Are sports team allegiances in your city/area culturally, geographically or generationally divided ?

[Edgelord]

I'm sure some teams draw fans based on long standing reputations. Back in the day if you liked tough hockey you would go with the Flyers or Boston, if you liked offense you liked the Oilers, if you were a sucker for rooting for the underdog,(70's-92) you became a Leafs fan

 

[jackjohnson]

Colorado is all about the broncos

Yep they are very nice cars. I drive a landcruiser myself so am a landcruiser guy.

 

[jackjohnson]

Geographically:

If you’re from the Island , you’re and Islanders fan.

Culturally:

If you are dirtbag , you’re a Devils fan.

Everyone else is a Rangers fan.

Saw a lot of dirt bags in Czech republic

 

[lionsDen]

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Yep they are very nice cars. I drive a landcruiser myself so am a landcruiser guy.

Asian engineering is simplistic and tech friendly. Americans decided to follow the European model and its shit.

 

[Tie Domi Esquire]

Toronto has been trying to cultivate the next generation of fans that's why they run their operation like a boyband instead of a hockey team. And it's working.

 

[Oilslick941611]

I live in Ottawa, Montreal is 90 minutes east and Toronto is 5 hours southwest. Huge mix of Leafs and Habs fans in the older population and the younger crowd likes the sens. Understandable as people in thier 30s grew up with the sense being their team and over 40 is a mix of leaf and hab fans. Also Quebec is just across the river.

 

[kingsholygrail]

I don't think there's anything concrete about it. It depends on the team's history, I think.

 

[BB79]

Asian engineering is simplistic and tech friendly. Americans decided to follow the European model and its shit.

Japanese vehicles are the best (Toyota,Mazda) Korean is cheap garbage (Kia) European is expensive garbage

 

[JianYang]

I'm always shocked by how many people from Quebec like the Bruins.

I wonder if anglophone vs francophone has anything to do with it.

Boston has the largest non Canadian fanbase in Canada from a traditional sense, and it's not unique to Quebec. I see it in BC too.

I think Bobby Orr had alot to do with it, at least out west.

 

[Auston Marlander]

Japanese vehicles are the best (Toyota,Mazda) Korean is cheap garbage (Kia) European is expensive garbage

Hyundai, Kia, Genesis are not the Hyundai's of our parents. They consistently rank high in reliability ranking and offer a ton of value for your money.

Toyota has a reputation of reliability becuase they are so very slow at adopting new tech, so once they perfect something they just keep doing it. They also charge more than some others for that reliability. Honda is similar, but do seem to innovate a bit more.

Mazda are great cars for people who like to drive cars.

Not all eurocars are expensive, or garbage however many have started losing their way (Mercedes and to a lesser extent BMW)

 

[Goptor]

In big cities with many teams, its typically age divided. You have large groups of fans that were kids when the team is successful and then much smaller groups of fans from when the team was bad during their childhood/teens.

 

[Canadienna]

There are certainly cultural differences between attachment to hockey or another sport.

I don't think it's a coincidence that the loss of popularity of hockey in many big cities coincides with influxes of immigrants.

Between hockey teams, less so.

One totally anecdotal observation I have is a lot of BC indigenous people seem to cheer for the Oilers. No idea why, and it may just be coincidental/not representative of a larger trend.

 

[HisIceness]

In North Carolina there are still some Washington (NFL) holdovers from before when the Panthers were a thing. Nowhere near as many as say, 2000, but they still exist.

There are still a lot of Braves fans here too, although their "pull" isn't as strong as it was when they were on TBS.

Used to be, and to some extent still is, some joking banter between Raleigh and Charlotte when it comes to sports. Charlotte has the NBA/NFL which obviously is more popular than NHL but neither team is any good ATM and honestly never has been. The Hurricanes however have a championship and have been the only consistent team in the state for the past 5 years.