So, uh, I’m pretty lucky. I grew up on the eastern side of CT, where it’s about 75% Boston sports fans, and both of my parents were from Mass, so that solidified that. I also grew up about 30 minutes from the University of Connecticut. As a result of that combination, I really couldn’t give half a damn about college football other than how much it’s ruining my beloved college basketball, and “my” teams have won a ton of championships since I got old enough to care about sports in the mid-90s.
Oh, and I did my undergrad at Johns Hopkins, where I learned the joys of lacrosse.
Since I started following the teams:
UConn Men’s Basketball: 1999, 2004, 2011, 2014
UConn Women’s Basketball: 1995, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2009, 2010, 2013, 2014
Johns Hopkins Men’s Lacrosse: 2005, 2007
Boston Bruins: 2011
Boston Celtics: 2008
New England Patriots: 2001, 2003, 2004
Boston Red Sox: 2004, 2007, 2013
2006 was a rough year.
I don’t want to sound spoiled, but if the US Men could win a World Cup, that would just be swell.
P.S. I’m currently in a graduate program at Boston College, and since neither UConn nor JHU had a serious hockey team (though UConn just recently moved up to D1 and into a real conference), I got pretty into BC hockey this year, went to a bunch of games including the NCAA regional in Worcester. The team lost in the Frozen Four this past week, but if you wanted to set odds on future championships…