How did you become a fan of your team?

[WizardHawk]

My mom had season tickets to Husky stadium before I was born. My first memory of a game there was watching Warren Moon in the early days of Don James football.

To this day, despite having gone to the school, all I care about at UW is the football program. I follow the basketball team a little, but couldn't care less how good/bad any of the other sports teams are. Hate oregon with every fiber in my being and yet they can beat UW in everything outside of football and it means nothing. Of course the hate for Oregon goes way back and has nothing to do with their recent success. Didn't make me hate them more.

Crazy dynamic up here really and I more or less follow the typical NW profile. Cougs hate us as much as we hate Oregon while the Cougs generally don't have anything against the ducks. Huskies don't usually hate the Cougs. I had family and friends that went there. Only thing most NW teams ever agreed on was they all hated USC. As much as we hated Oregon for decades, it was USC you circled every year and got the most pleasure out of beating.

Anyway, my parents still have season tickets to Husky stadium and will be there to break in the new digs this fall. Of course I buy my own, but their tickets will be handed down to me when they either can no longer go or they pass away. Despite their losing seasons of late you don't get good seats without either 'donating' a large sum every year, being a high standing member of the tyee club, or you have very old sets of season tickets. I'll be passing my set off to my kids some day. It's a proud tradition in my family.

 

[Gatorchip]

Watched Emmitt Smith shred some team then went out and partied afterwards.

 

[CaptO]

How could anybody of gone to tOSU in the early 80s & NOT become a fan?

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

As far as my other teams.

I am a DC kid.

 

[Olyduck]

Born and raised in Eugene. Dad went to UO

 

[USCDoom]

My mom had season tickets to Husky stadium before I was born. My first memory of a game there was watching Warren Moon in the early days of Don James football.

To this day, despite having gone to the school, all I care about at UW is the football program. I follow the basketball team a little, but couldn't care less how good/bad any of the other sports teams are. Hate oregon with every fiber in my being and yet they can beat UW in everything outside of football and it means nothing. Of course the hate for Oregon goes way back and has nothing to do with their recent success. Didn't make me hate them more.

Crazy dynamic up here really and I more or less follow the typical NW profile. Cougs hate us as much as we hate Oregon while the Cougs generally don't have anything against the ducks. Huskies don't usually hate the Cougs. I had family and friends that went there. Only thing most NW teams ever agreed on was they all hated USC. As much as we hated Oregon for decades, it was USC you circled every year and got the most pleasure out of beating.

Anyway, my parents still have season tickets to Husky stadium and will be there to break in the new digs this fall. Of course I buy my own, but their tickets will be handed down to me when they either can no longer go or they pass away. Despite their losing seasons of late you don't get good seats without either 'donating' a large sum every year, being a high standing member of the tyee club, or you have very old sets of season tickets. I'll be passing my set off to my kids some day. It's a proud tradition in my family.

USC-Washington in the 80s and 90s were some great games to watch. Always a slugfest.

 

[USCDoom]

USC - Cant think of a time I did not root for USC.
Bucs - Grandparents live in St pete and sent me all kinds of Bucs stuff as a kid. I was born exactly 1 year after the Bucs were Born.
Expos - Tim Raines
Jazz - First time I ever payed() attention to basketball was a game 7 between the lakers and jazz, was a fan ever since.
Canadiens - First hockey game I ever saw was Game 6 of the Final between Montreal and Calgary, everyone was rooting for Calgary and booed me when I started cheering for Montreal, been a Fan ever since.

 

[WhiteMamba]

My mom had season tickets to Husky stadium before I was born. My first memory of a game there was watching Warren Moon in the early days of Don James football.

To this day, despite having gone to the school, all I care about at UW is the football program. I follow the basketball team a little, but couldn't care less how good/bad any of the other sports teams are. Hate oregon with every fiber in my being and yet they can beat UW in everything outside of football and it means nothing. Of course the hate for Oregon goes way back and has nothing to do with their recent success. Didn't make me hate them more.

Crazy dynamic up here really and I more or less follow the typical NW profile. Cougs hate us as much as we hate Oregon while the Cougs generally don't have anything against the ducks. Huskies don't usually hate the Cougs. I had family and friends that went there. Only thing most NW teams ever agreed on was they all hated USC. As much as we hated Oregon for decades, it was USC you circled every year and got the most pleasure out of beating.

Anyway, my parents still have season tickets to Husky stadium and will be there to break in the new digs this fall. Of course I buy my own, but their tickets will be handed down to me when they either can no longer go or they pass away. Despite their losing seasons of late you don't get good seats without either 'donating' a large sum every year, being a high standing member of the tyee club, or you have very old sets of season tickets. I'll be passing my set off to my kids some day. It's a proud tradition in my family.

AAAAAANNNNND I still await an invite on that boat on Lake Washington for the boatgater... Still Waitin...

 

[trojanfan12]

Great responses!! For my pro teams. I became a Laker fan right about the same time that I became a USC fan!! My aunts in Phoenix used to have season tickets to Suns games and when we were there for a visit during basketball season, they would always take me to a game or 2.

The idea was that I would become a Suns fan!! Problem was that one of the first games they took me to was against the Lakers. I ended up becoming a fan of the wrong team (according to them). They did begrudgingly accept that the Suns were (and still are) my 2nd favorite team.

Not sure when I became a Dodger fan. I've just been a Dodger fan for as long as I can remember. No one in my family were really baseball fans, so being a Dodger fan just kind of happened on it's own.

For pro football, I was a die-hard Rams fan until that snake-eating bitch took them to St. Louis. Now I follow the Buccaneers (became a fan when I lived in Florida for 3 years) and also the Seahawks. No, I'm not a Seahawks fan because of Pete Carroll (but it doesn't hurt).

 

[OUGuy1999]

That time of the month?

Good Call Aguado

 

[Edisto_Tiger]

aight, the truth. My Granddaddy's best friend, from their Airborne days, went to Clemson after they got out of the military. My Grandaddy became a fan, my Aunts and Uncles went to school there ( a few did go to that other school) and they took me to my first game when I was 8 or 9 (1979 or 80) and that was it. My blood turned orange and has been ever since. Growing up a fan of the Tigers through the 80's set the bar high. Needless to say disappointment and frustration have ensued for the last 20 some odd years. Hopefully we are finally righting the ship. GO TIGERS!!

 

[wingsauce7]

Hell, there was nothing else to do in Iowa!

 

[trojanfan12]

Hell, there was nothing else to do in Iowa!

Best one yet!!

 

[The Cubs fan]

Dad taught me to be a Cubs fan. Family ties for Bears and Cubs. Then when Orton a favorite player of mine was dealt to Denver i became a fan.

 

[Red_Alert]

Moved to Omaha in 1969.
Got somewhat familiarized with Nebraska football during their 1970 National Championship season.

In 1971 I spent Saturday afternoons down at the local fishing hole with a couple of school buddies listening to Nebraska football games on an AM transistor radio. Back then we only had 3 TV stations and Nebraska was only on TV 2-3 times a year, so the radio was it most of the time. Nebraska went on to beat Oklahoma 35-31 in the 'Game of the Century' and followed that by beating Bear Bryant's Alabama 38-6 in the Orange Bowl for back-to-back National Championships.

Hooked for life.

 

[bluezhound]

My Mother attended Ohio ST ... i was born in Ohio and am a die hard Browns . Buckeye . Cavs & Indians fan since 66 at the age of 9 when i would set still long enough to watch football . i would watch the Browns grab my football up and play until the sun went down and sometimes even later if we could talk the parents into turning on the outside lights .

 

[geneh_33]

When I was a boy, they took me to a Carolina game.

That made you a Clemson fan?

 

[WhiteMamba]

Ducks: Gramps was a Bama guy. Mom went to tOSU and then Dad dropped me on my head... Been a Duck ever since.

Raiders: Dad is an alcoholic. Raider remind me of him. Want to be proud of him but he kept showin up to the Parent Teach Conferences drunk.

A's: Became a fan in the 80's. Was looking for a team full of honesty and integrity. I found the Oakland A's

 

[LawDawg]

When I was a boy, they took me to a Carolina game.

+1 ... I see what you did there ... an ABC fan.

 

[rolltide14_0]

I was brainwashed at a very young age.