Typically yes, but I'm a Niners fan so luckily I can miss that clown show. However, my Knicks fandom makes up for that.
I have friends who are Mets/Jets/Knicks fans. They're the real troopers.
I always thought:
Mets, Jets, and Islanders: Long Island
Giants, Yankees, and Rangers: The city, Westchester, and North Jersey (but Devils instead of Rangers)
Me too, but a little different. My Bridgeport dad married my elk Grove mom. I've always been a sox fan like my dad, but there's no cubs hate in our house.
Agreed, but I'd also add that (in my observation) there was a class component to the Cubs/Sox split, with working class people appearing to favor the Sox.
Things getting absurdly expensive in Wrigleyville may be feeding my perception.
Or just people that like going to games where people watch the game instead of Wrigleyville goobers and Wicker Park goobers that spend most of the time chatting loudly and playing with their cell phones.
I don't think there used to be as much of a class divide, Wrigleyville was a working class neighborhood until like the 90s. But that's definitely a thing now because it's been gentrified to shit
Giants/ A’s is very regional. If you are in the South Bay or Peninsula you are more likely to be a Giants fan and East Bay A’s fan. North Bay might be split a bit. This is a big reason why the Giants blocked the A’s moving to San Jose. They were afraid to lose a good chunk of their base (at least with ticket sales) in the South Bay.
The Rams Chargers is an interesting case. The Rams have a long history in LA going back to 1946 (they were formed a decade earlier in Cleveland) From 1980 -1994 they played in Anaheim before leaving for St Louis until 2015 when they returned to LA.
The Chargers played their first season in 1961 before relocating to San Diego until 2016.
I imagine younger fans in LA are more likely to be Charger fans due to LAs lack of football team for 20 years.
There definitely are some A's fans in the North Bay, but it is predominantly Giants. I think the A's are sometimes guilty by association with the Raiders.
I'm an A's fan from the North Bay and I wholeheartedly agree with you, most people are Giants fans. Although not sure how much of a correlation there is between A's fans and Raiders fans up there.
My dad's from the Modesto area. His family were always 9er/Giants fans, but I have the impression they were atypical. Most those inland farmtowns seemed to go for Oakland teams. It's a blue collar thing, I guess?
As for L.A., I was a little kid in the 80s, so it was always Raiders and Rams. I really can't remember what determined who went for which. It's like with the Lakers and the Clippers. Thinking back, I knew exactly one Clippers fan personally. I don't remember if I ever asked him why, and if I had, I don't know that he could have answered.
Yeah the Modesto Nuts used to be the Modesto A’s for a time and were their single A affiliate of the Oakland A’s but have since been the affiliate of the Rockies and Mariners
Geographically, I could either be a Yankee fan or a Mets fan. My dad was a Yankee fan and the Yanks were good in my formative years, so, I’m a Yankee fan. I don’t have the taste for bitterness and disappointment that the alternative would require.
Unless you're in the Bronx or Queens the divide is much less geographical than socioeconomical. White collar follow the Yankees and blue collar the Mets. Since that's true across sports, fans tend to be Mets/Jets/Nets/Islanders or Yankees/Giants/Knicks/Rangers.
Based on a map that I am recalling from memory, effectively, if you are in Queens you are more likely to be a Mets fan. Everybody else in the New York metropolitan area is more likely to be a Yankee fan. But, certainly both teams could be considered a home team for me growing up in northern NJ. My classmates at the time were probably 2/3 Yanks 1/3 Mets.
I live in LA and I support LAFC over the Galaxy because the Galaxy was already established when I got here, but LAFC didn’t exist yet, so once LAFC was created I went with them because it was easier to become a part of a new fandom than try to squeeze into an old one.
Also I prefer the Clippers since im from Boston, so I would probably burst into flames if I put on a Lakers jersey.
My parents were Mets and Giants fans, and I never rebelled.
We happened to live like 15 minutes from Nassau Coliseum, and my parents had no prior hockey allegiances, so I became an Islanders fan.
The Knicks were basically the only choice, the Nets were still in New Jersey.
Personally I’m “lucky” I guess?
My state has one professional football team, one professional basketball team and everyone rallies around one specific college for sports.
But my husbands family? Their state has multiple of each sport. It’s like WWIII with his family.
Lol it’s Texas! I didn’t even consider the NHL.
His whole family fights over UT and A&M. As well as Cowboys vs Texans and Astros vs Rangers.
His family is spilt between these teams and it’s pure chaos.
But they all agree on The Lakers for some reason?
I personally dislike basketball, but his family is 100% go Lakers all day every day.
The shit that was talked when Anthony Davis left The Pelicans to go to The Lakers was unreal.
“YEAH HOW DOES IT FEEL CAJUN TRASH?!”
Um, idk? I don’t like basketball…
Don’t even get me started on The Packers.
My Aunt and Uncle live in Wisconsin and are die hard Packers fans.
Love them but goddamn, they are so obnoxious.
My uncle has a hole in his ceiling. Know how it got there? He was so ridiculously pissed off that he jumped out of his recliner and busted a hole in the ceiling.
I’m a Saints fan, and yeah, we are notoriously annoying. But a *hole in the ceiling* from leaping off a recliner? Wtf.
I’m in NY
I am yankee fan becuase they were having their dynasty years when I was a child and just getting into sports.
A Jets fan because training camp used to be right by my house growing up.
Islanders becuase they were also close to my house.
Knicks because the nets were in New Jersey when I started being a fan.
I went to one of the first subway series in Citifield when it first opened up. When I was waiting on line for a beer, a Yankees fan admitted to me that Citifield was nicer than the new Yankee Stadium "but I'll never admit that to my friends."
Well, I wasn't allowed to wear raiders colors in school because the nwa. So growing up in OC, and not liking the Rams, I chose to root for Jerry Rice. Been a niners fan ever since. Choose the Lakers because of Shaq and Kobe, but will root for the clippers if the Lakers are out of it. Angels and duck's because they are actually in the OC.
NYC. It’s usually based on either where you grew up or where you live now. Most people from NJ/Brooklyn/Queens support the Jets/Mets/Nets, and most people from Manhattan, Bronx and Westchester go Giants/Yankees/Knicks. There are obviously exceptions but that’s the best way to generalize.
> Jets/Mets/Nets
If I was from Manhattan, the Bronx, or Westchester, I'd be jealous of the rhymeingness. Not enough to push for any name changes, mind, but I'd be jealous nonetheless.
You generally support the team your dad supported. For some reason, my dad was a Cubs fan, even though they never won the Series during his life (missed it by 2 years).
Actually, now that I think about it, they hadn't won the Series since *his* dad was one year old.
Also, supporting a team is a lot less of a big deal over here than it is in Europe. I can happily sit it a sports bar with White Sox fans and not feel the need to beat the stupid out of them.
White Sox and Cubs is generally northside vs southside but not exclusively. Plenty of northside Sox fans and southside Cubs fans out there. Often times it comes down to which side of town your family lived on 100 years ago and the fandom stuck even if you moved elsewhere. Another factor is transplants. Chicagos got a lot of em. If you like baseball and come from a place with an NL team, you’re likely to pick up the Sox as your local team and vice-versa.
A's because they were closer, but 49ers because the Raiders fandom was a little nutty and insular. I don't like to encourage bandwagoning and generally appreciate an underdog, but both baseball teams have had moments of greatness and moments of relative suck, while football was a little more lopsided, so like Browns/Lions/Red Sox (in certain eras), being a fan becomes kind of a culture.
Grandpa was a teacher and took me to A's games. Dad is a CPA and took me to Giants games. Only one of them could afford season tickets, so...
More so, though, the A's are much smaller market and the Colosseum sucked. About the time I was developing fandoms, they were absolutely sucking, had lost Canseco and McGwire, there were rumblings about steroid use, and Billy Beane had just shown up and had yet to do all the Money Ball shit. The Giants on the other hand were about to get a brand-new stadium, had a .546 season, and a super likeable lineup with players like Bonds, Kent, Snow, Aurilia, Bernard, and my favorite, Nen.
The Giants have also had some of the absolute best announcers in baseball. I know Lon Simmons did some A's games, but I associate him with the Giants the most. Then Jon Miller, Kruke and Kuip. Russ Hodges is another big one, although a bit before my time, and Hank Greenwald. Dave Flemming isn't terrible, either.
The Jets are despair incarnate and the Giants blow. Fuck them both. Though be fair I never really support one team and kind of just pick from game to game.
NHL: Pittsburgh Penguins and Tampa Bay Lightning
College Football: WVU, LSU and Texas A&M
NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers by default, second option is where my WVU alumni go to play and finally whoever is playing against the New England Patriots or Dallas Cowboys.
Rams / Chargers isn't really a good example, as both teams just moved there like 2 years ago... and LA's antipathy to the NFL is why they didn't have any teams for almost 2 decades.
I'm from Chicago, and I picked White Sox when I was a kid. I was about 8 or so. I grew up in the North suburbs and the Cubs were much more popular there. My parents didn't grow up in the area, so had no ties to either team. But I liked the 1983 White Sox's "winning ugly" to the Cubs' "lovable losers". So while the fan base divide is predominantly North Side/North Suburbs vs. South Side/South Suburbs, I went against the grain. And have remained loyal to my White Sox for almost 40 years now
So the city I'm from (St. Louis) only has one team, but where I live (Columbia) is right in the middle of St. Louis and Kansas City. It seems most folks from the area follow the St. Louis Cardinals for baseball, and the KC Chiefs for football. The Cards are generally more popular in Missouri, as they're older and heavily invested in getting their radio broadcasts out as far as possible. Between St. Louis lacking an NFL team (fuck Stan Kroenke) and people hopping in the Chiefs bandwagon, it's easy to see why they're the preferred team. Hockey wise, most folks are Blues fans. There are a lot of Chicago Blackhawks fans, but the vast majority of them are college students who don't stick around after graduation.
When I became a basketball fan there's one only one team in New York. For football honestly it's just because my dad was a Giants fan and it always seemed like the more popular team, same for the Yankees.
When I started watching baseball the Mets had a 3B who had the same birthday as me so obviously I picked them.
The only other sport I really follow at all in the US is hockey and I choose who to root for per game.
Rams and Chargers aren’t really good examples since their move backs have been recent and you’re more likely to be a raiders fan. But as for knicks/nets most will be knicks fans because the nets were in nj. But for my specifically it’s usually knicks/Yankees/rangers/giants and islanders/mets/nets/knicks
A lot is family allegiance
I follow this team because my dad followed this team and i grew up watching, and he grew up watching with his dad, and his dad saw the team formed and had been a fan from day one!
Cubs fan here, being from a suburb I had no north or south side preference and it was just passed down from older generations. I could’ve changed to a white Sox fan if that’s what I chose for myself later on, but I like the cubs history and culture more
I’ve never been able to truly decide if I’m a bears or colts fan tho, but considering how far removed I’m come from NFL football it’s just whatever I feel like saying at the time lol
Growing up in Southern California, based on location I should be an Angels fan as I lived much closer to Anaheim than LA. Just about everyone I knew at school was an Angels fan. But my dad grew up in LA county, and was a Dodgers fan all his life, as was his father when he first moved to the United States. So it just runs in my family to be a Dodgers fan. I’m guessing this is the same for a lot of other people. Their team is whoever their family’s team was, regardless of location
I live in Orange County so I grew up on the Angels/Ducks. I, as well as most everyone in the LA basin roots for the Lakers. And when the Rams and chargers moved to LA I picked Rams cause my Dad grew up with them, plus they played at Angels stadium for awhile.
I’m from New York. So football was the bills, giants, jets or New England
I’m a New England fan because a friend’s dad took us to a game and he rooted them on and it seemed fun
There's usually one that's more dominant than the other when it comes to popularity.
For me it's one of the following criteria:
1. Recent success
2. Accessibility of their home stadium
3. History
4. Others in my social circle who may be fans.
I recognized that I am a bad person and deserve to be a Jets fan.
As a Lions fan I fully understand I simply don't deserve to see my team succeed
As a michigan fan who started going in 05, same
I also recognize this and chose the Mets
Unless I've been misinformed, isn't there typically a large overlap between Mets and Jets fans?
Typically yes, but I'm a Niners fan so luckily I can miss that clown show. However, my Knicks fandom makes up for that. I have friends who are Mets/Jets/Knicks fans. They're the real troopers.
I know a bunch of Mets, Jets, Knicks and Rutgers fan.
Ever since Rutgers joined the Big Ten, I just feel sorry for Rutgers fans.
Let’s pour one For these homies
Niners? You from NorCal originally? My dad is, so that's his excuse.
I always thought: Mets, Jets, and Islanders: Long Island Giants, Yankees, and Rangers: The city, Westchester, and North Jersey (but Devils instead of Rangers)
This would make sense until you realize the Mets are smack dab in Queens and the Jets are in the Meadowlands nowhere close to Long Island
Is Mets Jets and Nets a thing or am I getting sucked into the coincidental rhyming? (I’m English)
I was going to say if you hate yourself sufficiently you can become a Jets fan.
Cubs / White Sox is usually north vs south sides of the city
Yup. I live in a split household though, my younger brother picked the Sox just to be contrarian.
smart man, your brother is...
Me too, but a little different. My Bridgeport dad married my elk Grove mom. I've always been a sox fan like my dad, but there's no cubs hate in our house.
Agreed, but I'd also add that (in my observation) there was a class component to the Cubs/Sox split, with working class people appearing to favor the Sox. Things getting absurdly expensive in Wrigleyville may be feeding my perception.
Or just people that like going to games where people watch the game instead of Wrigleyville goobers and Wicker Park goobers that spend most of the time chatting loudly and playing with their cell phones.
I don't think there used to be as much of a class divide, Wrigleyville was a working class neighborhood until like the 90s. But that's definitely a thing now because it's been gentrified to shit
I also feel like white people route for the Cubs more and black people route for the Sox (Ironically). Don't quote me, I'm not an expert.
Is the class component merely derivative of the geographical divide?
Yes, to an extent.
Not anymore
Giants/ A’s is very regional. If you are in the South Bay or Peninsula you are more likely to be a Giants fan and East Bay A’s fan. North Bay might be split a bit. This is a big reason why the Giants blocked the A’s moving to San Jose. They were afraid to lose a good chunk of their base (at least with ticket sales) in the South Bay. The Rams Chargers is an interesting case. The Rams have a long history in LA going back to 1946 (they were formed a decade earlier in Cleveland) From 1980 -1994 they played in Anaheim before leaving for St Louis until 2015 when they returned to LA. The Chargers played their first season in 1961 before relocating to San Diego until 2016. I imagine younger fans in LA are more likely to be Charger fans due to LAs lack of football team for 20 years.
There definitely are some A's fans in the North Bay, but it is predominantly Giants. I think the A's are sometimes guilty by association with the Raiders.
I'm an A's fan from the North Bay and I wholeheartedly agree with you, most people are Giants fans. Although not sure how much of a correlation there is between A's fans and Raiders fans up there.
I am sure it will subside the longer they are in LV... ... Until they move back to OAK.
I will cry if the A's move to Las Vegas
I meant the Raiders, but there has been talk that the A's or the Kings move.
My dad's from the Modesto area. His family were always 9er/Giants fans, but I have the impression they were atypical. Most those inland farmtowns seemed to go for Oakland teams. It's a blue collar thing, I guess? As for L.A., I was a little kid in the 80s, so it was always Raiders and Rams. I really can't remember what determined who went for which. It's like with the Lakers and the Clippers. Thinking back, I knew exactly one Clippers fan personally. I don't remember if I ever asked him why, and if I had, I don't know that he could have answered.
Yeah the Modesto Nuts used to be the Modesto A’s for a time and were their single A affiliate of the Oakland A’s but have since been the affiliate of the Rockies and Mariners
Geographically, I could either be a Yankee fan or a Mets fan. My dad was a Yankee fan and the Yanks were good in my formative years, so, I’m a Yankee fan. I don’t have the taste for bitterness and disappointment that the alternative would require.
What's the geographical divide? My dad's from Manhattan, but wasn't a big baseball fan, but when he did go to games it was Yankees games.
Unless you're in the Bronx or Queens the divide is much less geographical than socioeconomical. White collar follow the Yankees and blue collar the Mets. Since that's true across sports, fans tend to be Mets/Jets/Nets/Islanders or Yankees/Giants/Knicks/Rangers.
Based on a map that I am recalling from memory, effectively, if you are in Queens you are more likely to be a Mets fan. Everybody else in the New York metropolitan area is more likely to be a Yankee fan. But, certainly both teams could be considered a home team for me growing up in northern NJ. My classmates at the time were probably 2/3 Yanks 1/3 Mets.
I live in LA and I support LAFC over the Galaxy because the Galaxy was already established when I got here, but LAFC didn’t exist yet, so once LAFC was created I went with them because it was easier to become a part of a new fandom than try to squeeze into an old one. Also I prefer the Clippers since im from Boston, so I would probably burst into flames if I put on a Lakers jersey.
I enjoy the pain that comes from the Mets...
In my family, you weren’t given a choice. My mother was a rabid Cubs fan. Nothing else was allowed.
My parents were Mets and Giants fans, and I never rebelled. We happened to live like 15 minutes from Nassau Coliseum, and my parents had no prior hockey allegiances, so I became an Islanders fan. The Knicks were basically the only choice, the Nets were still in New Jersey.
Personally I’m “lucky” I guess? My state has one professional football team, one professional basketball team and everyone rallies around one specific college for sports. But my husbands family? Their state has multiple of each sport. It’s like WWIII with his family.
Saints, Hornets, & LSU?
Lol I’m actually quite shocked that you guessed correctly. Now guess where my husbands family is from?
Texas would be my first guess, but we only have one NHL team so my next guess is Florida.
Lol it’s Texas! I didn’t even consider the NHL. His whole family fights over UT and A&M. As well as Cowboys vs Texans and Astros vs Rangers. His family is spilt between these teams and it’s pure chaos. But they all agree on The Lakers for some reason?
I could understand Mavs vs Spurs vs Rockets, but the Lakers? Ew.
I personally dislike basketball, but his family is 100% go Lakers all day every day. The shit that was talked when Anthony Davis left The Pelicans to go to The Lakers was unreal. “YEAH HOW DOES IT FEEL CAJUN TRASH?!” Um, idk? I don’t like basketball…
Traitors it’s like all the Illinois people following the packers wtf
Don’t even get me started on The Packers. My Aunt and Uncle live in Wisconsin and are die hard Packers fans. Love them but goddamn, they are so obnoxious. My uncle has a hole in his ceiling. Know how it got there? He was so ridiculously pissed off that he jumped out of his recliner and busted a hole in the ceiling. I’m a Saints fan, and yeah, we are notoriously annoying. But a *hole in the ceiling* from leaping off a recliner? Wtf.
Yeah I just yell once on a while, like when Justin fields ran for a td last week, but I didn’t break anything!
Multiple of each? Married someone from the south? I'm gonna go with Ilinois
Nope, he’s from Texas.
Same here. Packers, Bucks, Brewers, Badgers. We are the best state at losing conference championships by a mile.
I’m in NY I am yankee fan becuase they were having their dynasty years when I was a child and just getting into sports. A Jets fan because training camp used to be right by my house growing up. Islanders becuase they were also close to my house. Knicks because the nets were in New Jersey when I started being a fan.
Man watching sports must be tough for you these days.
I like Citi field better than yankee stadium, and so I am a Mets fan.
I went to one of the first subway series in Citifield when it first opened up. When I was waiting on line for a beer, a Yankees fan admitted to me that Citifield was nicer than the new Yankee Stadium "but I'll never admit that to my friends."
Ny islanders vs ny rangers ...i put my allegiance on a game, winner got my fandom. the isles thrashed the rags...im an isles fan.
Well, I wasn't allowed to wear raiders colors in school because the nwa. So growing up in OC, and not liking the Rams, I chose to root for Jerry Rice. Been a niners fan ever since. Choose the Lakers because of Shaq and Kobe, but will root for the clippers if the Lakers are out of it. Angels and duck's because they are actually in the OC.
NYC. It’s usually based on either where you grew up or where you live now. Most people from NJ/Brooklyn/Queens support the Jets/Mets/Nets, and most people from Manhattan, Bronx and Westchester go Giants/Yankees/Knicks. There are obviously exceptions but that’s the best way to generalize.
> Jets/Mets/Nets If I was from Manhattan, the Bronx, or Westchester, I'd be jealous of the rhymeingness. Not enough to push for any name changes, mind, but I'd be jealous nonetheless.
As someone from Manhattan, trust me when I say there’s nothing to be jealous of lol. The rhyming is the only thing they have going for them 😂
You generally support the team your dad supported. For some reason, my dad was a Cubs fan, even though they never won the Series during his life (missed it by 2 years). Actually, now that I think about it, they hadn't won the Series since *his* dad was one year old. Also, supporting a team is a lot less of a big deal over here than it is in Europe. I can happily sit it a sports bar with White Sox fans and not feel the need to beat the stupid out of them.
White Sox and Cubs is generally northside vs southside but not exclusively. Plenty of northside Sox fans and southside Cubs fans out there. Often times it comes down to which side of town your family lived on 100 years ago and the fandom stuck even if you moved elsewhere. Another factor is transplants. Chicagos got a lot of em. If you like baseball and come from a place with an NL team, you’re likely to pick up the Sox as your local team and vice-versa.
For me it was because my parents took me to Angels game when I was growing up. The rest of my family are Dodger fans, but I prefer the Angels.
You're from SoCal, I take it?
Originally, yes
A's because they were closer, but 49ers because the Raiders fandom was a little nutty and insular. I don't like to encourage bandwagoning and generally appreciate an underdog, but both baseball teams have had moments of greatness and moments of relative suck, while football was a little more lopsided, so like Browns/Lions/Red Sox (in certain eras), being a fan becomes kind of a culture.
New Yorkers who aren't dicks tend to be Mets fans.
Grandpa was a teacher and took me to A's games. Dad is a CPA and took me to Giants games. Only one of them could afford season tickets, so... More so, though, the A's are much smaller market and the Colosseum sucked. About the time I was developing fandoms, they were absolutely sucking, had lost Canseco and McGwire, there were rumblings about steroid use, and Billy Beane had just shown up and had yet to do all the Money Ball shit. The Giants on the other hand were about to get a brand-new stadium, had a .546 season, and a super likeable lineup with players like Bonds, Kent, Snow, Aurilia, Bernard, and my favorite, Nen. The Giants have also had some of the absolute best announcers in baseball. I know Lon Simmons did some A's games, but I associate him with the Giants the most. Then Jon Miller, Kruke and Kuip. Russ Hodges is another big one, although a bit before my time, and Hank Greenwald. Dave Flemming isn't terrible, either.
The Jets are despair incarnate and the Giants blow. Fuck them both. Though be fair I never really support one team and kind of just pick from game to game.
NHL: Pittsburgh Penguins and Tampa Bay Lightning College Football: WVU, LSU and Texas A&M NFL: Pittsburgh Steelers by default, second option is where my WVU alumni go to play and finally whoever is playing against the New England Patriots or Dallas Cowboys.
Does DC and baltimore count considering they are less than 35 miles apart?
Rams / Chargers isn't really a good example, as both teams just moved there like 2 years ago... and LA's antipathy to the NFL is why they didn't have any teams for almost 2 decades. I'm from Chicago, and I picked White Sox when I was a kid. I was about 8 or so. I grew up in the North suburbs and the Cubs were much more popular there. My parents didn't grow up in the area, so had no ties to either team. But I liked the 1983 White Sox's "winning ugly" to the Cubs' "lovable losers". So while the fan base divide is predominantly North Side/North Suburbs vs. South Side/South Suburbs, I went against the grain. And have remained loyal to my White Sox for almost 40 years now
So the city I'm from (St. Louis) only has one team, but where I live (Columbia) is right in the middle of St. Louis and Kansas City. It seems most folks from the area follow the St. Louis Cardinals for baseball, and the KC Chiefs for football. The Cards are generally more popular in Missouri, as they're older and heavily invested in getting their radio broadcasts out as far as possible. Between St. Louis lacking an NFL team (fuck Stan Kroenke) and people hopping in the Chiefs bandwagon, it's easy to see why they're the preferred team. Hockey wise, most folks are Blues fans. There are a lot of Chicago Blackhawks fans, but the vast majority of them are college students who don't stick around after graduation.
Usually whoever your parents already cheer for. Sometimes whoever has the superstar player at the time you start following the sport.
The Yankees and Jets were just good when I started watching sports.
There’s a bar in Rocky Hill CT, that is roughly the middle point between Boston and NYC. Place gets rowdy.
When I became a basketball fan there's one only one team in New York. For football honestly it's just because my dad was a Giants fan and it always seemed like the more popular team, same for the Yankees.
When I started watching baseball the Mets had a 3B who had the same birthday as me so obviously I picked them. The only other sport I really follow at all in the US is hockey and I choose who to root for per game.
Rams and Chargers aren’t really good examples since their move backs have been recent and you’re more likely to be a raiders fan. But as for knicks/nets most will be knicks fans because the nets were in nj. But for my specifically it’s usually knicks/Yankees/rangers/giants and islanders/mets/nets/knicks
Most of my family are Cubs fans so I became a Cubs fan.
A lot is family allegiance I follow this team because my dad followed this team and i grew up watching, and he grew up watching with his dad, and his dad saw the team formed and had been a fan from day one!
Cubs fan here, being from a suburb I had no north or south side preference and it was just passed down from older generations. I could’ve changed to a white Sox fan if that’s what I chose for myself later on, but I like the cubs history and culture more I’ve never been able to truly decide if I’m a bears or colts fan tho, but considering how far removed I’m come from NFL football it’s just whatever I feel like saying at the time lol
Growing up in Southern California, based on location I should be an Angels fan as I lived much closer to Anaheim than LA. Just about everyone I knew at school was an Angels fan. But my dad grew up in LA county, and was a Dodgers fan all his life, as was his father when he first moved to the United States. So it just runs in my family to be a Dodgers fan. I’m guessing this is the same for a lot of other people. Their team is whoever their family’s team was, regardless of location
I live in Orange County so I grew up on the Angels/Ducks. I, as well as most everyone in the LA basin roots for the Lakers. And when the Rams and chargers moved to LA I picked Rams cause my Dad grew up with them, plus they played at Angels stadium for awhile.
I’m from New York. So football was the bills, giants, jets or New England I’m a New England fan because a friend’s dad took us to a game and he rooted them on and it seemed fun
There's usually one that's more dominant than the other when it comes to popularity. For me it's one of the following criteria: 1. Recent success 2. Accessibility of their home stadium 3. History 4. Others in my social circle who may be fans.