re: Have you ever changed teams you pulled for? How hard/easy was it?

Saints and tigers fans for life, but I had some dumb teams I liked as a kid growing up that were my "non-local" favorites.

I was a yuuuugggeeee dirk fan (still am, probably my favorite athlete ever) but when the hornets drafted AD when I had just finished high school brought me in to the hornets/pels and I've been all pels ever since (season ticket holder too).

There's no way I could ever change my fandom for those 3 teams

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Have any of you ever done this for whatever reason? Was it a quick thing for you? I can't imagine if the Saints HAD moved to San Antonio and I felt that I needed to pick a new team that I would have made the transition quickly, if at all.

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Not exactly the same since you are just choosing to change fandoms.

But i was born and raised a Florida Gator. Season tickets. Spent my Saturdays in the fall in my grandparent RV tailgating in Gainesville. Born in 87. So my beginning memories of games were the dominated UF mid 90s

Ended up going to Ole Miss. We lived in Mississippi at the time and just chose to go there. While there naturally OM pulled me more and more. I was at the game in the Swamp when OM upset Tebow and the Gators. It was at that moment i realized i was more a fan of OM than i was UF. Because i had a natural excitement to OM winning over a disappointment that UF lost.

Now that ive been graduated and away from Oxford my UF fandom is coming back more. At this point i pull for OM in the other sports (Basketball, Baseball, Basketweaving) but in football it just kind of depends on who has what at stake. If OM is 2-6 and a win over UF knocks UF out of the SEC Champ game i will prolly pull for Florida.

But for me College is different than Pro sports. I couldnt imagine being torn up over which pro team to pull for.

Was a Pistons fan until the Hornets/Pelicans came to NOLA, now I am solely a solely a Pels fan.

I've never changed allegiances. I've been a Cuse fan forever, that won't change. I was a New York Giants fan for years but I dropped that because frick the NFL. I was a Knicks fan but after decades of sucking, what's the point? The NBA is basically dead to me with this new generation of asshats playing.

Longhorn fan in my youth until I attended OU. It was not a bandwagon thing either; OU sucked my first 3 years of undergrad. I know it's weird, but it is what it is.

NFL-Saints
NBA-Pels
NCAA- LSU
MLB- STL Cardinals
NHL- STL Blues

i was born and raised on the northshore and went to LSU, so I'm a SELA sports fan for life. My grandparents live in St Louis and we go and visit all the time and have been to countless Blues/Cardinals games, and it works out perfectly since NOLA doesn't have an MLB/NHL team, and that STL doesnt have an NBA or NFL team (always been team frick the rams)

You're either a bandwagon that picked a squad out of state first or a bandwagon that jumped ship.

But who gives a shite, do whatever, it's not that serious

Just pull for both. It's not like they are bitter rivals.

I liked the cowboys till Jerry Jones arrived, it wasn’t hard

I've never stopped cheering for a team, except maybe the Braves if they counted. I liked them and the Astros growing up in LA, but only ever went to Astros games since we traveled to Houston a lot back then.

I'll root for the Texans now that I live here, but I don't feel bad when they lose and would never cheer for them over the Saints.