well the Jets and Dolphins play in the same division, and Miami is full of NYC transplants, so there's more connection between the two cities than between Miami and either Boston or Buffalo. Plus, recently the Jets won 8 straight matchups and like 10-12 or something. Plus there was that hoprrible game a few years ago where the dolphins were up by about 28 on MNF and the Jets scored 30 in the fourth quarter to come back and win.
HahahahahaOriginally Posted by eestlinc
I loved that game. That made me love Vinny for quite a while. My dad and I have an on-going MNF bet (for the past 5 or so years), and I took New York for that game. My step-dad was all "How could you! Miami just got off a bye! You <i>always</i> take the bye-team!" And them when Miami was up like 20-0 in the first quarter was all "Hah, I told you so!" and I was all "" and then when New York scored like 30 points in ONE QUARTER I was extremely happy and jumping around at like 1 AM.
EDIT: So yeah, that would be a good reason (along with the others you mentioned) to start a rivalry.
Geography does not a rivalry make. Just take a look at baseball interleague.
I already hated the Jets and that game made we want to sodomize the players' wives and children with a chainsaw.
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oh and I hate the yankees. Go Red Sox!
As a OU Sooner fan. We hate Texas!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol
As a Philidelphia Eagles fan. Yeah we pretty much hate the follow: Falcons. Dallas Cowboys, Greenbay Packers, and Patriots(suck).
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/6673649
Oh. Yeah.
I hate sports, which means I hate football, which means I hate them all.
Something that really bugs the hell out of me though, is when people are a fan of a team simply because they happen to live in/near the city that said team represents. My roommate is from Pheonix, AZ and he's like that, just as Oklahomans seem to be with OU and OSU, but more OU (since they don't have any pro-teams they have to rely on college teams haha).
But I think what really drove me away from sports growing up and still does is the fans rather than the sports themselves...people get so obsessive, annoying, rude, nasty, and violent over whats supposed to be fun and entertaining. It's discusting.
But to each his own.
I like Kung-Fu.
That's something I've never really understood either. There's no thought involved: you like the team given to you, and you dislike the team that used to/does beat your team a lot in the same division/conference/whatever.
Maybe it's because I moved around a lot as a kid, but I never favored the home team above all others simply because they're the home team. When I was a kid, I loved the '9ers, despite never having lived in California. Of course, if I went to a live home game, and it wasn't against a team I really liked (i.e., the '9ers), then I'd cheer for the home team. So I guess while I always liked the home team if I was able to go see their games, I never considered them my favorite team automatically.
I also don't dislike teams simply because they beat my favorite team a lot. Or because my team and that team has a "rivalry" going.
Manchester United the team is good but alot of the fans I hate. They are glory hogging people who have no right to call themselves football fans but By alot I don't mean all.
Since I support Newcaslte United I don't like Sunderland much but the only teams I really hate are Chelsea and Arsenal FC.
This UK football.
LET THE HAMMER FALL
Well, I have a few favourites, but I don't really hate any one team (except perhaps the Yanks)
Favs:
Baseball: DBacks (Been a fan since beginning. 2001 WS was the best I've ever seen)
Basketball: Suns. I just hope they can make the playoffs this year.
Football: Cowboys because I was born in Dallas.
Anti-Teams
Baseball: Giants, Dodgers, Yankees
Basketball: Lakers, Mavericks, Spurs, Kings
Football: Steelers, 49ers, Eagles, Rams
I don't like that sort of sports rivalry crap. It's either dumb- supporters of Sunderland FC (on the North East coast of England), for example, have a rivalry with the fans of Newcastle United (further up the coast), which made no sense, as Newcastle have been in the Premier League (the first division) for decades, while Sunderland spend most of their time in the first division (the second division- weird, I know, but football's weird...), occasionally doing well enough to spend a season in the PL. So, the teams only played a game about once or twice every four years. That said, that is a particularly dumb example.
Or really dumb the way the Glasgow Celtic/Rangers rivalry ahs got tied into sectarianism and the Northern Irish conflict. The rivalry sort of makes sense- they're two teams in the same division, in the same city, but it gets taken too far. Most of the fans are fine, but, eventually, some idiots will take it too far. Of course, that applies to any team, group, nation, church or tribe. It seems to be human nature, unfortuanately....
I just have an update for this. The Green Bay Packers lost (to the Cincinatti Bengals) their sixth game of the season today...out of the seven they've played so far. Next week, they'll play the Steelers, who are 4-2 now, and play Monday Night. So it's a good probability that they'll cross the halfway-mark with a 1-7 record. Being not only a Chicago Bears fan, but a Bears fan in the middle of Wisconsin, I couldn't be loving this more. Well, maybe I could ... there are 32 teams in the NFL. 29 of them are doing better than Green Bay, and the other two are tied with them.
And I think RSL is a Detroit Lions fan.Bears and Lions were both 3-3 this morning ... technically tied for 1st in the Division, but not really, because the Bears hadn't lost a game within the division, whereas the Lions had, which would put the Bears above the Lions. But either way ... they're not tied anymore. Bears are 4-3, which is the best in the NFC North.
So, to wrap it up. Bears are in 1st Place. Packers suck. The end.
<3I just have an update for this. The Green Bay Packers lost (to the Cincinatti Bengals) their sixth game of the season today...out of the seven they've played so far. Next week, they'll play the Steelers, who are 4-2 now, and play Monday Night. So it's a good probability that they'll cross the halfway-mark with a 1-7 record. Being not only a Chicago Bears fan, but a Bears fan in the middle of Wisconsin, I couldn't be loving this more. Well, maybe I could ... there are 32 teams in the NFL. 29 of them are doing better than Green Bay, and the other two are tied with them.
And I think rsl is a Detroit Lions fan.
So, to wrap it up. Bears are in 1st Place. Packers suck. The end.
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