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Have you ever switched your sports allegiance? OT THREAD

I was a Braves fan into my late 20's. Grew up in WPB watching the Braves in Spring Training with Dale Murphy, Glenn Hubbard, Brett Butler, Bob Horner, and Phil Niekro. Pretty good, but not great teams. Stuck with them through the paper bag wearing late 80's, when they drew fewer fans to games than the Marlins at their worst. And was rewarded with their worst to first season in 1991, which was one of the more enjoyable sports seasons I ever remember. Loved the great pitching staffs the Braves had in the early and mid-90's, but something got stale with those teams when they started buying players rather than developing most of their talent. When I moved back to Florida in the late-90's the Fish were going through their first rebuild. They sucked but with baseball I have always enjoyed watching the prospects get their chances to make their teams better, and so it was with the Marlins. I have been a Marlins fan ever since, and despite Loria and his son in law doing their best to make the Marlins unwatchable, I don't regret it.

Here's the thing. You shouldn't just abandon a team because they are losing. That makes you a front runner. If their players or management are all a bunch of jerks I can see dumping a team. I can't believe that the Gators haven't run off more of their fans, and I don't begrudge anyone who walked away from the Marlins after Loria's regime ran them into the ground. But don't be a front-runner. That's just weak.
 
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Grew up in Buffalo Bills territory but I've always hated them. I became a JETS fan for 2 reasons: 1) Out of Spite for the Bills 2) I grew up playing MLB and Bryan Cox was my favorite player as a child. I loved that he talked **** and backed it up. He took on fullbacks like a G and I did the same. Then he left for the dolphins and I was stuck a JETS fan. Tried switching to the Ravens but family and friends would not accept it and kept hounding me after every JETS loss...

So I'm stuck a JETS fan
 
canadianhurricane said:
Grew up in Buffalo Bills territory but I've always hated them. I became a JETS fan for 2 reasons: 1) Out of Spite for the Bills 2) I grew up playing MLB and Bryan Cox was my favorite player as a child. I loved that he talked **** and backed it up. He took on fullbacks like a G and I did the same. Then he left for the dolphins and I was stuck a JETS fan. Tried switching to the Ravens but family and friends would not accept it and kept hounding me after every JETS loss...

So I'm stuck a JETS fan
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Cox didn't leave for the Dolphins. He was drafted by the Dolphins, and spent the first 5 years of his career with the Fins. Then spent a couple years with Chicago, before signing with the Jets. After the Jets he spent a year in New England and a year in New Orleans but both were injury plagued seasons.
 
I really feel like i missed an opportunity to be a ravens fan the last 15 years. The dolphins have never done **** for me and don't draft canes.
 
Switching allegiances is a sign of a weak mind, low character, and tendencies toward depraved homosexual excesses.

It is only done by marginalized social misfits of low intellectual capacity.
 
OriginalCanesCanesCanes said:
Switching allegiances is a sign of a weak mind, low character, and tendencies toward depraved homosexual excesses.

It is only done by marginalized social misfits of low intellectual capacity.
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what if I like a team because of a player? ie 9ers because of Rice and Ravens because of Ray and Ed? Now mind you I don’t have team that I root for anymore, but I don’t actively root for them like I used to.
 
Poptimus said:
Seriously, there are very, very limited instances whereby a team switch is OK.

1. Your team up and moves to a new town. If this happens, it's not like you're switching teams, but your team switched on you. I was a Houston Oilers fan back in the day and then they moved to Tennessee where I had no attachment. I simply was not going to root for a team based in Tennessee (I was born in Houston). Living in South FL, I became a Dolphins fan for the same rationale as why I originally became an Oilers fan. The Oilers switched on me, but I'll still rock a throwback Warren Moon jersey.

2. Your team drafts a dude like Jameis Winston #1 overall. I get it. As a Miami Hurricanes fan, that may be too much to bear. I don't even want to think of what that'd be like for Canes fans who had to deal with that.

3. You're gambling on a game between two teams and for 3 hours you root for where your $ is.

Other than that, I just think it's a bandwagon, frontrunner move. No one ever just stops being a fan when **** was good and jumps to a crappy team. Nah, they run to the Patriots or whatever the hot team is like fan mercenaries.
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There's a fourth condition. New ownership of the franchise is no longer attempting to win a title, but merely to collect revenue through radio, TV, and league sharing. Not as a one off or a rebuild, but as a perpetual business model. That was Jeffrey Loria, and when the Marlins were no longer in the business of winning, when they were actively perpetrating a decade long fraud, I checked out.

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As a Rams fan up until about an hour ago, I am switching my allegiance. They drafted a Nole then Gaytor b2b. I can't do that.
 
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Born & raised in San Diego. After the Chargers left, they can rot in ****. I dont really have an alternate team, but we do cheer for wife's cousin playing for the Raiders.
 
In the 90s, I took a very bad sports bet that made me cheer for the Cleveland Browns for 10 years until they won a Super Bowl. Stopped watching the NFL.
 
I was an FSU fan from 99 to 05. Became a Canes fan in 06. We've sucked. Maybe I should switch back for the good of everyone else
 
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ChoadCane said:
I was an FSU fan from 99 to 05. Became a Canes fan in 06. We've sucked. Maybe I should switch back for the good of everyone else
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I boycotted minnesota for a few years when they traded moss and culpepper in consecutive seasons, AP dragged me back in though. I'm not as invested in the nfl as I used to be so the Vikings perpetual ability to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory doesn't bug me as much as it used to....bountygate and the fact that Brad Childress still draws breath on this planet are sore spots for me though.

I couldn't picture jumping off loving the canes regardless of our woeful run these last 15 years. I try imagining watching oklahoma or clemson...fvck even UCF and enjoying it and I just cant.
 
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