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By the way Horton's pick six in the 2nd quarter brought the whole crowd to its feet. It was 70 yards or something, really cool.
NBA games were tape delayed as late as the early 1980s... and those were NBA FINALS games. There wasn't near the TV coverage there was starting around the late 80s - early 90s. ESPN wasn't in every household. You were at the mercy of who the big networks put on TV. It was a completely different time.Huh? Out of state football and basketball games have been broadcast since the 1950s. Those classic Notre Dame-Michigan Wolverine clashes didn't make me stop rooting for the Badgers.
it's not front running. If he changed allegiance based on who was winning from year to year, then you could say that.I'd have less animosity towards Tony is he'd just admit he's a frontrunner.
How can you have allegiance to Wisconsin/Yankees/Cowboys, if your little theory that you root for local teams was really what you believed?Giants or Jets, actually. And unlike Tony, my family was on the Dallas bandwagon when they were a lousy expansion team.
NBA games were tape delayed as late as the early 1980s... and those were NBA FINALS games. There wasn't near the TV coverage there was starting around the late 80s - early 90s. ESPN wasn't in every household. You were at the mercy of who the big networks put on TV. It was a completely different time.
it's not front running. If he changed allegiance based on who was winning from year to year, then you could say that.
How can you have allegiance to Wisconsin/Yankees/Cowboys, if your little theory that you root for local teams was really what you believed?
Love how Horton had to physically pull Brown behind him, like "Hey dumbass, there's no one in front of me. Get back behind me where you might actually block someone trying to catch me."
Love how Horton had to physically pull Brown behind him, like "Hey dumbass, there's no one in front of me. Get back behind me where you might actually block someone trying to catch me."
It strains credulity to think that one can become a hardcore fan by reading a box score in the newspaper. Come on, you're not really arguing that there was just as much access to teams nationwide in the 60s and 70s as there were in the 90s and present day... You're just trolling right?You always had the GOTW (featuring glamorous programs) and the fact that the local teams were always broadcast. Nor did you need ESPN to know that there were better teams out there than Wisconsin or Marquette. You see, there are these things called "standings." You could find them in the newspaper back in the day.
They've had up and down years. I didn't see him rooting for UConn after Duke lost to Mercer in the first round last year. That would be true front running.And since Duke has consistently been good/competitive, I won't pat Romo on the back for not abandoning them.
Which isn't unusual for a kid at 11 or 12 years old, and isn't front running if you stick with them.Did you watch the video? He said "In the Laettner years ... Duke was winning, and I just took a liking to the fact that they were winning (laughter)."
Familial reasons wasn't part of your statement... it was all locality. So I guess you'll turn in your Cowboys fan card now. And interesting how you weren't a Mets fan growing up, but were a Yankees fan... they were both "local" to NJ. What did you do, just latch on to the winning team? Good for you for not switching over to the Mets in the 80s, but you're taking issue with how Romo began being a fan. I'm the one saying as long as you don't defect during the lean years, then you can't be considered a front runner.Because unlike Tony, I have geographic or familial reasons for rooting for certain teams. During my early years in NJ (1967-73), and most of my adolescence in Wisconsin (say the entire 1980s), the Yanks were total shit. I didn't defect to the Mets when the going got tough.
Familial reasons wasn't part of your statement... it was all locality.
but my family lived in Irving, TX and Plano in the early 1960s. Dad used to take my older brothers to games at the Cotton Bowl. Although I was born in NJ in 1967, the Cowboys were "handed down" to me by my bros like a pair of old blue jeans.
It strains credulity to think that one can become a hardcore fan by reading a box score in the newspaper. Come on, you're not really arguing that there was just as much access to teams nationwide in the 60s and 70s as there were in the 90s and present day... You're just trolling right?
In the 80s you couldn't see early round games of the tournament. In the 90s and 00s you had to hope your team was on CBA in the tournament. 2010 was the first year every game was broadcast for most cable subscribers on CBS, TNT, TBS and truTV.
They've had up and down years. I didn't see him rooting for UConn after Duke lost to Mercer in the first round last year. That would be true front running.
Which isn't unusual for a kid at 11 or 12 years old, and isn't front running if you stick with them.
Familial reasons wasn't part of your statement... it was all locality.
So I guess you'll turn in your Cowboys fan card now.
And interesting how you weren't a Mets fan growing up, but were a Yankees fan... they were both "local" to NJ. What did you do, just latch on to the winning team?
Good for you for not switching over to the Mets in the 80s, but you're taking issue with how Romo began being a fan. I'm the one saying as long as you don't defect during the lean years, then you can't be considered a front runner.
one more thing: don't wear the gear of a school unless you attended that school. me jogging around DC in a "Harvard Law" t-shirt is false advertising.