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

I find it hilarious when people move to New Orleans and become Saints fans overnight. What was their previous team? Did they not watch football before?

My dad went to Auburn; his dad went to Auburn, and I spent 7 years there.

It would be actually impossible for me to change my allegiance

For pro sports, because Alabama doesn’t have any, I find myself following players more than teams so I’m naturally pretty fluid there.

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.

NBA : Spurs - that will never change. I didn’t become a Raptors fan because Kawhi left.

NFL : Cowboys - their ownership is such trash that I have to find ways to enjoy watching other teams for me to really care about the NFL. Well, that and fantasy. 20+ years of mediocrity have hurt.

MLB : Indians - bunch of family from Cleveland area
Rockies - first team I ever saw in person and it was in Denver

College : LSU

Like any fan, I can root for one team over another in the playoffs just to keep an interest. But I’ve never tried to latch on to a new team. I am able to enjoy the success of random teams so long as it doesn’t hurt my team.

No. It would be hard

The closest I've come is putting A&M ahead of UCLA

i always pull for the underdog or lesser team unless its the saints or LSU playing

i also switch channels if one team gets a 21 point or better lead because if its not a competative game im not interested in watching blowout games.

unless its the saints or LSU playing of course, then im all in on a 70-0 game

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