How did you become a fan of your team?

[trojanfan12]

I used to post this thread annually over on CBS during the off-season. Some of the former CBS posters may remember. Seemed to always make for a pretty interesting topic.

Anyhow, the concept is pretty simple. How did your favorite team become your favorite team? For some, it's as simple as it's their alma mater, some were already fans, then it became their alma mater, family ties, etc.

For me, I was 9 years old and was in my 2nd season of Jr. All-American football. My dad was attending Long Beach St. at the time (they still had a football team back then) and he took me to a couple of games. It was fun, but it just didn't feel like "big time football" to me.

Then one day he told me he got tickets to see USC. Again, I was 9 and just learning about football so I was kind of expecting an experience not much different than Long Beach St. We went to the Coliseum and that alone was impressive to me because that was where the Rams (my favorite NFL team back then) played!!

Well, we're in our seats, the Coliseum is packed, the band starts playing "Fight On", the team runs out on the field and I immediately became a fan for life!!

 

[tideguy]

born with bama in my blood...

 

[HuskerInSecLand]

Husker bred

 

[The Iron Horse]

When I was 4, I was raised in a half-way house, my parents were in the witness protection program. My dad got greedy, tried to move too many guns at once, and was fetched by the Feds...he was flipped into testifying against Raul "El Burro" Carmona the biggest gun smuggler the east of El Paso, Tx. Anyways, there we were, in this half-way house, when El Burro sent his notorious hitman, Sazo Melendez after us. He bought off some feds, and got our location.

Midnight, Sazo kills the two guards out front. He pries open the front steel door with a crowbar. He launches two grenades killing two more guards. Then he opens fire with his Ak-47, mincing everyone in the half-way house. Then, he grabbed a couple of gas containers, and set the half-way house on fire, like a roman candle. El Burro paid Sazo a rumored 500k for the hit. On his way home, Sazo stopped for a rare Omaha porterhouse steak. Sazo having been raised in the back country of Peru, did not have the best table manners, and would eat bigger chunks of meat, than he could chew. He choke to death on an Omaha porterhouse steak.

El Burro was on the run, his crime empire was falling apart. His ring of prostitution was crumbling at the seams. Seems he tried to set up shop in the Juarez Brothers territory. Bad idea hombre, the Juarez Brothers sent their own hitman, Pete Canela. Canela slighted El Burro's throat from ear to ear, then pulled his tongue out through the wound. It was the bloodiest battle the Mexican drug cartels had seen in ages.

On the day that Sazo tried to killed my family...we were not there, we were out enjoying a Nebraska Cornhuskers game. And that is why I am a fan.

(truth is, I was 9, moved to NY. My family was not into sports. I was looking for a college football team to cheer for. I saw a TV segment on ESPN on Tom Osborne and how close he had come to winning it all, but hadn't, and he had a bowl losing streak. They had an underdog feeling to them. Plus, I was a huge Ozzy Osbourne fan at that time, so it just seem right)

 

[UTVolCountry]

My dad was a huge Vols fan and most of my family also liked Tennessee...basically just born and raised that way. When I was 8 or 9, we moved to Murfreesboro, and my first football game was at MTSU (1999 vs UCF). So that's how I became a Vols & Blue Raiders fan. GBO! Go Blue!

 

[UTVolCountry]

And I like the Titans, Preds & Grizz because they're the hometown/local teams.

 

[Brasky]

When I was born they put me in a Husker onesie.

 

[Scapegoat]

Graduated from University of Oklahoma.

 

[fordman84]

Went to school there. First in my family to go there, so definitely not family ties.

 

[Shanemansj13]

Always have and always will be a Buckeye.

 

[fordman84]

Always have and always will be confused for a pot plant.

 

[huskers1217]

its where me doctor slapped me ass for the first time

 

[FatDaddy6003]

My dad took to a game and i was hooked...

Now my sons for the last few years have told me the horns sucked then this past year We went to the orange and white game and when we enter the stadium his eye light up and he was hooked before the horns was on the field... Now he cant wait to attend his first real game this year!!

 

[fordman84]

My dad took to a game and i was hooked...

Now my sons for the last few years have told me the horns sucked then this past year We went to the orange and white game and when we enter the stadium his eye light up and he was hooked before the horns was on the field... Now he cant wait to attend his first real game this year!!

sounds like child abuse to me

 

[obxyankeefan]

Yankees Grew up on stories of the Norfolk Tars. That and most of my family are/were Yankees fans

Penguins Youth hockey team was called the Penguins because our coach was from Pittsburgh

Lions Liked the blue and silver colors then I got a 1978 Greg Landrey card


UVA First time I saw Ralph Sampson play and thought "wow there is a pro team in Virginia"

 

[obxyankeefan]

sounds like child abuse to me

I was thinking this about the Nebraska Onsie.

 

[7NationalChampionships]

Grandpa was a Golden Gloves boxer and he wrestled at OU, Dad went to school at OU. I didn't go to OU but Sooner football was drilled into me as a kid for obvious reasons. I had a scholarship to a different school.

 

[iruletheskool]

Born in Lincoln.. ya can't escape it

 

[HuskerInSecLand]

My dad took to a game and i was hooked...

Now my sons for the last few years have told me the horns sucked then this past year We went to the orange and white game and when we enter the stadium his eye light up and he was hooked before the horns was on the field... Now he cant wait to attend his first real game this year!!

Where ya going to take him to see a real game?

 

[Smart]

Wisconsin grad who spent a lot of time in Madison growing up