I am talking about any sport you enjoy watching.

For me, it's about the play. I have no loyalty. I root for teams or players that are fun to watch, that are competetive, that are talented. Sport teams change from season to season, and I change my opinion accordingly. Individual players improve or become worse, and I change my opinion accordingly. Also, while I may be a fan of a team or a player, I don't feel bad when they lose. All I am interested in is that as a spectator I was able to watch the game and be entertained by strong plays.

I understand some people are fans of their favorite team/player even if they don't show good play. But most of the time it's because the team/player is from their home town.

How about you?

I suppose I'm the exact opposite, dio.
Iam a lifelong Brownie and Sox fan--both, for years, notorious underdogs and underachievers (until the Sox finally broke the curse of the Black Sox--something I thought I'd never see in my lifetime, or even my kids' lifetime).
It was something special---suffering builds character, lol.

Also, the Browns ( who will probably NEVER do anything, until they get Paul Brown back, lol) traded Gerrard Warren to the Broncos a year ago. I liked Gerrard, even tho he was lazy, but now that he's a Bunko, he's the enemy. Nice knowin ya, Gerrard, and hope ya get yr butt beat next time you show up at Browns Stadium. Same for Aaron Rowand, former Soxer traded to the Phillies. We got Jim Thome out of it. He's already hit 3 homers for us (that I know of, haven't checked the boxes lately). Rowand is just a nogoodnik now, tho I liked him before.

You don't EVEN want to know what I think of Sammy Sosa, former lazy Sox outfielder, traded to the Flubbies.

I am a Green Bay Packers fan, and have been since my childhood coincided with the glory years of Vince Lombardi. My father was also a Packers fan. I love the tradition and history. Did you know the Packers are the only team in the NFL owned by the fans? They have a stockholders meeting every year at which the stockholders choose the team President. There are many questions asked about how the team is being run, and they must be answered. That is unique in the world of sports.

So you both are life long fan of your team because you've been a fan since young, right? But how did you become a fan in the first place when you were young?

my faorite team are the Mapleleafs because i like Mats sundin and Mikael Tellguist. Peter forsberg is wit h the Flyers and Swedish elite team. the Senators are a good team with Daniel Alfredsson the high scorer.

I became a fan as a child, watching the games with my father and listening to the stories of the history of the team. I heard about Don Hutson and other legendary Packers players of the Curly Lambeau era. It helped that every kid in my neighborhood was also a Packers fan.

Imagineer,
didn't know if you knew this, but Don Hutson was named the Greatest Pro Player ever by Sports Illustrated. He dominated his position, had records that stood for YEARS. He set the standard.

Dio, became a fan of White Sox because it seemed everyone else I knew loved the beloved Flubbies. I felt sorry for the Sox.
Likewise the Browns. They do not have a logo--never have. As a kid, I thought they were poor because of this and likewise, felt sorry for them.

Later found out they're one of the richest teams in the NFL! Also Browns Backers Wordwide is the biggest fan club in the world.

Imagineer,
didn't know if you knew this, but Don Hutson was named the Greatest Pro Player ever by Sports Illustrated. He dominated his position, had records that stood for YEARS. He set the standard.


Don Hutson was the greatest reciever of all time. Jerry Rice broke a number of his records, but did so in 16 game seasons instead of the 12 game seasons that Hutson played in. Hutson played in an era that was dominated by the running game. If he played today, he would easily have been better than Jerry Rice.

I agree with that. And, from everything I've read, he was a nice guy, too.

I consider Jim Brown the greatest running back. In his career, he never missed a single game, or even a single down. He showed up to play every Sunday and was almost unstoppable.

(Paul Brown, Jim Brown, the Browns!)

PS. did you know that Paul Brown helped get Vince Lombardi his job?
He recommended him to the Green Bay Board of Directors, and also traded Willie Davis to GB to help them out--and he was eventually sorry!


According to the NFL Handbook, their all time 75th Anniversary team has these WR's--Lance Alworth, Raymond Berry, Hutson, and Rice.

Their RBs include Jim Brown, Marion Motley, Bronko Nagurski, Walter Payton, Gale Sayers, OJ Simpson, and Steve Van Buren.

Jim Brown was a fantastic running back. Paul Brown is owed a debt of gratitude by all the Packers fans for recommending Lombardi as a candidate for coach. The trade for Willie Davis had the Packers giving up offensive lineman A.D. Williams. The Browns had been planning on converting Davis to an offensive tackle, but they decided it was of more immediate help to get an established lineman rather than making a project of Davis. The trade certainly worked out better for the Packers than for the Browns, but trades often do work out better for one team than the other. This trade addressed needs both teams had at the time, and I wonder whether Willie Davis would be in the Hall of fame if he had stayed with Cleveland and become an Offensive Tackle.

PS. did you know that Paul Brown helped get Vince Lombardi his job?

Too bad he let his idiot son run the Bengals.

I love the Pistons! Yeah they are from Detroit, MI and I am from Michigan but they are good! They have great players (Hamilton, Billiups, Prince, McDice, B. Wallace, R. Wallace, etc.... They didn't advance to the final of the play offs unfortunatly (damn Heat with your Shaq) lol but I still love them. I guess when you find a team that you respect as players who make great plays and you enjoy watching then you just get attracted to them and become a fan. Unless the Pistons in later years become a horrible team I will support them :)

I have been a Giants fan since they moved to San Francisco. In 1961 I received a signed baseball by the championship team made possible by manager Herman Franks. www.kaddystroller.com

Kaddystroller,

I'm a Giants fan too, but not the San Francisco Giants. I am a New York Giants baseball fan, the teams of Hank Thompson, Don Mueller, Foster Castleman, Eddie Stanky, Sal Maglie, Alvin Dark, Johnny Antonelli, Ruben Gomez, Johnny Mize, Bobby Thompson, Hoyt Wilhelm, Willie Mays and Monte Irvin.

That's when New York was a baseball city with three teams, the beloved Giants, the hated Yankees and the bumbling Dodgers.

To this day I hate, despise and abhor the Yankees and will root for any team that plays against them.

As some know on here, i am a diehard Indianapolis Colts fan... and yet i live in Cleveland. I can pinpoint exactly WHEN and WHY i became a Colts fan.. it was the 1994-95 season... and the colts almost made it to the super bowl behind "captain comeback" Jim Harbaugh. I looked up to Harbaugh, because of how intense he was. While ALL pro athletes ARE intense, this guy just wore it on his sleeve.

So i bought my Harbaugh jersey, and a Marshall faulk jersey... and for the next few years nothing really happened. But then i got a refresher when Peyton Manning was drafted. I looked up to Manning BIG TIME because of his decision to stay in school for his senior season, even though he would have been a top 3 draft pick his junior year.

so its pretty much those two things... it took awhile and ALOT of frustration before manning finally came around, earlier in his career he threw ALOT of interceptions and the team wasn't that good. But it seems as though it's all paying off, as the Colts are probably the favorite to oust the steelers from the AFC championship.

I have some preferences over certain teams or countries, but mainly a love to watch a good game, whether my favorite at that moment wins or looses. This month's Football World Cup in Germany keeps me glued to the screen watching every game, I would like to see Argentina or Brazil as champions of this CUP, but it is not a must, just want to enjoy every game, ..... I am for the game, not for any special team of player, and has been my way toward sports so far. One of my sons is really a fan of a particular Football club in Lima, Perú, called "Universitario de Deportes" ("U"), since he was very young, now he became fan of them when he went to school, and that particular school was of the higher middle class, the low middle class goes for "Alianza Lima". And has been this way since these two teams were created, and rivals since day one. So, somehow I can say that the enviroment (the people he met at that school) made him fan of that particular team.

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I identify a team by its players and the overall playing style. If team A plays one way in one year and completely different in another, then I see two different teams. If team A is known for a certain super star, or a duo or trio, or a famous coach, then its a different team when they are gone. The name or place where the team plays is not what makes it what it is, to me. I do enjoy musing over how a historically significant team (teams that have "eras") has changed over the years and remain very interesting and strong, but if you play shitty, you play shitty, and I'll decide to embrace you again after you are no longer shitty. Drama is good, but strong play is the most important to me--it is after all costing a person a lot of time watching sports, I'd like to be spending that time watching spectacular stuff!