A good read:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/12282008/sports/moresports/new_york_fans_sports_dna_determines_all_146198.htm

I always believed in supporting all' NYC teams first of all and then Metro area teams second (Islanders, Nets, Devils). For those Mets, Jets, Knicks, Rangers fans, I support you. Always have and always will. It's healthy to have inner competition of course, to make us all stronger in the end. But an equal amount of support should always go around.

Sure, the Yankees are always the supreme team of the land and if it wasn't for them, NYC wouldn't have much to talk about. But if it wasn't for the other teams to fill in the gaps, then the Yankees would simply be boring in NY. This is a great read to what some see as a dilemma, but what I see as a healthy argument.

I had made the point about a year and a half ago that NYC had not gone without a championship team no more than six years and that happened only about three times since 1921. For the first time in that period we have gone seven' years without. That's until the Giants snapped the dry spell last year. The Devils snapped the Metro area spell a couple years earlier.

But the point being, this city is the most successful, most consistent winner of all other cities. So the next time you start bashing other teams in this city, you might want to think twice about it.

NYC Sports Fans DNA Determines All? Not necessarily.

I agree with this. I've never hated the Mets even though I'm a diehard Yankees fan. I always root for the NY football and hockey teams even though I don't follow the sports much.

What a load of crap. Root for the teams you like.

[Edited by - basketballjones on 12-28-2008 16:30]

Posted by BasketballJones:

What a load of crap. Root for the teams you like.

[Edited by - basketballjones on 12-28-2008 16:30]

word.

Posted by Cookdcokehop:

Posted by TMS:

Screw the Mets & screw the Nets... the only time i'll ever root for the Mets is when they're playing Boston in regular season interleague play.

Hater

hey man, i'm sure the feelings are mutual when it comes to the Phillies, right?

Posted by TMS:

Screw the Mets & screw the Nets... the only time i'll ever root for the Mets is when they're playing Boston in regular season interleague play.

Totally understandable, coming from 'TMS'.

Posted by 4949:

Posted by TMS:

Screw the Mets & screw the Nets... the only time i'll ever root for the Mets is when they're playing Boston in regular season interleague play.

Totally understandable, coming from 'TMS'.

gotta stay true to my roots, nah'm sayin?

I'm a fan of any team that would cause Burymyheadupastarryrectuman to stop typing anything, in any format.
Go T-Wolves! You can die now, Kevin McHale; your life's work has achieved true worth and meaning!

The Nets suck as a franchise (even when they were playing as "Rutgers-lite"), the Mets aren't worth mentioning in the same sentence as the Yankees (and never will be), and hockey is a socio-geo-political mutant ritual foisted upon an uncaring public by the (cough cough) homo-left-wing-tree-hugging moonbats. They hit each other with sticks and wear girdles; nuff said.