If the team has a bad year, like this year, I watched the women's NCAA and now the A's, who are showing signs of life. Or I do something else entirely. Environmental stuff. Working on the Pride Parade. Going to the women's rally Saturday. Occupying Oakland. Petting my cat. Expanding my garden. Taking a class. Knitting a summer sweater. Cook. Get my hair done. Go to the ballet. I've been doing all those things. But become a fan of some other team? Never.
I have MM's back on this one. I hated the Yankees until I met my wife who is a huge Yankees fan. She asked me would you like an owner that was not afraid to spend money? Of course my answer was yes. I have always been a Mariners fan and I still root for them. However, I find myself rooting for the Yankees now also. Maybe it is because they actually win games and that feels good. Now my wife always tells me welcome to the dark side!
Dallas because they schooled the Lakers and the Heat. Also, Boston because they humiliated the Lakers in 2008. I hate the Heat the most though so if it's Lakers/Heat in the NBA Finals, I'm putting on a Devin Ebanks jersey and cheering loud and hard for my home team.
The Blazers are 2 for 2 in this category, they are not exactly going about doing things the right way - and they went out of their way to alienate me with the TV package via Comcast. I moved to Portland in the mid-90s, cheered for the Blazers because they were the local team and it felt good, but was not a die-hard fan, I am thinking that my love for the Blazers was mostly because of how much I admired Roy during that too brief a time we got to see him in action. With the team run by a smarmy management that went out of their way to ensure I could not watch the games on TV... well... Fair-weather? Maybe. I love Basketball - and if the Blazers are being run by morons that do not care about me as a fan - I feel no obligation to be a die-hard fan forever. Morons do not deserve my fandom - and currently the Blazers are being run by people that behave like morons, imho. As for right now - probably the Spurs because they have the best coach in the league and I always admired Timmy Duncan.
It's just a sport, there's no "morality" behind your fandom. I probably could never bring myself to really care about another team, but I've missed more Blazer games this year than in many previous years combined. There is just nothing attractive about them, they are not good, and they don't have any "promising young stars". Probably over 50% of the roster won't even be here next year.
Kings. Lot of similarities to POR fanbase wise. And they're up and coming and detest LA as much as we do. Just hope they don't move.
When you start over with a new team, you want to increase your wins each year. You want to build something. You don't want to be depressed anymore. Hello Charlotte Bobcats, your new team.
as bad as it's been this season, the fact some of you are thinking about jumping ship is laughable. as a die hard blazer fan, they are the last of the three on my scale of heartache to go with the cubs and raiders (yes i know how to pick'em). i agree with the notion that one championship that i truly care about is worth more than 20 championships following the yankees and lakers. i also see a lot of you saying the spurs would be your next choice, living down here i couldn't do it. maybe it's the contrarian in me, but i still can't forgive the franchise that gave us the memorial day miracle.
I'm still a Blazers fan, I just don't have a lot to say. (Not out of disappointment.) I was rooting for the Heat in the playoffs, but mostly to put an end to one of the more annoying "debates" (IMO) in my time as an NBA fan...whether LeBron is "capable" of winning a title and whether he's actually great or just a stat-stuffer. Now that he's won one, I don't care about the Heat, though I still love watching James play. If I didn't have a favorite team, I'd probably just follow players, the way I did before I latched onto Portland.
