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What side of the rivalry are you on- Boston/New York

AreBee1969 said:
My family is from Long Island and I am the only one of five siblings born in CT. I pretty much went with my older brother's teams' rivals in the mid-70s.

He was Giants/Knicks/Rangers/Yankees and I went Cowboys/Celtics/Islanders/Sox.

I vividly remember him crying when the Cowboys beat the Giants and I was sold on them from that day on. Thank goodness it wasn't the Lions.

As far as cities go, I love Boston and hate New York. I've been to several big cities and only in New York do I feel like somebody might push me into traffic at any given moment.
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NY teams because my father was from New York, and most people in New Haven County rooted for New York teams.

I did respect the Celtics for what they accomplished, but rooted against them when they played the Lakers or anybody else in the Finals.

Boston is a lot safer and easier to navigate than NYC. I lived there 50 years ago, and I think I recall people on the platform who waited until the passengers on the T got off, before they walked into the tram or whatever it is called in Boston.
In NYC, I remember people jostling to get in and not waiting for the passengers to disembark.
 
Improviser said:
NY teams because my father was from New York, and most people in New Haven County rooted for New York teams.

I did respect the Celtics for what they accomplished, but rooted against them when they played the Lakers or anybody else in the Finals.

Boston is a lot safer and easier to navigate than NYC. I lived there 50 years ago, and I think I recall people on the platform who waited until the passengers on the T got off, before they walked into the tram or whatever it is called in Boston.
In NYC, I remember people jostling to get in and not waiting for the passengers to disembark.
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Boston is basically a little town compared to NYC.
 
Yankees/Giants/Knicks, was a Whalers fan I become a some what distant Rangers fan in the Lundquist era, will always bleed Whalers green though.

There is nothing like rooting for UConn though.
 
live in Fairfield County
like:
Yankees
Nets
Jets

Hate:
Giants
Mets
Celtics
Patriots
Knicks
Rangers
Syracuse
Providence
 
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AreBee1969 said:
I've been to several big cities and only in New York do I feel like somebody might push me into traffic at any given moment.
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What you deserve for rooting for the Cowboys.
 
I hate to say it and dont want to judge, but the yankees/pats fans always rubbed me the wrong way for 90s kids at least
 
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Grew up in Enfield, always a Boston sports fan for all major sports, until Whalers moved to Hartford. After the Whalers moved I stopped following the NHL. When grandson started playing hockey I started following the Bruins again.
 
PNolanFan said:
I hate to say it and dont want to judge, but the yankees/pats fans always rubbed me the wrong way for 90s kids at least
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Why? I had friends growing up in the 70s in CT that chose the Cowboys or the Steelers, b/c the local teams weren't good and those two dominated. Later it was the 49ers. A kid from the 90's would come of age when the Pats were the most dominant team in NFL history. You'd expect there to be a lot of Patriots fans from that era, probably all over the country.
 
nomar said:
I know I'm not the only Sox/Celtics/Giants/Rangers fan in the world. But every single one of us grew up in Connecticut!

The short story for me is that my dad, who grew up in New Haven, was a NY fan (Giants/Giants/Rangers), except he rooted for the Celtics rather than the Knicks. A huge Willie Mays fan, he followed the Giants out west until Mays left, at which point he became a Sox fan. (He hated the Yankees and the Sox had always been his AL team.)
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Sox/Celts/Pats... Flyers

When I was a kid I read an article about Bobby Clark and the struggles of being a type one diabetic as a pro athlete in Boys Life and I was hooked. Those were the old Broad Street Bully days, so it was a good run.

The Whalers were my "second team."
 
CL82 said:
Sox/Celts/Pats... Flyers

When I was a kid I read an article about Bobby Clark and the struggles of being a type one diabetic as a pro athlete in Boys Life and I was hooked. Those were the old Broad Street Bully days, so it was a good run.

The Whalers were my "second team."
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They're definitely a distant #2 behind the Giants, and have been for a while, but for a long time the Raiders were my other favorite NFL team.

When I was a little kid, my grandparents took me to Sears to get a jersey. If I'd gone with my dad, I would have gotten a Giants jersey. (I think I ultimately got a Carthon jersey.) But grandma and grandpa didn't know anything about sports and when I saw #46 in black & silver (Todd Christensen), that was it for me. My dad kinda liked the Raiders so he was cool with it. I became a huge Marcus Allen fan (and subsequently a huge Tim Brown and Bo Jackson fan). My parents told the babysitter I could watch the first half of the Raiders-Skins SB.
 
This thread is the perfect example of why Connecticut should be tossed out of New England. :)

also, @temery Take my delay off for Pete's sake.
 
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FriarJ said:
This thread is the perfect example of why Connecticut should be tossed out of New England. :)

also, @temery Take my delay off for Pete's sake.
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Without Connecticut there wouldn't be a whole lot in New England worth a damn.
 
FriarJ said:
This thread is the perfect example of why Connecticut should be tossed out of New England. :)

also, @temery Take my delay off for Pete's sake.
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It provides an important buffer between New England and New York (the NYC area of it). You should be thankful.
 
I've spent the bulk of my 62 years saying NYC is my frontyard and New England is my backyard. For the life of me I cannot understand why anyone would live anywhere but lower Fairfield county.
 
BrysonDeMan said:
live in Fairfield County
like:
Yankees
Nets
Jets

Hate:
Giants
Mets
Celtics
Patriots
Knicks
Rangers
Syracuse
Providence
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Just curious. Why do you hate the Giants and Mets? I’m a Jets/Mets fan and I couldn’t care less about the Yankees and Giants. Even with the Subway Series every year, I don’t care a lick about them.
 
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My Father was a NY Yankee, Knick Ranger fan my Mother was RedSox, Celtics Bruins fan. So I grew up a Twins/Mets fan for baseball and a so so Knicks fan. I wasn't much of a hockey fan at all until I moved to the Tampa area and now I am a big Bolts fan. My Father got 4 Yankee/Sox tickets and 4 Knicks Celtics tickets and hung them on the Christmas tree - fun
 
Meriden almost dead center.

UConn#1
Yanks - Tresh, Gibbs, Whitaker, Stottlemyre, Bahnsen to start - didn't win much.
Giants - Fran T, Ron Johnson, Tucker Fredrickson, Bob Tucker, Jack Gregory, Brad Van Pelt, Fred Dryer
Rangers - Brad Park, Ron Dugay, Ron Greshner
Celtics - Hondo, Sam, Jo Jo, Big Red
 
Back to the topic.

My father (passed away a couple decades ago, would be in his early 90's if he was still around) was a huge Yankee fan (primarily due to DiMaggio) and was a teen during the mid-late 1940's pennant races. The way things were then. You were a fan of your team, then a fan of the league your team was in. In the World Series he would want the AL team to win even if the Yankees weren't playing.

One unique thing I remember from my youth (I believe it was this way until the late 1970's) was the Sox had a minor league team in Waterbury and the Yankees had one in New Haven (I think briefly East Haven instead). The line that separated fans was kind of between the two until you got a good amount north or east of New Haven, then it was almost entirely Sox fans.

I was always a Yankees/Giants/Rangers/Knicks fan but I seldom held any I'll will towards another team (disclaimer, this does not apply to college sports). Normally the only time I want to see any specific team lose that my team isn't playing is if one outcome would be more advantageous for my team than the other. The one exception was the Cowboys when I was young but there was a valid reason.

In the 1960's two members of the Giants coaching staff lived in my neighborhood. Every kid at first was a Giant fan but by the late 1960's quite a few jumped ship and became Cowboy fans. I viewed them as traitors but it got worse as they also were quite obnoxious towards anyone who hadn't joined them.
 
mauconnfan said:
Meriden almost dead center.

UConn#1
Yanks - Tresh, Gibbs, Whitaker, Stottlemyre, Bahnsen to start - didn't win much.
Giants - Fran T, Ron Johnson, Tucker Fredrickson, Bob Tucker, Jack Gregory, Brad Van Pelt, Fred Dryer
Rangers - Brad Park, Ron Dugay, Ron Greshner
Celtics - Hondo, Sam, Jo Jo, Big Red
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Additional info on the other end of the rivalry:

Bruins - kinda root for them when Rangers are out.
Knicks - was rooting for them this post season, no biggie
Sox and Pats - same boat. When a kid nothing against them, friends in Meriden who were Sox fans we all got along fine. Moved to WesMass in '90 can't stand either of them. Root for anyone but, including the Cowboys and Eagles in NFL.
 
FfldCntyFan said:
Back to the topic.

My father (passed away a couple decades ago, would be in his early 90's if he was still around) was a huge Yankee fan (primarily due to DiMaggio) and was a teen during the mid-late 1940's pennant races. The way things were then. You were a fan of your team, then a fan of the league your team was in. In the World Series he would want the AL team to win even if the Yankees weren't playing.

One unique thing I remember from my youth (I believe it was this way until the late 1970's) was the Sox had a minor league team in Waterbury and the Yankees had one in New Haven (I think briefly East Haven instead). The line that separated fans was kind of between the two until you got a good amount north or east of New Haven, then it was almost entirely Sox fans.

I was always a Yankees/Giants/Rangers/Knicks fan but I seldom held any I'll will towards another team (disclaimer, this does not apply to college sports). Normally the only time I want to see any specific team lose that my team isn't playing is if one outcome would be more advantageous for my team than the other. The one exception was the Cowboys when I was young but there was a valid reason.

In the 1960's two members of the Giants coaching staff lived in my neighborhood. Every kid at first was a Giant fan but by the late 1960's quite a few jumped ship and became Cowboy fans. I viewed them as traitors but it got worse as they also were quite obnoxious towards anyone who hadn't joined them.
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Interesting you say this. My dad would've turned 80 a couple days ago. So he grew up a bit later than your dad and Mantle was his guy but he used to pull for the Red Sox if the Yankees were out of it and the Red Sox moved on. I never understood it and used to bust his chops about it because this is when the rivalry was huge during the Jeter, Nomar, Ortiz years but he always said I don't care, I'm a division guy.
 
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