I can live to be ah thousand and I'll never understand people

[cboy4]

who root for teams in different cities than where they live or where they're from.

Take madinmaryland for example.

Lives in, hello, Maryland .. yet roots for the Dallas Cowboys. :wtf:

He also roots for the Pittsburgh Pirates, but that started, I'm sure, when they were good during the "We are family" days.

Then you have another person in this forum who suspiciously roots for the San Jose Sharks -- one of the most powerful teams in all of professional hockey.

Yet the guy is from Los Angeles .. doesn't root for the Kings or the Ducks, but "roots" for the Sharks.

Oh but he flip flops and roots for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Lakers -- not any of the two pro baseball teams in the Bay Area or the Bay Area's NBA team or even Sacramento's NBA team.

This is why I love sports and can't tolerate sports fans .. particularly those on sports radio who only cheer for winning teams and constantly propose ridiculous trades.

You should cheer for the teams from where you're from and you should be consistent like me in that regard.

Otherwise, you're a phony who'd rather deflect your phonyness by obsessing about Barry Bonds, Major League Baseball's home run king.

Upton is a model sports fan .. cheering for the teams from the Bay.

Even the extremely annoying Philly forum members root for the Philly teams.

:rant:

[trumad]

1. Dude--- you crack me up....

Your computer is full of saved team Avatars that you use like a package of hemorrhoid pads---- switching from team to team to team is your specialty.

Oh and you giving props to your alter-ego is hilarious. I can just see you looking in the mirror going back and fourth with yourself plotting of ways to get back at the meanies on the DU sports forum.

You Cboy/Upton----is the gift that keeps on giving.

[cboy4]

2. Please provide an example.

*****crickets*****

[madinmaryland]

3. Thanks for the call-out, Upton.

I've been sports fans of the teams you mentioned longer than you have been alive. Where I grew up there was no real natural "home teams" to route for. Interestingly, I have stayed a fan of all of those teams while moving to various locations in the nation.

Though given that you still live with your mother in SF, I can understand how you would not comprehend the real world.

:shrug:

On edit, look in the mirror, and you'll see who is really obsessing about BB.

[TZ]

4. .

"Though given that you still live with your mother in SF, I can understand how you would not comprehend the real world."
:rofl:

To the OP of this thread MiM's only lived for a handful of years in MD so I can see him not rooting for the teams here...

[madinmaryland]

5. Funny,

but even though this is a call-out, I didn't alert!

:rofl:

[cboy4]

6. Oh I see, you grew up where there was no real natural

"home teams" so you picked a successful franchise way down in Texas.

Why didn't you pick the Redskins or the then Baltimore Colts?

I realize my OP has made you beside yourself with anger .. just plain furious.

I understand. I'd be mad too if I was pinned into the corner.

But it had to be said.

People from Dallas should root for Dallas.

[madinmaryland]

7. Do you even know how to read, Upton?

According to your logic (if there is any), why would I be a deadskin fan, if that's not where I'm from.

Is it in the "sports fan manual" that you borrowed from your mother??

[cboy4]

8. Oh boy, here come the mother jokes.

Yet another one who can dish it out but can't take it.

And I'm not even personally attacking you.

I'm criticizing you .. key word, criticizing you for rooting for 50 different teams.

Not calling you names.

[madinmaryland]

9. WTF are you talking about Upton?

What manual are you reading that says I should route for the team in the area that I live in.

Haven't you heard that people are mobile these days? Granted, some people still live with their mother, but others of us, actually do move out!

[cboy4]

10. Oh I see. If you go to Chicago on business, we can all expect you too

switch to the Cubs... Or maybe the Sox, depending on who's doing best. You know, mobile and all. What a phony

[madinmaryland]

11. Upton, when are you going to actual learn to comprehend what you read...

I've been a fan of the Cowboys & Pirates for longer that you have been alive, and regardless of where I live.

I'm sorry your pathetic little life still revolves around paying your mother rent.

:shrug:

[cboy4]

14. Such hostility with the mother jokes. But in your defense, you have

a reason to be very, very umm, defensive and irate.

[TZ]

12. On the contrary.

I think it takes a lot of character to root for the Cowboys in the heart of Skins country..:rofl:

OMG--I can't beleive I'm defending the rabid Cowpies fan..:crazy:

[madinmaryland]

13. ZOMG!

I gotta bookmark this one.

[cboy4]

15. Come on! He's a phoney baloney rooting for a team thousands of miles

away from where he lives, especially one that albeit sucks, but does have five rings

[madinmaryland]

16. cboy/upton! The gift that keeps on giving.

The guy (i assume so) who is an avid supporter of a "phoney baloney" drug addict.

[cboy4]

17. Even if Bonds had admitted to taking steroids,

I'm pretty sure steroid users are not addicted.

There's no opiod characteristics to PHD's.

Do people who take steroids need rehab? In, no.

Michael Phelps is technically more of an addict under your retarded guideline. :eyes:

[madinmaryland]

19. "retarded" Another word to add to the list.

:eyes:

[Upton]

18. Have you ever lived in Texas?

If not, there's no excuse for you being a Cowgirl fan...

[cboy4]

20. He can't even find Texas on a map, let alone having lived

in Cowgirl territory.

[Upton]

21. Then why is he a Cowgirl fan?

just jumping on the bandwagon?

[cboy4]

23. Of course. He giggled like a school girl when he found out

the Cowgirls are called American's team :puke: and his mind was made up.

We earned our rings rooting for San Francisco through thick and thin.

[madinmaryland]

31. Heh. The cboy/upton comedy routine continues!!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Doesn't it get confusing remembering who you are posting as???

[old mark]

22. A lot of character,

but no fucking brains or taste....


mark

[cboy4]

24. OHhhh Snap

:rofl:

[BulletproofLandshark]

25. Shame on you for calling out madinmaryland.

Sports fans are under absolutely no obligation to support the teams within geographical proximity to them. Rooting for all the local teams doesn't make you a "model sports fan", whatever the hell that means.

[madinmaryland]

26. Well, that's cboy/upton for you!

[cboy4]

27. lol!

Upton is a model sports fan for rooting for his local teams.

Sorry you don't know "whatever the hell that means."

But real sports fans do.

[BulletproofLandshark]

28. So what would happen if one of your home teams were to move to another city?

Would you stop watching that sport? That would be as asinine as what you're suggesting.

[hughee99]

29. I'm a Braves fan.

I've only been to Atlanta 2 times (not counting the airport). When I was younger, I was a big Red Sox fan, and baseball fan in general. When the Sox weren't playing, the Braves would be on TBS and I'd watch them lose. I became a fan then. These were the Ken Oberkfell, Dale Murphy, Claudell Washington days of the mid 80's. It made it easier that they were in the National league, so there was no conflict of interests.

[Gemini Cat]

30. I wasn't aware one was suppose to only like their home team.

Well crap. I guess that means in the 2002 WS I should NOT have cheered for the Giants.

[cboy4]

43. Very funny. Actually, not so funny since I'm still sad about

that WS.

Obviously, regional or otherwise rooting in the postseason is a different matter.

Nobody's teams make it to the big game every season.

So you should root for the home team, like the song commands us to do, first and foremost.

[BOSSHOG]

32. Thats a lovely Pearl Necklace you have Mrs Cleaver

[Captain Hilts]

49. I just LOVE this comment. I'll bet Wallace and Theodore would too.

I just loooved June's nearly open contempt for Eddie also.

[PVnRT]

33. I've lived in Indiana, Chicago, Michigan, and Kentucky.

Who should I root for? You being the sports expert and all.

[Forkboy]

34. Upton is a model something.

[GOPisEvil]

35. We've gone through this before.

I cheer for the St. Louis Cardinals because my father is from that area and passed along his fandom to me. His family still lives in that area, although my parents do not, and I do not. I did live in the area for a couple of years as a boy.

I cheer for the San Antonio Spurs because I moved to that area when I was 12, and lived there, or in Austin for 28 years.

I don't have a football team, really, although technically it's the football Cardinals, who I cheered for as a kid. They play in Phoenix, a place I have never resided.

I have lived in the Seattle area for a few months now, so by using your logic, I should immediately drop my former associations and pick up cheering for the Mariners and Seahawks? Who shall I cheer for in the NBA? Oklahoma City where the old Sonics are, or Portland, since they are closer?

Please educate me.

[cboy4]

44. You're a mess.

But you have a great screen name.

[MaineDem]

36. Your initial premise is bull shit

There is no rule that one must support a local team. That's just stupid.

I've never read such a ludicrous post.

[madinmaryland]

37. You need to realize, cboynupton is our resident comedian.

He oozes silliness and keeps the sports forum light!!

[BOSSHOG]

38. What "extremely annoying Philly forum Members?"

The Philadelphia fans on this forum are learned, well spoken and present a sense of decency amidst the rabble while maintaining an ultimate sense of sportsmanship. You must be mixing us up with one of the other forums you aggravate.

[madinmaryland]

39. ...

:rofl:

[cboy4]

41. HA

But I notice you didn't argue my point!

[BOSSHOG]

45. What point? The one on the top of your head?

[ProfessorGAC]

40. Geez, Give It A Freakin' Rest!

GAC

[cboy4]

42. Come on Professie GAC

You know I'm right.

[ProfessorGAC]

46. Just Don't Think It's That Important

This thing just goes on and on.
GAC

[Iggo]

47. You five really need to get a room.

(go ahead. it's slow-pitch...a nice fat one for ya...lol.)

[cboy4]

48. I would kill myself first.

I would rather drink a gallon of poison.

[madinmaryland]

50. Deserving a kick for stupidity!

:rofl:

[Forkboy]

51. Welcome to Fuckstick 101. Your teacher today will be the grand wizard of fuckstickery, cboy4.

Pay attention students. It's rare we get a chance to learn from a master.

[MrSlayer]

52. C'mon, I let inthebrain go on our sweeping of the pathetic Mets this past weekend.

Sometimes you just don't kick a man when he's down. The only people I have no mercy for are Dallas fans.

[northzax]

53. actually, there is a good reason many people from the DC area, especially Maryland, root for the boy

the Cowboys, that is. the team that is the archrival of the local squad (sorry, the Ravens don't yet count, just as the Nats don't yet count for rivalries) back in the day, the Redskins were the last NFL team to integrate, while the cowpokes played (and abused, of course, like all players) black players. in fact, the Skins only integrated when forced to by the Federal government as a condition of moving into RFK. you see a lot of old african american men and women wearing cowboys gear here, and it has remained on a trickle down basis despite the love/hate relationship with the Skins.

fanhood is determined very young, for the most part. I both love and hate both the Red Sox and Yankees despite never living within 200 miles of either city (although I did go to college in New England) because the two people who taught me baseball, my grandfathers, were fans of each team. I am a Niners fan because the guy who taught me football was a Niners fan. I grew up watching Michigan football and Duke basketball, because the people around me did. I didn't live in a city with w football team until I was 25. I didn't go to a college with major sports (does grad school at Hopkins with LAX count?) the only team I adopted on my own (DC United) was because I happen to live in DC. you can't help who you were taught to root for as a kid, you just are.

[madinmaryland]

54. Well said, northzax!

[inthebrain]

56. I New England there are lots of NY Giants fans

Mainly cause these people rooted for em before the Pats came along. Even while the Pats were playing in Foxboro the Giants were New Englands adopted team.

As far as baseball goes there is the New York Boston rivalry. Despite the 86 series and the fact that there are no NL teams up here, the Mets are the NL team of choice for a lot of Bostonians. Lot of it also due to the rivalry with the Yankees.

There's lots of examples all over the place of people rooting for teams outside their area. Of course, when it's done to bandwagon jump it's a little cheezy. I don't think MadinMaryland is jumping on the Cowboys bandwagon or anything to that effect. That team has been pretty bad for a while now.

It's not like all the Chicago Bulls fans from the 90's who have completely dissapeared since Jordan left.

[redqueen]

61. Interesting...

I'd never heard that before, about integration. Thanks.

[northzax]

62. more info

http://espn.go.com/page2/wash/s/2002/0305/1346021.html

George Preston Marshall was a, how do you people put it? flaming asshole on the subject.

[inthebrain]

55. Are you trying to say that when the New York Giants won five World Series

Nobody in Frisco at the time gave a hoot?

Thanks for clearing that up.

[cboy4]

57. With the exception of imbeciles and FReepers (but I repeat myself), nobody

refers to the City by the Bay as "Frisco."

SAN FRANCISCO:

[madinmaryland]

58. Thanks for that piece of information, Frisco Kid!

[inthebrain]

60. Shot yourself in the foot again with your own arguement eh CBUptonoy!!!

HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Onceuponalife]

63. Oh my fucking Christ

What a beautiful shot of the City. My heart is in my throat. I miss it! San Francisco, the best goddamn city in the world.


btw, THIS is Frisco, with his wife Felicia....

[Arkana]

59. Not unheard of.

My mother grew up in RI and was a Yankees fan. She lives in a house of Red Sox fans.