Serious Suggestion: Let's adopt another team

[Walter White]

It's hard to be a fan because I don't have any ties to the University. I can respect the University or the coaching staff or <insert reason>, but when the team loses I don't take it hard nor do I get upset. Entertainment != being a fan.

I'm a Texas grad, so that's obviously my team, but I have a number of fairly significant ties to CU. I also have loose ties to some of the other schools on my list. For example, I have a ton of good friends that went to USC. I've worked for SC guys and I lived in LA and went to a number of SC games. I even kicked around getting an MBA from USC. For me, that's a rooting interest. I'll be pulling for SC when they play ND and I'll be kind of bummed if SC loses.

 

[Pale Ale]

I'm a Texas grad, so that's obviously my team, but I have a number of fairly significant ties to CU. I also have loose ties to some of the other schools on my list. For example, I have a ton of good friends that went to USC. I've worked for SC guys and I lived in LA and went to a number of SC games. I even kicked around getting an MBA from USC. For me, that's a rooting interest. I'll be pulling for SC when they play ND and I'll be kind of bummed if SC loses.

You obviously don't take your Texas football serious enough.

 

[Walter White]

You obviously don't take your Texas football serious enough.

My wife would laugh at that comment.

 

[TDforTD]

I was cheering for Ohio to go undefeated. I still have a lot of respect for Solich.

 

[CUBUFF80]

Purdue - Dad was an alum, hmmm, not much better than the Buffs.

Hunter College - Mom's alma mater, no CFB, but the Hawks did outlast the Yeshiva Maccabees in hoops!!

 

[CarolinaBuff]

I'd be down for adopting a team for the FCS playoffs.

Here's the bracket:

http://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/football/fcs

Top Seeds:
1. North Dakota State
2. Eastern Washington
3. Montana State
4. Georgia Southern
5. Old Dominion


I think it's important to bandwagon this.

Go App State!

 

[Deleted member 807]

You may actually be right. I still hate you arrogant ****sticks. BTW, Austin is a great town. It is on my list for retirement.

Austin is a great town? People keep saying that, but it doesn't make it true.

Austin might have been a great town some time ago. But its been completely choked by sprawl and polluted with California transplants and Texas politicians, many holding Baylor law degrees.

Austin is home to eight Walmart supercenters, fifteen Dollar General stores, thirty eight McDonalds, and 40 acres of campus mainly covered in concrete.

The I-35 double decker is constantly congested, as is MoPac.

Sure Ziegler park, Barton Springs, 6th street and the Oasis deck up towards lake Travis are solid entertainment options. The SxSW festival gives people a reason to hear some bands.

But Austin doesn't have a monopoly on parks, bars, music and swimming holes.

I'd prioritize a visit to New Orleans, Boston, the SF Bay, Miami, San Diego, Portland, NYC, DC, Chicago, Portland, Seattle, and dozens of resort communities over Austin. Each have music scenes, bar scenes, waterfronts, architecture and history that kicks Austin squarely in the nuts.

Paris, Rome, London, Sydney, Singapore, and Tokyo are great towns. Austin is an okay town with a few things going for it. But it is not a great town.

For retirement purposes, Fredricksburg, tucked up in the Hill Country is better than Austin.

 

[somebody]

Boybuff, no one seriously wants to ban you for rooting for another team. I suggest a compromise: how about banning you from starting threads?

 

[boydbuff]

Boybuff, no one seriously wants to ban you for rooting for another team. I suggest a compromise: how about banning you from starting threads?

Some of my threads have been pretty popular-you sure you can live without them :lol:

 

[somebody]

Some of my threads have been pretty popular-you sure you can live without them :lol:

Ubiquitous, maybe.

 

[Johnny Juzang]

If I'm forced to adopt another team (which I can't really do), I would want it to be an excellent team that is fun to watch. That leaves out the sec.

Oregon, I guess.

 

[Johnny Juzang]

I'd be down for adopting a team for the FCS playoffs.

Here's the bracket:

http://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/football/fcs

Top Seeds:
1. North Dakota State
2. Eastern Washington
3. Montana State
4. Georgia Southern
5. Old Dominion


I think it's important to bandwagon this.

My sister is a professor at Illinois St, so I'll take them.

 

[White_Rabbit]

I've been working on trying to warm up to USC. For all intensive purposes, I should be a USC fan. I'm from socal, I have plenty of friends that are USC fans, but I just can't quite do it. I don't like their uniforms, I don't like their cheating, I don't like their inherant advantages, and I really don't like their coach.

 

[4DemBuffs]

clempson, you fools!

its CU... clempson university. its an animal. they invest in the program. students don't show up early. very nice campus. no red, scarlet, crimson or any other shade of red.

like you have anything better to do....

:smile2:

 

[FLounder]

EWU. There field is ****ing red. Any other reason doesn't matter.

 

[FlaBuff]

Yeah, I've got FSU--by parents and by marriage.

 

[boydbuff]

EWU. There field is ****ing red. Any other reason doesn't matter.

That makes a few votes for Eastern Washington and your rational is the most logical and reasoned, so I'm sold. GO EWU. Now I just need to figure out what their mascot is and when they play next.

 

[DBT]

I adopt Ralston Valley!! Kill Cherokee Trail!

 

[liverflukes]

That makes a few votes for Eastern Washington and your rational is the most logical and reasoned, so I'm sold. GO EWU. Now I just need to figure out what their mascot is and when they play next.

Their mascot is Swoop...a bird :thumbsup:They're a cute team to root for. They never gave up either...

[video]http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=6586375&amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;sho w_title=1&amp;show_byline=1&amp;show_portrait=0&amp;color=&amp;ful lscreen=1[/video]

 

[Uncle Ken]

I routinely root for Baylor to get hit by a meteor.

 

[PhillyBuff]

Purdue - Dad was an alum, hmmm, not much better than the Buffs.

Hunter College - Mom's alma mater, no CFB, but the Hawks did outlast the Yeshiva Maccabees in hoops!!

That doesnt touch my gold medal in soccer at the 2012 Maccabi Soccer Tournament!

 

[PhillyBuff]

Why is it hard to be a fan of other teams?
I root for USC, Oregon, Stanford, Cal, UW, UCLA, Air Force, Army, Navy and KSU if Snyder is coaching.

We found Texas' Creatini.

 

[PhillyBuff]

Yeah, I've got FSU--by parents and by marriage.

And they cousins!

 

[PhillyBuff]

We could start watching basketball.

 

[FlaBuff]

Philly, don't play with fire.

 

[OUBuff]

I'd be down for adopting a team for the FCS playoffs.

Here's the bracket:

http://www.ncaa.com/interactive-bracket/football/fcs

Top Seeds:
1. North Dakota State
2. Eastern Washington
3. Montana State
4. Georgia Southern
5. Old Dominion


I think it's important to bandwagon this.

Old Dominion... program is only ~4-5 years old.

 

[PhillyBuff]

Philly, don't play with fire.

Dont worry, I am rooting for ya Saturday.

 

[Darian3Hagan]

What has happened to my AllBuffs? Sad.

 

[CVilleBuff]

A board with 5,000 tinis cheering on teams that happen to be doing well? Uh, no thanks.

Lived and breathed UVA athletics for years. However, I'll be sticking with CU as I've done since the second I got my acceptance letter years ago. I'm either succeeding or going down with the ship. **** bandwagoners.

 

[tante]

Only other team I am cheering for is the CU men's basketball team.