From Houston lived in Dallas for a bit people and fans of Dfw are trash.

Always root for them to fail

Born in raised in Houston, but my dad is from Chicago. I was raised to root for the Cubs over anyone in baseball but my parents and I are still huge Astros fans as well. Our rooting loyalties are tied with the Cubs, Rockets, Astros, Texans and Blackhawks. I think you should root for your hometown team but exceptions can be made if your parents are die hard fans of another team.

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This thread makes me think of the '07 playoff game between the Yankees and Indians. Lebron was in the stands wearing a freakin' Yankees cap (in Cleveland). The sideline/dugout reporter goes over and talks to him for a bit, and Lebron tells him that his favorite teams are the Yankees, Cowboys, and Bulls. How convenient for someone who grew up in the 90s.

I've never really liked him since then.

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Jordan, Pippen, Rodman, Jeter, Rivera, Posada, Smith, Aikman, Irvin, Deion, etc..., etc... were all over our TVs, all over the newspapers, all over everything.

They were the best, they won championships, they were fun to watch and some of them had the personalities to go with it.

They were who kids wanted to be, they did what kids dreamed of doing, and if we're real honest, as the champions of their profession, they're exactly what you want your kids to be and what you dream of your kids doing.

90s kids don't owe anyone any sort of apology for being fans of those teams

(particularly for becoming a Cowboys fan when you're from Cleveland and the Browns were and continue to be gawd awful. You can't expect Cleveland kids to grow up idolizing Failed First Round QB #496 )

Now, yeah, if they drop those teams cold the second they hit rough waters for another winner, they're probably just bandwagon front runners...and lets be real, Cowboys (and Yankees) were hardly at their 1990s levels at the time of the 2007 World Series.

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Well written, but I can't agree. You need some sort of connection to a team aside from "they're winners."

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I'm not saying kids just open the newspaper or click 'standings' on a website and start cheering for the 1st place team.

But which kid in 1989 didn't go out and try to hit Michael Jordan's "The Shot"? And then a few years later which kid didn't go out and try to hit a jumper from the top of the key and held their shooting hand in the air for an hour like Jordan did in the 1998 Finals?

Come on, its different if you were a kid at the time.

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I haven't seen this mentioned, so I'll bring it up. I lived in Virginia for a number of years and was stunned at the number of Cowboys fans that I met in Redskins territory (even by Cowboys standards). When I asked them why they were Cowboys fans, the number one answer I got was, "Because my dad/brother/family is Redskins fans". The logic never made sense to me, but I didn't grow up in region of the country. Anyone else encountered this in other parts of the country?

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I've always been a bit of a fan of the Yankees, in part because of my dad (and in part I was just old enough to pay some attention in the late 1990s and always wanted to be Derek Jeter).

My dad, and many of his friends are Yankees fans. The games would be on sometimes, they'd talk about the Yankees, etc...

For them, they're old enough to have grown up in Fort Worth when there was no Texas Rangers Baseball Club. So, naturally, a bunch of kids born in the early 1950s idolized Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, Casey Stengel, etc...

Anyways, that always influenced me as a kid and then my dad once or twice took me on trips to New York to watch the Yankees and we'd walk around Memorial Park and he'd tell stories and all that mushy stuff...and that influenced me.

So, I can definitely get the "my parent was a fan".

I was a Houston Buffs fan. So, I go back a long way.
If I wanted baseball on the old b&w tv, it had to be the Yankees. They were the only team that was on every Saturday. Dizzy Dean , Joe Garogiola (?), Pee Wee Reese, etc.
As a result, I lean to the Yankees but my loyalties are to my hometown, Houston teams.

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I haven't seen this mentioned, so I'll bring it up. I lived in Virginia for a number of years and was stunned at the number of Cowboys fans that I met in Redskins territory (even by Cowboys standards). When I asked them why they were Cowboys fans, the number one answer I got was, "Because my dad/brother/family is Redskins fans". The logic never made sense to me, but I didn't grow up in that region of the country. Anyone else encountered this in other parts of the country?

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Actually, this is the reason I am an Aggie today. My father always rooted for the Longhorns (he was a UTEP grad), thus, I always rooted for the Aggies. My dad's job moved our family all over Texas and the country, and I stayed loyal to the Aggies. When it came time to attend college, although I was living in California, I came back to Texas and attended Texas A&M. Although I am now living in California, I am still loyal to the Aggies (obviously) as well as all the Dallas pro sports teams I grew up rooting for.

Grew up in FW so I root for all local teams. People that don't root for their hometown teams or adopted hometown teams will only have hollow bragging rights.

I grew up rooting for the Astros as my NL team. Hell if they make it to the WS I'll happily pull for them to win. It's pro sports...who really gives a ****?