Yeah, and tough break for Foxboro and Metro-Dade. While we're on the subject, both teams (Jets and Giants, that is) have their offices in New York State. Just wanted to point that out, nothing more.
No rivialry. People tend to root for both teams,although you usually have a favorite (JETS!). The real rivalry is in hockey. Islander fans hate the Scum. Devils fans hate the Scum. Islander and Devils fans tend to get along (mostly because there are no Islander fans in New Jersey and no Devils fans on Long Island, but Scum fans all around). In basketball, no one cared about the Nets until last year. In baseball it is strange. There was a big hatred in the 1940's and 50's. Then none. As late as college, I remember happily going to Yankee Stadium to watch a game when the Mets were out of town. It is more a function of the fans. Mets fans tend to be angry and pissed off at the world. The older Yankee fans are O.K., they are really good fans. But the Yankees have a surplus of fair weather fans, people who have been the biggest Yankee fan forever, since 1999! Those people really piss me off.
Where the hell have you been living? Do you get out much? THERE IS a rivalry and you can see it at the pubs. It may not be as heated as Yankee-Mets since Giants and Jets rarely play each other in the regular season, but its there.
I always knew the Isles and Rangers fans didn't get along! How does a person become a fan of the Giants/Jets or Yankees/Mets? Is it geographical? Is it genetic?
Nowadays it doesnt matter. People just become fans no matter where they live but long time fans of Jets have always been people East of Manhattan and more specifically Long Island. And long time fans of the Giants typically came East of Manhattan with Manhattan being the mixing bowl for both teams. Mets and Yankees is pretty much the same where the Yankees are Bronx/NJ and Mets are Queens. Brooklyn is still Dodgers and Mets and Manhattan is a mixed. But in these times it really doesn't matter anymore although you still see the concentration of fans in those places.
Does it matter? How many of you have become fans of a team because they won a championship or whatever? Or atleast paid more attention to a team because they did something spectacular? I bet more than half. Thats what initially attracts a kid. Specially the ones that live in places that has no teams. It's when you are constantly switching teams that makes someone a bandwagoner.
Yeah that pretty much sums it up for how it was when I was growing up on LI. I am a big Jets fan but I do generally root for the Giants too - especially now that I live in Redskin country.
Put it this way. The Rag$ fans when not overturning ambulances still chant "Potvan Sucks" while Isles fans chant "1940!" (even though the Rag$ bought, er won the Cup in 1994, and Poitvan is long retired) When I talk hockey with other Isles fans, we still get worked up over CrackHead Fluerry, even though he is gone from the Rag$
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It doesnt matter if you jump a bandwagon. What really matters is if you stay on it. I admit, I jumped on the Avalanche bandwagon in 1996, but I've been a fan since, despite my geographical closure to Dallas, I hate 'em.
So you're an Islanders fan, even though you managed to spell Potvin two DIFFERENT wrong ways in the course of one paragraph? Bought? Other than Adam Graves, name me one key player on that Cup team the Rangers "bought". Messier, Tikkanen, Larmer, Anderson, Lowe, Beukeboom and Matteau were traded for. Leetch, Zubov, Richter, Kovalev and Nemchinov were drafted. Sorry, but the notion that the Rangers "bought" the Stanley Cup is a myth.
I'm a Jets fan, but I also root for the Giants. I rather see two NY teams playing well then just one. But if theres a Jets and G-Men game, I'm rooting for the Jets. J! E! T! S! JETS! JETS! JETS!
Thank you. What's with this buying a Cup thing all about? Red Wings have a big payroll too, you don't see people criticizing them. Would you rather spend a lot of money and be successful or would you rather have your GM not spend any money and trade away your best players for more crap while wearing what is quite possibly one of the ugliest jerseys (and worst marketing scheme) ever? As for New York sports fans, the team breakdown runs like this: Yankees, Rangers, Giants (history, long tradition) Mets, Islanders, Jets (young, underdogs) However, I'm a Mets and Rangers fan. I don't follow the NFL all that much so I root for both.