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Where does uconn bball rank in your life?

What do you care about the most?

  • Uconn bball men/women

    Votes: 258 91.2%

  • Your favorite football team

    Votes: 12 4.2%

  • Favorite baseball team

    Votes: 2 0.7%

  • Fantasy football

    Votes: 2 0.7%

  • College football

    Votes: 1 0.4%

  • Hockey

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Your golf game

    Votes: 7 2.5%

  • Pro bball

    Votes: 1 0.4%
  • Total voters
    283
It's UConn men far and away at the top. The Yankees still exist in my fandom but I do not think I've watched more than a few innings this year although I still check the scores, etc. If they blow it up and go with a youth movement I'll start watching again. I used to be very much into the NFL as a whole for fantasy purposes and will check in with UConn guys in the NBA but I'm not a sports fanatic like I used to be. I do love playoff hockey, though, and will not miss a second of the World Cup every four years.
 
boog204 said:
It's UConn men far and away at the top. The Yankees still exist in my fandom but I do not think I've watched more than a few innings this year although I still check the scores, etc. If they blow it up and go with a youth movement I'll start watching again. I used to be very much into the NFL as a whole for fantasy purposes and will check in with UConn guys in the NBA but I'm not a sports fanatic like I used to be. I do love playoff hockey, though, and will not miss a second of the World Cup every four years.
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Your encyclopedic baseball knowledge belies your claim. Maybe I'll start quizzing you from 2020-on
 
When MBB loses I am absolutely miserable until the next win. I walk around feeling like I screwed up something or that something isn't quite right with me. Similar for UConn football and the Dallas Cowboys, but it only lasts a day or so.
 
Dove said:
1. My dawg
2. UConn hoops
3. My home-made Cajun chicken pasta.
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Recipe? I made some last weekend... good, not great. I prefer thighs to breast if that makes any difference.
 
I went to UConn. My brother and sister went to UConn. My cousin Vic and his brother Joe went to UConn. Joe also taught there. My wife's parents went to UConn. I made numerous friends at UConn. So it's fair to say that UConn played a central role in my life.
 
husky429 said:
Recipe? I made some last weekend... good, not great. I prefer thighs to breast if that makes any difference.
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If you are doing thighs you should do jerk chicken instead. I have some pimento sticks if you need them.
 
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Until 2019, UConn MBB was a close number 2 behind the Boston Red Sox.

Then the soulless choads who run the Sox decided to ditch Mookie Betts for no reason other than a desire to become the Tampa Bay Rays version 2.0, and they are now dead to me.

I am a Sox fan since 1970--having watched favorites like Lynn, Fisk, Cooper, Lester, and many others leave for no reason other than gross mismanagement--but Betts was the worst of all.

I will let the Sox back into my life when the current ownership group finally sells the team and fǔՇks off. But they will never again be in number one position; that is reserved for UConn sports for the rest of time.

Go Huskies!
 
The Yakk said:
Until 2019, UConn MBB was a close number 2 behind the Boston Red Sox.

Then the soulless choads who run the Sox decided to ditch Mookie Betts for no reason other than a desire to become the Tampa Bay Rays version 2.0, and they are now dead to me.

I am a Sox fan since 1970--having watched favorites like Lynn, Fisk, Cooper, Lester, and many others leave for no reason other than gross mismanagement--but Betts was the worst of all.

I will let the Sox back into my life when the current ownership group finally sells the team and fǔՇks off. But they will never again be in number one position; that is reserved for UConn sports for the rest of time.

Go Huskies!
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Very similar situation here.

Sox fan since '75. Sox were always my #1 until my freshman year, 1987-88 in Storrs but the Sox were an extremely close #2. I got over Fred Lynn, Carlton Fisk and Clemens leaving but I'm still not over Mookie and haven't watched a full Sox game Sox or any other MLB game since he was traded. UConn Baseball only.
 
1. UConn MBB
2. Sox
3. Celts
4. Giants

Judging my how many MLB and NBA games I watch each season, that list doesn't make sense, but there's something about growing up a Sox fan in the "1918, 1918" days that makes it impossible to stop being a hardcore fan.
 
1) UConn Hoops
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At this point of my life ONLY UConn men's hoops moves a needle for me. Been that way for a while. It's still an obsession and Im as all in as ever. It's never waned and we are talking about maybe 35 years worth now. And by transitive property I do pay a lot of attention to college hoops in general.

When I was younger I was very into hockey and baseball. I still go to hockey games on rare occasion. I haven't been to a baseball game in 15 years. I watch NO pro sports on television pretty much ever, (the Stanley Cup playoffs if the Rangers are rolling I can still find time to turn on sometimes) and follow none of my adopted teams regularly enough to even take a cursory look at scores or standings. Football? Forget it. I haven't sat through an NFL Game on TV in decades. Yes including the SuperBowl.

When CT first got Sports gambling a couple years ago, I did pay attention for like a 2 month window to the CFB and NFL playoffs as I use using the Signup bonuses to the 3 CT bettings apps against each other to turn them into cash. As soon as that was done I went back in my cave.

So yeah, if it wasn't for College hoops there would be pretty much no sports in my life. I'm OK with that, because I'm uncompromising about UConn, I burn a lot of time on them November-March It wouldn't be fair to my family to blow any more on anything else.
 
UConn Men's BBall is the only (major) sport I care about so no vote from me on this flawed list as I have negative interest in WCBB (even though UConn's is the most dominant of all time).
 
Jaydumo20 said:
Be honest. It's okay if you admit that fantasy football commands all your attention, even though you tell your friends "ahhh, it's just something I do to pass the time."
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I ask myself this question all the time. Which is my truly favorite team. For sure my favorite sport is boxing but as far as team sports its tricky. My favorite teams are Uconn Men (dont follow the women at all), Mets, Da Bears, Bulls and CFB i usually follow ND and FSU but have no real favorite. I think its between the Mets, Huskies and Bears. Ive been a Bear fan since 85, Mets also 85 and Huskies 1990. By far being a Uconn fan has been the most enjoyable.
 
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husky429 said:
Recipe? I made some last weekend... good, not great. I prefer thighs to breast if that makes any difference.
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I use chicken tenders. Breast meat didn't cut.
 
1:Sooner football
2:Tie UConn men and women’s basketball
Mets
3:Crosby H.S. Basketball
4:Sooner softball
 
1a New York Giants
1b UConn Basketball
2 A.C. Milan
3 New York Rangers
4 New York Mets
5 Italian National Team (Soccer)
6 UConn Football
7 UConn WBB
8 Charlotte Hornets (I live in NC, and Kemba played there)
9 Ohio State Football (Little sister alum, Parents pull for them so naturally I started to as well)
10 Carolina Hurricanes (See #8, plus they are the Hartford Whalers franchise)
 
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1. UConn men's Basketball/Atlanta Braves
2. Boxing
3. Juventus
4. Dallas Cowboys

I never miss UConn men's games and watch almost all the Braves games. My wife hates it. College basketball season ends and the MLB season starts. MLB seasons ends and I am right back to UConn basketball. Not to mention I rarely miss a boxing card and European football is practically on year round.
 
1.) UConn basketball
2.) Blitz Chess (big Nakamura fan)
3.) Hot dog eating
4.) HS water polo
5.) Norwegian national parkour
 
Actually now that I have thought about it a bit more. It is kind of a trick question. Personally , UConn and my favorite football team are equal. I live and die with every win and loss. As a Yankee fan I care but the season is so long that it is tough to get that emotionally invested, but even in the playoffs it not
Dove said:
For his sake, I hope she's not @Kathy
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ok that’s funny. I been at the other end of that situation just on the yard and it was not ;);)
 
I’m late to the party. But UConn mens basketball has got me through some tough times. I’m literally ubsessed. When the world gets crazy I want to know every detail of a group of 20 yer old athletes.#1 by a large margin.
 
Jaydumo20 said:
Your encyclopedic baseball knowledge belies your claim. Maybe I'll start quizzing you from 2020-on
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I know stats stupidly well... Immaculate Grid has been kicking my ass with random player movement, though.
 
Huskyforlife said:
I spent 100 dollars on a piece of wood.
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Best investment you ever made, I mean other than spending $130.00 on 3 blocks of wood painted to resemble a basketball court.
 
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