football.

NBA: I hate basketball.

MLS: Chicago Fire.

[connoisseur series500]

  jazzypaul said:

NFL: blasphemy for a Chicagoan, but I just can't get into football.

Blasphemy!!

[.:.impossible]

  connoisseur series500 said:

Panthers look loaded this year. Still, you can never tell.

Pats, on the other hand, appear to be weaker. They had a great draft, but they're playing with a partial team right now. Belichick and Pioli will be checking the player cuts after August 29th. They need a couple of receivers and a couple of backup linebackers. Aside from that, the team looks very strong.

You never can tell... I'd love to see it though. I think this is going to be a fun season.

[ejp626]

  jazzypaul said:

NFL: blasphemy for a Chicagoan, but I just can't get into football.

NBA: I hate basketball.

I hear you. I don't like football either. Of course, I don't consider myself a native Chicagoan either.

The only sport I willingly watch is basketball. Don't like the others much. I'm glad the Bulls are starting to pull it together again, and it was great living here during the Jordan years. But I don't have particularly deep loyalties.

Oddly, the one team I really really hate is the NHL Blackhawks. I mean I think it is stupid to have hockey teams in the South and that has serious degraded the long-term prospects of hockey, but I don't hate the teams in the south. I always root for the Redwings.

[sheldonm]

  jazzypaul said:

MLB: Chicago White Sox. Will only root for Cubs if they make it into post-season. However, if the Cubs and White Sox ever make it to the World Series again, I'm bringing my Guillen jersey and living in Kansas for two weeks.

NHL: Philadelphia Flyers.

NFL: blasphemy for a Chicagoan, but I just can't get into football.

NBA: I hate basketball.

MLS: Chicago Fire.

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