Favorite Teams for Other Sports?

[Dave Butz Baby!]

Who are your favorite teams for other sports and leagues? I figure it's another good time killer as we wait for training camp...

NCAA Hoops: UConn, Baby! I’m a die hard fan.. almost as much as I am for the Skins. My family is originally from Connecticut and lots of them are/were Uconn grads and/or professors. Two championships in the last five years is great too! Okafor’s back is fine, BTW.

NCAA Football: Penn State. Three Words: Joe Pa. Class.

MLB: N.Y. Mets. Their AAA team is in the same city I grew up in, Norfolk, VA, so I’ve been rooting for the Mets since I was a kid. The games are cheap and fun. Hot as hell, but fun. I always have a blast there. OK, OK, I get pretty drunk and heckle players. The ballpark is beautiful… downtown on the waterfront. It was designed by the same people that designed Camden Yards. Being a Mets fan also makes watching the Yankees painful. Even worse, we suck.

NHL: NY Rangers. I didn’t really know about hockey until the Miracle on Ice, and when that ended, Jim Patrick and Herb Brooks went to the Rangers, so there I went too. Pissed my dad off… he’s a Boston sports fan. That said though, I don’t really follow hockey anymore. I just don’t like the NHL game as much as the internation/olympics game. Last I checked, we sucked this year too.

NBA: None. As a kid, I liked the Unseld and the Bullets and then Showtime in LA. By the time Jordan was winning everything in Chicago, I’d lost interest in any one team. Original Nintendo basketball probably had a lot to do with that! It’s probably the only sport I follow the players rather than the teams themselves. So as a UConn fan, the Pistons with Rip are my new de facto favorite team. Until next year.