What sport teams do you go for?
Hey,
Since there is a good bunch of us that like to watch sports I am interested in what teams and leagues you like to watch..
i'll start...
NHL- Vancouver Canucks
Olympics- Team Canada Hockey (can't wait)
NFL- Seattle Seahawks
NCAA Football- Rutgers and Texas Longhorns
westvillage 
Sherry 
BrownEyesGuy 
Bryan MLB. Mets & Red Sox and any team playing the Yankees
NFL Dallas Cowboys and Jets
College Football Gators
NASCAR Dale jr and Stewart
Hockey Devils.
Earnhardt 
emaxxman All of the USA Olympics Teams but we like the Curling team and the beach Volley ball the best
Foot ball is New England
Hockey is the NJ Devils
Caged Animal 
GC 
Calico696 
botheredbyuuthanks for all the replies!
Lots of Devils fans but that was expected...
We should really have a pool for next year... ideas!?
Giants
NCAA football, Rutgers, Florida St
Yankees
NASCAR Carl Edwards
In that order
Old Gent 
MeisterNJ NFL - Steelers, whoever's playing Baltimore
NHL - NYR, whoever's playing the Devils
MLB - Pirates (until the Mets shed the Wilpons for good - I meant it, lol), whoever's playing the Yankees
NCAAF - Penn State/Rutgers, whoever's playing Notre Dame
NCAAB - Pitt, Georgetown, whoever's playing Duke
ianimal 
pr NFL - Dallas Cowboys
MLB - NY Yankees
NHL - Montreal Canadiens
NBA - Portland Trailblazers
PBM 
pmnsk NFL- Giants/Vikings
NBA- Not
MLB- Yankee
College Football- Rutgers/ARMY
College Basketball- Duke/ARMY
LAX- Syracuse/ARMY
Hate- Notre Dame
notafan NFL - Giants
MLB - Yankees
NCAA - Alabama (will watch Rutgers too though but we are Alabama fans)
Hockey - Devils
Mommyof3 NFL: Giants
MLB: Yankees
NCAAB: UCONN (my husband)
NCAAF: Univ. of Michigan (my husband)
Tracy 
kb2755 College Basketball - Seton Hall Pirates
NFL - Miami Dolphins - Ny Giants
MLB - St. Louis Cardinals
EVV 
jdem NFL -- Ravens, Eagles
Baseball -- Orioles, IronPigs
NHL -- Rangers
NBA -- 76ers, Nets
College football -- Penn State, Rutgers
College basketball -- Princeton, Rutgers
High school sports ... gotta love it, anybody who is serious about sports has to appreciate it, we all were in high school once.
Andy Loigu NFL - Giants (who else remembers Norm Snead and Ron Johnson? :) )
NCAA Football - Michigan, and whoever is playing Notre Dame
NCAA Hockey - RPI, of course, but I'll also root for Michigan and NoDak.
JJB4 Dislike I don't like the word Hate!
notafan
Call it like I do....... A sports hate lol
NFL - Giants
MLB - Mets & anybody playing the Yanks
NHL - Rangers & anybody playing the Devils
NBA - Knicks
WNBA - Liberty
MLS - Red Bulls
NCAA FB - Florida State, Oklahoma, USC, Michigan & anybody playing Rutgers, Notre Dame
NCAA BB - Syracuse, Kentucky & anybody playing Puke err Duke
NCAA WBB - Uconn, Rutgers
NASCAR - #24 name not needed
Clyde Potts All r-r-r-r-ight ... Rutgers women's hoops gets into the discussion.
Viv Stringer rocks and most of her players come from right here in N-J.
Mets
Ravens (through marriage - I really don't care about football but my husband's from Baltimore)
Rangers
Knicks
Red Bulls
Alison1 Not only do I remember Norm Snead, I interviewed him.
He played for both the Giants and Eagles and three other teams.
Baseball-Yankees, Phillies
Football-Rams, Giants
Hockey-Devils
Basketball-Nets
Nascar-Tony Stewart
the SpaceShip It is interesting to see how many folks have a favorite NASCAR driver ... I used to know guys who favored either Ford, Chevy, or Plymouth ... my attachments to teams (and I would assume this is true for most fans) come from that first time your dad takes you to a game at the stadium.
The first game I ever saw was at Connie Mack Stadium in Philly and on my first professional sportswriting job I had media credentials covering Philly sports when The Vet and The Spectrum were brand new buildings.
My Rangers interest comes from seeing the Rangers' American Hockey League team (from 62-67) the Baltimore Clippers, when I was a kid. My first American League baseball game and first NFL game were in Baltimore, while visiting relatives and family friends, so I've had an abiding interest in the teams representing Baltimore ever since.
Obviously, since I went into sportswriting when I realized I'd never be an NBA player (or the ABA ... remember them?) I enjoy all sports and all teams and appreciate class and skill wherever I see it.
My old boss was an old-school Ford guy. Never owned any other make. Mark Martin was his guy and he had quite a collection of memorabilia, worth in the thousands of dollars.
When Martin left Roush and got in the 01 Chevy, all of that stuff went into the dumpster outside of our office. I remember how bare his office looked afterwards, because it was nothing but Martin floor-to-ceiling before that. He sold the business and I moved on shortly thereafter so I don't know if he moved on to a different driver... but I doubt it. He wasn't the type of guy to get fooled twice.
A few years ago I did a story about a local woman who made her house into some kind of an Earnhardt shrine ... unbelievable, all the stuff she has.
I'm old enough to remember when the Daytona 500 was the only race you saw on TV. Jim McKay (who I met in Baltimore back in 1977) used to do it for ABCs Wide World of Sports.
McKay was a cool guy to meet ... when you spend a little time with him you find out he really loves to talk about golf ... a walking encyclopedia about golf.
McKay is a good Segway to the Olympics ... love the Olympics, especially the ice hockey. It used to be this big USA vs. Soviet Union thing ... but I get a kick out of seeing somebody win the only gold medal some small country wins.
I remember this national columnist Jim Murray writing, as the 1971 World Series got underway, that the Pirates had as much chance of beating the Orioles as Lichtenstein had of beating the Soviet Army.
Guess what? The Pirates lost the first two games, but came back to win the series. I was in the house for Game 7.
A good headline in Baltimore as that 71 series went to game seven ... Earl Weaver is down to his last 20-game winner.
I think Olympic hockey was always who can beat Canada. USA vs Soviet Union in the medal match was only four times.
Andy, the ABA, the league of big afros, Dr J, Mel Daniels, Louie Dampier, Teaneck Armory, Doe Moe, Dan Issel and a host of other characters
My Dad used to take me to the track in Staten Island. All I remember was Midgets with Offernhouser engines. It was bus to the ferry and bus ride. While dating my wife we went to racing at Newark Bears stadium. Then the dirt track in Morristown. I can find no one that remembers it. I think it was in Florham Park really, on Rt 24. I went to the first and only NASCR race in Linden airport. Then got married had Kids and forgot racing. Then the Girls got interested so we jumped back in. We vacationed in Wallenpapack race week. Went for many years in the 60's to Pocono race. Then graduated to Daytona vacations for the 500 till the corporate take over and it was no fun anymore. Racers couldn't speak freely what's on there mind anymore. My one daughter went to 15 different tracks one year.
Look what my Dad started.
"Guess what? The Pirates lost the first two games, but came back to win the series. I was in the house for Game 7."
I was in-utero for that particular game, lol
Old Gent,
The Morristown track sat on what is now Mennen & Mennen arena, the Dover track was replaced by Two Guys from Harrison, the midget track was in Pine Brook where Rt. 46 & Bloomfield Ave.meet. Mario Andretti raced at Pine Brook.
Ignatz Really. My daughter lived in Morris Plains for 20 years. I asked all the natives around there and none of them knew anything about it.
Olympic hockey has typically been dominated by either Team Canada or the Soviets.
Canada won gold in 6 of the first 7 Olympiads, taking silver only once... to Great Britain, of all places, in 1936. The Soviets didn't have an ice hockey entrant until 1956.
In the next 10 Olympiads, the CCCP took gold 7 times with a silver in 1980 and bronze in 1960. The USA won gold each of the other two times. Directly after the fall of the Soviet Union, the "Unified Team" comprised of former Soviet Republics won gold in 1992. So that's 8 for the Russkies in a period where the Canucks could only manage four total medals: two silver and two bronze.
In the post-Soviet era, it's been more competitive. Two golds for Sweden, two for Canada, and one for the Czechs. The USA took silver to the Canadians gold both times.
Matt D A country that once was under Soviet domination that has done really well for itself in the Olympics is Lithuania basketball.
Two former NFL players of Lithuanian descent are in the Hall of Fame ...
Johnny Unitas and Dick Butkus.
They may be the only two Lithuanian-Americans to ever play in the league where, as Mike Francesa says, "they play .... for pay."
Several Lithuanians have played in the NBA and on major college teams in hoops, but no Hall of Famers that I'm aware of yet. I'd research it, but I've got "real world" stuff to do ... don't you hate it when life gets in the way of sports? LOL
I was in-utero during the 1950 World Series between the Philly Whiz Kids and the Yankees.
By the time I started watching baseball, the Whiz Kids had become the Was Kids.
When I started following the Orioles they had a young pitching rotation they called The Kiddie Corps. Guys like Palmer, McNally, and Bunker were not even in the majors yet. Their farm system was producing pitching prospect after pitching prospect.
My first Orioles heroes were Jim Gentile and Robin Roberts, who by then was a veteran they got off the scrap heap and he became a winner again. He mentored a 19-year old Palmer.
There was a growing feeling that the O's were going to do great things, and they did.
Now, it's all ancient history, but I'm happy for those years when it really was fun to be an Orioles fan.
Old Gent,
Just a bit of history. Tim flock, Buck Baker & Lee Petty are some of the notables that raced there.
Dont forget Dover, N.J. speedway. It went out of business in the early 1950s. It was a dirt track. some of the early NASCAR greats raced there. Bill France Sr. ran there before he started NASCAR. There was also a dirt track in Harmony Twp. N.J.
HtownForum We went there around 50 to 52. We drove out from Elizabeth NJ. My daughter left NJ for Ohio about 6 years ago. I will tell her about this info when they come for Christmas because she knows I asked everyone about it. I met Buck Baker once at Pocono. He sat in the stands with us during practice after his racing days. That picture of those cars brought back memories.
Here is another one. There is a shopping mall at that sight today. If you look around the property you can still see parts of the old track.
I cut and Pasted all the Info and pictures to the family. You guys are amazing. Now they all know I am not senile yet. Thanks.
eapos 
I stumbled on this as well.....I never knew there was a speedway in Dover... amazing the things we don't know. Very interesting...
Getting ready to Tomahawk Chop the night away?
In the division where they have a true national playoff ...
GO TIGERS ... Towson Tigers, that is. Gotta love a team that plays at Johnny Unitas Stadium.
Here is an old poster from Harmony Speedway. It was located just off of river road.
JT Weissglass Stadium sounds familiar, but when I goggled it all stock car stuff. I figured I went around 39 to 41 era. It was only Midgets. Maybe they paved it when they went to stock cars.
Way to go, Spartans. Nobody wanted to see OSU get blown out yet again in the championship game. Auburn will deservedly have a chance to keep the SEC dominance going. I think FSU wins a close one, though...
wow... hope we don't have any Buckeye fans. Good job MSU.
Guess it'll be an Auburn Vs FSU NC.
FSU will win....
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