whether or not you are a NY Jets fan or a NY Giants fan?

How about with the Mets or Yankees???

and are you all Knicks fans?

1/8/2006 11:05:42 PM

nets jets mets islanders (brooklyn, long island, new jersey)

knicks giants yankees rangers (bronx, manhattan, queens, staten, kings)

1/8/2006 11:09:33 PM

Family allegiances play a big role. Also, if you grew up in the 80's chances are your a Mets fan while if you grew up in the 90's then you are probably a Yankees fan. In the area it is a lot closer (I'd say pretty damn near 50/50) ratio of Mets fans to Yankee fans then people think nationally.

And yes, everyone is Knicks and Rangers (mostly although the Isles have a SOMEWHAT strong fan base) fans..

I would do the breakdown more like

Mets/Jets (Queens, Long Island, Brooklyn)
Yankees/Giants (SE Conn., Manhattan, Staten Island, Northern NJ, Bronx)

[Edited on January 8, 2006 at 11:14 PM. Reason : Kings County IS Brooklyn by the way ...]

1/8/2006 11:10:18 PM

do you (Giants,Yanks,Rangers) fans have any stereotypes of the oppisite fan?

1/8/2006 11:12:57 PM

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"Family allegiances "

1/8/2006 11:21:33 PM

def family allegiances. my whole family for ages is yankees/giants/notre dame. only hockey came into bein with me in 94 when rangers won the stanley cup.

1/8/2006 11:26:26 PM

if you're black, you're a Yankees fan

1/8/2006 11:28:08 PM

im surprised there are islander fans

1/8/2006 11:29:51 PM

Im half Black and I Hate the Yankees....Im an A's and Braves fan,,,,,,so what the hell do u know?

1/8/2006 11:29:52 PM

i think he was referring to being black and living in new york

1/8/2006 11:30:30 PM

^^^^Yeah, some ppl around here are even telling me they even won the Civil War!!!


(It's a joke ppl)

[Edited on January 8, 2006 at 11:32 PM. Reason : they posted too fast]

1/8/2006 11:31:21 PM

I grew up in NJ

I used to like the Yankees back when they were mediocre at best. Never liked the Knicks, Nets, Devils, or Giants, and I don't like the Yankees now. I'm completely neutral about the Mets, except that they're in the same division as the Braves.

I tried being a Jets fan, but it just never took.

I'm a very big Rangers fan though.

1/8/2006 11:55:45 PM

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"my whole family for ages is yankees/giants/notre dame. only hockey came into bein with me in 94 when rangers won the stanley cup. "

Fucking bandwagoning families.

1/9/2006 12:12:49 AM

My dad has loved the Yankees and Jets since he was a kid. It just passed on to me. My mom LOVES the Knicks. None of us are big hockey fans though.

Oh and I grew up in northern NJ.

1/9/2006 1:23:27 AM

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"Family allegiances play a big role."

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"Mets/Jets (Queens, Long Island, Brooklyn)"

That's pretty much it for me. I was born about a mile from Shea Stadium, and am a Mets fan. However, most of my family up there are Giants fans. I am not. And yes, I do like the Rangers, hate the Yankees, and also hate the Giants.

1/9/2006 8:40:45 AM

"knicks giants yankees rangers (bronx, manhattan, queens, staten, kings)"

seroiusly?

1/9/2006 10:04:18 AM

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"Fucking bandwagoning families."

um no not quite but nice try

1/9/2006 10:26:28 AM

^^yeah thats what i was about to say, thats bullshit

1/9/2006 5:05:07 PM

Are there still Dodger fans in Brooklyn?

Where did the baseball Giants play in town?

1/9/2006 6:57:17 PM

nym's assessment of the geography is more on point than socrates i would say

i have always thought social class played a large part but that is likely due to the geographical boundaries listed

1/9/2006 7:20:51 PM

thats because everything socrates says is rubbish

1/9/2006 8:03:16 PM

^^^ everythin u want to know about the ny baseball giants:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/sports/html/baseballgiants_history.html

1/9/2006 8:06:31 PM

I thought it would be Jets/Yankees and Giants/Mets since their rivals would match up more (Boston/Philadelphia)

1/9/2006 8:18:10 PM

i pulled that right out of my rectum

1/9/2006 9:44:25 PM

we could tell

1/9/2006 9:45:05 PM

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"Are there still Dodger fans in Brooklyn? Where did the baseball Giants play in town? "

Some became Yankees fans but I'd say MOST followed the teams after they moved and then picked up the Mets (who if you didn't know have orange and blue because of the two teams. Dodger blue and Giants orange. Their logo is a combination of the SF and the cursive B as well). My Grandfather and my Dad (who was 7 when the two moved) were bigtime Brooklyn fans but went to the Mets first game in the Polo Grounds and fell in love with them.

Giants played at the Polo Grounds which was nearly adjacent to Yankee Stadium on the other side of the Harlem River in Harlem. Here is a really cool picture of the two..



[Edited on January 10, 2006 at 8:36 AM. Reason : ff]

1/10/2006 8:35:53 AM

which is which?

1/10/2006 8:49:39 AM

Yankee Stadium is in the foreground.

1/10/2006 11:48:06 AM

OF COURSE I KNOW BRYAN WOULD CHIME IN ON THIS BULLSHIT....EVEN THOUGH HE IS FROM FUCKING CONNETICUT!!!

ATTN: BRYAN....YOU'RE NOT FROM NY DAMMIT!!!!!!

1/10/2006 12:29:22 PM

You're a moron. I was born in Queens and my family is from there. Southern Connecticut is part of the NY metro area..

1/10/2006 12:35:15 PM

I don't really know how the Jets Giants thing works, since they both play in the same stadium...

1/10/2006 1:46:41 PM

Giants originally played in Yankee Stadium. There base of operations is now in New Jersey.

Jets originally played in Shea Stadium. There base of operations is now in Long Island.

1/10/2006 1:47:47 PM

I did not know. My alliances at the moment are Yankees and Jets. I don't really care about the NHL or NBA. And I'm a Jets fan b/c it rubbed off from my old roommate

1/10/2006 1:51:03 PM

I would like to quote Peter Griffin:

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"Knicks suck, Yankees suck, Jets suck!!!"

1/10/2006 2:56:24 PM

^^ Um, yea.. that was me.

1/10/2006 2:58:51 PM

This is probably the most acurate demographic of NYC sports fans :

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"Mets/Jets (Queens, Long Island, Brooklyn) Yankees/Giants (SE Conn., Manhattan, Staten Island, Northern NJ, Bronx)"

I was born in Queens, as much of my family was, and the thing is no one was really a big sports fan. So I eventually took, after being a Mets fan, to the Yankees once I got down here. Mainly to piss more southerners off.

Also I took to the Jets b/c i really didnt have a team. So during the 90s I started pulling for them too seeing the Giants are NJ's team.
Whats left of my family, who live on Long Island, follow the Jets/Mets/Islanders, because they hate the city fans Yanks/G-Men/Rangers. The Jets more now b/c of how hard I pull for em.

So it sort of depends where you live in NYC and how close you are to people in your family.

1/11/2006 3:38:50 PM

GOD I miss New York. I'm watching the Rangers game and in the last 5 minutes I've heard two CLEALY distinguishable "BULL SHIT" and "ASS HOLE" chants directed at the refs...

Fun stuff...

1/12/2006 10:35:58 PM