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re: What SEC Fan Do You Have The Least Respect For?
Posted on 3/31/16 at 10:29 am to cardboardboxer
Posted on 3/31/16 at 10:29 am to cardboardboxer
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That is where their parents are born. What the frick does that have to do with where they were born?
I always shake my head at the people with 8 or 9 teams and their justification is "I have family there".
Ok, if your parents grew up in a town for like 30 years and were big fans and moved and you grew up liking that team, I get that. Perefeclty understandable. But I mean "my cousins live there" or "my aunt went to a game once", c'mon. I have family that either live or originated in most of the southeast. That doesnt' mean I claim teams all along the east coast.
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Posted on 3/31/16 at 10:37 am to WG_Dawg
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I always shake my head at the people with 8 or 9 teams and their justification is "I have family there".
If we are talking NFl then I don't give a shite. Makeup whatever reason you want to be a fan of a place that makes you feel better. I had a cousin in the 1990s that was a Cowboys fan in Louisiana with the justification I lived in Texas even though I have never liked the Cowboys. People just want to root for a winner.
With college teams it's different, you treat them too much like pro teams and you destroy what makes the college game special. State pride- especially with public universities you pay taxes to support- has some validity, but finding a way to root for Bama and Uk just because your grandad was from Kentucky is dumb.
Posted on 3/31/16 at 3:42 pm to WG_Dawg
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I always shake my head at the people with 8 or 9 teams and their justification is "I have family there".
When I say I have family there, it usually means they have been there for a few hundred years. Lots of the south was settled by the same families. They entered say Virginia, their kids were Kentucky, their grandkids were Arkansas, and the great grandkids were Texas.
While this may be too long ago for some of you, I remember boarding the train to go visit the cousins for a month or two every year. Time is relative to how often your relatives leave their home base. Get into hills of the 4 corners (VA + NC + TN + KY) and they had folks speaking the queens english till World War II and the TVA. Some folks just don't move much or far.
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