| Teams you like besides your hometown team
I was just thinking about certain teams that I sorta root for, but arent huge fans of. Obviously, my favorite team in every sport is New York's representative, but there are a few other teams that I have slight connections with
Baseball: Before this year, it was the Montreal Expos. But the Expos exist no longer, so I have to find a new team. That new team is the Chicago Cubs. Lovable losers. An incredibly unintimidating mascot. One of the three classic baseball stadiums (Yankee Stadium and Fenway being the other two). The late Harry Carey singing Take Me Out to the Ballgame. They play most of their games during the day. In fact, they didnt even have lights in the stadium until about 15 years ago.
Football: Buffalo Bills. A couple of times this year, I went to this bar in the city thats designated as a "Bills Backers Bar". On Sundays during the NFL season, the bar is full of Bills fans and they only play the Bills games on the TVs. They have an incredible food/drink special (all you can eat wings and all you can drink draft beer for 25 bucks), and I'm absolutely infatuated with one of the bartenders. I had so much fun going to this bar that I actually found myself cheering for the Bills over the course of the season. They have a party every year for the NFL Draft, and I cant wait to go there for that
Basketball:Minnesota Timberwolves. For no real reason, except for the fact that I think KG is an absolutely incredible basketball player. He plays hard all the time, and he deserves better than the scumbags that management has placed around him, like Stephon Marbury and Latrell "help me feed my family" Sprewell. Plus, the fact that management fucked the team over when they made that secret deal with Joe Smith a few years ago that cost the team 5 consecutive first-round picks. That makes me want KG to succeed even more
Hockey: Toronto Maple Leafs. An Original Six team, plus they currently have a rivalry with the Islanders (going back to that cheap-shot fest of a playoff series a few years ago), and as a Rangers fan, any enemy of the Islanders is a friend of mine. |