POLL: If your favorite pro sports team moved from your city would you support them in new city?
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No way. Its like rooting for your ex wife or the company that fired you. (not that I'b bitter or anything)
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Would depend on the circumstances I think. If it were the Penguins or Pirates leaving Pittsburgh because there wasn't enough fan support, then yeah, sure. If it's the Browns leaving Cleveland for Baltimore, then f*** no.
What? The Browns sold out that horrible 88,000 seat stadium year in and year out. The owner, Art Model, was running out of cash and didn't have the savings to pay his kid's inheritance tax if he died suddenly. So the rat bastard had Baltimore and MD pay him $177,000,000 dollars to move. it cost the nfl dearly and it took the Steelers greatest rivalry game away.
My mom grew up in Brooklyn and rooted for "Dem Bums". The day their move to Los Angeles was announced, she stopped being a baseball fan. She was just a kid, but she's always said that was the day she learned baseball was just a business.
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Baltimore should have gotten an expansion team instead of Jacksonville. I feel bad for Cleveland, but at least it got to keep the Browns' name.
Absolutely not. I am a confirmed bigot when it comes to baseball. If the Phillies moved I would burn everything I have. Maybe if they went to Camden, Atlantic City, Cape May, or Allentown I would still stay involved but east coast baseball is the ground zero to me. I would root for any east coast team over the midwest, Texas, or west coast. If the Phillies ever leave I'm done.
When the Browns left Cleveland I didn’t watch a football game for two years. It took a few more until I would watch a game that the Ravens played in. Still don’t watch a game with the Ravens unless they are playing the Browns. I was 15 at the time.
There are a lot of Steelers fans in the B'more area because of the way the Colts left town. The way a couple of friends have explained it:
- they were certainly not going to root for the Colts anymore, so needed a new fave
- they were not going to root for the Iggles or 'skins because they both were hated (former) rivals...to a lesser extent, the same applies to the NY teams since Os fans were used to hating the Yankees
- Pittsburgh had the next closest team...even more so for western MD
It was so long (12 seasons) without having a local team, many of the new Steelers fans stuck with their new team; many also didn't care for getting another team that bailed on their previous city.
- they were certainly not going to root for the Colts anymore, so needed a new fave
- they were not going to root for the Iggles or 'skins because they both were hated (former) rivals...to a lesser extent, the same applies to the NY teams since Os fans were used to hating the Yankees
- Pittsburgh had the next closest team...even more so for western MD
It was so long (12 seasons) without having a local team, many of the new Steelers fans stuck with their new team; many also didn't care for getting another team that bailed on their previous city.
Been there done that, with Cleveland. If they weren't guaranteed a new franchise I woulda been a New Orleans fan. That 3 years they were out of the league I didn't watch any NFL. Started following NHL..... Glad I did.
It's kind of like an old girlfriend they doinked. St. Louis can't say they like them anymore, but they creep them on Twitter and Facebook.
My disdain for both Indianapolis and Elway will let forever!
You're right. ApologiesI think you misread my post....try again.
The only professional sport I support is golf. No illusion of there being a team. And endorsements aside, players get paid based on how they perform each week. They don't even get paid unless they perform "above average."
This whole topic has a lot to do with why I don't care for pro sports anyway. At least I went to Penn State, and it's not moving anywhere- it would shut down altogether if anything.
I know this will cause some butthurt, but here goes: Chip Kelly made the Eagles basically unrecognizable by jettisoning players, and basically changing every aspect of the organization. I could never understand why people stayed on board throughout/after that beyond geography.
I know this will cause some butthurt, but here goes: Chip Kelly made the Eagles basically unrecognizable by jettisoning players, and basically changing every aspect of the organization. I could never understand why people stayed on board throughout/after that beyond geography.
Habits and fandom are hard to break. After Terrell Owens and then Michael Vick I gave up completely on the Eagles. Barely watched a game. Only Wentz brought me back.
Oakland Raiders fans might be the only exception to this. That is a very strange fan base and I remember many of them still religiously following them when they moved to LA. Wouldn't surprise me if they support them after they move to Las Vegas.
A friend of mine grew up a Colts fan and then adopted the Chiefs as his team when they moved to Indy. He even got season tickets and flew out a few times a year to attend Arrowhead. He’s not feeling so good tonight .
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I agree... fewer sights are as sad as grown men wearing sports jerseys, even if they are of the cheap, high quality type...
If the Harrisburg Senators moved to Camp Hill, I would be done.
I hear ya on that.... although I won't go that far, most of my childhood friends who were also Colts fans feel the way you do.
When the Colts left Baltimore in 1983, I gave up following the NFL until the Championship weekends and the Super Bowl. Took me close to 20 years before I even casually followed the NFL regular season again other than the ex-PSU players. The Ravens are just another NFL team to me; I feel no affinity toward them.
I have to admit, I still love the classic Colts uniforms. At times I find myself cheering for them in a game for no other reason, like some primal force is making me do it! I told one of my buddies that a number of years ago, and I think he had to stop and talk himself out of being mad at me over that. But I don't care if they win or lose, overall.
Now, I cheer for the Panthers due to having family in Charlotte and they are season tickets holders. I also cheer for the Steelers, as a carry-over from college days when the TV room was dominated by Steelers fans. But it still ain't the same as the good ol' days.
When a team moves to another city, it only reminds me that I am rooting for a money making business that is generally heavily subsidized by local tax dollars.
Sadly, your statement summarizes my affinity towards my alma mater... particularly over the past decade*
