Who were your favorite sports teams growing up?

[warlock664]

Growing my up in a small town in WV, I never understood people who rooted for teams based on geographic proximity. Nearly everybody in my area rooted for the Pittsburgh teams since that metropolitan area was a couple of hours away, but I chose teams based on other criteria, so mine are all over the map geographically.
My faves:

-Oakland/Los Angeles/Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders
-St Louis Cardinals
-Boston Celtics
-Pittsburgh Penguins (the one “homer” choice)

[thunderbolt]

Da Cubs and Da BEARS!!!

[LonnieFisher]

Harlem Globetrotters.

[Mikey]

Nothing special, just Yankee's back in the day

Today following Lehigh Valley's -- Iron Pigs

Sorry for your loss, Ottawa

[Brown Bear]

I’ve been a boxing fan my whole life. Watched some hockey as a kid, liked Boston, but boxing is the best sport for me.

[MRP]

I began following the Red Sox circa 1973ish (about the time I started nursery school and my dad bought me a Red Sox year book off the newsstand with pics of all the players). Yaz, Fisk, Bill the Spaceman Lee, Bernie Carbo and all the rest.

My dad had been stationed in the Dallas-Fort Worth area the year the Dallas Texans (soon to be Cowboys) started playing football and he remained a fan all his life, so naturally I followed the Cowboys from early on. Roger Staubach was the QB at the time and I remember when they drafted this running back named Tony Dorsett who turned out to be pretty good.

But the #1 team of my heart was the New England Whalers of the WHA (later the Hartford Whalers of the NHL). I went to my first game when I was 3 and I can still hear Brass Bonanza echo in my head whenever I think of a goal being scored in hockey. I still sort of pay attention to the Carolina Hurricanes, but it's not the same since they left Hartford (and I relocated halfway across the country).

I still adore my Sox, and still sort of follow the Cowboys though I have come to despise the NFL as a whole.

-M

[Mr.Marion]

For me it was the Jordan Bulls and once they got Rodman they were unstoppable.

I also loved the Packers once they got Favre. Talk about 1 player changing a franchise.