I realize that this has been done before and that some Giants fans root for teams in other cities (which I don't understand) but let's give it another shot.
Mine:
Giants
Mets
Knicks
Rangers
Over the last 2 full seasons for each, they are collectively 267-394 .403%.
It's been painful for these 4; not much to cheer about with the highlight probably being JdG winning the Cy Young. {sigh}
Mets
Knicks
Rangers bandwagon; don't follow hockey enough to claim
No surprises really reading through everyone's, but living in Philly, people are always surprised I'm a Mets/Giants fan...perception outside NY is generally that you are either Yankees/Giants or Mets/Jets..maybe because of the rhyme or the fact that Mets and Jets are both kinda jokes relative to their big Bros?? Idk..but I always have to dispell it.
Mets
Islanders
Knicks
The older I get, the harder it is to follow all four.
As a child, nothing was more important to me than the Mets.
Giants are my main interest as an adult. Still get to watch 140+ Mets game, but often, it's in the background while I'm working.
With the NHL and NBA, I'm lucky to watch 40 games, and I am very Knicks- and Isles-centric.
Yankees
Nets
Devils
Yankees
Nets
Devils
Growing up in Central NJ, my family were always big Giants and Yankees fans. But nobody else really paid much attention to the NBA or NHL. But I gravitated to the NJ teams in basketball and hockey.
While the Devils' fan base will never be the Rangers fan base, it's interesting to see the number of Devils' fans. I supposed this is an effect of the success the Devils franchise had during Martin Brodeur's tenure with the Devils. Devils had 849 wins, Rangers had 743. Devils had 5 Stanley Cup appearances, 3 Cups. Rangers had 2 Stanley Cup appearances, 1 Cup. Devils made the playoffs 16 of those 20 years. Rangers had 12 playoff appearances. You had a large number of years where kids growing up were really accustomed to seeing the Devils as the dominant team in NY.
By comparison, the Islanders made the playoffs six years in that stretch.
Yankees
Knicks (but they suck)
Knicks
Yankees
Devils
Giants
loosely
Rangers
even looser
Knicks(until they finally get a team worthy of rooting for)
Giants
Knicks
Rangers
New York all the way baby.
New York all the way baby.
Eliminated
Not a Knicks fan at all, don’t mind seeing the Celtics/Sixers/basically anybody but Knicks/Bulls/Spurs/Lakers win in basketball.
Not a Knicks fan at all, don’t mind seeing the Celtics/Sixers/basically anybody but Knicks/Bulls/Spurs/Lakers win in basketball.
Which makes absolutely no sense
Wrote a book report on Roger Staubach, so I started following Dallas when Dandy Don was the QB. There are so many great players from that era it's tough to choose, but I would put Roger as my favorite.
Basketball was different, my dad loved Bill Russell, so I became a Celtics fan. My favorite player was Hondo, John Havlicek. I was saddened at the news of his passing recently and it took me back to my childhood watching him play, constant motion.
So there it is, the Yankees, the Cowboys, and the Celtics. It could be said that each is a cornerstone franchise of their league. Not bad for a child.
San Francisco Giants. Blame my Dad for this last one. He was New York Giants fan for the Miracle at Cooghans Bluff in 51. He talked so much about in that In 62 when I began following baseball I fell in love with that team, Mays, McCovey, Cepeda, Marichal, Jack Stanford,the Alou brothers
Difficult to follow West Coast team, kind of wish I had adopted Mets or Red Sox. But I m a pretty loyal guy so I stuck with. SF Giants
Anecdotally, it's been my experience that Yankees/Giants is the more common combination. It's not 100%, obviously - I have some Mets/Giants fans in my family, and of course there are some here - but Mets/Jets seems more prevalent.
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perception outside NY is generally that you are either Yankees/Giants or Mets/Jets.
Anecdotally, it's been my experience that Yankees/Giants is the more common combination. It's not 100%, obviously - I have some Mets/Giants fans in my family, and of course there are some here - but Mets/Jets seems more prevalent.
I grew up in CT and I knew one Jets fan. He was a Yankees fan. Ron Perelli. He was a roommate of mine during college.
I, obviously this is all anecdotally, know many Mets/Giants fans.
The mid-80's launched a lot of Mets/Giants fans (like myself).
I was the only Mets fan in the family.
Probably. King of Queens too (can't forget Kevin James). I was a little surprised. He actually is a legit Mets fan, like Seinfeld. Kevin James knows his Mets history.
No clue how strong of a Jets fan he is or of that's supposed to be common in Queens.
New York Rangers
New York Yankees
New York Knicks
It's definitely Long Island.
Besides, aren't Hofstracand Shea Long Island and abutting Long Island?
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perception outside NY is generally that you are either Yankees/Giants or Mets/Jets.
Anecdotally, it's been my experience that Yankees/Giants is the more common combination. It's not 100%, obviously - I have some Mets/Giants fans in my family, and of course there are some here - but Mets/Jets seems more prevalent.
Same here. It's weird. But that's how it's mostly been in my experience, too, for some reason with between the football/baseball teams and fans in this area. It's interesting, if nothing else.
Knicks
Mets
Rangers
Now after 15 years in Massachusetts
Giants and supportive of Celtics and Red Sox (did some community collaborations with both those teams and was impressed with their outreach). Never Patriots.
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Yankees, Giants, Rangers, and Penguins.
Not a Knicks fan at all, don’t mind seeing the Celtics/Sixers/basically anybody but Knicks/Bulls/Spurs/Lakers win in basketball.
Which makes absolutely no sense
Parents we’re Yankees, Giants, Rangers, I followed but Lemieux was my favorite athlete.
Giants
The only two sports I care about. Baseball is always my top priority through. In Sept/Oct if there is a scheduling clash I will watch the Yankees and DVR the Giants and hope for the best.