You're such a [insert word]Fan

I start with saying this: I do not understand the hatred people have for Boston Sports.

These past few weeks I have been forced to explain my fan-hood for a few reasons. I decided it would be an appropriate entry for our blog.

Growing up, I had few sports in my house. I grew up playsoccer and tennis, however my desire to play basketball, football and baseball came from mostly my association with the Cannon boys, and my other Avenue friends. Although my father grew up in Detroit and was a Tigers fan as a kid and grew up playing basketball, he was not involved with the game at all.

With this as my background, I had for the most part neutrality for my "fan hood":

• I hated the Jazz (still do).
• I had a choice for baseball friends (Yankees (dylan), Cubs (alec), Braves (rich), Tigers (dad), reds (g), giants (q - although I did not know of this one till much later)).
  
• Football - my grandfather liked the 49ers being from California, but no one else had too much dedication in Utah to sway me or my fan hood.
• Soccer - I grew up watching Manchester United because they were the only team who were ever on TV as a kid and I being a big fan of many of there players.

I soon moved to Boston and quickly fell in love. Fenway. Foxboro. Boston Garden. Any questions? It was so enriched in history, the fans seemed so dedicated and it was a family tradition. EVERYONE watched games with the dads, friends and rooted for Boston no matter what. We were not questioned for our dedication even though we sucked in every sport.

Red Sox - 80+ year drought in world series.
Celtics - dominate 70's, most winning team ever but late 90's early 2000? Worst team in the league.
Patriots - won the AFC TWICE in 20 years before the 2000's.

I joined and rooted for what was now MY teams. RED SOX, PATRIOTS, CELTICS, MANCHESTER UNITED. Of these only Manchester united ever won anything when I was a kid.

Now, enough of the history. You are all probably asking why I am writing all this but the reason is I am tired of all the Boston hatred. "You're such a FAIR WEATHER-Fan", "You're such a STUPID BOSTON-fan", "You're such a BOSTON-fan", "You're such a typical RED SOX-fan", "You're such a CELTICS-fan", etc etc.

I understand we had the best decade arguably for any city in history from 2001-2011. But so what? Boston fans are LOYAL. I hate all the actual fair weather "red sox nation" fans wearing pink hats and using Boston for fashion sake I am with all you on that. But have you tried to find a red sox hat anywhere outside of boston? You cant do it. Lids only has Yankees, Braves, Cubs, Giants maybe a few A's hats and one or two Boston hats. Why does everyone think Boston has some corner on the market? But even though Lakers fans are the worse, Angels fans don't watch the baseball game, Yankees fans - don't even get me started about "rooting for the big guy"- are typically ignorant on who is even on their team (Obviously I am bias against yankees fans and some, like dylan, actually love baseball but any team whose hats sell for a "hip-hop" status and mean more to rep East coast love than baseball has to agree yankees "fans" are seriously stretched) Boston is the hated one.

As I have lived in 8 states and traveled the country been to dozens of pro sporting events, college events and even high school events let me say BOSTON loves its sports. I will say NY does as well but have you seen their new stadium? Their corner on baseball market? How many "yankees fans" cant name two pitchers on their rotation? Oh yea lets not forget they have how many championships? Oh and their players are overpaid and include such class acts like Alex Rodriguez?

LA - worst fans ever
NY- dedicated but still terrible
Boston - many fans who joined after we started winning but overall, why the hatred?

To close Geoff said boston (specificly the red sox) were his most hated franchises ever. I don't get it? Cuz we spend money? Cuz we won two world series in 100 years? Cuz tom brady has luscious locks and reps uggs? Cuz "the hoody" is a coaching genius? Or you want to blame "spygate" for our decade of wins? Seriously why the hatred?

With that off my chest, do not challenge my fanhood.

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