Rooting, Team, and Loyalty

[kyyote]

When I was a kid, back in the “Olden Days”, we used to be able to tell you anything and everything you wanted to know about the players on our teams that we rooted for.  As a matter of fact, we could tell you the same about our rivals.  Think in terms of Hatfields and McCoys.  Years of slowly changing players on teams meant that years of history and animosity towards opposing players and teams were built into the games and built upon with each game.  And most importantly, they represented you, and your town.

All of you can remember back to the simplest times in your lives when the players on you elementary school classroom, or school were playing against the other classroom or school.  It is very tribal, I suppose.  We quickly become passionately invested in those players and teams that represent us.  Heroes are born.  Then, high school and bragging rights...
read the rest here if you want;

http://www.kyyotesden.com/rooting-team-and-loyalty/

[EMA884]

The ever-increasing frequency of collegiate athletes transferring schools is something that bothers me as well; you are not the only one. 

[Minermojo]

When I was a kid, back in the “Olden Days”, we used to be able to tell you anything and everything you wanted to know about the players on our teams that we rooted for.  As a matter of fact, we could tell you the same about our rivals.  Think in terms of Hatfields and McCoys.  Years of slowly changing players on teams meant that years of history and animosity towards opposing players and teams were built into the games and built upon with each game.  And most importantly, they represented you, and your town.

All of you can remember back to the simplest times in your lives when the players on you elementary school classroom, or school were playing against the other classroom or school.  It is very tribal, I suppose.  We quickly become passionately invested in those players and teams that represent us.  Heroes are born.  Then, high school and bragging rights...
read the rest here if you want;

http://www.kyyotesden.com/rooting-team-and-loyalty/

Oh, you mean like Fennis Dembo, Danny Ainge, etal.

[kyyote]

My point!  Can you name enemies from the past oh, say ten years?

[Minermojo]

My point!  Can you name enemies from the past oh, say ten years?

Those two are the ONLY ones I remember. Help us here.

[kyyote]

I can name the entire team of the 64 Giants.  Pretty much the same for the early Oakland A's.  I can't name a player on either team, today, because of the free agency that turned the game into the best hired guns for that year, and the strike and baseball's selling of their soul to get fans back.  I can't name more than five or six Raiders.  Its a business.  I am a customer, and the product for sale no longer suits my tastes.  I not only don't care much for some of it, I avoid it to show my disfavor in other cases.  I know, it doesn't hurt anyone but me, blah, blah, blah.  The numbers say that I am in the minority, I guess.  Fantasy leagues may be the answer for some.  I don't know.