Go Pack Go! I live in Oregon, but am a big Packers fan. I also love the Broncos. I can spout off more NFL knowledge than most people are willing to listen to. :)
Woo hoo!!! Die hard Charger fan (yes, lots of low years!!) and also a fan of my son's Jr Pee Wee team - conference champs this season!! I get those same funny looks when guys realize how much I know. In fact, one of the dad's told me I should coach! Uh, no. I have fun whooping it up in the stands, but I am not about to put in all the work that the coaches do :-)
Last night I sat in front of the TV wearing my Hasselbeck jersey and my PINK Dallas Cowboys hat and "whooped it up." You should see me when I go to a game! Fortunately my sons do not embarrass easily.
But this is all out of character for me. I never swear (honestly I don't) EXCEPT during football games.
Um, I'm in Chicago, so therefore I am a Bears fan.
*ducks*
But since we won't be going to the Super Bowl this year, I'm happy that my Arizona State Sun Devils are in the Top 10 and hopefully heading to a BCS bowl.
I saw the name of this group and thought "now that sounds like the group for me." When I saw that Jeanne was a packer fan, even better. I married a packer backer 11 years ago, there has been no turning back for me.
Go Titans! VY is the bomb!
(Although I have to confess we have a pretty crazy football household. Division rival though they are, I also watch and root for the Colts. We love Peyton! My partner is from Miami and so we watch the Dolphins too. Poor Dolphins. One son (15yo) is a Broncos fan, one son (8yo) is a Patriots fan (and is kicking *ss in his ff league being undefeated b/c he has both Tom Brady AND Randy Moss), and one other son (13yo) is a St. Louis Rams fan. (Poor Rams.) The other three in the house don't care at all about football which is a good thing because I don't think we could track any more teams!)
I love talking to women about football! Here are a few things I love to find out about my football friends: have you ever changed football allegiance (and if yes, why)? Does it bother you to be so interested in a game very few of us have actually gotten to play? And I'd love to know how many of y'all have been or would like to go to Canton. (I don't know much about discussion thread protocol - so maybe I was supposed to start a new discussion - but that seemed a little uppity. I'd love to read more answers or hear from my fellow football fiends via page comments/message.)
Lilymane, your household confuses me. :) I think your 8yo is in my ff league- the guy in first place has Brady and Randy and is undefeated (even after their bye week)! Regarding your questions:
I was a Dolphins fan as a kid because I loved Dan Marino. Then the Oilers moved to Tennessee, playing their first season in Memphis before moving on to Nashville, and I was hooked for life. My own local team-yay!
It doesn't bother me to have never played- football scares me a little! Plus I'm not a great athlete, so most sports that I watch are games I've never really played.
I've never been to Canton, but I would really love to visit (there and Cooperstown, actually).
Stephanie -
Yeah our household is confusing and erm, what's the best word...unconventional. Still, we're down to earth and easy to hang out with. My 8 yo (Havoc)'s team is called the Gridiron Chefs on Yahoo. (He wants to be a chef when he grows up.) And he's like crazy undefeated (even after the bye week). Technically it's my account since Yahoo won't let you have your own team until 13 - but he runs the show. He even won his game week before last by some crazy margin (like 35 points) without starting Adrian Peterson who would have gotten him 49 points that week! I love that FF gets us all out beyond "our" teams. How on earth do you keep up with/manage two teams?
It's fun to meet a fellow Titans fan! (And someone who grew up loving Dan Marino, b/c that why Bet loves the Dolphins still.) I've always wondered if (and hoped that) Memphians (Memphisites? Memphibians?? Folks from Memphis) still felt like the Titans were their local team. I have a pal married to your local sports writer (for some paper - eek, bad friend - don't know the name of it) Geoff Calkins.
I'm not a baseball fan - SADLY because I like the idea of baseball - but the real thing bores the snot out of me. I guess in the long run it's a good thing because I'd be a real couch potato if I followed TWO major sports obsessively. I have to agree with you that football is a little scary (oh the injuries) and I am not sad that my boys like touch/backyard football more than the organized kind. Except of course for my 8 yo - who wants to be an NFL (Patriots) "runnerback" someday. It would help him with opening his own restaurant to be all famous but yikes. I'm such a worry wart that I'd cringe every single time he got hit. We'll see, we'll see! Do you want your little guy to play?
Peace.
Most Memphians felt used by the Oilers/Titans franchise, like they just stopped here on their way to greener pastures, but some of us remain loyal. Geoff Calkins is moderately famous local celebrity- you are better connected around here than I am!
I was a 49ers fan from 1999-2004. That's because I worked for them and since they paid my bills, I had no choice. But seriously, once you know the players like friends, it is easy to root for them. And those were some down years for the Niners.
I've always been a Bears fan, though. And I lived 10 years in AZ and California, which makes it hard to root for a team so far away.
But I'm a football fan, so I enjoy a good game, regardless of the team.
You worked for them?!! What a totally cool job! What did you do? It's good to hear you say that it was easy to root for the players when you knew them. I understand what you mean about how difficult it can be to track a team far away. My son (Chaos) who is a Broncos fan hasn't gotten to see many games until this year because they were often out of market games. (I didn't agree to move from TN to NC until I got a promise that we could get NFL Sunday ticket at the new house. The Panthers are NFC and I'd never get to see a Titans game otherwise! Well, unless I began hanging out at sports bars every Sunday!)
Ever since I started following football, I have been a Chargers fan, but I have some sideline allegiances to the 49ers, Cowboys and Packers (how's that for a clash of rivals?!!) thanks to my tow years as a fantasy football coach in 95-96 when my players were all largely form those teams. It helped that those teams were all really good back then! So, you could say I have a soft spot for those and since they are in the NFC with the Chargers in the AFC it works out for me most of the time.
Never been to Canton. I ened to make the trek to Cooperstown first since baseball is my first love and I have a deeper knowledge of the history there than I go of football, but I *will* go to both!
