re: Rate Your Sports Fandom on a Scale of 0-10

A&M, Cowboys, Rangers, Mavericks.

I'd put myself at an 8.

Alabama football, a 10. I'm not a loon like a small minority of our fanbase (the tree-killing, baby-signing, mushroom-stamping portion), but then those people can't be rated on the same scale as the rest of us. As Nigel Tufnel would say, "These go to eleven."

Alabama basketball, a 3. Basketball in general does nothing for me, and also Alabama sucks at it. I used to follow it fairly closely several years ago. Maybe Johnson can revitalize my interest.

Liverpool, a 5. I didn't grow up with it so it isn't in the blood the same way as Alabama is, but I do enjoy watching the matches and hope to make it over to see a game at Anfield some day.

USMNT, a 2 unless we're talking World Cup, when it would be an 8 or 9. I think soccer in this country is hurt by the fact that we play in CONCACAF and so a lot of our meaningful international matches are against countries that we in no way consider our peers.

My pro sports fandom is a 10/10 right now. Royals won the World Series, Chiefs won a playoff game, and Sporting KC is 2nd in the western conference right now.

College sports is easily a 0/10 right now. Football sucked, basketball sucked worse, and the SJW fiasco that happened at Mizzou has me pretty displeased with my alma mater at the moment.

UT football 9/10... easily my most hardcore sports fandom

UT baseball 3/10... just never have really cared. Only reason I want us to win is so I can lol at teams that lose to us

UT basketball 5/10 right now... this is an interesting one because this number fluctuates a lot. Depending on how well we're doing, I may care almost as much as I do for football, or almost as little as I do for baseball.

UT WBB Pat era: 7/10 Holly era: 4/10

Non UT fandoms:

Smokies baseball (local AA team) 4/10... I go to several of their games a year and pull pretty hard for them when I do but rarely follow the ones I don't go to.

St Louis Cardinals 4/10... family connections to St L so we've been Cards fans since before I can remember. Not fun to watch them fall flat on their face on Sunday to start the season

Denver Broncos ??? Now that Peyton's retired I'm really not sure. It was at probably a 6 the past few years with him there.

I don't exactly have a hard and fast NBA team, though I follow the league. I hope teams with Vols in their regular rotations do well (Detroit Pistons, Orlando Magic, Miami Heat). I also love watching what the Warriors have been able to do this year, even through a recent outbreak of injuries, and find myself wanting them to break the record and win the title to go down as possibly the greatest team ever. Not sure I'd really call myself a fan per se, because if I was that would make me a bandwagon fan and I've never bandwagoned any team previously in my life. Then again, if you're gonna pick one team ever to jump on the bandwagon for, this team is probably a pretty good one to pick. I think a lot of the hate for them doesn't even come from what they do in the first place, instead it mainly comes from how much excessive media hype they get (specifically Curry).

Oh ya know what... frick it

WARRIORS 694201738/10

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What is this?

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Real football

Another football league? I've never heard of them.

Like the Arena League?

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I finally post a good thread and I'm to busy with work to participate

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Maybe there is a connection between the two.

My fandom is shite. I coach baseball so I am more of a fan of baseball and the sport in general than other sports but I don't watch hardly anything except the occasional Georgia game. I would say my fandom is a 1-2 with the occasional drink had on gamedays.

3. I fish too much

College football is always 10/10 for me regardless of how we're doing.