What's the real "American past time"?

[Guest bob_barron]

At the school I went to no one gave a fuck about the Knicks. Football and Hockey were big with baseball third

[Guest LexLugerRules]

Hmmm interesting...

[Guest The Czech Republic]

Chicago loves da Bears and da Cubs, Blackhawks and Sox are popular as well, but nobody cares about the Bulls anymore.

[Guest nl5xsk1]

Why would Bostonian's passion for the Sox give you a distaste for Baseball?  Did our passion for the Pats give you a distaste for Football?

I'm basically a hockey-krishna, and used to get so infuriated listening to the news or sports radio. (i.e. in the middle of a Dale Arnold-led hockey or basketball conversation, that fat tub of goo Eddie Andelman would say something like "just like Rogah Clemens" and then the conversation would be ten minutes of talking about an ex-Sox ... in the middle of January when baseball wasn't even going on.)

 

Or, if you're anywhere with a group of teenage or twentysomething males, you know you're going to hear a "Yankees suck" chant - hey, guys, we're at a basketball game (or a hockey game, or at a bar, etc.) there's no need to chant about a baseball team.

 

It just pushed me over the edge from apathy to distaste.

 

For the Pats, there's never quite the Jonestown level of passion that there is for the Sox ... plus, I like football. And I don't feel like the Pats are a close second normally, only the year after they won the SB. If Brady has an average year, and the Pats go 7-9, they will be back to a distant second (still far ahead of the B's and C's, but still second.)

[Guest HartFan86]

I live in New England. Everyone is dieheart Red Sox fans. Some are Celtics and some are Bruins, but it 's mostly Red Sox.