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Are you considered a traitor if you don't root for your hometown team?

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Obviously you are entitled to cheer for any team you like and sometimes people's favorite team may not be the same team of the city they were born in or where they are currently living. Just curious as to your opinions on this.

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  1. i am so annoyed by my home team omg it pisses me off then any other team my home team is Calgary Flames. I always have hated them in stead i love the leafs so much because as far back as i can remember i watched Toronto Maple leafs on HNIC this was far back when the leafs had phil housley. My first favorite hockey player was also from the leafs which is Alexander Mogilny


  2. No not a traitor BUT it bothers me when I see these Cowboy jerseys, Red Sox hats and Lakers/Celtics gear downtown.These type of people are looking for a fight in this city and their only comeback is"Hey we won the Championship last year and Philly sucks".Then I ask them some questions that any true loyal fan of those teams are and their answer is "Philly sucks".

    Awesome Bill=TRAITOR!jk

  3. If your from Michigan, you root for the Wings. We don't have to worry about too many traitors in Hockeytown.

  4. I suppose Phillies and 76ers fans would call me a traitor but that's their prerogative.

    But I say "Hey, we ARE talking the Phillies and Sixers....."

  5. I personally never understood why people wouldn't want to root for their hometown team.  I am a born and raised Western PA girl and will always root for Pittsburgh teams no matter where I go.  Even though the teams have all had up and down years (or, for the Pirates, many, many, many down years) they are still the home team.  I can't even imagine rooting for a team I had absolutely no connection to, like Green Bay or something.  Yes, I like cheese, but I'm not about to suddenly become a cheesehead.  I think people that root for teams other than teams where they were born or live in are bandwagon jumpers.  Why else would you decide to root for another team?  How does that even work?  Do you just randomly pick one?  Oh, the Brewers.  Reminds me of beer, I like them now.  I dunno, just my opinion.

  6. I have lived in several countries so I don't think so. As long as you know what's going on with the team you choose to root for then again the average Texan knows next to nothing about Thierry Henry or Saku Koivu.

    In football though I am labeled a bonafide traitor. I have rooted for the Redskins since I was 6, and here in Texas, that is beyond rebelious. It would be like being a Bruins fan in Philly.

  7. Being a fan in South Florida, pretty much everyone down here is from somewhere else. They all tend to cheer for the team they originally rooted for first and the hometown team second. It is normal here. Because the team is still a young franchise. I still have a place for the Red Wings . I mainly root for the Panthers though.

  8. Detroit Lions.

    case in point.

    I root for them in the sense of I want to see the city be able to have a good football team to root for. But I want to see them fail from the standpoint of the owner having to sell them to someone else, and cleaning house from the top ... down. i think i would go into estatic shock if the Ford family sold them to the Illitch family.

    so i'm a loyal Lions fan, in the sense that i want the best for them in the long run. kind of like "tough love" from a parent to a kid.

    i can't say i'm a fan of any other particular team. but if i had to pick, the Pack would be 2nd place (because i spent 5 years of my college life in Pack country)

    of course, referring to hockey, i've been VERY spoiled to have been a red wing fan, even since the days when the filled out the bottom of the Norris. part of what has made them improve (and separates them from the Lions mentality), is their willingness to critique their weaknesses and strengthen them. that doesn't leave much room for unrealistic, consistent optimism, but instead requires critical analysis, correction, and the resulting improvement.

    so, "no", i don't think that makes you a traitor. everyone has their own reasons (and right) to pick their favorite. it's just a hard sell to not be a red wing fan in detroit. (at least for now). (i saw a lot more Leafs and Hawks sweaters around this "bustling metropolis" back in the 80s)

    add - if, for instance, the team turned into a bunch of drunk, bar - fighting, womanizing, drug dealing, steroid - taking freaks, i don't care HOW good they were (cowboys fans, are you listening?), i would not root for them. i would root against them. so i guess i root for the city, but not if its teams are not a good reflection of it (or in Detroit's case... what we want it to BECOME).

    just like when the wings continued to try to ride the wave out on their “Russian Five” – type, precision passing, highlight goals – only mentality, even after the Russian Five started dropping to Four and Three. Let’s be realistic, the other 29 teams started to eventually break the code and figure out how to break that down. I still root for the red wings, but if they became sissies overnight, and shy'd away from all forms of checking, etc., only so that they could rely on speed and passing (and yes, they HAVE had that tendency at times), it’s really hard to sidle up to the figurative “bar” and brag about your team who is playing like a bunch of glass - jaw sissies. (collective GASP from bandwagon wings fans)

    Cue the thumbs down even more.

  9. Nah, I only root for my hometown team if they're winning. When they're not winning I move on to other things..

  10. i would consider any caps fan who roots for the pens when they come into town a traitor

  11. no, maybe you just feel the need to be loyal to the other team. doesn't mean you have stopped supporting or hate your hometown team.

  12. not at all! you are a traitor however if u cheer for a team then switch teams!

    but my hometown is Hamilton

    and

    I am a Hamilton Bulldogs fan for life!

    my fav NHL team is Montreal but I have never been to Montreal ever! alot of ppl in Hamilton are Leafs fans because it is the closest city with an NHL team but I say s***w it! I've been a Habs fan my whole life and I'm not switching now! even if Hamilton gets an NHL team I'll be going Montreal all the way!

    It's kind of like Minnesota! if you are a Dallas Stars fan living in Minnesota are you a traitor? h**l no! you just loyal to your team!

  13. Not at all. My hometown team is the Penguins, BUT I haven't lived in Pittsburgh area my whole life. I lived in Tampa and Oklahoma before I lived in PA and my favourite team back then was the Penguins and the Capitals.

    Living in Tampa the "hometown team" was the Lightning......They weren't my favourite team.

    Living in Oklahoma I was only a few miles away from Dallas.....the "hometown team" was considered the Stars.....They weren't my favourite team.

    No, you don't have to cheer for the home town team.

    BUT you have to have a reasoning for cheering for the other team. You can't just be cheering for the other team because they're good. That's called being a bandwagoner, lol.

  14. No... It's your decision who you want to root for and if that team happpens to  be not your hometown then who cares!

  15. wow man, that's  great question.

    I'm from Philly area so I of course root for the birds, flyers, phils and sixers. I take the bad with the good and any Philadelphian will tell you we get A LOT of the bad (an yes,we're gigantic crybabies about it too, so.........

    I don't live there now and most of the people here are Pens fans so it makes interesting days when the clash of jerseys happen at the gas station.

    I would say root for the home team because they are, afterall , your home team.... but f you have a love for the game (whatever game that is) I see no reason to like someone else.

    I guess it's all up to personal feelings on the matter, but an excellent question.

    on a side note: as far as NCAA.. I'm a Notre Dame fan (been so since I was a kid and have no idea why) I've never lived anywhere near South Bend, but I went to school at Marshall so I root for them.

    If your home team sucks that's cool... it's still awesome to be able to go to any game and see it.... sheesh- I remember all those times in the 90's seeing the Phillies... did I have any hope? h**l No! but loved going to the games none-the-less.

    hahaha Bill, atleast the Phils are doing SOMETHING this

    year.

    hey Joe- youre gonna love this. I have a buddy who got tix to the Phila/Dallas game year before last and he got a T.O. Dallas jersey.. guy had never been to Philly before and when he came home he said people threw garbage at him. I just had to laugh and told him that not only did he wear the cowboys in philly, but TO? I

  16. Either way doesn't matter I'm a Jersey Boy and route for the Devils, but a hand full of my colleagues(I work in S. Jersey) are Flyers fans. And I grew up with friends who are Isles,Rags, and Penn's fans too....Come to think of it they are traitors...

  17. No. You are a traitor if you cheer for one team and then decide to cheer against them or for their rival team.

  18. I get called a traitor by my english friends, because i support Ireland teams.

    i just respond with something like: i don't come from england /i've never supported england so i can't be a traitor

  19. No!

    you can root for another team and still like and root for your home town team.....

    as long as you show respect and consideration towrads your home team than who cares what other teams you like.....

    it's YOUR choice not anyone elses....

    let others disagree...who cares

    =]

    hope i helped<3

    _kay_

  20. I root for my hometown team (Detroit), not the teams that I live nearest to (Chicago when on campus at Purdue, Nashville when at home in Kentucky), mainly because they're all in the Central Division and the first sports team I ever followed was the Detroit Red Wings.  I hope for a competitive division, but I can't root for the Preds or the 'Hawks out of principle.

    I'm more than welcome for anyone to root for any team they want, although they should know the history of the team they're following.

  21. I don't think so. That would mean i'd have to root for the Lakers, Angels, Raiders, and Kings. *PUKES*

    I root for Ducks, Patriots, 49rs, and as for the NBA and MLB I root for nobody!

  22. No. I root for Montreal but I live in Colorado.

  23. No, but I don't give them a lot of respect if they have no ties to the city they root for.

  24. Where I live most people feel that way, because we don't have much else going on here except our football and hockey teams.. If you live here, you better be a fan!

  25. No people like different teams for different reasons. Some people may like other teams in other cities because they like a player on that team.

  26. I know a few San Joseians that are not Sharks fans, but not much.

    I think that if you don't root for your hometown team these might be the cases:

    1. Have something against your town

    2. Hate your hometown's franchise

    3. Are a bandwagon of some other team. ie Red Wings

    4. Your favorite player is on a team that is not your hometown

    But those^^^^^ are just some.

    Here are my answers for the 4 possible reasons.

    1. It could be argued either way, tough call

    2. It depends on what the reason is, but I'd say usually yes you could be considered a traitor

    3. Yes, very much

    4. It's about 50-50.

  27. Well personally I hate sports. If I did like sports I wouldn't be cheering for my home team thats for sure.

    Everyone is entitled to their own opinions.

    My girlfriend hates our current city hometeam and roots for the team our hometeam usually plays against, she even walks around with that jersey while others are wearing hometeam jerseys.

    Root for who you want, who cares what people think.

  28. no, i dont root for my home team in football. but thats because they suck. oh well.

  29. Hi

    Yep you are. Should be pucked (stoned) out of town

    Thank You

  30. Root for the team you like if you dislike the your hometown team then that shouldn't be a big deal. You shouldn't feel obligated to root for your hometown team.

  31. nopee..lol i live in northern california so i'm a sharks fan (: i mean if i was too move to another state, i'm sure as h*ll not going to switch teams just cuz i move i would still root for the sharks (: i also like the penguins too but i've never lived in pittsburgh, it's all because of my friend's cousin who actually does live in pittsburgh (it's all her fault) & she like's the sharks too because most of her family is here in california but her favorite team is the penguins & her second favorite team is the sharks but for me it's the opposite, my favorite team is the sharks & my second favorite team is the penguins!!♥ i always root for the sharks & i always root for the penguins too well except when the penguins are playing the sharks lol!!!!!
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