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  1. 9 hours ago, Cosmic said:

    Unpopular opinion alert: sports teams aren't deserving of my "loyalty" any more than my gas station or grocery store. Just do whatever makes you feel good. Life is too short to be bound by a nebulous, one-way loyalty agreement with a business.

     

    I feel a loyalty towards ARCO because they sponsored my soccer team in 5th grade. I don't go out of my way for one, but if I have a choice between ARCO and another gas station and the price isn't that big a difference, I'll hit the ARCO every time.

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  2. 4 hours ago, DiePerske said:

    So rather, you'd have people be disloyal to their hometown?

     

    City loyalties should always reign supreme to team. 

     

    Whatever non Buffalo teams I follow go away as soon as Buffalo gets a team. So raptors? I'll stop cheering for them as soon as buffalo gets a team, because city ties are more important than teams. Same with baseball. 

     

    How many of the Bills are from Buffalo? You're not rooting for hometown players, you're rooting for a corporation. Maybe if hometown teams had hometown players, I'd be more inclined to root for them.

     

    Also, if you moved, say to Boston, would you keep your Buffalo allegiances or switch to Boston teams?

     

    I was fortunate to grow up in a city 2000 or so miles from any pro team. It let me come up with my own criteria on who to root for.

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  3. 7 minutes ago, insert name said:

    See but what about the people who are just getting into the sport or the ones who finally have a local team to root for?

    I said there were exceptions, people just getting into the sport were one of them. People who switch to their local team because it's local are disloyal to their original team, and I don't like that. When MLS was founded, I became a New England Revolution fan for a myriad of reasons. When Seattle got a team, I stayed with the Revolution, I showed no disloyalty or change of heart. My friend was a Chicago Blackhawks fan, when Anaheim got a team, he chose to root for them, even over Chicago, because his mom and some family lived there. I questioned this and we had several arguments about this.

  4. 1. I think playoffs in any sport are a flawed structure that rely on hype to convince people to watch them.

     

    2. There should be no fans over 10 of the Vegas Golden Knights. If you changed to Vegas for whatever reason, I consider you disloyal and have no respect for you. There are always exceptions to this, but they are few and far between.

     

    3. Just to make this uniform related - if I hate the team, I hate the uniform. No matter what the New York Rangers, Dallas Cowboys, Wazzu Cougars, L.A. Dodgers or any other team I dislike, come out in, I will hate it. On the flip side, if a team I like wears something I am not happy with, I'll let them know I don't like it. (Washington Huskies and any black).

     

    Are those unpopular enough?

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  5. I have no rooting interest in tonight's NCAA basketball game as I did not go to Gonzaga or N.C. I was raised not being allowed to root for college teams and I do the same for my kids. None of them have any UW gear, as they did not go there. Someone brought me a Boston College hockey hat a couple years ago that sits in my closet, I have no affiliation with B.C. won't wear it.

     

    I think that college and professional sports rooting are two different things. I've never been to Pittsburgh, but have no problem rooting for the Penguins. It wasn't until I started at UW that I became a fan of theirs.

  6. I got official notification the morning that the Aces will cease operations at the end of the season. Bummer, I used to work for the team back in the 90's, sad to hear of their passing. One season, they signed Link Gaetz and there was a lounge under the arena where the players would go after the game and socialize with some ticket holders, team workers, and there was catered food and a bar. After one game, Gaetz walked in, slammed his fist on the bar and announced loudly "The warrior needs a beer!" It was quite scary and intimidating. Other teams would have at least one player who would want to test himself by getting in a fight on ice with Gaetz.

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  7. On 2/6/2017 at 9:44 AM, McCarthy said:

     

    Same. Safeco is my second favorite stadium I've been to (Hi, Coors Field). It rains here more than it rains in Seattle, especially in the summer where it basically doesn't rain in Seattle. Almost all their rainfall happens opposite of the baseball calendar. 

     

    I'd love to not have to worry about weather when going to a game. Can't tell you how many games I've passed on free tickets because it looked like it might rain later. 

     

    I missed the Randy Johnson no-hitter because it was raining out and my friend and I didn't want to be stuck at the bus stop in the rain.

  8. On 1/24/2017 at 10:14 PM, cmm said:

    When I was a kid, I thought the Wales Conference was named after the Hartford Whalers. I wasn't very bright. (I'm still kinda dumb.)

    When I was a kid, it bugged me that Seattle could play Washington for the title because i thought they should be friends before it was explained to me that Washington referred to D.C. and not the state I was in.

  9. I usually like hearing the stories behind a flag rather than the actual design. If there's a good story behind it, it goes up high in my book, even though I think it's a poor or boring design. I learned earlier this summer what the Austrian flag represents when I went there, and it instantly transformed it in my mind from a boring one, to a more impressive one. Sorry, I don't recall all the exact details, but during a war a while ago, the general leading the Austrian forces was mortally wounded. Back at the field hospital, they removed his sash, and the blood soaked white shirt underneath was removed and waved over the army to rally the troops to victory, hence, the red-white-red (rot-weiss-rot), they currently have. Again, I thought it was a boring flag until I read the story. 

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  10. Though I believe there may be exceptions, my feelings about the team strongly influence whether I like the jersey/logo or not. Teams I hate can not have a jersey/logo I like, I just don't allow it. Likewise (with the main exception of the black Huskies unis) if I like the team, they generally cannot come up with something I don't like.

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