Have you experienced a championship as a fan of another team

[WheelsB10]

Michigan Football, Syracuse Basketball, NY Rangers, Yankees (grew up in Yankee house) SF Giants (my grandpa was a huge Giants fan from their days in NY). Still waiting to see the Bills and Knicks hoist their trophies...both will happen someday!

[K D]

Bills are the only team I follow. I'm a "Yankees fan" but they play 400 miles away and I don't follow them day in and day out like the Bills. It's different when it's your city. But even a Sabres championship won't do it for me. Nobody cares about hockey. It's like the 10th most popular sport behind Nascar and men's tennis so not interested. It's the Bills or bust for me!

[gregkash]

Florida State where I went to school, a couple years of ago, I live in SoCal now so I was able to go, that was very exciting. and Chelsea FC last year won the Premier League.

[Bad Things]

The New Zealand All Blacks are the two-time defending world cup champions. (RWC 2011 and 2015)

Apart from them, there's been nothing by suffering

 

Go you mighty All Blacks!

Edited December 19, 2015 by Bad Things

[chaccof]

I'm a 1982 graduate of NC State. Was in Chapel Hill, NC in '82 when Carolina won the NCAA which was cool to experience and then fortunate enough to be back at State the night they beat Houston in '83! It was awesome and I'll never forget it. I am pretty certain, being born and raised in WNY, that's why God won't let me live to see the Bills win a SB. I was at RDU airport with thousands of other fans when the team got back. Wasn't able to stay for the ceremony back on campus later that week.

[Hapless Bills Fan]

Bills fans only. Have you been to the mountaintop as a fan of another team? Or still waiting?

 

St Louis is a baseball town. I moved to St Louis in 1982. The people in the next apartment named their kitten "Andujar". I got the flick. Live in St Louis, love the Baseball Cardinals. So I became a baseball fan, having no home-town allegiance to lose.

 

It is possible, possible, I shame to admit it, that I might have converted and become a Rams fan during the "Greatest Show on Turf" years, but I was so pissed off at the way local sports writers covered the Bills during the 4 year Superbowl run and so disgusted at the way they drooled over the Rams as a "dynasty" and "unstoppable, maybe for a decade", that I just couldn't jump. I admit it, I laughed when NE beat them in 2002.

 

Green Bay is my NFC team.

[D. L. Hot-Flamethrower]

Yankees (many), Rangers '94, Syracuse hoops '03-04

[justnzane]

Just the Jays 92-93 for me as a fan.

As an athlete and coach, my teams have won quite a few times where we got to celebrate a ton. Even when we finished 4th in the nation for track at the D3 level, I celebrated with teammates.

That said, I'll have my ebb and flow coaching, but I'd be the guy streaking downtown if the Sabres win the cup de Lord Stanley, if the Bills were to win the Lombardi, I'd travel to North London to celebrate an EPL or champions league win if Tottenham were to manage that. I would love to enjoy a winning team as a fan in my adulthood some point soon.

[Talley56]

Duke b-ball but none of their championships were nearly as big as if the Bills ever win the SB or the O's win a WS.

[SinceThe70s]

Born and bred on Long Island.

 

Mets '86 and vague memories of '69.

 

Islanders Stanley Cup run.

 

My boys are growing up Bills/Mets/Islanders fans. Sometimes I wonder if this is a form of child abuse. Mets had an unexpected run this year and things are looking up for the Islanders. Really expected more from the Bills this year.

 

These long droughts are torture but I'll never turn my back on my teams unless they leave town.

 

Go Bills!

[reddogblitz]

1971 Dallas Cowboys

1977 Dallas Cowboys

1983 Philadelphia 76ers

2011 Dallas Mavericks

[judman]

Cuse hoops 03

 

AHL Utica Comets last year were on Calder Cup finals... lost, but cool.

[GottaRun]

Jays 92/93 but it would pale in comparison to the Bills winning. I was able to see 4 or 5 Jays games a year but the Bills have had me with seasons for 13 years. There's a bigger chunk of me sitting in Buffalo waiting for glory.

[Cynical]

ROLL TIDE ROLL!

 

Buffalo Bandits

[Wacka]

Fan of the San Jose Saber Cats- Arena Football Champs.

[BADOLBILZ]

Yankees......many

The U in football....many

Michigan hoops 1989 (The U didn't have a basketball program when I was a kid)

 

 

[stevestojan]

91% yes? !@#$ all of you then. Yankees??? Are you from the Bronx?

 

If you grew up in WNY, which apparently only 9% of this board did, until the Bills or Sabres win it all, nothing else matters.

 

When I saw this thread, I thought it would be boring. Now that I read it, I realize what a bunch of jokers are on this board.

Edited December 19, 2015 by stevestojan

[Bills fan since 87]

Devils 95, 00 and 03. Yankees 96, 98, 99, 00 and 09. Cuse hoops 03. A Bills Superbowl win would eclipse them all but that Cuse title and first Devils cup are very special to me.

Edited December 19, 2015 by Bills fan since 87

[PromoTheRobot]

USFL Philadelphia Stars.

[CNY315]

Syracuse Basketball '03

 

Chelsea Champions League 2012, EPL 2015