I just dont get how someone who is a passionate fan can "adopt" another team.
Dont get me wrong, midnight, I am glad to have you and dont question your sincerity, I just know I couldnt do it.
I am a lifelong Cincinnati Reds fan and they have sucked monstrously for the last 19 years, yet I cannot bring myself to become even a casual fan of another team. Yes, when the playoffs roll around I usually decide who I'd like to see win, but I would never actually feel like I was a "fan" of that team.
If, God forbid, the Preds ever left Nashville, I cant see myself becoming a fan of another team. I'd probably still watch some hockey, and would likely root for a few favorite players, but I can never envision myself a Blues fan, which would be the next closest team geographically...
I just dont get how someone who is a passionate fan can "adopt" another team.
Dont get me wrong, midnight, I am glad to have you and dont question your sincerity, I just know I couldnt do it.
I am a lifelong Cincinnati Reds fan and they have sucked monstrously for the last 19 years, yet I cannot bring myself to become even a casual fan of another team. Yes, when the playoffs roll around I usually decide who I'd like to see win, but I would never actually feel like I was a "fan" of that team.
If, God forbid, the Preds ever left Nashville, I cant see myself becoming a fan of another team. I'd probably still watch some hockey, and would likely root for a few favorite players, but I can never envision myself a Blues fan, which would be the next closest team geographically...
Thrashers? They are closer to Nashville, though I see you are from Kentucky so that might be your starting point.
I am a huge Pittsburgh Penguins fan, but always secondary to the Preds. I don't feel like I'm betraying the Preds or anything since they come first, especially given that they are in a different conference. I don't start rooting for the Pens first if the Predators start sucking, but if the Preds were out of it and the Pens were still in it, I'd definitely start rooting for them more.
Oh, and to answer Richie's question from long ago, there were indeed some Predator fans who rooted for Team Canada. They were mostly Shea Weber fanatics, but they were there... some wore Team Canada jerseys to the Preds games.
Thrashers? They are closer to Nashville, though I see you are from Kentucky so that might be your starting point.
I am a huge Pittsburgh Penguins fan, but always secondary to the Preds. I don't feel like I'm betraying the Preds or anything since they come first, especially given that they are in a different conference. I don't start rooting for the Pens first if the Predators start sucking, but if the Preds were out of it and the Pens were still in it, I'd definitely start rooting for them more.
Oh, and to answer Richie's question from long ago, there were indeed some Predator fans who rooted for Team Canada. They were mostly Shea Weber fanatics, but they were there... some wore Team Canada jerseys to the Preds games.
yeah, basically for me here's how it works.
I will cheer for Edmonton over everyone. Even Nashville. Sorry
I can think of exceptions to that rule, sure. Like earlier in the season (just weeks ago, really) where losses were more valuable to the Oilers than wins. I was never really one to cheer for the tanking, I'm sort of the fan that would rather see us valiantly clash for a playoff spot than get Taylor Hall. Maybe that's stupid, but I hated seeing my Oilers suffer like that this year. But anyway, in a situation like that, I would probably cheer for the Preds over the Oilers. Other than in an Oilers game, though, I will cheer for the Predators anywhere.
I bore a personal grudge against Brian Burke for the deliberate exclusion of R.J. Umberger. My team's captain was (and is) one of Team Canada's best players. The only three players I knew particularly well that I liked on Team USA normally played for The Hated Enemy, The Implacable Foe, and another team I'm not too enamored with 'cause their fans invade our arena.
But I still rooted for Team USA, because, damnit, I'm an AMERICAN.
You, sir, should be ASHAMED.
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(Rafalski, Suter, Miller. In case you're wondering.)
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I bore a personal grudge against Brian Burke for the deliberate exclusion of R.J. Umberger. My team's captain was (and is) one of Team Canada's best players. The only three players I knew particularly well that I liked on Team USA normally played for The Hated Enemy, The Implacable Foe, and another team I'm not too enamored with 'cause their fans invade our arena.
But I still rooted for Team USA, because, damnit, I'm an AMERICAN.
You, sir, should be ASHAMED.
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(Rafalski, Suter, Miller. In case you're wondering.)
I was hoping there'd be a mark of sarcasm in there because you almost lost all credibility with me with that one. You are good, I've got to give you that. Hope one of Canada's best players can whip up on Detroit some in the next week or so. Hope all your boys do some whipping for that matter.
I was hoping there'd be a mark of sarcasm in there because you almost lost all credibility with me with that one. You are good, I've got to give you that. Hope one of Canada's best players can whip up on Detroit some in the next week or so. Hope all your boys do some whipping for that matter.
To be truthful, I really was bitter about Umberger's not even being invited because he's one of my favorites, but I eventually got over it. Whether or not he would've actually made the team would be a separate issue.
I thought Canada was in North America. Wouldn't that make them American also?
By that logic, anyone in the North America, South America, and Central America would be considered "American." And I think most Canadians would rather drink piss than be called American.
Richie79: I assumed it was an April fool's day thing with his diatribe but then realized when he posted it wasn't 4/01 yet on your guys and gals end of the world.
As for rooting for another team, most of the 'old' timers around here know this but since we have a lot of young blood and since we're being honest with each other I'll state this again:
Being from Idaho (which I didn't take offense to when Harpoon Pete mentioned it) I didn't really get into hockey. I played the old school NES hockey game but that was about as close as I got for a long while.
Then on my 16th birthday a good friend who's originally from Detroit got me a Konstantinov jersey, and because of that I thought I owed it to him to root for the Wings.
That said I got sick of being called a bandwagon fan (which I guess I was more or less) but by then I had been following hockey for a while and couldn't stand any of the teams that are near Idaho. Then the Preds came into the league.
Have never been to Nashville but had always heard good things, I liked the name of the team and started following them as my 1B team. But when the Wings and Preds faced off in the playoffs for the first time, I switched and it was Preds 1A, by the end of the playoffs even losing to the Wings, I made it up in my mind that the Preds were the team I'd root for through thick and thin, and it became Preds first and foremost.
I'm sure someone like Richie79 would have a field day with me considering how hard he ripped into Midnight but meh. In fact, considering most foreigners here in Taiwan are Canadian I stand proud as not only one of the few Americans around, but also the American that likes hockey AND on top of that, in their minds people like me are destroying hockey by rooting for Nashville. **** the haters.
In fact some of my best friends here are Canadian but don't rag on Nashville at all, guess that's partly why we're friends. I went over to one's house to watch the gold medal game with them, it started at 4am here but we all were up watching it, I nearly lost it when it got tied up but then of course they had the last laugh when they won the game. Was something I'll never forget though.
And it's April 2nd already here in Taiwan, so none of this is an April Fool's Day joke.
To be truthful, I really was bitter about Umberger's not even being invited because he's one of my favorites, but I eventually got over it. Whether or not he would've actually made the team would be a separate issue.
Why would you be bitter about it? I like Umberger as a player because he's gritty and a leader but there is no way he should've been included on that roster for Canada. There were other guys that were left off that deserved to be there more than him.
