How did you pick your favorite team? (any sport)

[Lara Emily]

Originally Posted by BCWWF The American teams I support are my hometown teams. The only real reasons why somebody doesn't support their hometown teams are: 1. They have been grandfathered into another team through their parents or something similar 2. They like to be "elitist", and don't like the local team because everybody else does. There are some secondary reasons, too: A. They don't live in an area that automatically associates with a pro team (ie rural cities) B. They have moved a lot, and don't affiliate themselves with any city. ---- I would like to say that most people fit into mold No. 2. Requiem is probably 2 (40 percent), A (40 percent), and B. (20 percent).

Other reason would be they became a fan of a team before their hometown got a team and stuck with them after that. Which happened in my case, I became a Pens fans before Ottawa got an NHL team and stuck with the Pens after.