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OPINION: Root, Root, Root For The Home Team!

Written by RK Byers on May 29, 2009 5:56 pm

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HOME TEAMS! NEEEWWW YOOORRKK!!

When I was a kid, I was a Dr. J fan. This made me, by proxy, a Philadelphia 76ers fan. Now, being from Nyack, New York one would have expected that I’d be a Knicks fan. The fact was that I had liked the Knicks back when I could barely walk and they were still winning titles behind Walt “Clyde” Frazier, but I had liked The Doc even then, when he was soaring through the air for the New York Nets of Long Island.

I was also a bit of a San Francisco 49ers fan, being absolutely in love, as I was, with their running back, the little remembered Wendell Tyler. When a gang of us would get together and play “kill the carrier”, it was Tyler’s herky-jerk jukes and fakes that’d I’d imitate, often fumbling (as he did) just for authenticity.

I was a Mets fan too but this was just because an older man that I respected said that he was and I really didn’t give a damn about baseball.

Now I’m all Mets, Knicks, and Jets. How did this happen? Going away to college.

This complete sociopathic bozo from Philly named Shawn Houston (then and always a friend, even now a Facebook friend) started giving me the business one day after the New York Giants lost to his hometown Eagles.

The conversation went like this:
Him: You see what my Eagles did to your Giants yesterday?
Me: I’m not a Giants f…
Him: Your team just couldn’t stop Cunningham.
Me: I’m not…
Him: The Giants suck!
Me: I…
Him: New York sucks!
Me: Hey!

So when I meet somebody today and they’re, let’s say, a lifelong Harlem resident and their favorite teams are, for instance, the Pittsburgh Steelers the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Red Sox, I know immediately that they’ve never been away from New York long enough to have to defend it.

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  • http://www.blackplanet.com/ASS_BACKWARDS/ ASS_BACKWARDS

    lol thats funny

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Pimptress12/ Pimptress12

    Hometown team says MAGIC!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DJ_YT/ DJ_YT

    Very nice, that is indeed exactly why I root for the Knicks, Rangers, Yankees, Mets and Packers.

    Packers? yes the Packers, the Jets and Giants are from NJ and I’m not, however I did spend about 7 of my most formative years living in GB; visited Lambeau Field and the Packers Hall of Fame; and met Bart Starr – I fell in love and it’s one of those love’s of a lifetime, so I’m bringing up my Brooklyn bred children to be Cheeseheads too – they’ve met Ryan Grant and seen the Packers (1 out of 2 of them anyway) demolish the Giants at Giants Stadium so all bust out the Jamaican colors (where my wife was born) and root root root for the Pack.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/djfreezrock/ djfreezrock

    LOL @ Jamaican colors! I know the feeling. I’m orig from Gary, Indiana. We’re 30 minutes away from Chicago, and 3 hours from Indianapolis. Before 2007′s Superbowl the residents of Gary were HARDCORE BEARS FANS. But now that the Colts were in the bowl a lot of Gary people jumped on the bandwagon and became instant Colts fans. Socially Gary relates more to Chicago, even when it comes to music and the media. The argument was support YOUR team, they are in Indiana. My argument is no thats INDIANAPOLIS’S TEAM and it doesn’t say Indiana Colts. Nuff said.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Sternie/ Sternie

    Sounds like you just jock what ever team is winning at that time.Just be down with your home team and stop jumping on band wagons.

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/DRACATTACK/ DRACATTACK

    LOL…I know where U’re comin’ from!! Go Steelers…Git ‘em!!

  • http://www.blackplanet.com/Legs4Weeks/ Legs4Weeks

    So true no matter how bad the Bulls are I am a Chicago fan to the heart, Bears lose? I am still down. Sox win a World Series then fail miserably the following year still bleeding black and white. Only team I can’t root for? Dang Cubs.

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