Cheering for your guys once they leave.....
by BigBenSportsGuy on Jan 15, 2012 8:49 PM EST
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PrintI was watching the 49ers/Saints game last night and a thought occurred to me, which inspired this post. As a fan of the Utah Utes, I was so happy for Alex Smith. I tweeted out "If you are a Ute fan, you should be going crazy for Alex Smith right now." Then I thought...."Unless you are a Utes fan, who also happens to be a Saints fan.......then that just sucks."
It's an interesting dynamic between college and pro sports. We all have our favorite college teams and we grow close to the guys who put on that uniform. For a few lucky ones, they get to go on to the NFL. Here, they don't have a choice of where they play, they get drafted by a team (unless you have the last name Manning). A lot of college football fans naturally have a favorite NFL team, it's just how it works.
This is where it is so interesting to me. What happens when one of your players from your local college team ends up on a rival of your favorite NFL team? Do you still cheer for them? Do you severe ties and disown them?
For me, its easy. I don't have an NFL team. I severed ties with my team, but no one really cares about my history so why bring it up. I just cheer for the former Utes who are in the NFL. But I want to know how you feel about your former players. Comments are appreciated, thanks!
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I keep cheering for them, because I don't really have an NFL team.
I just root for teams that have Gator players on them.
Live to fly!
Go Gators!
I don't really have an NFL team or an NBA team,
so right now I tend to root for the Vikings, the Broncos, the Bulls, and the Hawks because of Harvin, Tebow, Noah, and Horford.
But specifically, I root for the player more than the team. So Harvin being a badass on a mediocre-to-bad Vikings team would be all right, but Joakim Noah regressing on an awesome Bulls team kinda sucks.
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If there ever had been a big game
where Shaun King played the San Diego Chargers, I would have been in deep trouble. Fortunately, with the Chargers being the Chargers, I never have to worry about that.
One thing I really don't like
Is when a player does good and all of a sudden his team is the favorite team of the area, not the hometown team (cough cough Brady/Pats fans in Michigan cough)
by kjzk13 on Jan 15, 2012 10:57 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
Yeah, this is not so cool. Many of those people were on Team Henson when Brady was at Michigan, anyway.
The Lions come first, but I use Michigan players as tiebreakers in games where I don’t have a natural allegiance. Exceptions are the Patriots (Brady and Zoltan, but they win too much and the fans are insufferable) and Steelers (Woodley, but also Roethlisberger and Harrison, so I can’t).
A Michigan Man may only marvel at the sea of maize and blue on Saturdays, or the face of the Lord himself. Impress the world, but be not impressed by it.
This is much like me (replacing the teams with Vikings and MSU).
It actually applies more so in hockey – the Red Wings secondary fandom (behind the Wild) was natural enough when it was the only televised hockey I could get and all my friends were huge Wings fans, but having Drew Miller and Justin Abdelkader on the team hasn’t hurt either. (Also Buffalo, due to Ryan Miller.)
I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left-hand side.
Bradley-Terry rankings for college football and basketball: because there aren't enough computer rankings already.
Once they leave I don't really care anymore as I don't watch the NFL all that often
If I see players of yesteryear pop up in a highlight or mentioned with some praise by a tv analyst or see their name at the top of a stat chart I’ll say “good for them” but that’s about it…
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by Oscar Whiskey on Jan 16, 2012 11:30 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
It's more nuanced than your options.
I’m a Saints fan. That’s my team no matter what. Do I also want Cam Newton to be successful in the NFL? Heck yes, but I also want him to get his ass kicked by the Saints twice a year. Am I excited that each of the 4 teams still alive in the playoffs contains an Ole Miss player? Heck yes, but I’d rather the Saints still had a shot at the Super Bowl.
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thats a great point of view. And I appreciate it
coming from someone who has an NFL team, but also a college team. Great stuff!
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by BigBenSportsGuy on Jan 17, 2012 11:13 AM EST up reply actions
I will certainly cheer for one Tommy Tuberville
once he leaves Texas Tech.
We ought to Haboob his ass
by blackbeard on Jan 17, 2012 4:01 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Cam has got me keeping tabs on the Panthers.
Carnell has me checking scores on the Rams. I keep rooting for them but I don’t give a damn about the NFL.
How many broncos shirts get sold annually in FL now?
by SEC Supremacist on Jan 19, 2012 9:53 AM EST reply actions
I am a Kstate alum that had to watch my Lions dealy with Jordy Nelson and then get carved up by Sproles in the playoffs,
Ill put it this way, I hated them while they were scoring, but 20 minutes after the game I focused on how much I hated those fucking teams, more that those players.
Luckily for me Saints lose and Pack lose, so they can fuck off.
I have nothing else to add but it blows.
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