Switching Team Affiliation

[The Czech Republic 0]

Don't hate Dusty for being a racist, hate Dusty for overworking his pitchers, coddling his hitters, and not getting the hint that Ramon Martinez sucks. Even Ramon Martinez said he sucks.

[2GOLD 0]

You are allowed to cheer for one team in the NFL. Should you decide that you like Team B better than Team A then you may become a fan of Team B only after you denounce the history of Team A and spit on their flag. Once you have spit on the flag of Team A and declared that everyone on said team is worthless, you may declare yourself a fan of Team B.

 

HOWEVER, once you become a fan of Team B you are never allowed to return to Team A. You have denounced them and you have committed an unforgiveable sin against them and their history.

 

You are allowed one team switch per decade of your life in the NFL. If you commit to a new team when they suddenly start winning, you suffer the "bandwagon" penalty which means you are forced to stay a fan of said team for the rest of your life else you never have the right to complain about football ever again.

 

 

Ok, there you go. The rules of team switches.

[The Czech Republic 0]

 

Oh and another thing you can't do: like the White Sox and the Cubs, or even just claim to like both. Slasher Flick, I'ma lookin' atchu.

I explained this to you.

 

I'm an Athletics/White Sox fan.

I know I know. I'm sorry. It's just that I don't understand why people are White Sox fans. The concept of a White Sox fan is one I cannot grasp.

[The Czech Republic 0]

You are allowed to cheer for one team in the NFL. Should you decide that you like Team B better than Team A then you may become a fan of Team B only after you denounce the history of Team A and spit on their flag. Once you have spit on the flag of Team A and declared that everyone on said team is worthless, you may declare yourself a fan of Team B.

Also, in the NHL, you can like several teams if you so choose, under the following circumstances:

 

1) You cannot be a New Jersey Devils fan. This is just a general rule though.

 

2) You cannot like more than one of the Original Six. To review:

Montreal

Toronto

Boston

Chicago

Detroit

New York

 

Can't like two of those. You can like one, and cheer for various other teams as you so desire, but you can't like both of those.

 

3) You can't keep changing your favorite team as they get bumped out of the playoffs one by one, (such as Toronto, then Vancouver, then New Jersey). The punishment is having to walk around in a dirty straight-billed Atlanta Braves cap everywhere you go.

[USC Wuz Robbed! 0]

You are allowed to cheer for one team in the NFL. Should you decide that you like Team B better than Team A then you may become a fan of Team B only after you denounce the history of Team A and spit on their flag. Once you have spit on the flag of Team A and declared that everyone on said team is worthless, you may declare yourself a fan of Team B.

Don't forget to do it in the lair of the diehard fans of Team A.

[The Czech Republic 0]

In the case of the Chicago Bears, the "lair" in question is probably a bar with a sign that says "Old Style" outside of it. The bar doesn't have a name, per se. It's just "Old Style."

[Slayer 0]

One reason why I'm afraid to change allegiance (aside from loyalty) is because, with my luck, as soon as I switch, my old team will win the championship

[2GOLD 0]

You are allowed to cheer for one team in the NFL. Should you decide that you like Team B better than Team A then you may become a fan of Team B only after you denounce the history of Team A and spit on their flag. Once you have spit on the flag of Team A and declared that everyone on said team is worthless, you may declare yourself a fan of Team B.

Don't forget to do it in the lair of the diehard fans of Team A.

 

If your father is former player of Team A, you must tell them in the harshest way possible that you have never loved them. If said person is already dead and in an urn, you must knock over the urn and vaccum the ashes up. Once ashes are in the vaccum, you must drive to the closest body of garbage dump and leave vaccum.

 

The above only applies to urn, otherwise you must just go take a leak on their grave and then write the name of your new favorite team on their headstone with the words "RULE THE NFL" included.

 

Upon doing this, you must kick the family dog and claim it looked like the starting QB of Team A and needed to be punished for such. The family cat will be referred to as looking like the starting running back of Team A and must be tossed into the dryer.

 

These are the extended rules and must be followed to the letter.

[Guest Vitamin X]

You are allowed to cheer for one team in the NFL. Should you decide that you like Team B better than Team A then you may become a fan of Team B only after you denounce the history of Team A and spit on their flag. Once you have spit on the flag of Team A and declared that everyone on said team is worthless, you may declare yourself a fan of Team B.

 

HOWEVER, once you become a fan of Team B you are never allowed to return to Team A. You have denounced them and you have committed an unforgiveable sin against them and their history.

 

You are allowed one team switch per decade of your life in the NFL. If you commit to a new team when they suddenly start winning, you suffer the "bandwagon" penalty which means you are forced to stay a fan of said team for the rest of your life else you never have the right to complain about football ever again.

 

 

Ok, there you go. The rules of team switches.

That's perhaps the most accurate description of switching team affiliations I've ever seen.

 

I'm reminded of that one commercial, forget what it's for where there's this baby and his dad and they're both Cowboy fans in the 70's. It then changes to the 80's and he's still a Cowboy fan but his dad is now a Niners fan, then he grows up a bit more and he's still a Cowboy fan but his dad is now a Giant or Redskin fan, and then it goes into the 90's and they're both Cowboy fans again.

 

Pretty funny, yet true.

[Slayer 0]

Actually, to be Mr. Anal, they were Jets fans watching Joe Namath, then over the years dad switches (Cowboys, then Steelers, then Cowboys again) while son remains faithful to the Jets, then ending in the Parcells-era Jets (when it was made) with dad back as a Jets fan again

[2GOLD 0]

Actually, to be Mr. Anal, they were Jets fans watching Joe Namath, then over the years dad switches (Cowboys, then Steelers, then Cowboys again) while son remains faithful to the Jets, then ending in the Parcells-era Jets (when it was made) with dad back as a Jets fan again

 

If I remember right, they did one for the Cowboys as well. Aired during a few Cowboy games to be exact.

 

The Jets one is better cause the guy goes "Loyalty".

[Slayer 0]

I don't remember the Cowboys one, to be honest, but yes, I loved the Jets commercial

 

...what the hell was it a commercial for anyway?

[2GOLD 0]

I don't remember the Cowboys one, to be honest, but yes, I loved the Jets commercial

 

...what the hell was it a commercial for anyway?

 

Honestly, I don't even remember....commercial was so great I forgot to give a crap what the product was.

 

I'm pretty sure it was beer. It's always beer.

Budweiser more than likely.

 

Or was it the NFL?

Hell if I remember.

[starvenger 0]

3) You can't keep changing your favorite team as they get bumped out of the playoffs one by one, (such as Toronto, then Vancouver, then New Jersey). The punishment is having to walk around in a dirty straight-billed Atlanta Braves cap everywhere you go.

I think Barron LIKES wearing a Braves cap though. Then again, he goes to Ryerson...

[Damaramu 0]

My dad is kind of like the guy in the commercial. He seems to go with whoever is good. And he's been an NFL fan for 40 years!

[Damaramu 0]

My mom though seems to go for more player loyalty. She didn't even like NFL football until she married my dad in the 80's. She watched a lot of college ball and then quit watching it and got diehard into the NFL.

She immediately developed a crush on Joe Montana and the 49ers became her favorite team. Then Joe went to The Chiefs.

She still loves the 49ers but had to follow Joe to. So she became a diehard Chiefs fan as well and hoped for a Chiefs/49ers superbowl so she didn't have to root for anyone and it became a win/win situation.

Well Joe retired and she stuck with the Chiefs and she still likes the 49ers to.

Lately though I think she's developed a love for Brett Farve, well ok she's loved the guy since he started playing. So now she's a Pack fan to.

[Damaramu 0]

And of course there's me. I will always like the 49ers and Chiefs b/c of my mom raising me on them. But The Eagles are the team I will stay loyal to forever.

And of course..I bleed crimson and cream for the Sooners.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Ha. White Sox indeed. *spits*

[2GOLD 0]

MLB baseball rules:

 

You may like one team per league but not from the same state. You are not allowed by law to be both a Chicago White Sox fan and a Chicago Cubs fan. You can not like the San Fran Giants or L.A Dodgers and like the Oakland A's or Anaheim Angels.

 

You may switch to Team B only after claiming Team A has no story of their past and should be eliminated from Major League Baseball. If the team is the Orioles, you must call Cal Ripken Jr an overrated phoney.

 

By law, you are not allowed to switch from a Boston Red Sox fan to a New York Yankee fan. In fact, only New Yorkers are allowed to be fans of the New York Yankees. If you are outside of New York and have never lived in New York City but claim to be a New York Yankee fan then you must provide proof that Babe Ruth is in fact your great grandfather. Mickey Mantle is also acceptable.

 

If you demand to switch from a Red Sox fan to a Yankee fan or the reverse, you must do so after a crushing home loss, you must walk into the bar with the most diehard fans of said team and proceed to insult each of their mothers and claim the Red Sox/and or Yankees are the biggest joke in Major League History. You must then kick each of the men in the nuts and allow them to beat you up for a minute for each World Series title the team you are switching to has won. If the number of years between World Series wins is higher then that is the beating number.

 

If both your National League and American League team meet in the World Series, you are not allowed to accept the World Series title of either team. Both teams cancel out and you do not under any circumstance get to celebrate the win. You can only be a fan of the team that loses the World Series and suffer through that bitterness.

 

The bandwagon penalty is also in effect for MLB rules and you are allowed only one switch total per decade, not one switch per league.

[starvenger 0]

I've always liked the 49ers... BUT (and you knew there was a but) I couldn't in good conscience call them "my" team (even during the good years) because I've never really gotten into football until a couple of years ago.

 

I still hate the Bills though.

[starvenger 0]

MLB baseball rules:

 

You may like one team per league but not from the same state. You are not allowed by law to be both a Chicago White Sox fan and a Chicago Cubs fan.

I think that if you try flip-flopping between the two in Chicago you'll get beaten, lit on fire, robbed, stabbed and shot. And then they'll get mad at you.

[2GOLD 0]

MLB baseball rules:

 

You may like one team per league but not from the same state. You are not allowed by law to be both a Chicago White Sox fan and a Chicago Cubs fan.

I think that if you try flip-flopping between the two in Chicago you'll get beaten, lit on fire, robbed, stabbed and shot. And then they'll get mad at you.

 

Well, these rules do take into account your personal safety.

 

Unless switching between Red Sox and Yankees, then all bets are off.

[nl5xsk1 0]

I've never understood switching allegiances once you've reach adulthood, unless the team that you've been rooting for does something specific to make you hate them (e.g. trade away a superstar or sign a player that you despise.).

 

I'm a Boston fan, through and through, and regardless of how bad my teams become I'll still be a Boston fan (if I can live through the Pete Carroll era, I can live through anything). It would take the Bruins trading Thornton, or signing Brashear, for me to root against them. The Pats can do no wrong just yet, they have the '5 year grace period' until 2008. The Sox & Celts are pretty much my favorite teams only because they're local, I'm not enough of an MLB or NBA fan to really care.

[Kaertos 0]

You want to talk about loyalty? Since the mid 70's when I was but a yongster I have been both a Cincinnati Reds fan (relatively easy until the last few years) and a Cincinnati Bengals fan (easy when they were in the SB twice in the 80's, incrediblt painful and depressing since).

 

And let me say that the best feeling in the world is when the team you rooted for, bought caps and jerseys of, even when they were horrid comes through and wins a few or almos makes the playoffs (Reds '99, Bengals '03) and you can look around at all the bandwagon jumpers with brand new caps and t-shirts while you are wearing your beat-up, well-worn cap and shirt and know that you are a true fan because you suffered through the pain to get to the glory.

[MrRant 0]

But what if you live in a city of bandwagon jumpers?

 

*coughMarinersscough*

[smh810 0]

To Kinetic: Don't be so easy and jump off the bandwagon just because of one game. Did they suck yesterday? No question. However, jumping off the bandwagon because of one game is ludicrous. Did anybody think the Pats would go 14-2 after getting destroyed by Buffalo. No (and if anybody says yes theyre lying). The defense is still damn good and the offense is a work in progress because they brought in so many new guys. Tim Brown and Charlie Garner did not forget how to play football they just had one bad game. One more thing, to Banky, The Bitch or whatever the hell your name is this week I want to see you eat your words when the Bucs go 11-5 and win the division, you ass!

[A Happy Medium 0]

For as long as I can remember, I've been a big Bears fan, even though they've been bad to mediocre for at least a decade. I guess signaling touchdown with my arms as a seven month year old during Super Bowl XX programmed me to love the Bears, as I guess rewatching the Super Bowl over and over again as a kid.

 

I moved to Dallas when I was about fourteen, and am slowly getting into them, even though I think Bill Parcells is a piece of shit sometimes...since he's a stubborn con of a bitch who relies on a converted runningback and forty-something quarterback who's about to tear an achilles in crunchtime.

 

I find myself drifting between the White Sox and Cubs, sadly enough. I went to both of the teams' games as a child, so I guess I may have an excuse. The Cubs do piss me off more than the Sox though, just because they play the tragic hero so often it drives me up the wall.

 

I barely even care about the Bulls anymore, and only care about Kurt Hinrich these days (he's probably been traded to the Clippers already for a 2005 1st rounder). There's no optimism and they've had a curse on them since they beheaded the dynasty that could've won two more titles. So now, I'm a Mavs fan, and I'm even growing tired of them. They are fucked this year too...Erick Dampier...he doesn't play for 80% of his contracts. So when Finley is 35, Dirk is 30, Daniels has been traded away, Walker with the same fate...he'll turn into a force at 35.

 

On the bright side, I didn't give a fuck about my high school football team, and their shitty prep rallies which served no purpose except letting me go home early on some odd Fridays. But that doesn't really apply here at all.

[the max 0]

Funny that nl5 would root against the Bruins if they traded Thornton even though we were kicking around ideas that would have him out of town.

 

I've rooted for other teams in the playoffs, but never over my own team. Each year in the NHL, there's always a team that gets hot at the right time and as a result, becomes a very fun team to watch (Calgary this past playoff comes to mind). I'd never root for them if they played the Bruins in the Finals though.

 

Although I've rooted for Ottawa in the past few years, I think that's an exemption because I liked players that were on the team, and those players became stars.

 

In terms of baseball, I'll root for either the Red Sox, or whoever's playing the Yankees. Every other series, I'll watch, but I don't care who wins.

 

I kind of follow the Celtics and Patriots, but that's because they're both local teams. I have liked the Celtics since I was a little kid, but that's mostly because of Larry Bird. I will admit to having watched my first ever NFL game in its entirety during this past years Super Bowl, but that's the draw of the Patriots for me. I was a fan of theirs when they were fucking terrible.

[The Czech Republic 0]

MLB baseball rules:

 

You may like one team per league but not from the same state. You are not allowed by law to be both a Chicago White Sox fan and a Chicago Cubs fan.

I think that if you try flip-flopping between the two in Chicago you'll get beaten, lit on fire, robbed, stabbed and shot. And then they'll get mad at you.

I'm going to design and market a baseball cap that combines the insignia and colors of the Cubs and the White Sox onto one cap. one half is red and blue, the other is black and white. The "SOX" lettering is encircled by the C. And the wearer gets his fucking ass whooped.

[nl5xsk1 0]

Yes, Max, I'd probably abandon the B's if they traded Thornton (should this say WHEN they trade Thornton?!?) but I doubt if it'd be a life-long change. I'd definitely be wicked angry, and would most likely root for the team that Joe got traded to (with some obvious exceptions: MTL, NJ, Philly, Colorado, NYR).

 

When it's playoff time I'll choose to root for a team in each series but it's only for that series. For example if Philly was playing Toronto (hypothetically) I'd root for TO, even though I really don't like them at all ... they're just the lesser of two evils in that series. If, TO were to win, but then play Ottawa next, I'd root for the Sens for the same reason. But at no point would my allegiances really change: my heart would still be with the B's, even though they'd already be playing golf after losing in the first round ... again.