Sorry for the misleading title. This does not have anything to do with kids.
You see, my favorite sports teams have been set in stone for many years now. I know where my allegiances lie and those will not be changing anytime soon. New York Yankees in major league baseball, Tennessee Titans in the NFL, and University of Tennessee Volunteers in college sports.
However, the wild card has always been the NBA. I have never had a favorite NBA team. I have gone through cycles of really liking several players (Michael Jordan, Penny Hardaway, etc), thus liking those players teams during those times. I even went through a phase were my favorite NBA team was whoever the Lakers were playing.
Well, all that is changing. I am officially adopting a NBA team. Ladies and Gentleman, the Yankees, Titans, Vols, and I proudly welcome the Oklahoma City Thunder into the Cromer family of favorite sports teams.
Here’s why I am adopting the Oklahoma City Thunder as my favorite team…
- I live in Oklahoma City. It’s time to settle in and embrace OKC.
- They are a young, developing team that is fun to watch.
- They are not great right now, so when they are in the future, I look like a “true” fan that stuck through the hard times to get to the good times.
- Awesome name (Thunder). My favorite fantasy sports team name that I use is “Sons of Thunder” – Biblical and awesome sounding.
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What do you think of my recent adoption? Good move? Bad move?
Have you adopted any new sports teams recently?
I like it. Wish you were a Mavs fan but hey it’s all good. And I have a dilemma in my college football department that I think will turn into a Brian Cromer-esque holdout.
Never could quite by into the Mavs the whole time I was in TX. Just couldn’t do it.
Sorry about the college football drama. OU not cutting it anymore in Alford-world?
SPURS ALL THE WAY!
Brian–
When I started dating Nicole, I adopted the Chicago Bears as my NFL team. I really don’t follow the NFL much, but there is a funny story involved with this. Nicole was born on Superbowl Sunday in 1986 when the Bears won their last Superbowl. So, I am a Bears fan.
That’s a good favorite sports team adoption story. Classic.
GOOD CHOICE, KIRSTEN. SPURS ALL THE WAY!!! (BRIAN’S GRANDMOTHER IS A MAJOR SPURS FAN.) Since Nashville has a professional hockey team, I would like to say that I am a Nashville Predators fan–but I can’t. I don’t care much for hockey. But I love my TENNESSEE TITANS!!! And the Atlanta Braves are my favorite baseball team (the Yankees are my 2nd favorite team.) And I am becoming a really big fan of Vanderbilt basketball (because of Brian’s sister, Lesley). But I will always love the UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS TIGERS basketball team!!!
Well I’m not necessarily a Sonner fan, just a longhorn hater in turn I have the dilemma. OU or someone else…