Believe it or not, you can even be a fan of a team in a place you’ve never lived. The rules are made up and the points don’t matter.
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Yes and to a non-sportsball fan that's weird. They all play sportsball, what's different about that team vs all the others if it's not your home team?
It's just one you vibe with. Maybe a friend or family member is a fan. Maybe it's the rival of the local area. Maybe it's a team from the first game you watched in person. Maybe you like the mascot (if they have one).
There doesn't have to be a rhyme or reason, it's just a game. Find one, follow them, you become invested in them, now you're a fan. Some people take it more seriously, some people keep it light hearted, and some people don't care at all.
Because sports teams aren’t just indistinguishable entities; they’re complex organisations with histories, tendencies, and traditions, and that’s before looking at individual players and coaches/managers.
Yeah the players generally aren't from the city either so it's all inaccurate to begin with.
Spoken like a true Team Jacob fan. We Team Edward folks have a little more integrity than to just pick a team willy nilly.
Can confirm, Southern cheese-head here and have never been to Wisconsin
I dunno, even after we got a team close enough to count as home, my choices have always been arbitrary . Mind you, I don't really get into team sports, but it's always fun to have a team for casual conversation.
When I was a kid, it was the Jets, the Eagles, the Vikings or the Bengals, depending on the year and my mood. For us football, obviously. All based on their uniforms or logos. As an adult, it's the Ravens. I just like their logo better.
Celtics for basketball, just because I liked Larry Bird back in the day.
Hockey, it's the Rangers for no reason other than the name sticks in my head
Football/soccer, it's Arsenal. Because it's easy to remember.
Baseball, I tend to go with whatever Sox team pops in my head, or the Dodgers.
Past that, I couldn't name a team for other sports tbh
Vibes. Pick your favorite colors, your favorite mascot, your favorite city to visit, whatever!
I support St Pauli and AFC Wimbledon and I live in Baden-Württemberg, nowhere near Hamburg or London.
People support teams for all manner of reasons. Hometown is one of them, sure, but you don’t have to live somewhere to support a team there.
I’ve known plenty of people who supported distant teams because they visited once and liked it, because one of their parents support them, or even just because they like the uniform colours or the mascot.
I follow the New Orleans Saints and I’ve never been there.
Who dat?
Who dat! ⚜️
You can do whatever you want. You can be fans of multiple teams, or none at all. You can even bandwagon and just be a fan of whomever is winning currently.
In my experience no one picks a team, it is typically geography that does it, or it can be you saw a particular game that made you dig a team. Or someone important to you gets you into a team.
Growing up I was mostly indifferent to sports, I joined the Army was the same until I got married. My wife who spent her formative years in Texas was a huge American football fan of the Dallas Cowboys and the TCU Hornfrogs, so I was indoctrinated.
The Army stationed us in Maryland and we settled here so we became Ravens fans and she never lost her love for TCU.
Now I did love one sport growing up and that was Lacrosse. One drizzly night my friends and I were wondering around the grounds of the University of Virginia and we walked into Scott Stadium, as the gates were wide open and I watched The University of Maryland play UVA in lacrosse and it was fucking unreal watching those guys play. As I was a total townie I had to hate UVA soo…
I fell in love with the UM LAX team and have followed them for decades, as much as I could we not TV and pre-internet days.
I can count the number of ways that having Maryland as my last duty station benefitted my family and how lucky it was.