supporting teams in other sports

so as mentioned in my previous blog me and sam are watching the liverpool man city match and have just wrote a really quick crap blog about football and this reminded me that we had a conversation recently about me supporting teams in other sports. this is because... ooh i'll break here to tell you dzeko has just scored for city to make it 2-1 to them on the night (2-2 on aggregate)... anyways back to the blog.... sam supports teams in loads of sports. i support middlesbrough in football and have a soft spot for accrington stanley too. but that was it. then a while back sam tried to get me into aussie rules and made me choose a team. so i did. so we decided i need teams in other sports. first though we're gonna look at the teams sam supports and why.

sam supports

football - middlesbrough - home town club, dad supports them, supported them for 16 years. standard reasons really.

aussie rules - west coast eagles - when he was in australia he worked in perth and stayed with a west coast eagles family 

american football - pittsburgh stealers - has family in pittsburgh so thats his local team over there

baseball - pittsburgh pirates- same reason as above (fun fact... they are statistically the worst team in american sports and yanks love statistics)

ice hockey - pittsburgh penguins - has family in pittsburgh so.... oh you probably could have guessed that

basketball - minnesota timberwolves - of all the cities he visited in america he liked minneapolis the most. and since pittsburgh (his home from home) doesnt have a team he thought he would support this shower of shite (he's just informed me that they are shite)

a quick break here to tell you bellamy scored for the fucking scousers. booooooooooooooooooo



as you can see these are all very noble reasons for supporting these teams. now lets see who i've chosen and why....

first the one team i already support...

football - Middlesbrough - local team etc etc....

ooh look at me starting with a noble reason....

so now on to the others. we created a rule here for choosing. it cant be a team that sam supports. we feel the rivalry will help me get into it as i always like to wind people up! anyways here we go

so the first time we had this conversation was during the aussie rules season when sam felt i needed an aussie rules team to go for. this one was easy, i pretty much had only one team to go for....

aussie rules - adelaide crows - paul mcclain who was harold and madge bishops foster son left ramsay street to go play for the adelaide crows

so then we moved on to american football

at the time of deciding this it was down to the last 4 teams in the playoffs. so to have some interest for this season we decided i would choose one of them. it was out of new england patriots, baltimore ravens, new york giants, san fransisco 49ers. sam put forward an argument for the team i should pick and i went for them

american football - baltimore ravens - they play in purple, their linebacker should be in prison and also they are named after an edgar allen poe story.

so now we moved on to the other sports he has teams in......

ice hockey - chicago blackhawks - they are named after a bird and a theme seems to be developing plus and this is what convinced me.... when wayne and garth play street hockey in waynes world they are wearing blackhawks jerseys

when it came to baseball it was a little trickier. there wasnt a bird team i liked the sound of. so after sam making a few possible suggestions of other teams and me suggesting negro league teams i found on wikipedia (woo go zulu canibal giants) we settled on a team...

baseball - milwaukee brewers - i like beer

and now to basketball.... we havent discussed this properly till now. like exactly now while we are writing this blog. by the way the fucking scousers won. anyways back to basketball....

basketball - boston celtics - i played as the celtics a lot on nba jam for the mega drive and have always had a soft spot

so there you go, sam chose his teams for reasons of locality and family and a love for the town or city they were based in and i based mine on a character from neighbours, the colour of their shirts, waynes world, beer and the mega drive

so now we're gonna choose teams in a new sport where neither of us have teams....... lingerie football!!

for those who dont know this sport, its american football played by women in their pants! fucking class!

so how are we gonna pick these teams?

well we are gonna be thorough and take a good look at all the teams and then after really thinking about it probably go for the ones with the best name or fittest girl or something like that

fuck it barca real madrid is on now we'll pick a name and be done with it...

sam - lingerie football - las vegas sin - he likes vegas, he likes the name
dave - lingerie football - orlando fantasy - i like the name

so there we are, who do you support?

sam writes http://irrelevantidiot.blogspot.com/ its good. read it