# Do US sports fans ever regret the absence of international competition?

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**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [November 21, 2009, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-us-sports-fans-ever-regret-the-absence-of-international-competition/518419 "2009-11-21T17:27:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 8:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-us-sports-fans-ever-regret-the-absence-of-international-competition/518419/201 "2009-12-03T08:18:29Z")

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> [@chowder](#):
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> And this is something an English or any other football/soccer fan will never be able to comprehend…you Americans are so damn fickle when it comes to sports allegiances.
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> How you can simply abandon one team for another is beyond our ken 😕
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> I’ve been a Manchester City fan since I was knee high to a grasshopper, nothing and nobody could ever make me “abandon” MY team for another.
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> That I say without fear of contradiction but I have to add that **some** of us do have a second favourite team, in my case it’s Rochdale of division 2 of the football league.
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> It’s Rochdale for no other reason than the fact that I lived in that town for almost 15 years. If City were ever to play Rochdale my whole support would be for City

For the record I am actually British.

I felt I could change allegiance as, frankly, American Football isn’t a sport I really care about. I enjoyed it in the 80s when it had a brief period of popularity in the UK, but apart from that it has been something I’d enjoy if it was on the box, I had nothing else to do etc. The Cowboys was less an allegiance and more a choice made at the time to make things more interesting.

When it comes to sport I love then clearly I can’t change allegiance. I’m a Coventry City fan through and through. God knows, we’ve had little to cheer about in the last 15 years or so but I stuck with them. Even after moving to Sweden I lie on the sofa every Saturday afternoon and listen to their game over the internet.

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**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2009, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-us-sports-fans-ever-regret-the-absence-of-international-competition/518419/202 "2009-12-03T09:06:52Z")

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> [@amanset](#):
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> When it comes to sport I love then clearly I can’t change allegiance. I’m a Coventry City fan through and through. God knows, we’ve had little to cheer about in the last 15 years or so but I stuck with them. Even after moving to Sweden I lie on the sofa every Saturday afternoon and listen to their game over the internet.

You have much in common with a friend of mine who emigrated to NZ over 20 years ago.

He’s also a Sky Blues fan and has match programmes mailed to his home in NZ every week or so, must have cost him a fortune over the last 20+ years but he’s not fussed.

He’s a Coventry fan until the day he pegs out

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