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NFL: Browns and Texans

MLB: Indians

NBA: Cavs

NHL: Don't really have a team - will cheer for Red Wings and Buffalo

NCAAB: Buckeyes

NCAAF: Buckeyes and TAMU

The only team I"m a complete fan of is the Browns, because no matter what, I can't stop. Evidence they've been average since 1990 and I still follow them.

I once was a Braves fan, and then they won the world series, and it hasn't been the same. Well another thing, they aren't going to get as good of a pitching staff as they had in 95 which was much of the reason I watched them in the first place.

This is a good place to state this. I heard today that the Cav's drew the first pick in the 2013 draft, for basketball.
What immediately popped into my head was the line from the movie "Super Troopers' Where Thorne asks Favre
" What would you do if you won ten million dollars, And you CAN'T say buy the Cleveland Caviliers. "
Basketball? Deleted because it's not important.

I just hope the Browns will win something, or win on a regular basis again, before I die.

I try to remind myself that football is a waste of time, but it's no use.
Football Is a waste of time!

NFL: Cleveland Browns

MLB: Cleveland Indians

NBA: Cleveland Cavaliers

NHL: Columbus Blue jackets

NCAAF: Ohio State Buckeyes

NCAABB: Ohio State Buckeyes

To give a quick clue into how it works to like different teams from different cities.

My dad is a browns fan. But I am from Dayton so we went to Reds games for baseball. My mom's family is from Indianapolis so I like the Pacers. My best friend was from Syracuse so I watched the Sabers with him growing up. My sister went to South Carolina so I like the gamecocks. And being from Dayton I like the Flyers in NCAA (and went to Wright State the rare times they make the tourney).

And then I like a few other teams for little reason. Bulls because of 90's fandom, Growing up Brett Hull was my favorite player in NHL video games(on the Stars). Boise I like for the blue field

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This is a good place to state this. I heard today that the Cav's drew the first pick in the 2013 draft, for basketball.
What immediately popped into my head was the line from the movie "Super Troopers' Where Thorne asks Favre
" What would you do if you won ten million dollars, And you CAN'T say buy the Cleveland Caviliers. "
Basketball? Deleted because it's not important.

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Philosophical as always

I was born and raised a Cleveland Fan. Browns >>> Indians >>> Cavs.

tOSU is my #1 for college but I also root for all Ohio Colleges to do well. Kent St, BGSU, Toledo, Mount Union (Working on Toe rings cause they filled up their fingers), Akron, Ohio, Cincy ect..


To me rooting for a team from out of state is like rooting for another country in the Olympics.

I'm not born or raised in Ohio, but I do have to admit the whole Mount Union thing is mind boggling to me. The overall record is almost impossible, coupled with the total number of national titles. While I realize they have some advantages because of the lack of D2 schools in Ohio, it is one of the most impressive things I've witnessed.

I work with Jim Ballard, the QB that started it all for them so I hear all about them. Wisconsin Whitewater had their number for a few years but they failed to make it back this year.

There are a lot of schools in Ohio so yes it is impressive that a D3 school wins so much. I mean you have all the D1 schools and lower division schools like John Carrol, Baldwin Wallace, Youngstown State, yet for D3 Mount Union is loaded every year. I guess it helps when you play for a NT every year and you have guys like Pierre Garcon in the NFL.

To be fair a game of bowling is much much shorter

(Now wondering how boring I must have been to watch PBA games..I guess I'm a Norm Duke fan? )

The worst sport for me to watch is by far soccer. I realize it is an international game and I didn't grow up watching it, but I can never get into it. Just not enough scoring, action, etc. Plus, I know very little about the strategy and intricacies.

j/c

Favorite pro sports teams.

NFL: Da Browns. Don't miss a game.
NBA: I guess the cav's, but I don't follow nba.
MLB: Indians, although I fon't follow mlb.
NHL: Haven't seen a game. In ever.
Soccer.

College teams: OSU, first and foremost. Then, believe it or not, Michigan. Also like to see Toledo and Bowling Green do well.

Soccer puts me to sleep. Baseball puts me to sleep. Golf puts me to sleep. Bowling - if it still exists (as a spectator sport) puts me to sleep. Tennis puts me to sleep.

I like to PLAY golf, or go bowling......I just can't watch it on tv. I don't mind GOING to a baseball game......but 1, maybe 2 a year is just plenty (usually the mud hens).

Yeah, a 1-0 hockey game can be a thriller. It's not about goals, it's about chances. If both goalies are on, and the game ends 1-0, that's a great product.

When teams are trapping and icing the puck... meh. At least they factored out the icing part (you can't change guys on an icing call if you're the team that commited the infraction) but there is still a little bit of trapping. Overall the game is great now.

A good hockey game has goalies seeing 30+ shots.

In soccer, the goalie sees maybe 10 shots, and only 3 or 4 legit chances.

I do wish they could swap guys in and out to keep everyone fresh.

Soccer fans start chanting and singing in unison during games. Why? It gives them something to do. Then they riot when there is a score. Why? When you only see 10 scores in an entire season it's reason to cheer when one is scored. Add the fact that as a live viewer you're so elated the team scored the day you happened to be actually at the game it's overwhelming. Fans and players lose all decorum after a goal tearing off their shirts and such. Why? Because they score so infrequently they don't know how to conduct themselves when it happens.
Tongue in cheek...?

So you're saying it's like watching the Browns?

You're right! The Browns need to be reminded they play football. Not futbol.
Also makes sense that Dawson was our most lethal weapon all these years.

ON soccer, I used to hate Soccer, because I'm an American, but after time and the longer it is around and the more I see of it, I have come to appreciate Soccer for what it is. I always knew / heard it was the most popular sport in the world, so there had to be something to it.
After watching some MLS here in Columbus, and learning a little bit, I happen to appreciate that they can only make 3 substituions all game, even if there's an injury, they'd just have to play " a man down" ( a phrase that means with one less player on the field).

I don't call it a " Pitch" when it is a Soccer Field, Because I'm an American! and nobody scores " NIL" when I refer to it, because I'm an American! It's either zero or nothing.

The interesting thing about " good " soccer, is not the chances, or the scoring, it is the possession, the ball control, and realizing that there really are some intricacies and strategy going on out there and teamwork to the passing.

It helps to understand what a foul is, (it's when a person runs into the person instead of running into the ball, but hitting the person is ok, as long as you were Aiming for the ball).

It helps to know what offsides is, or sometimes they just stop a team about to get a goal and you feel like, " What the! Why'd they do that that's stupid!" but really you can't be beyond the defenders at the time that a pass ,(a kick to you from a player on your team), is originated.

It's better to know that a yellow card usually means nothing, unless you get 2 in one game, or back to back games, and then it's like a red card and the player has to sit out the rest of this game, (like ejected) or maybe even the next game they're eligible to play, and you can't substitute for them.

There are set plays, usually just two. The reason they have a corner kick is because the offense won an out of bounds behind/beside the goalkeeper. The reason they have a "free kick" (where they stop and let one team set up and restart at any point on the field without oppisition, sometimes the defenders set up a wall in a direct line to the goal) is because one player commited a minor foul by running into the person instead of the ball. ( if it's more than minor, there is often a yellow card, but like I said, usually a yellow card means nothing.)

They can have a penalty kick, if a foul that would result above in a regular free kick occurs in the goal keepers box, or against the goalkeeper, but those are rare. And on those, it is just the keeper and the one player and the keeper isn't allowed to move until the others foot touches the ball.

They play 2 45 minute halves, and count up, ( which is stupid!) and the 28th minute is actually 27:00+ because they count the minute from 0-1 which is also stupid! and at the end of the half, ... and game, they add usually between 2 and 5 minutes for the time spent on substutions, out of bounds, and injuries, called injury time... it's arbitrary, up to the referee, (and is also stupid!), and they usually end it when a defense clears / an offense in scoring position doesn't get cut off.

Once you get used to watching it more often, the stupid things make more sense.
It's not really about the scoring, it's the threat of getting scored against, because once you do give up a goal you're really behind the 8-ball.
And they score alot more than 10 times a season.

I was told to hate soccer, because I'm an American, but I don't like to like or hate sports because that's what I'm told.
It's not football, but I'll appreciate soccer for what it is. I won't call it football, or futbol, because it's not. Football is football, and Soccer is soccer, because I'm an American.
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