Rank your Fanhood.
I thought it might be interesting to see how people weigh their loyalties to the various teams they follow.
If you want something a little more concrete, rank the teams you follow in order of how happy you would be if they won a championship. I'm thinking specifically pro and college big 4 sports teams, but feel free to throw in national teams or non-revenue sports teams as well if that's your bag.
For me:
1. Michigan Basketball
Spending the late 90s and early 00s as the only UM basketball fan in my school was tough, but that makes the current success that much better.
2a. Indiana Pacers
Indiana kid's gonna Indiana. I spend about 5 minutes as part of my morning routine seething about the fact Reggie Miller(and Austin Croshere) never got a ring, but I have that slight disdain for pro sports holding be back from calling them #2 alone.
2b. Michigan Football
I had the great pleasure of getting into sports right after UM won the football title in 97, so I haven't gotten the good pleasure of enjoying a championship as it happened.
4. Indianapolis Colts
Of course the team I care least about is the only one that has won a championship while I've been following them. All hail St. Peyton. All hail St. Andrew.
5. Any team representing the USA in international competition.
U-S-A, U-S-A!!!
Share yours so that I know who to downvote reflexively if you like teams that I don't.
2. Michigan Basketball
3. Pittsburgh Pirates
4. Pittsburgh Steelers
5. Michigan Hockey
6. Pittsburgh Penguins
7. All other Michigan Athletics
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1. Michigan football (By far #1)
2. Michigan Basketball
3. Former UM Football/Basketball Players
4.Cleveland Cavaliers
5. Patriots (Tom Brady)
6. Cleveland Indians
2. Michigan basketball
3. New England Patriots
4. Detroit Red Wings
5. Detroit Pistons
2. Detroit Lions footballs
3.tigers baseball
4.Montreal Canadiens hockey
5. Michigan basketball
6.Chicago Cubs baseball
3. Pistons
4. Lions.
3. Detroit Tigers
4. Just Football!!!
1. Michigan football.
2. Detroit Lions
3. Michigan basketball
4. EMU football/basketball
5.Tigers/Wings/Pistons in no order.
6. USA/Italy/Germany/England national football teams.(Men and Women)
1. The Team
2. The Team
3. The Team
1. Mississippi State Football
2. Michigan Football
3. Detroit Red Wings
4. Detroit Tigers
5. Michigan Men's Basketball
6. Mississippi State Women's Basketball
7. Mississippi State Men's Basketball
8. Mississippi State Women's Volleyball
9. Mississippi State Women's Tennis
10. Detroit Lions
11. Detroit Pistons
I was raised on Michigan sports, but 17 years in Starkville with 11 years of teaching has led to an eventual change in top loyalty. I have 20 current or former students on the Mississippi State Football 2-deep and have a 1.5 mile golf cart ride to the stadium to see the guys I know play Alabama, LSU, and Ole Miss.
2. Tigers
3. Lions
4. Red Wings
5. USMNT
6. Michigan Basketball
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Michigan Football
Detroit Red Wings
Michigan Basketball, Hockey, Boston Red Sox
Miami Dolphins
Michigan Volleyball
2. Michigan sports
2. Detroit Lions
2b. NFL (Fantasy Football)
3. Detroit Red Wings
4. Michigan Softball
5. Michigan Basketball
6. Detroit Tigers
There is a significant gap between one and the rest of the list.
1. Michigan Football
2. Detroit Tigers
3. Michigan Basketball
4. USA (mainly MNT, also wmnt, olympics,etc.)
5. Detroit Red Wings
6. Detroit Lions
7. Portland Timbers
8. Detroit Pistons
9. CMU
10. Newcastle United
1. Michigan football
2. Patriots football
3. Lions football
4. Packers football
2) Michigan Football
3) Michigan Basketball
4) Detroit Tigers
5) Michigan Softball
6) Detroit Red Wings
7) New England Patriots
1. Michigan football
2. Tigers baseball
3. Michigan basketball
4. Lions football
5. Patriots football
6. Michigan hockey
7. Redwings hockey
8. Toledo Rockets football
9. Toledo Walleye/Mudhens
10. Pistons basketball
After the top 3 there is a big drop off, but I definitely still pull for and support those teams.
1. Michigan Football
2. Michigan Hockey
3. Michigan Basketball
That's about all I care about
2) Detroit Lions
3) Michigan Basketball
4) Detroit Red Wings
5) Detroit Tigers
6) Detroit Pistons
#1 is by far the leader over the rest
1. Michigan Football
2. Detroit Red Wings
3. Michigan Basketball
4. Detroit Lions
5. Detroit Tigers
6. Arizona Wildcats (ever since RR became HC)
7. LSU Football (thanks to my wife, the LSU alum)
8. Detroit Pistons
Air Force(Football, Basketball, Hockey) - went there for undergrad
Michigan(Football, Basketball, Hockey) - went here for grad school
UCLA(Football, Basketball, Baseball) - raised a Bruins fan
Dodgers - raised a Dodger fan
Tottenham Hotspur - like soccer and wanted an EPL team and Spurs history spoke to me. Plus Red is naughty.
Tigers - figure I can root for an AL team and lived in Michigan for six years
Lakers - raised a Lakers fan
Lions - stopped following the NFL when I was stationed in Japan, when I came back the Lions became the home town team.
USMNT - USA USA USA!
Red Wings - never really had hometown team and then I moved to Michigan.
Probably too long a list but I love sports. Although to be honest I really follow.college, the EPL, and baseball and the rest are more of a notice when there is time kind of a deal.
Spurs spent more than Arsenal the last 2 seasons combined, even with Sanchez and Ozil added. You can't use the "we don't spend" excuse. Just giving you a friendly ribbing, though. And you can't be soulless for choosing a team because of Bergkamp, can ya? The man was a magician. Had to root for the Gunners, as an 8 year-old, after seing Dennis.
I know and was kicking it back :). By the way, can't blame you at all, Bergkamps goal against Argentina in '98 was unreal and between him and Henry, two of my favorite strikers ever were on that team.
2 Michigan Basketball
3 Michigan Hockey
4 St Louis Cardinals (born and raised)
5 Portland Timbers (Oregon resident since 2010)
6 Portland Trailblazers
7 Oregon State (grad school)
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1. Michigan Football
2. Michigan Basketball
3. USMNT
4. USWNT
5. US Olympic teams
6. Any other U of M team
2. Red Wings
3. Liverpool
4. Michigan basketball/hockey
5. Western Michigan football/hockey
6. Detroit Tigers
7. Kalamazoo Wings
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2) Red Wings
3) Michigan Hockey
4) Michigan Bball
5) Tigers
6) Lions
7) Pistons
8) Real Madrid
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I don't even watch non-Michigan sports.
I have a few tiers of fandom. Teams within are ranked by the "if both teams were hypothetically playing at the same time, which game would I watch" measure.
The "I live and die by games" tier
Michigan Football
Michigan Basketball
The "I care about the games, but it doesn't ruin my day if they lose unless it's the playoffs" tier (i.e. my main team in the 4 pro leagues)
Detroit Red Wings
Minnesota Vikings
Chicago Cubs
Detroit Pistons
The "Oh cool, the ___ won" tier (i.e. the other random teams I cheer for)
Detroit Tigers
San Diego Chargers
San Diego Padres
Oklahoma City Thunder
2) Cincinnati Reds, I have to admit, if Tiger gets in contention again, he will be here (if not in #1), random odd sport guy: recently it has been Usain Bolt, UM hockey in the NCAA
3) Bengals, most other UM teams, Miami (NTM) teams
I have another category that is admittedly too big, and often just as passionate. That's the anti-version of categories 1 and 2. Those are the 'anybody playing.....' teams.
1) OSU football, MSU basketball
2) MSU football, Steelers, Browns, Chicago Cubs, LeBron's team
2.) Michigan football
3.) Detroit Tigers
4.) Detroit Lions
5.) Detroit Pistons
6.) Detroit Red Wings
2. NY Mets
3. Michigan football
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1A. Michigan sports
1B. New York Yankees
2. New York Giants
3. Everton
Source of Pain: New York Knicks
1. Michigan Football
2. Red Wings
3. Michigan Basketball
4. Michigan Hockey
5. Lions
2. Michigan Basketball
3. Detroit Tigers
4. Detroit Lions
5. Red Wings
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1. Michigan Football
2. Michigan Hockey
3. Michigan Basketball
4. Detroit Red Wings
5. Jamaican Track
6. New England Patriots
7. Detroit Tigers
8. Detroit Lions
9. Toronto Maple Leafs
10. Detroit Pistons
2.Manchester United
3.Cincinnati Bengals
4. UC Football
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1A) Michigan Basketball
1B) Michigan Football
(I consider myself a bigger CFB fan than CBBall fan, but, having only been a Wolverine fan for four-ish years, basketball has done much more to win my affection so for now they're ahead)
1C) Michigan Softball
(Big Gap)
2) US National Teams
3) Whoever is playing OSU/MSU/ND football
4) Whoever is playing MSU basketball
5) Green Bay Packers
6) Wisconsin Badgers
Marcus Garvey or Talib Kweli?