For those of you that don't know me personally I am of a rare breed when it comes to my sports teams. I am a Boston area sports fan except when it comes to baseball where I root for the Yankees. Now now before you inundate with cries of blasphemy let me explain a bit. I started watching baseball when I was maybe five or six years old with my dad who is a Yankees fan. This led me to like the Yankees and that will never change. The others sports, football, basketball, and hockey, I picked up in junior high and high school and I went with the local teams, the Patriots, Celtics, and Bruins. Well sometimes, when I am not quite awake when I leave the house, I can be seen wearing a Patriots shirt and a Yankees hat and people look at me funny, at least I'm assuming they are looking at me funny because of the clothes and not my face. I have been labeled a cross dresser by friends and had strangers call me a bandwagon jumper, which irks me to know end because I am fiercely loyal to my teams. Well this all leads to this weekend which found the Yankees sweeping the Red Sox to clinch the AL East and the Patriots prove the naysayers wrong by taking care of the Falcons. So that made me one of few people in New England very happy about the sports weekend. If you like an odd assortment of teams let me know in the comments area with an explanation on how you starting liking your teams.
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I still can't say Bucky Dent without using his adapted middle name. :)
ReplyDeleteI have the reverse thing going on. I am a Red Sox fan in baseball and NY Giants fan in football. Needless to say I was extatic when the Sox won the WS in 07 and the Giants won the SB 3 months later.
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