What I've never been able to understand are the fans who cheer for rival teams.
My father in law for example, is both a Vancouver Canucks fan, and a Calgary Flames fan, and has been following both teams for years. Last year he stated something like "Damn, the Flames were knocked out of the playoffs! At least the Canucks are still around"
I can't tell you how bizarre it sounded
Last edited by Johnny Canuck; 03-02-2010 at 11:13 PM.
Depends on the reasoning. As the OP alluded to, the "I'll cheer for my team and the team that won the cup last year" is pretty lame. Cheering for a rival is really confusing to me, and I always thought it was wierd when people cheer for two teams, except when they're playing eachother. But really, if somebody wants to cheer for two teams, so be it. It's not as bad as cheering for Toronto. Unless I guess if Toronto is one of multilpe teams being cheered for...
That being said, if the Jets ever come back I'll be cheering for two teams.
To expand on the original question, if Calgary (or your preferred team) gets knocked out of the playoffs, do you cheer for another team in the running? Are you indifferent? Do you quit watching the playoffs all together?
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We may curse our bad luck that it's sounds like its; who's sounds like whose; they're sounds like their (and there); and you're sounds like your. But if we are grown-ups who have been through full-time education, we have no excuse for muddling them up.
I like the Calgary team, and one of the eastern teams. My eastern teams tend to change every year. I hate every other team in the western conference (except maybe Columbus).
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I couldn't do it myself and don't really understand how others could either. To me if a person cheers for more than one team, I just assume he really isn't that big of a fan in the first place. The type of person that cheers for another team usually does it when their so called favorite team is sucking.
As long as they aren't rivals, you clearly like one team better than the other, and you don't pick your second team primarily because they're better than your first team, I have no problem with it.
For example, I split the CenterIce package with a Penguins fan for the last 3 years and we went on road trips to watch each other's teams, so I naturally started to root for the Penguins as long as they aren't playing the Flames. Maybe that makes me a worse fan of the Flames in some people's eyes, but I'm okay with it.
Cheering for two teams
