Jets/Giants? Mets/Yankees? Islanders/Rangers?

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I agree with Jim, the map’s a little silly. (What’s that part of North Carolina where they’re all Pirates fans called?) I’m a Mets fan, but I’ll have to agree that the Mets shouldn’t trounce the Yankees on this map anywhere outside of Long Island. I’m sure Chicagoland is also a mixed-league community. This one makes it look like White Sox fans are living in East Berlin.

Anyway, here’s the NY Times’s take on the border between Yankeeland and Red Sox Nation (no barbed wire yet): [url= The New York Times > Sports > Image > Graphic: Tracing the Border]map[/url

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By burrow I think he meant borough, as in the different sub-divisions of the City (ex. Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens, etc…), not like a rabbit burrow lol. Fuck the yankees

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In my experience up here in Albany, looking at the rears of cars, Giants fans also tend to be Yankees fans while Jets fans are Mets fans. Not enough people put NBA or NHL stickers on their cars for me to have even formed an opinion.

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Is it too late for me to say I don’t care who’s on first?

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As a New York football fan, the choice is obvious to me. I root for the only NFL team in New York - the Buffalo Bills.

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You mean the Orchard Park Bills?

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They’re also the only NFL team where most of the fans in the stands are Canadian. :smiley:

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I don’t care is the DH.

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Orchard Park, New York as opposed to East Rutherford, New Jersey.

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We welcome their cries of “Defense, eh!”

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Well, thank you for that profound insight, which resolves a problem that has nagged at us night and day for three and a half years.

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Dad likes the Yanks/Rangers/Giants…not consciously rejecting his fandom, I was drawn to the Mets as my budding sports interest rose during the Yankees Horace Clarke Era, as did most of my friends. Grandfather & uncle were Giants->Mets fans also.

I would assume that there is a significant proportion of Mets fans born between 1955-66, and then again around 1979-1987, with Yankee fans in between and afterwards.

Similarly, the Jets & Giants were both abysmal in the early '70s, so lots of kids became fans of NFL teams from other cities (if everyone else in the area is split between two teams, why not three, four, etc.?). I became a Vikings fan, while others my age rooted for the Dolphins, Steelers, Cowboys, & Raiders - many gravitated back to NY teams when success re-emerged. If I was clairvoyant, foresight might have changed my decision to stick with the Vikes…

As for hockey, I grew up on the Island, and aforementioned uncle had Isles season tix, so ease of access won out there, although many of my friends switched allegiance around 1979 when becoming a Ranger fan was (blue collar) in vogue. Fights in the stands/fights in the schoolyard ensued.

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It’s so cute that you think the “New York” part of “New York Giants” references the state.

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Yankee fan. Born and raised not far from the stadium. Which means I was born and raised in the South Bronx when the South Bronx was a bad place to be born and raised in.

Fell in love with the Jets during the NY Sack Exchange era.

I don’t do hockey.

BTW, I route for all NY teams. The way I see it the perfect year would be for the Yanks to beat the crap out of the Mets in the world series and for the Jets to beat the Giants by one point in a triple overtime in the Superbowl.

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Around here, they’re known as the New Jersey Giants.

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Do their fans get confused when they don’t punt on 3rd down? :smiley:

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A lot of interesting comments. Mostly because there is no easy answer.

To generalize:

Manhattan, the Bronx; Yankees, Giants and Rangers.

Brooklyn: Who knows? Some of them still follow the Dodgers. If they want to go to a game, probably the Mets. The Brooklyn Cyclones draw a good crowd. Brooklyn probably splits between the Jets and Giants. They may tend more toward the Rangers because they can access MSG via mass transit. They are waiting for the Nets.

Queens and Long Island: The Mets, Jets and the Islanders. Some still follow the Nets because they were on Long Island. It’s a PITA for the true Jets fans to get to the Meadowlands but loyalty wins out.

New Jersey: The Devils, Nets and whatever football team they can get tickets for. Some, especially outside the metro area, are Philly fans because they don’t want to pull for a “New York” team. That being said, they don’t have much passion for their teams.

Upstate New York: It get’s interesting. Get 100 mile outside of NYC and there is some palpable anti-City sentiment. Therefore, many will gravitate towards the Bills or even the Pats. If they do follow a “New York” team it is probably the Giants or Yankees.

As one poster mentioned, the Knicks are for masochists. A classic example of a franchise that somehow makes money while doing everything wrong. Any place other than MSG and they would be out of business. There is no rhyme or reason as to why they even have fans.

Also, it was mentioned that there are Devils fans in Manhattan. True. It used to be that it was almost impossible to get tickets to the Rangers. Hockey fans figured out they could take a bus from the Port Authority to the Meadowlands, see some great hockey, do it relatively cheaply and not worry of a DUI.

Again, no easy answer and there are thousands of anecdotes that will refute what I’ve said.

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After that tenth Labatt kicks in, who’s counting downs?

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Nope, they all laugh at the poor Americans who need 4 downs to gain 10 yards. :smiley:

Then they laugh at the poor Americans that can only drink 10 beers. :smiley:

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Hey, I only said we lost the ability to count past three. Nobody said we stopped drinking.