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Curious Question - If not the Phins then who?

Discussion in 'Miami Dolphins Forum' started by Galant, Oct 23, 2016.

  1. Galant

    Galant Love - Unity - Sacrifice - Eternity

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    You wake up one morning and the past has changed - the one difference - the Dolphins have never existed, no-one, including you, has any memory of them. Everything else is the same and you still love football but support another team. Which one?#

    I'm still mulling it over but I think I'd have to go either Steelers, Packers or maybe Cowboys purely because I always trend towards classics and work ethic.

    It comes to mind I think because this is the first season I'm trying to follow more than just the Dolphins and with that I started to wonder who else I might relate to.

    Dumb question, I know, but just a bit of fun!
     
  2. KeyFin

    KeyFin Well-Known Member

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    I live in the Carolinas so that's pretty easy- go Panthers!

    If this scenario still had me hating the AFC East for no particular reason though, then I guess I'd be a Bills fan. I guess I hate them the least out of our division.
     
  3. number21

    number21 Active Member

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    I'm not sure. I really got into football because of the dolphins but for the sake of discussion, I would go with the packers.
     
  4. GISH

    GISH ~mUST wARN oTHERS~

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    Very tough choice. Either Steelers, Packers, Chiefs, Ravens, or Colts. In no particular order. But its hard to revert to the mindset I was in when I became a Dolphins fan. Retrospect tells me to choose a team that has been successful over the past 2 decades.
     
  5. KeyFin

    KeyFin Well-Known Member

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    I wonder if the first person to say "Go Pats" is going to get banned. Cause even if it was a two-team league, I'd still hate them just as much.
     
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  6. ripper1961

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    I've been a fan since induction so I would probably be watching women's volleyball.
     
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  7. GreysonWinfield

    GreysonWinfield Release The Hounds

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    Skins. My great grandmother was a fan and referred to them as "her boys"
     
  8. Not So Fast

    Not So Fast Well-Known Member

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    Tampa or Jacksonville. They are the two closest teams to me after the Fins.
     
  9. DolphinGreg

    DolphinGreg Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Oh, I'm a Pats fan right now, dude!

    First off, I love Bill Belichick. To me, he's the best coach going. I also always preferred Tom Brady over Peyton Manning so I'd happily roll with Tom Terrific. Then you have Gronk who's just a party. He's over there taking photos with porn stars.

    And the whole thing will trolling the NFL...it's great. You're spying on other teams. Your de-flating balls. You're taking these ****ty little white dudes and making them into productive WRs.

    Slimy, sleezy owner that thinks he's above the rules and tries to battle the Commish in court. F'ing love it!

    Oh...it's a trolls dream. I love that the Pats are all about winning football games. Is LaGarrette Blount a moron who slugged someone? Yeah...well he can he eat clock at the end of games? Okay, so sign him.

    You just have to love the Pats. I mean, if you just wanted to enjoy your weekends by watching your team win, you'd go with the Pats every time.


    I'll say this much, if you don't LOVE what the Pats are about, you take football WAAAAAY to seriously. The only downside is you'd never get the sound of that damn Boston accent out of your head. That's legitimately the worst accent in the world.

    Oh, and apparently the whole country hates you but that's mostly out of jealously so it's even better. The only thing better than winning is cheating and having your opponent know you cheated...HAHAHAH. That's the best. :)
     
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  10. Destroyer

    Destroyer There for every play.

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    I'd have to go with the Chiefs, Vikings or Seahawks.
     
  11. adamprez2003

    adamprez2003 Senior Member

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    GIANTS. No one told me when I was three that you are supposed to pick a team from your city. I was watching the Jets vs Dolphins at my grandma's house. thank god the jets were wearing their puke green uniforms and the dolphins had their all white uniforms. i chose the dolphins as my football team right there and then the dolphins won the game. I was a dolphin fan for life at that point
     
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  12. Unlucky 13

    Unlucky 13 Team Raheem Club Member

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    I grew up 45 miles from Pittsburgh, where the world revolves around the Steelers, so there's really no need to even think about it.

    The reason I'm not a Steeler fan is that my dad doesn't like sports, and I was left to fend for myself in that regard with no bias pulling me in a direction. When I was seven years old, watching the Super Bowl at a relatives house after the 84 season, I decided that I was pulling for the Dolphins because I like the animal and aqua was my favorite color. It seemed a perfect fit. Soon after, my mom went out and bought me a Dallas Cowboys shirt (why Dallas, I don't know). I clearly remember looking her in the eye, and telling her, "No, Mom, I'm a Dolphins fan!" She gave me a look, but went and exchanged it for a Miami shirt instead. Every school picture from that point on, I'm the kid in West Virginia wearing Miami gear.

    So by the time I reached Junior High and really started to be a passionate sports fan, when all the other kids were obsessed with the Black and Gold that their dads and uncles cheered for, I already had years of Aqua blood in my veins. No one understood, and to this day, people try to convert me.
     
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  13. dolphin25

    dolphin25 Well-Known Member

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    Seahawks easily. They have players I wanted us to draft. but if you have to go all the way back to the 70's when I chose the Dolphins, it might have been the Cowboys with Staubach.
     
  14. Claymore95

    Claymore95 Working on it... Club Member

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    Lions, Barry Sanders was my second favourite player when I chose to support the Dolphins, so it would have been a no-brainer that I would have become a Lions fan...and suffered as much heartache as I have as a Dolphins fan!
     
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  15. Vinny Fins

    Vinny Fins Feisty Brooklyn dolfan ️‍

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  16. Unlucky 13

    Unlucky 13 Team Raheem Club Member

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    Sanders is easily my favorite non-Dolphin of all time as well. There are very few players that I've ever been passionate fans of, but he is one. Such an amazing man to watch play, and no one else like him. Had I made a choice as to who my team was in the 90s, it likely would have been the Lions too.
     
  17. Rick 1966

    Rick 1966 Professional Hipshooter

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    I live in the Tampa Bay area, but I've never really liked the Bucs. I think it would be the Broncos. I've liked them since Elway was the QB, and I root for them when we don't make the playoffs. (So, for the last 8 years basically.)
     
  18. djphinfan

    djphinfan Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    No idea really, have no feelings for any other team in any other sport...weird.
     
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  19. jw3102

    jw3102 season ticket holder

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    I was born in Maryland and was a Baltimore Colts fans growing up. In fact, even though I started going to Dolphin games in 1966, I remained a Colts fan until Shula came to Miami. As the older Colts players like Unitas, Berry, and Moore retired or left the Colts, my interest in the Colts diminished and my loyalty for the Dolphins continued to grow.

    Once the Colts left Baltimore, I had zero interest in them anymore. I imagine if the Dolphins has never become an organization, I would have remained a Colts fan until they left Baltimore and then become a Ravens fans once they moved to Baltimore.

    The reality though is I can't imagine a world where the Dolphins weren't part of my past. Because prior to moving to Maui, I was a season ticket holder for over 40 years and attended well over 300 home and away games over the years. So if the Dolphins had never come to Miami, not only would it have changed my rooting habits over the years. It would have changed one of my life's most importance experiences since 1966.
     
  20. Tin Indian

    Tin Indian Rockin' The Bottom End Club Member

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    Packers. Always been my second favorite team. Maybe the Giants, I think every Dolphins fan is a closet Giants fan, or at least should be - LOL!
     
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  21. btfu149

    btfu149 Well-Known Member

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    Kinda tough, I guess the Texans after living in Houston for the past 5 years (until 2 months ago). Watching Osweiler is painful though, I told every Texans fan who'd listen that he'd be a bust, the guy put up worse numbers with that loaded Denver team than Hoyer did with Houston last year. Of course I always root for the Saints as long as they aren't playing the Dolphins OR their result doesn't hurt the Dolphins as long as Brees is there.
     
  22. Bpk

    Bpk Premium Member Luxury Box

    I don't know because loving the Phins was not a decision. It happened TO me, if that makes sense.

    So it'd have to be like that again.
     
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  23. P h i N s A N i T y

    P h i N s A N i T y My Porpoise in Life

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    (If not America, than where?) ..... I was born in the USA. I wouldn't have been born anywhere else. :yes:

    In my family if you weren't a dolphin fan...you didnt watch football. "Sorry lil bro, ~all goin for the home team... You can stay home on our game trips to S.Florida, buddy! "
     
  24. rafael

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    I was born in Miami so I was indoctrinated to the Dolphins early. But if there were no team in Miami I may have been a Seahawks' fan. I was a big Jim Zorn/Steve Largent fan as a kid. And I liked their helmet and the silver/green combo (although I don't care for for the neon version they have now).
     
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  25. JDelenne

    JDelenne Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    A fun question to think about. It's hard to say for sure but I think I would have ended up a Packers fan or Patriots fan. When I was a kid I had a Farve jersey, I don't really know why I had it because I was a Dolphins fan at then time but I did dress up as Farve for Halloween one year. I have a lot of family from Boston, my step father and uncle were both born there and most of that side of my family is Pats fans so it would have been convenient to root for them growing up as well.
     
  26. MikeHoncho

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    Patriots









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  27. argos31

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    First NFL football game I ever watched was Dolphins and Browns, Marino vs Kosar (and I fell in love with Dan Marino at age 6). So, probably the Browns or the Bills (since they are often broadcast in the Toronto area), thankfully I'm a Dolphins fan and it could be worse
     
  28. mor911

    mor911 pooping

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    I cant tell if you're for real or making fun of the pats. Either way I laughed my *** off.
     
  29. Unlucky 13

    Unlucky 13 Team Raheem Club Member

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    I'm not a believer in second-favorite teams in a pro sport, but I've always been fond of the Mariners and wished them well over in the AL (I'm a Cubs fan). I love their colors and uniform, and I think that their aqua/teal alternate jersey, mixed with their blue, is absolutely beautiful. I've also long been intrigued by the beauty and weather of the Pac NW.
     
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  30. Fin D

    Fin D Sigh

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    I probably would no longer be into football.

    In all honesty, I'd devote all my sports caring/watching time to American Ninja Warrior, which is easily the best sport on the planet.

    Yes, i'm serious.
     
  31. btfu149

    btfu149 Well-Known Member

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    Please, regular Ninja Warrior is so much better, I always thought it was hilarious to have the guy screaming in Japanese having no idea what they were saying while having people dressed like whatever their profession was try to scale Mt. Madoriyama.
     
  32. Fin D

    Fin D Sigh

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    Yeah I disagree. The format ANW uses, lends itself to be much more sort like. Each season lasts multiple weeks like a typical sports season.
     
  33. danmarino

    danmarino Tua is H1M! Club Member

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    Broncos. I have an Uncle that was more like a Dad to me and he's an insane Broncos fan. I was born and raised in FL so I've always liked the Dolphins, but I've always had a soft spot in my heart for the Broncos because of my Uncle.
     
  34. Unlucky 13

    Unlucky 13 Team Raheem Club Member

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    If the Fins were to fold, and not exist anymore? Then that might be my feeling as well. It would be like a death of someone close to me. It would feel like a bye week all season long.
     
  35. Rex Deus

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    I should probably have been a 49ers fan anyway (growing up in England, they were on TV just as much as the Fins plus my grandparents had been to SF and bought me some stuff).

    So, either them or one of the older, traditional teams like the Bears or the Giants.
     
  36. Rocky Raccoon

    Rocky Raccoon Greasepaint Ghost Staff Member

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    My brother asked a similar question to me, but said if the Dolphins were contracted who would I be a fan of. In that scenario I wouldn't be able to pick a new team. I'd probably still watch for gambling purposes (when I say gambling, I mean more survivor leagues/picks leagues) but no way I could root for a new team.

    In this scenario? Hard to say. My dad is a big Giants fan and my cousin and uncle, who I was close to when I was younger and getting into sports, are huge Raiders fans. It'd probably be one of those two.
     
  37. MonstBlitz

    MonstBlitz Nobody's Fart Catcher

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    If I woke up one day and Miami never existed, I'd want to cheer for the home team. That said, even though I live in the D.C. Metro area, I still consider myself a Western New Yorker and still spend plenty of time there and even own more property there. So in that respect, I think I'd probably cheer for the Bills.

    Plus, it would be much less shock to my system going from cheering from 1 mediocre team right into another, equally mediocre team.
     
  38. Finster

    Finster Finsterious Finologist

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    Steelers would be my "choice", but if the Dolphins never were, it's hard to say what would have happened, my father was not a football fan, my best friend was a Dolphins fan.

    My love of playing football pre-dates my love of watching, one sunday it started raining so I went inside with my friend and watched the Dolphins at his house. I was like the only kid who didn't have a team, and even though I was very young (9), I had a debate going on in my head about choosing a team.

    1st off, NJ did not have a team, and that really sucked, I wanted to root for a NJ team, and at the time, no team even played in NJ, not that that would have mattered.

    So here I was, I loved football, and I needed a team to root for and I was, a free agent, lol, prior to free agency.

    My father was in jump school when I was born, so I was born at the hospital in Ft Benning Ga, so the Falcons were on my short list.

    My cousin lived about 25 mins away in Staten Island NY, I saw him pretty often and we were good friends besides being cousins, him and his father were Jets fans, so believe it or not, the steJ were a possibility.

    My best friend was a Dolphins fan, his father was from Miami, the Dolphins were a very good team, but even at a young age, that didn't mean much to me, I wanted a team I could root for for the rest of my life, the team I picked was going to be MY team.

    Then there was that rainy day when I watched the Dolphins, and I saw Larry Czonka, it was like watching a super hero to me, I had never liked watching football that much, all it did is make me go and grab the football and get antsy about playing, I'd rather play catch in the rain then watch it on TV.

    This was the first time I actually got into watching a game, bam, crash, wham, bash, it was like they had The Thing playing RB, what a brute, he really seemed to be stronger than any two men on the field, you could see the defenders flinching at taking him head on, and they could've termed the phrase from Czonka, because that's how you got him, helmet lowered, head on, woof, what a friggin battering ram he was. Then he takes his helmet off, and he actually looks like The Thing, hello first man crush.

    [video=youtube;nej3YhscLjI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nej3YhscLjI[/video]
     
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  39. KeyFin

    KeyFin Well-Known Member

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    Me either. My local team (Panthers) went to the Super Bowl last season, yet I was rooting for Manning for the storybook ending. I can't have a 2nd favorite...it just doesn't work that way.
     
  40. Bumrush

    Bumrush Stable Genius Club Member

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    This would be a very difficult decision for me. It would be a toss up between the Bills, Jets or Patriots.
     
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