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October 15, 2009

What does your favorite NFC North team say about you?

What does your favorite NFC North Team say about you?

Detroit Lions- Life was not supposed to be this unfair. Your house was just foreclosed on, the flashy Ford Taurus you bought 10 years ago is now a rusted piece of crap and you would do anything to move to somewhere better like Cleveland. College was never a thought for you. Had it been, you would be rooting for Michigan, Michigan St or any of the directional schools and not give two sh*ts about the Lions. If you had been able to make it out of state you would have dumped the Lions and adopted that city’s team.

Green Bay Packers- Oh cripes you hate those simple yokels from Minnesota. The greatest vacation you took as a kid was to Chicago to watch the Brewers play the White Sox. One of your family trips to Mount Rushmore / Wall Drug is second. Your favorite clothes are sweats and you would have been into Zubaz if they had not come out of Minnesota. Your favorite college basketball team is Duke. Wisconsin sucked when you were growing up, so you jumped on Duke’s bandwagon. Of course you only care about basketball at tournament time, at any other time it interferes with a hunting season. You are 50 lbs overweight.

Chicago Bears- The world revolves around you, your team and your city. You were born there and you will die there. Why would anyone want to live anywhere else? Regardless of being white collar or blue collar you and your friends are loud and obnoxious. You can win any argument with a reference to the Bulls 6 titles or the 85 Bears. If you actually live in the city of Chicago, you think that suburban people are posers. If you live in the city you actually like Old Style, but if you live in the suburbs you just drink it to look cool. If you are Italian you want people to think that you are connected.

Minnesota Vikings- The Vikings, like a cold Minnesota winter, have built your character and made you stronger. You are not as much of a loud mouth as the other fans in the NFC North, but you hate them as much as they hate you. You really hate those Wisconsin pecker heads that have come over for jobs. If you could break out of your Minnesota nice mold, you would slap the fat b*tch from HR that wears her Favre jersey on casual Fridays. You enjoy the fact that people think the state is full of hicks. The perception keeps them out so that you can enjoy the high standard of living without having to share. After a trip to Chicago, you really would like to have a good slice of Pizza; Davanni’s just does not cut it anymore. While you act like you will not be disappointed when the Vikings let you down, you really believe that this will be your year every year.

4 Comments:

Blogger LH said...

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October 16, 2009 at 11:31 AM

 
Blogger LH said...

Does anybody else miss Tampa Bay from the NFC Central?

I know it doesn't make sense from a geographic pespective, but I miss having a fifth team...

Loved the Bears' fan description- especially the "Old Style" bit. It is articles like this that make me appreciate the Vikings even though we've lost 4 superbowls and have a penchant for the 9-7 or 10-6 recprds. I mean at least the Lions aren't our team... how much would that suck?

Couple of big college football games this weekend: Red Rivalry game down in TX, USC-NotreDame, Alabame-South Carolina, Gophers-Penn State, Iowa-Wisconsin... oh boy!

October 16, 2009 at 11:33 AM

 
Blogger BG said...

RTS - brilliant! Pretty spot-on. Bears fans think they are entitled to a good team, when in reality, the Bears have stunk the majority of the last 25 years. Also loved the family vacation to Chicago bit...so true.

Very bummed to be missing the day in college ball. It'll be middle of the night here in Hong Kong, but at least I'm finally heading home and will make it in time for Vikes-Ravens. What do you wanna bet that Ray Lewis and the Ravens D get healthy this week...ugh. I'm scared.

October 17, 2009 at 2:06 AM

 
Blogger Jan said...

Yes, I'm back. I think BG should move to Asia and I should move to Europe for the rest of this football season considering our 6-0 record.

RTS - where did you get that? Great stuff. The "you would slap the fat b*tch from HR that wears her Favre jersey on casual Fridays" could never have been more true at my last job. Not sure if I had mentioned this but there was a Puckers fan who had a wooden plague on his desk with an inscription in a piece of marble of some Vince Lombardi speech next to which was a 12 inch miniature Lombardi statue.

October 20, 2009 at 4:28 PM

 

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