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Hank_The_Tank Offline
#1 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 11:07 AM EST
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What team(s) do you follow in the NFL and why? I am sure the why will be answered by where they live, but for me it isn't true, so I figured I would ask it.

Steelers - Started out a Browns fan as a small kid before I knew any better(I have lived in Ohio my whole life) but I have a ton of family from PA and an uncle I looked up to a lot as a kid so I switched my fan-dom to Pittsburgh. On top of that, I was always that kid/family member that liked to support teams that my family hated, so it worked out well for me.

49ers - They were in their hay day when I was a kid with Montana/Young, Rice and Craig. No clue how I really started liking them (speciifically), but I still follow them to this day.

I want the Steelers to win no matter who they are playing and want the 49ers to win as long as they aren't playing the Steelers. Also, since I have so much family that love the Brownies, I like to see them win as long as they aren't playing the Steelers or 49ers...although that has been fruitless since they returned to Cleveland. Despite saying that, I do still enjoy watching them struggle...it is complicated. ha
LetsRock Offline
#2 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 11:23 AM EST
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Jets here.....other than for where I live what other reason would I have? I wasn't even alive the last (and only) time they won the Super Bowl. I guess nobody can call me a front runner...haha

UGH!!!!
Hank_The_Tank Offline
#3 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 11:25 AM EST
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People have all sorts of reasons why they support a team....even if it is just because they are a front runner.
doeshin Offline
#4 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 11:38 AM EST
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Hail Hail Hail!!!
Hank_The_Tank Offline
#5 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 11:39 AM EST
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doeshin wrote:
Hail Hail Hail!!!


No clue what that even means....
opelmanta1900 Offline
#6 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 11:52 AM EST
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Steelers... grew up in san Diego.... no football watching in my house, didn't know much about it... 7th grade my friend fernie explained to me how the chargers were going to the super bowl because they benefited from a bs call against his team, the Steelers... i became a Steelers fan that day and never looked back....
dharbolt Offline
#7 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 11:57 AM EST
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I'm afflicted. Browns fan here. I can't remember when I wasn't and I can't remember what on earth made me one in the first place.
Hank_The_Tank Offline
#8 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 12:01 PM EST
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dharbolt wrote:
I'm afflicted. Browns fan here. I can't remember when I wasn't and I can't remember what on earth made me one in the first place.


So how long do you think it takes them to be good again. Despite being a Steelers fan, I still listen to Cleveland sports radio, so I get to hear all the thoughts on the future of the team.

***As a note, I am an Indians, Cavs and Buckeyes fan.
RMAN4443 Offline
#9 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 2:19 PM EST
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LetsRock wrote:
Jets here.....other than for where I live what other reason would I have?

UGH!!!!

Nope can't think of another reason....lol Patriots fan here.......brought up to hate the Jets












Sarcasm
tailgater Offline
#10 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 2:55 PM EST
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LetsRock wrote:
Jets here.....other than for where I live what other reason would I have? I wasn't even alive the last (and only) time they won the Super Bowl. I guess nobody can call me a front runner...haha

UGH!!!!


Jet's fans have never been accused of being front runners.
In fact, they're known for coming up in the rear...
tailgater Offline
#11 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 2:58 PM EST
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Patriots.
Because, well, Steve Grogan
(not who you thought?)
delta1 Offline
#12 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 2:59 PM EST
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Rams, because of Roman Gabriel, who was better than Grogan.
tailgater Offline
#13 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 3:04 PM EST
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Better? Perhaps.
But Grogan ate pukes like him for breakfast just so he could shat him out before the game.
SteveS Offline
#14 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 3:04 PM EST
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I grew up a long way from any big-league city, and had no regional loyalties in any sport ... my first football 'team' was the Forty Niners because they drafted a couple of my favorite college players, then the Colts and Giants because they were on TV a lot, the Cardinals and Dolphins because they drafted guys I went to college with and then the entire AFL because they played a generally more aggressive and wide-open style of game than the NFL did ...even after moving to CA, first in SoCal, then to the Bay Area, I was still more of a 'fan of the game' itself than of specific teams ...

To some extent, that remains true today ... the teams I favor are the Patriots and the Chiefs ... the Raiders lost me when they left Oakland and went to LA and the manner in which they returned, then the Niners lost me when their ownership, management and coaching choices threw any semblance of integrity to the wind ... but, both of them show some positive signs ... I like the current direction of the Raiders and hold out faint hope that the Niners will not only make good choices for a new GM and coach, rid themselves of the despicable Kapernick and re-build themselves into a decent team again ...

Buckwheat Offline
#15 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 3:11 PM EST
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Miami Dolphins since I was seven years old. It was their undefeated season that year and my aunt lived there and we went down to visit her that year. fog
dharbolt Offline
#16 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 3:16 PM EST
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Hank_The_Tank wrote:
So how long do you think it takes them to be good again. Despite being a Steelers fan, I still listen to Cleveland sports radio, so I get to hear all the thoughts on the future of the team.

***As a note, I am an Indians, Cavs and Buckeyes fan.


Not in my lifetime lol
doeshin Offline
#17 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 3:24 PM EST
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Hank_The_Tank wrote:
No clue what that even means....


it's hail hail hail, hail to the redskins... yeah. i guess no skins fan up in here.
doeshin Offline
#18 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 3:28 PM EST
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dharbolt wrote:
I'm afflicted. Browns fan here. I can't remember when I wasn't and I can't remember what on earth made me one in the first place.


Good luck with RG3. All the promise... hopefully he can fulfill them there...

As for fans of the Browns. A Browns fan is like a good friend of mine. He is a die hard Lions fan because of Barry Sanders... and I Told him. 'David, I think you picked the wrong life time to be a Lions fan buddy...'

But then if the CUBS can do it. who knows right?
LetsRock Offline
#19 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 4:50 PM EST
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Buckwheat wrote:
Miami Dolphins since I was seven years old. It was their undefeated season that year and my aunt lived there and we went down to visit her that year. fog


This makes me sad Julian........At least we still have the Rangers.
xibbumbero Offline
#20 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 5:10 PM EST
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Pray for me,I'm a Chargers fan. i've followed them since they were in LA. I sold Cokes in Balboa stadium where they 1st
played in Sandy Eggo. I had to open and pour each coke. I bought them for 20 cents and sold them for 25 cents. In an average game,I made between $20-$25. It was hard work walking up and down steps all day but I was young and didn't know any better.
I saw some crazy chit during my stint. X Think
Bur Offline
#21 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 6:45 PM EST
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^ became a Chargers fan by default when I first got stationed here in 1988. Not sure I'll really miss them if they go, never been to a game.

Growing up in the SEC kind of spoiled me-Saturday football was more important than the pros even with Archie "Super" Manning at the 'Aints.
qmech Offline
#22 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 6:48 PM EST
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Miami Dolphins....Born in Coral Gables snd left came back through my teenage years and into my thirties living near Miami Lakes...Watching the Phins for a long time.....
Whistlebritches Offline
#23 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 7:49 PM EST
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Patriots........grew up a Cowboys fan,Tom Landry,Roger Staubach,Too Tall Jones,Mel Renfro,Bob Lilly,Tony Dorsett so on and so forth.Then this **** by the name of Jerry Jones came along and fired Tom Landry in a very ugly undignified way.My #2 team the Pat's,most of my family hales from Boston,became my #1.........no looking back.1988 through 2000 was pretty rough but the long term payoff has been incredible.

Til Jerry Jones is pushing up daisies ....**** the cowgirls.

GO PATRIOTS!!!
SMOKEYOU Offline
#24 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 8:43 PM EST
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Hank_The_Tank wrote:
What team(s) do you follow in the NFL and why? I am sure the why will be answered by where they live, but for me it isn't true, so I figured I would ask it.

Steelers - Started out a Browns fan as a small kid before I knew any better(I have lived in Ohio my whole life) but I have a ton of family from PA and an uncle I looked up to a lot as a kid so I switched my fan-dom to Pittsburgh. On top of that, I was always that kid/family member that liked to support teams that my family hated, so it worked out well for me.

49ers - They were in their hay day when I was a kid with Montana/Young, Rice and Craig. No clue how I really started liking them (speciifically), but I still follow them to this day.

I want the Steelers to win no matter who they are playing and want the 49ers to win as long as they aren't playing the Steelers. Also, since I have so much family that love the Brownies, I like to see them win as long as they aren't playing the Steelers or 49ers...although that has been fruitless since they returned to Cleveland. Despite saying that, I do still enjoy watching them struggle...it is complicated. ha



I think i threw up in my mouth a little..... blasphemy
frankj1 Offline
#25 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 9:16 PM EST
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xibbumbero wrote:
Pray for me,I'm a Chargers fan. i've followed them since they were in LA. I sold Cokes in Balboa stadium where they 1st
played in Sandy Eggo. I had to open and pour each coke. I bought them for 20 cents and sold them for 25 cents. In an average game,I made between $20-$25. It was hard work walking up and down steps all day but I was young and didn't know any better.
I saw some crazy chit during my stint. X Think

I still have nightmares of Keith Lincoln and Paul Lowe...
doeshin Offline
#26 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 9:57 PM EST
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Whistlebritches wrote:
Patriots........grew up a Cowboys fan,Tom Landry,Roger Staubach,Too Tall Jones,Mel Renfro,Bob Lilly,Tony Dorsett so on and so forth.Then this **** by the name of Jerry Jones came along and fired Tom Landry in a very ugly undignified way.My #2 team the Pat's,most of my family hales from Boston,became my #1.........no looking back.1988 through 2000 was pretty rough but the long term payoff has been incredible.

Til Jerry Jones is pushing up daisies ....**** the cowgirls.

GO PATRIOTS!!!


Any haters of the cowgrills are my hero!!!

Applause
doeshin Offline
#27 Posted: Tue, Jan 3 2017, 10:05 PM EST
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Now. Cow Boy Girls.... That is a different story...
xibbumbero Offline
#28 Posted: Wed, Jan 4 2017, 12:51 AM EST
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frankj1 wrote:
I still have nightmares of Keith Lincoln and Paul Lowe...


Saw them both play,as well as Bambi,(Lance Alworth). Sometimes I would take a break from selling cokes and sit down on the steps and watch the game for awhile.
There wasn't much defense in those daze. A team could score 56 pts and lose 63 to 56. X






shaun341 Offline
#29 Posted: Wed, Jan 4 2017, 6:47 AM EST
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Da Bears, because once I saw Walter Payton run the ball as a kid that was all I wanted to see. Then watched a Gale Sayers highlight show and thought there could never be a better history of RBs in the league, ever! Also had an AFC team when I was a kid and that was the Broncos because of John Elway but not so much as I got older it is just the Bears.
Bur Offline
#30 Posted: Wed, Jan 4 2017, 12:16 PM EST
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Being from the 'Sip have lots of Walter and Eddie Payton stories, including one friend's tale of working out one day and a quiet but huge guy walks up to the squat rack. Dude in a soft voice mentions my friend should have a spotter, but in a cool way and offers to help if he can work in in a few sets.

My friend doesn't recognize that it's Walter Payton, and my buddy's heavy sets aren't enough for him to warm up yet! At about 315 pounds my friend gets his last work set done and Sweetness does about 8 to warm up.
thurson Offline
#31 Posted: Wed, Jan 4 2017, 1:00 PM EST
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Born and raised in the Seattle area long before major sports made their way to the city. Was a Niner fan from the get-go for two reasons. 1, Closest city with NFL team and 2, my favorite aunt lived there. So as other pro sports moved West, I gravitated toward the Bay area teams. I still lived in the Seattle area when the Seahawks were founded and they were my AFC team and only rooted against them when they played the Niners. Needless to say, I was not a fan of the re-alignment. Moved to the Bay area in the early 80s and got my daily dose of all things Niners, Giants, Raiders, A's and Warriors, not to mention Cal, Stanford etc.

BTW, I share the same sentiments expressed by SteveS concerning the Niners ownership.

Long live Eddie D!

fog

Oh yeah, one other thing. Almost 13 years ago I met SteveS and the lovely Mrs.S and he turned me on to Cbid.

Happy New Year Steve and Ann!
dstieger Offline
#32 Posted: Wed, Jan 4 2017, 1:08 PM EST
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Born and raised in Wisconsin. Pack fan to the core. Lived all over since leaving Sconnie over 30 years ago....among fans of Pats, Seahawks, Skins, Panthers, Giants....at various points in my life......... did nothing to make me stray.
jespear Offline
#33 Posted: Wed, Jan 4 2017, 7:44 PM EST
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E-A-G-L-E-S

EAGLES ! ! !
blackfoot11 Offline
#34 Posted: Mon, Jan 9 2017, 11:21 PM EST
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whatever team ram says......
Palama Online
#35 Posted: Sun, Jan 22 2017, 3:04 PM EST
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I've been a Green Bay fan since I was 7 years old - during the Lombardi years (...yeah, I'm up there in years...). Read the sports page headline: GB Beats NY For NFL Title" with a picture of jerry Kramer kicking a field goal (...that'd be 1962 for those that don't know their NFL history...). They didn't show too many football games into Hawaii so it wasn't until I was 12 that I really got into the sport and team. Wasn't always easy to be a GB fan after Super Bowl II but I started playing football and still held onto my loyalty to them. Continued to root for them even during "The Dark Years" (...'70s thru early '90s...). Since '92 the run with Favre and now Rodgers has been a great ride.

NFC Championship game to start in a few minutes.

Go Pack Go!
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