# Are you rooting for a team this year that's not "your team?"

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 5, 2005, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-rooting-for-a-team-this-year-thats-not-your-team/297761 "2005-04-05T01:48:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-rooting-for-a-team-this-year-thats-not-your-team/297761/21 "2005-04-05T19:57:14Z")

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Yay **Misnomer**!

–Cliffy

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**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-rooting-for-a-team-this-year-thats-not-your-team/297761/22 "2005-04-05T20:05:49Z")

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Royals fan here. I’ve cheered for the Cubs in the past, and will continue to do so. Baseball’s different, because it seems you can adopt a team from the other league much more easily than an AFC football fan could adopt an NFC team.

In football, I’m a Chiefs fan. But I will root for the Colts (I live in Indy) just so long as they aren’t hurting the Chiefs.

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**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-rooting-for-a-team-this-year-thats-not-your-team/297761/23 "2005-04-05T20:16:15Z")

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Iv’e got a serious case of split-mind this year.

I’m a north-sider by genetics. Generations of my family have lived and died with the Cubs.

But I grew up in DC. And for the first time in my memory there’s a team in DC.

I’m pulling for both.

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**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-you-rooting-for-a-team-this-year-thats-not-your-team/297761/24 "2005-04-05T20:36:07Z")

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> [@NinjaChick](#):
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> _sigh_ Nah, though it’s really tempting at times. I’m a Philly girl, and the Eagles were _so_ close in the SuperBowl! So close! And…uh, the Phillies, uh, have a really cool mascot. And one of the worst records in MLB history, I think.
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> _wanders of to cry tears of bitter humiliation_

Phanatic is cool, indeed-the appropriate mascot for a Philly team would be called a Choke. (I grew up there, too.)

So, now that the Bambino curse and all of that is over, _GO YANKEES_!!! 😃

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