NFL - New York Jets NBA - Orlando Magic MLB - I find baseball boring, or maybe i never had the patience to watch a full game
Jets, Yankees, Knicks for me. And yeah I'm rooting for the Giants for reasons explained in this post. Fucking hate everything about Boston lol.
that's a true story? Laguardia works itself out but they really named the jets the jets because of its likeliness to the mets? and this whole time I thought he was BSing me
Yankees/Jets/Knicks/Rangers. Don't have a college team because I'm waiting to enroll in one, but I could be a 'Cuse, Gators, Johnnies, USC Gamecocks, or RU fan
Jets were trying to crawl out of the hole the dug for themselves as the Titans so when the Werblin/Martin/Iselin/Hess group bought them, they changed the name and capitalized on initial popularity of the Mets and the proximity of Shea to LaGuardia
Im Jet, Yankees, Spurs (wasnt an nba fan while I lived in NY and followed Sean Ellliott my favorite college player to the Spurs) The past few years its been hard not to think what it would be like to be a Giants/Yankees fan, but I despise the Giants and would never leave my beloved Jets. I feel bad for Jets/Mets/Knicks fans that must be a miserable sports existence. Im not so sure I would be as passionate about baseball as I am with all that losing.
Jets Fighting Illini FB & BB ....and the Nets? really love basketball but dont have any contending team to root for :/
Yankees, Jets, Knicks, Rangers, Syracuse. Yanks: First sports team I ever loved. Jets: Giants won SB XXI. Didn't want to seem like a bandwagoner. Plus I liked Freeman McNeil and was heartbroken over the playoff loss to Cleveland. Knicks: From Brooklyn, loved Bernard King, pretty simple. (And no, I will not root for the Nets when they move to BK.) Rangers: Met an Islanders fan as a kid who ragged on the Rangers. Sided with the city's team, not the LI squad. Syracuse: Alumnus.
Jets, Yanks. However I'm a lapsed Yankee fan. It hasn't been any fun since O'Neill left. The yanks lost their heart and started trying to buy Ws rather than engage in solid team building. That and all the band wagonneers pissed me off. I had more fun going to the stadium when there was only 800 people in the house and we all sat at field level together
Jets/Yankees/Rangers. Yanx were the first sports team I ever rooted for, and they help reduce the pain the Jets bring. It's a nice relationship between success and failure where I never get too spoiled or too let down. I also root for the Knicks, but I despise the NBA. They held my interest last year until they traded for Melo. I thought they gave up too much for him and it was clear that he has not made them a better team, or at least not yet.
Here is what Wikipedia says about it Werblin also announced a new name for his team, the Jets, which had been selected from among 500 candidates submitted by "friends, enemies, and advertising agencies".[41] The name was chosen over Dodgers, Borros, and Gothams. The team's colors were changed to green and white.[41] In a press release, the team stated the reason for the selections: The site of the new stadium between New York's two major airports, symbols of this speedy, modern age, influenced the selection of the new name "Jets". It reflects the spirit of these times and the eagerness of all concerned—players, coach, and owners—to give New York another worthy team. The new team's colors of green and white were chosen for much the same reasons, plus the fact that down through the ages green has always signified hope, freshness and high spirits.[/I][/COLOR][/COLOR] While they don't mention the rhyming nature of "Jets" and "Mets" I could assure you that it was a given at the time Also "another worthy team" = allusion to the Mets Wikipedia does print a cartoon by Bill Gallo showing the immediate relationship of the Jets and the Mets. BTW, I had never heard that the team was considering the name Borros...which I guess is a take off on the bouroughs of NYC Can you imagine the jack ass jokes if the Jets were named the "Borros"
Growing up in the 60s in Rochester presented me with some interesting choices. The norm was to follow the Bills, Orioles (Rochester Red Wings were the Orioles AAA club), Rochester Americans -AHL (had more hockey attention than any NHL team locally until the Sabres entered the picture). Basketball was still a mess with no clear cut preference and plenty were still pissed that the Rochester Royals moved in '57 to Cincinnati and currently are the Sacramento Kings. But I had something none of my friends had and that was a grandmother that lived in Hempstead. The Worlds Fairs in '64 and '65 and the Shea connection probably helped as did Fulton Ave. a couple streets over and Hofstra nearby. Later when the Nassau Coliseum was built, the NHL connection was finally cemented. The Jets and the Mets both had the underdog appeal in the '60s and to culminate the decade in 1969 with both teams winning their respective championships was a dream come true. Jets, Mets, Islanders, Knicks, NY Nets (during the ABA years), Rochester Americans.
