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I have the misfortune of working in an office full of transplants. Alright, I have to confess, I grew up in Jersey - but at least that's only one state over. While most of my coworkers are cool, some of them are really obnoxious when it comes to their team loyalty.
For example, my office had an NFL day during the regular season opener last week. I wore a Giants jersey because this is the team I grew up to. One of my coworkers, a Pats fan from Boston, scoffed and I asked why I was wearing it. Um... what? I also have worked in the past with a dude from San Francisco who would rag on me for not liking the SF Giants over the Yankees. I understand there is a lot of hate towards the Yankees (this is another team I was raised on so I won't shake my allegiance), but he was incredibly annoying about it and tried to pick fights.
Look, I am completely fine if someone doesn't like the same teams as me. I can respect all teams and I'm not going to be a prick about it. However, moving from your home to a different city and bashing the local teams is a bit obnoxious. Am I right to think this? If I ever moved I would still be loyal to my teams but I would NOT be disrespectful to others.
I'm a native New Yorker and I did the same thing when I had to live in the midwest for a few years. I'm sure they thought I was a big NY Giants douchebag.
I have the misfortune of working in an office full of transplants. Alright, I have to confess, I grew up in Jersey - but at least that's only one state over. While most of my coworkers are cool, some of them are really obnoxious when it comes to their team loyalty.
For example, my office had an NFL day during the regular season opener last week. I wore a Giants jersey because this is the team I grew up to. One of my coworkers, a Pats fan from Boston, scoffed and I asked why I was wearing it. Um... what? I also have worked in the past with a dude from San Francisco who would rag on me for not liking the SF Giants over the Yankees. I understand there is a lot of hate towards the Yankees (this is another team I was raised on so I won't shake my allegiance), but he was incredibly annoying about it and tried to pick fights.
Look, I am completely fine if someone doesn't like the same teams as me. I can respect all teams and I'm not going to be a prick about it. However, moving from your home to a different city and bashing the local teams is a bit obnoxious. Am I right to think this? If I ever moved I would still be loyal to my teams but I would NOT be disrespectful to others.
I'm not a sports fan, but I thought this whole rivalry thing and getting on each others nerves about which team is better was supposed to be part of the fun of it?
Henna you are correct. Trash talking is part of being a fan.
OP just seems a little thin-skinned.
Jets vs Giants, Yankess vs Mets trash talk is normal among us natives. I would expect the same from any transplanted sports fan, completely normal and acceptable behavior.
I have the misfortune of working in an office full of transplants. Alright, I have to confess, I grew up in Jersey - but at least that's only one state over. While most of my coworkers are cool, some of them are really obnoxious when it comes to their team loyalty.
For example, my office had an NFL day during the regular season opener last week. I wore a Giants jersey because this is the team I grew up to. One of my coworkers, a Pats fan from Boston, scoffed and I asked why I was wearing it. Um... what? I also have worked in the past with a dude from San Francisco who would rag on me for not liking the SF Giants over the Yankees. I understand there is a lot of hate towards the Yankees (this is another team I was raised on so I won't shake my allegiance), but he was incredibly annoying about it and tried to pick fights.
Look, I am completely fine if someone doesn't like the same teams as me. I can respect all teams and I'm not going to be a prick about it. However, moving from your home to a different city and bashing the local teams is a bit obnoxious. Am I right to think this? If I ever moved I would still be loyal to my teams but I would NOT be disrespectful to others.
I can't be mad at people rooting for their hometown team, I don't see why the disdain for that. What I don't get is rooting for a team that's not from your hometown - that completely baffles me.
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I have the misfortune of working in an office full of transplants. Alright, I have to confess, I grew up in Jersey - but at least that's only one state over. While most of my coworkers are cool, some of them are really obnoxious when it comes to their team loyalty.
For example, my office had an NFL day during the regular season opener last week. I wore a Giants jersey because this is the team I grew up to. One of my coworkers, a Pats fan from Boston, scoffed and I asked why I was wearing it. Um... what? I also have worked in the past with a dude from San Francisco who would rag on me for not liking the SF Giants over the Yankees. I understand there is a lot of hate towards the Yankees (this is another team I was raised on so I won't shake my allegiance), but he was incredibly annoying about it and tried to pick fights.
Look, I am completely fine if someone doesn't like the same teams as me. I can respect all teams and I'm not going to be a prick about it. However, moving from your home to a different city and bashing the local teams is a bit obnoxious. Am I right to think this? If I ever moved I would still be loyal to my teams but I would NOT be disrespectful to others.
As a native New Yorker Im a die hard NY Giants, NY Knicks and NY Yankees sports fan and to a lesser extent NY Rangers due the the fact Im not into hockey and I feel hockey is a Canadian, Scandinavian and Russian sport. I have Knicks Yankees and Giants fitted sports caps that I wear, but I also love to wear those fitted caps when Im outside of NYC, far far away. Thanks to gentrification and declining industries of the west coast and midwest, it has become common to run into these folks through up and coming, hip and trendy areas of NYC. Sometimes during playoffs heated tense games I like to stroll into Transplant bars with my NYC sports teams attire. Yeah you see these people roll their eyes when when they see me plus even worse when the knicks, Yankees or giants win. Now in the coming days Im going to head to Transplant bars to watch some football sporting a goat tee, gold chain tucked in my jersey but exposed around the neck, a yankees cap reversed and last wearing a NY NFL Giants tean jersey.
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