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Place of birth is irrelevant if you leave that area before you're old enough to start following sports. I was born in the bay area, but we moved away when I was 3. I have no cultural ties to it. For me it has more to do with where I was when I started following said sport.
NBA- Chicago Bulls. Grew up in Iowa, no local teams. Timberwolves and Bulls were the closest. One had Michael Jordan, the other did not.
NCAA- Nebraska. Lived in Lincoln prior to Iowa, and then went to school there after graduating high school.
MLB- Arizona Diamondbacks. I didn't really follow MLB until my late 20s, when a) I was living in Phoenix and b) my son started getting interested in baseball
NFL- Don't really have a favorite. Having lived in Arizona and Seattle, and having parents who pushed the 49ers and Packers, I am favorable to all these teams, but don't claim allegiance to any one team. I have always hated the Cowboys (even though I now live in their territory, that will not change). I much prefer college football, even though Nebraska hasn't done anything recently.
Well nearest then! You just have a another culture state side. We SUPPORT our local teams it's tribalism. We have a name for those who don't - glory hunters.
Support my home state and home city in all sports.
Am from Sydney originally, but have been gone for over 20 years and so have no more affiliation there (accept in the cricket - in T20, but usually just the state team in other formats of the game).
Other than that NSW Waratahs and State of Origin teams pick themselves.
NBA - Dallas Mavericks: First started watching basketball in 2006 when I watched the NBA Finals with my dad.
NFL - Houston Texans: The season Tony Romo took over for the Cowboys midseason and finished 1-4 including that painful playoff snap to Seattle.
MLB - Texas Rangers: When I got into a sport, I generally supported Dallas over Houston. I started watching the Rangers when they weren't good, but remember great times like Sammy Sosa's 600th home run, a walk off grand slam by Marlon Byrd to beat the Yankees, then in 2010 Neftali Feliz striking A-Roid out to send the Rangers to the World Series!
NHL - Dallas Stars: Only team in Texas.
MLL - Charlotte Hounds: They were an expansion team that came into the league in 2012, which was generally when I started keeping up with lacrosse.
NCAA - North Texas Mean Green: Currently attend school there. Baylor Bears: I was born in Waco.
I posted this for another thread but will post here as well since it's more relevant to this subject
NFL-Green Bay. I was born in WI and it was just a birthright. Growing up when they were coming back from the dead under Favre and Holmgren didn't hurt either. Also own shares of the team
MLB-Seattle. Lived in Seattle during my coming of age years. I started watching baseball when they had their best stretch in the mid-late 90s and early 00s. I have a casual rooting interest in the Braves since growing up they were on TBS and were the only team beside the Mariners I could watch regularly. Living in the south kinda rekindled that. However it's no contest the Mariners will always be my team
College-Auburn. Went to school there. Prior to that didn't have a rooting interest in college athletics.
NHL-Toronto. Since there was no local team where I grew up and I liked the sport, I was that guy that picked them based on my liking of their uniforms. I have no shame for that, other than picking a perennial disappointment
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