One should determine a favorite team based on their personal preferences, not those of others, in my opinion. If you want a perennial powerhouse, pick the Colts or Patriots. :D

since its in SD and its the only NFL team here then its the chargers. but in 2 or 3 yrs there’s gonna be an NFL team in LA. let’s wait and see

My hometown team. :)

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Of course I’d say that living in NY lol. The Lakers are the only team I like out of state, but I’ve loved them all my life.

Seriously though, the Giants are a much better team to root for than the Jets. I hate the Jets. Not as much as I hate the Red Sox and Celtics, but I do hate the Jets very much.

mostly because they beat the ‘greatest team ever’ patriots in the super bowl and i fucking hate boston and every team associated with the city.

then you can commit to it and become and LA fan all around.

…ugh… I hate both the Jets and Giants…….

I was in the same position as you given LA doesn’t have a football team, I finally just chose the Chargers because I went to college in San Diego. They play a really entertaining style of football even if they aren’t always winning. The Jets and Giants are far to boring for my liking….

If you are on the east coast, I would go with the Philadelphia Eagles, they too are also a very entertaining, consistently in the playoff mix…. plus you get the added bonus of hating the Giants and Cowboys, two very annoying over-rated franchises.

so you can choose whatever you like. I do advise you to avoid the Raiders and Browns.

Have fun with it!

I was a fan because Culpepper to Moss was so BEAST back in the early part of this decade.

Its your choice

I’m ambivalent.

Not just because we’re finally a Super Bowl contender. If you ever make it to a game here in Cincy you get to paint your whole body orange and black and play cornhole (not a perverted thing, that’s actually a game in the Midwest) in the freezing weather while proudly yelling “WHO DEY?!?!?”

Being a Bengals fan is the best.

I like the New York option for several reasons. First, because New York is also home to the Yankees and Knicks — two teams which, like them or not, either currently are or have often been in the past very similar to the Lakers. That is, big markets, frequent winners, willing to pay to win, and hated for it. Second, because (in large part because of the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry) New York hates Boston… and as Lakers fans, that’s something we take seriously. In choosing between New York teams, you might consider trying to get a sense of which team and/or team’s fanbase is more passionate in its hatred of the loathsome city of Boston and all of its vile sports franchises. Whichever team and/or fanbase hates them more, go with that one.

New York teams provide you with two good reasons to pledge your loyalty to them: Local ties, and common rooting interests with your already existing sports loyalties. If you’re not going to make your selection based on one or both of those reasons, I can think of two other valid reasons: (1) one more more players that you particularly appreciate, which is how many people have become Lakers fans over the years (Magic, Shaq, Kobe, etc.); or (2) the quality of the franchise itself, by which I mean, your appraisal of management, their desire to win and willingness to bankroll said desire, their ability to make smart decisions and effectively manage their organization (to use basketball examples, think Lakers or Thunder or Spurs versus Isaiah Thomas era Knicks or current T-Wolves). Honestly, the latter may be the most genuine, mature, and intelligent reason to choose any franchise, in a context in which no other factors appear to affect your loyalties.

Of course, the other option is to simply throw your lot in with a team that is winning right now, and looks likely to contend for the foreseeable future. It’s my least favorite option, as it’s fairly short-sighted. Such an approach might have led a 60s-era basketball fan with no attachments to become a fan of the Celtics, only to suffer half a century of irrelevance, with only an all-too-brief respite from such misery during the Bird years (and even that mitigated by the greater overall success your hated rivals, the Lakers, were experiencing). Or it might have led someone in your shoes three years ago to back the “Big Three” Celtics, certain that they would dominate for years… only to realize this year that they were a one-and-done team. It’s also just a fairly shallow way of approaching things.

That said, it is, as it has always been, my opinion that there is no such thing as a wrong reason to pledge loyalty, as a fan, to any team — so long as your loyalty to that team remains true through thick and thin, regardless of how they fare down the road. As such, I don’t consider a bandwagon fan to be one who becomes a fan of a team because they are winning. By my definition, a bandwagon fan is someone who abandons another team that is not winning in favor of one that is (there’s a huge difference — you’re coming at this with no previous football loyalties, whereas new Heat fans who used to root for other teams are betraying old loyalties simply because their new favorite team will win more, or is more popular), or one who becomes a fan of a team when they are doing well, only to bail when they later struggle… and then to return when “their” team once again returns to relevance. Those are bandwagon fans — not the guy who forms his initial loyalties on the basis of current success, but then stays true to the team he has become a fan of through thick and thin.

Those would be the guidelines I would use for selecting an NFL franchise to back. Hope it helps.

because they…well they’re not doing much right now. we gotta flashy WR! and a controversial QB! Just not the Cowboys or Giants. unless you want to be a giant douche. then go be a Cowboys fan.

That guy with the M-16 is the control tower, the QB. Youchi Hiruma. He uses lots of mind games, trick plays, blackmails, and intimidations (as the M-16 represents) to help their team. A really smart, cunning interesting character.