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SEC (It just means more.. even its losses are wins)

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Zurp said:
Of course, some just wanted to be asses. These guys were Steelers fans on fall Sundays, A's fans in 1990, *ichigan fans on fall Saturdays, Hoosiers fans in the winter, and who the fuck cares who they rooted for in the summer.
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These guys came from places like Maumee, Urbana, Bellbrook, Kings, and Hilliard that I knew. All were TTUN fans to be "different" and rooted for Raiders, Steelers, or Cowboys on Sundays. The guy from Maumee at least was an Indians fan but everyone else rooted for the who's who of 80s sports.
 
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Seems to me depends on the route most people took to get there. Mecca has many roads ya know. I came from NW Cincinnati area (Middletown) so no Cleveland ties for me at all. The odd team out was the Dolphins but I like the Bengals winning. My grandparents got me liking the Dolphins as a kid. Everything is Buckeye and the rest is something to do until the Buckeyes play.
 
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Bestbuck36 said:
Seems to me depends on the route most people took to get there. Mecca has many roads ya know. I came from NW Cincinnati area (Middletown) so no Cleveland ties for me at all. The odd team out was the Dolphins but I like the Bengals winning. My grandparents got me liking the Dolphins as a kid. Everything is Buckeye and the rest is something to do until the Buckeyes play.
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1. I have family that has lived in Middletown since forever. I think my grandparents moved there in about 1940 and about half of their descendants still live in the area. I like visiting that area.
2. My uncle (one of those now in Middletown) grew up somewhat close to there, and he said he grew up a Browns fan. There were no Bengals back then. When the Bengals started, his brothers and friends stayed Browns fans, but he became a Bengals fan. Now that I think of it, my step-father also grew up in western/southwestern Ohio, and he stayed a Browns fan. He may have already been in Columbus, by then.
3. I think that I, like probably most of us here, would/could say, "Go Bucks!" before I even knew what football was. And that's because of family. It had nothing to do with Columbus, but it was pretty nice growing up in a town that supported my team. But if I had grown up in Indianapolis or Nashville or Dallas or Anchorage or whatever, I think I still would have been a Buckeye fan.
4. You make a good point about people who have "strange" ties to a team. And if someone grows up in Columbus and is a *ichigan fan, I'm sure he has a great explanation. Didn't the Borens grow up in Columbus as *ichigan fans? Their father played for those weirdos. But I'm referring to the rather large group of friends who were all *ichigan fans. Maybe one had parents who went to *ichigan, and that's why he's a fan of those chumps. But what about the next guy and the next guy and the next guy? Or what about when there was magically a bunch of people who were Miami (Florida) fans? I remember the one guy jumping in and said, "Those guys are all on steroids." The response was, "You're probably a Notre Dame fan." Ha - like, if you aren't a fan of this big team that has no ties to where we actually are, you must be a fan of the next big team that has no ties to where we actually are."
5. I'm rambling. Time to stop.
 
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Zurp said:
1. I have family that has lived in Middletown since forever. I think my grandparents moved there in about 1940 and about half of their descendants still live in the area. I like visiting that area.
2. My uncle (one of those now in Middletown) grew up somewhat close to there, and he said he grew up a Browns fan. There were no Bengals back then. When the Bengals started, his brothers and friends stayed Browns fans, but he became a Bengals fan. Now that I think of it, my step-father also grew up in western/southwestern Ohio, and he stayed a Browns fan. He may have already been in Columbus, by then.
3. I think that I, like probably most of us here, would/could say, "Go Bucks!" before I even knew what football was. And that's because of family. It had nothing to do with Columbus, but it was pretty nice growing up in a town that supported my team. But if I had grown up in Indianapolis or Nashville or Dallas or Anchorage or whatever, I think I still would have been a Buckeye fan.
4. You make a good point about people who have "strange" ties to a team. And if someone grows up in Columbus and is a *ichigan fan, I'm sure he has a great explanation. Didn't the Borens grow up in Columbus as *ichigan fans? Their father played for those weirdos. But I'm referring to the rather large group of friends who were all *ichigan fans. Maybe one had parents who went to *ichigan, and that's why he's a fan of those chumps. But what about the next guy and the next guy and the next guy? Or what about when there was magically a bunch of people who were Miami (Florida) fans? I remember the one guy jumping in and said, "Those guys are all on steroids." The response was, "You're probably a Notre Dame fan." Ha - like, if you aren't a fan of this big team that has no ties to where we actually are, you must be a fan of the next big team that has no ties to where we actually are."
5. I'm rambling. Time to stop.
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Sounds like your family is like a lot of families that populated Middletown. In the 40s and 50s American Rolling Mill Co. (ARMCO) went down into the hills of eastern KY and recruited entire families to Middletown. GM and Champion Paper did similar recruitment for the Hamilton/Fairfield area of Butler Co. That entire county is filled with people with Hillbilly roots. I grew up in Fairfield Twp. when it was all corn fields. My wife and I both come from those Hillbilly roots.
Are you my long lost cousin? :rofl:
 
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buckeyeintn said:
Sounds like your family is like a lot of families that populated Middletown. In the 40s and 50s American Rolling Mill Co. (ARMCO) went down into the hills of eastern KY and recruited entire families to Middletown. GM and Champion Paper did similar recruitment for the Hamilton/Fairfield area of Butler Co. That entire county is filled with people with Hillbilly roots. I grew up in Fairfield Twp. when it was all corn fields. My wife and I both come from those Hillbilly roots.
Are you my long lost cousin? :rofl:
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Breathitt County, KY

Edit: Sorry it got off topic. Fuck TTUN or whatever this thread is about.
 
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buckeyeintn said:
Sounds like your family is like a lot of families that populated Middletown. In the 40s and 50s American Rolling Mill Co. (ARMCO) went down into the hills of eastern KY and recruited entire families to Middletown. GM and Champion Paper did similar recruitment for the Hamilton/Fairfield area of Butler Co. That entire county is filled with people with Hillbilly roots. I grew up in Fairfield Twp. when it was all corn fields. My wife and I both come from those Hillbilly roots.
Are you my long lost cousin? :rofl:
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ARMCO - That's who he worked for.
I doubt I have any family from Kentucky. I think my grandfather came from Cleveland and went to Ohio University before going to work for ARMCO. I think he still has nieces in NE Ohio.
 
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Mike80 said:
I don't know - It tends to be more of a Cleveland-oriented town during baseball season unless the Reds are really good or the Indians really bad, in which case it's more or less neutral.
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The attachment to Pittsburgh is historical. For a long time, the Bluebirds and then the Jets were the Pirates top farm club. Galbraith owned a pretty big piece of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
I loved going to games at Cooper Stadium during spring quarter. 2 bucks got you a box seat. Hot dogs were a fifty cents and beer was a dollar and a quarter.

The Pirates would come into town early in the season for an exhibition game. Once watched as Bob Robertson - who would soon make it up to the parent club - drilled a single into deep right. He made a wide turn at first and then took his eyes off the ball and strolled back toward first. Clemente picked up the ball and made an incredible throw to pick him off. Robertson couldn't believe what happened.

I haven't been back since the Yankees bought the team and renamed them the Clippers, but I understand the new stadium is a great place to watch a game.
 
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Zurp said:
1. I have family that has lived in Middletown since forever. I think my grandparents moved there in about 1940 and about half of their descendants still live in the area. I like visiting that area.
2. My uncle (one of those now in Middletown) grew up somewhat close to there, and he said he grew up a Browns fan. There were no Bengals back then. When the Bengals started, his brothers and friends stayed Browns fans, but he became a Bengals fan. Now that I think of it, my step-father also grew up in western/southwestern Ohio, and he stayed a Browns fan. He may have already been in Columbus, by then.
3. I think that I, like probably most of us here, would/could say, "Go Bucks!" before I even knew what football was. And that's because of family. It had nothing to do with Columbus, but it was pretty nice growing up in a town that supported my team. But if I had grown up in Indianapolis or Nashville or Dallas or Anchorage or whatever, I think I still would have been a Buckeye fan.
4. You make a good point about people who have "strange" ties to a team. And if someone grows up in Columbus and is a *ichigan fan, I'm sure he has a great explanation. Didn't the Borens grow up in Columbus as *ichigan fans? Their father played for those weirdos. But I'm referring to the rather large group of friends who were all *ichigan fans. Maybe one had parents who went to *ichigan, and that's why he's a fan of those chumps. But what about the next guy and the next guy and the next guy? Or what about when there was magically a bunch of people who were Miami (Florida) fans? I remember the one guy jumping in and said, "Those guys are all on steroids." The response was, "You're probably a Notre Dame fan." Ha - like, if you aren't a fan of this big team that has no ties to where we actually are, you must be a fan of the next big team that has no ties to where we actually are."
5. I'm rambling. Time to stop.
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Recruiting in the South, especially in Appalachia, began in the 30s. My dad and uncles bitched about the hillbillies that were shipped to Dayton to break the strikes in GM factories. Columbus recruited a lot of rednecks for police - the start of a long running feud between the university and the cops.
 
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The roots go even deeper than the 30s and explain a good deal of the difference between Cleveland - primarily settled by families from Connecticut and other New England states as part of the Western Reserve and later by Mennonites from Germany - and Cincinnati, settled mostly by people from Virginia and Maryland.
 
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