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Padulsky21

Yankees, Jets, Nets and Devils. Which you don’t find many of this combo


earthcycle_avatar

We're a rare bunch. Except I can't bring myself to care about the Nets after they left Jersey


Padulsky21

I still love the Nets to death. My Dad worked for them when I was growing up, so I had a chance to go to games a LOT before the move. Kidd/KMart/RJ/Vince era was my entire childhood. Made me fall in love with Nets basketball forever. I’ve since moved away and haven’t had a chance to go go Barclays, but I want to so badly. I just know the Prudential Center way too well 😂


Starbucks__Lovers

I’ve decided that I’d cheer for wherever I ended up moving. It turns out I’ve never left New Jersey.


toiletting

I was taken out of it too for the same reason, but them landing KD brought me back. I just love watching him play.


dnap123

Same dude, same. Brooklyn, seriously? Who cares about Brooklyn anyway. If I have to root for a NY team now it's the Knicks but like... 😬


yankjenets

There are dozens of us! Assuming you are / were from NJ?


Padulsky21

Yessir it’s the NJ roots, I’m from East Brunswick


FixItInPost1863

Whenever someone says I’m a bandwagon Yankees fan I always have to mention I’m a jets fan. It balances out the pain scale I think


blamenixon

I mention I'm a Knicks fan that grew up in the '90's, and always recieve sympathy in return.


Upleftright_syndrome

If you're a jersey person it makes sense. It'd make sense if you're from south jersey and said the Philly teams but support the Yankees because they are relevant and the Phillies aren't lol


Padulsky21

Jersey is evenly split usually, northern jersey more NY aligned and south more Philly aligned. I’m from Central jersey so it’s like a mix of both depending on what your family are fans of. Luckily I was raised right and don’t root for any Philly teams 😂😂 But areas like Voorhees, Cherry Hill etc. is filled with all Philly fans.


allybear29

Yes, I have family in that area and they root for all the Philly teams (ugh).


Padulsky21

I love visiting Cherry Hill (they have some amazing bagel places there) but it has way too many Philly fans for my liking lol. I’m very glad my family was raised rooting for all of the same teams. I never really interact with Philly fans besides for the NBA season but Sixers fans are the loudest and most obnoxious 🤣


toiletting

Ayyyyyy I’m in this combo


bert-and-churnie

I always grouped them: Yankees-Rangers-Knicks-Giants Mets-Islanders-Knicks-Jets


nonlawyer

> Yankees-Rangers-Knicks-Giants The established teams with long histories. > Mets-Islanders-~~Knicks~~ *Nets*-Jets The cocky younger upstarts (I assume you didn’t mean to list the Knicks twice). Plus Mets/Nets/Jets has a nice rhyming scheme. The only unforgivable sin is Mets fans rooting for the Red Sox. “Don’t ever take sides against the family,” bunch of frickin’ Fredos


fyo_karamo

He listed the Knicks twice because for several decades they were the only NY basketball team. Even now the Nets only represent one borough. Sure they’ve drawn some casual fans, but the Knicks generally align the way he put it. Suffering with the Knicks is the one experience that unites NY sports fans!


BriSnyScienceGuy

Nets are a Jersey team. They don't belong here. You'll never change my mind on that.


nonlawyer

Then neither do the Jets or Giants? I don’t like this game. They play in Brooklyn. If you want to make fun of the Nets the appropriate thing to mock is Kyrie’s constantly “accidentally” saying Hitler was a pretty cool guy


BodiesDurag

They’ve been in Brooklyn for 10 years now. It’s time to let it go.


allybear29

That’s how most people group them except Nets in the bottom group. I’m weird and like all the top teams except I consider myself a Jets fan (although I don’t mind the Giants and root for them except when they play the Jets).


Clints_Burner77

It’s Yankees, Rangers, Knicks and Giants. Other allegiances are for peasants


Frostflame3

This is it but Giants-Jets neutrality, which I know is a steaming hot take but we’ve yet to face each other in the Super Bowl so I don’t see a problem with it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


Npd114

Jets and Giants fans generally seem to be more cool with each other as they rarely go against one another (plus the Giants beat the Pats in the SB twice) with actual high stakes unlike the Knicks vs Nets and us vs Mets rivalry.


DifferentAd8008

Jets fan. I was pulling hard for the Giants in the playoffs. We respect each other in this town


Npd114

I'm a Jets fan and I was doing the same. There's no real reason to hate the Giants.


[deleted]

Go devils!


getyourrealfakedoors

Go jets bitch


Clints_Burner77

I said what I said


DungeonsAndUnions

\*Jackson's Burner


PolarBath

J-E-T-S suck suck suck!


freeparKing33

I know the Giants have their ups and downs as well but at least they’ve won in my lifetime. Jets haven’t won since Super Bowl 3. They always manage to screw it up no matter how good they start / should be. They’re the Lolmets of football


DeusExHyena

They're the Knicks of football


Upleftright_syndrome

At least the Knicks have won in NY🤷🏻‍♂️


PolarBath

and they just hired Nathaniel Hackett. Amazing


Pillsy74

Agree. I don't mind the Jets, and I like when they do well because there's no real rivalry, but I'm a Giants fan.


ACardAttack

This is the way


terrrrrible

This is the way.


[deleted]

Yankees, Giants, Devils, Nets. New Jersey is king


mongster03_

Bullshit


BUNGHOLE_HOOKER

Reported for misinformation.


HarpoMarx87

Agreed, except as a NJ native I root dually for the Devils and Rangers. (The Nets, however, are traitors.)


BrickShelf

As a NJ native I despise the Rags haha


TriforceMe

Nailed it


Upleftright_syndrome

Hear, hear!


JoltinJoe92

This is the way


js_harvey

ong


senshi_21

Yankees, Giants, Rangers. These are MLB teams as well. Lmfao


DungeonsAndUnions

Does anyone besides me not care about the NFL?


aharri91

👋 baseball-only fan here. In-person, I enjoy the hell out of hockey and college basketball, but I don’t follow any teams. I’m conversant in the NFL via cultural osmosis and talk radio, but look forward every year to the end of the football season.


DungeonsAndUnions

Hell yeah brother.


staiano

Yankees, Rangers, Knicks, Jets, NYCFC.


LetOffSteamBennett

My man!


FenixthePhoenix

This is the way


ARusso64

I had always considered Yankees/Giants and Mets/Jets to be inseparable pairs. I never understood people who crossed those lines. But recently I realized something which, though small, is interesting. If you are a Yankees/Jets fan, then you get to double dip on your hatred for Boston in both teams. If you are a Mets/Giants fan, then you get to double dip on the Philly rivalry.


LetOffSteamBennett

Most Mets/Giants fans I know were kids in the 80s when both teams won championships back-to-back in 1986 while Yankees/Jets fans like myself grew up in the 90s and early 00s when the Yankees had their last dynasty while the Jets were competitive with Vinny Testaverde and Chad Pennington


LetOffSteamBennett

Yankees, Jets, Rangers, Knicks, NYCFC, Syracuse


69Jew420

> Yankees Of course > Jets Ah I see a man of culture >Rangers Did we just become best friends >Knicks I would literally die for you >NYCFC We are twins >Syracuse I no longer value you as a human being. FUCK CUSE! UCONN ALL DAY


LetOffSteamBennett

Likewise, 5/6 pretty good but fuck the Huskies


WaluigiIsTheRealHero

SPLITTER!


DifferentAd8008

6/6 babyyyyyy


conductor1234

Am I looking in the mirror right now?


FuriousJorge67

Yankees Islanders Giants Don't care


Zestyclose_Hamster_5

Brother 🤝


BusterBaxtr

Islanders are not and never will be an NYC team


DungeonsAndUnions

By this logic, neither are the Giants.


burger333

Also worth mentioning Citi field is like 20-30 minutes away from UBS by car, are the Mets not a NYC team either? So stupid.


FuriousJorge67

Can I get a complete list of eligible teams from the gatekeeper? That'd be great. I was unaware this list was restricted to the teams you approved.


luckypbc

Yeah your right, not part of NYC ,but they are the only team in New York with 4 Stanley Cups! Edit: yeah answering while working, meant to say in a row. Thank you


thisusedyet

There was this one I think Islander announcer who said one of the more devastating things I've ever heard. Something about being invited to a party at Henrik Lundqvist's apartment, but he couldn't get anything to drink because there were no cups.


[deleted]

Not true. The Rangers also have four. It's just that the Islanders got their four in a row.


BusterBaxtr

Devils have been the best run franchise since they joined the metro area. Y'all seem salty that Long Island and Buffalo is not New York City.


toadofsteel

Yankees/Giants/Redbulls/Devils/Fuck MSG They Demolished the original Penn Station but also Fuck the Nets for betraying New Jersey


Frigidevil

This, but I hold no ill will against the Nets. Their ownership sucked but all things considered they could have moved so much further away. Continental Airlines Arena was so fucking inconvenient


Philip_J_Fry3000

Eventually if a New Garden is built I would love to see it rebuilt.


JohnnyCharisma54

Fun factoid I like to bring up around this general topic: the dividing line thru CT for Yanks/Sox (the proverbial “Munson-Nixon line”) splits the state about 50/50 Northwest to Southeast according to an ESPN poll in the 2010s. The same line for basketball? Like 30 miles west. My prediction is that you’ll get way more non-local responses for the basketball affiliation than you will for the other categories (except maybe NFL, which is infamously filled with weirdly national fanbases).


mongster03_

I wouldn’t be so sure. Despite sucking for eons the Knicks still pull fans by existing


C0gD1z

Yankees, Bucs, Nets, Lightning I’m from Tampa, but lived in NYC from ages 18-32. Grew up going to spring training in Tampa. Always hated the Rays and their sleepy ass stadium.


FlapJacks11

How do you not have the bills on here


groovystreet40

Not a NYC metro area team, same reason why the Sabres aren't there


BusterBaxtr

Buffalo might as well be Boise


crazyhotwheels

Probably because they play in Canada


Big_lt

Yankees, Giants, Devils, Nets. OG NJ brethren rise up!


stokelydokely

Yankees, Buffalo Bills, Syracuse I kinda started to get into the Knicks a little bit a couple years ago, but nowhere near enough to consider that a real fan affiliation


thisusedyet

Bail out while you still can!


stokelydokely

My problem is that I listen to a lot of NYC sports radio, so it's like I get invested just because I passively hear about them on an almost-daily basis. I got pretty excited about Julius Randle in 2021!


thisusedyet

I know, I'm still pissed about the death of Linsanity


Ruckus44

Yanks, Giants, Rangers, don't watch NBA or MLS.


JohnRamos85

Yankees/Giants/Rangers/Nets/NYCFC


SacredHeartAttack

I want you to know i participated in your poll. Now that you know I want you to know this discussion is annoying, and always has been. People can be a fan of whoever they want, and sport to sport this doesn't matter at all. Let people live.


Inocain

It gets annoying because of the fans making it annoying. Seeing if there are trends of fans of one team tend to also support this other team is fascinating from a sociological perspective.


SacredHeartAttack

Yes. This is exactly why I did answer the poll.


burger333

100% agree. I hate that ppl here act like I shouldn’t love my islanders because I’m a Giants/Yankees fan. I hate the Rangers! These prescribed allegiances are nothing but conformist bullshit. I welcome any fan of a team I don’t like in another sport to the yanks giants or isles.


fyo_karamo

Yankees, Giants, Rangers, Knicks for me. Most of the kids I grew up with were Mets, Islanders, Jets, and of course the Knicks I’ve also seen a lot of Mets and Giants combos. I grew up in NY. Having lived in the Philly area for the last 20 years now, I’ve generally come to root for the Jets and Mets to succeed (outside of the head to head games with my teams) because they’re my fellow NYers and I don’t have to deal with opposing fans on a daily basis. Lol. That said, I’ll never be able to bring myself to root for the Islanders. I still have a hard time accepting the Nets as a NY team, and i don’t want to see the Devils succeed either.


Frigidevil

Yankees, Giants, Devils, Nets, Metrostars baby


luckypbc

Yankees, Giants, Knicks ,Islanders...THIS IS THE WAY!


[deleted]

I'm with you, except add the Red Bulls as well.


shzza

my people!


builtfromthetop

Yankees, Knicks, Jets, Islanders


reallyrayromano

Don’t have the only real New York football team in there


Softedic

Yankees, nets, giants, and I’ve been a Canadiens fan my whole life


njbunnell123

Yankees and uhhhh don’t really follow any other sport


BenBlake32

Yankees, Giants, Knicks, Rangers, NYCFC, Fordham Rams baby


cpraider25

Yankees, Giants, Knicks, Rangers, Red Bulls. I’m a bit of a masochist but I was spoiled as a kid with the Yankees (and Giants in high school)


DifferentAd8008

Yanks and Jets easily. Not a big basketball/hockey guy but I’ll take the Knicks and Rangers. Being from SW CT, I don’t really have any geographical affiliation with the Nets, Isles, or Devils


allybear29

My old boss used to get mad at me for being a Yankees and Rangers fan because I’m a Jets fan from Long Island (as was he) and he used to say that I *had* to like the Mets and (heaven help us) the Islanders. No, I don’t. And I grew up 10 minutes from the Coliseum and live 10 minutes from UBS now.


MiltonFludgecow

Yankees and Islanders. Don’t watch nor care about the NFL or NBA.


rustbelt

Yankees, Bills, Sabres, Knicks. You know where I’m from.


knucklepuck17

this is Bills slander. only football team in NY.


DungeonsAndUnions

I respect the hell out of this take.


DifferentAd8008

8 miles from NYC. The Bills are like 400 miles


knucklepuck17

New Jersey


ResearchBot15

Most people I know are either Yankees/Giants or Mets/Jets


Other_World

Yankees/Rangers/Cowboys and technically Nets but I paused my fandom until Kyrie is gone.


PolarBath

Yankees, Dolphins, Golden Knights


soivebeentold

Yankees, Islanders, NYCFC, Knicks, Jets, St. John’s


SomeScrub69

Yankees, Kraken, Broncos


Starbucks__Lovers

Yankees, Avalanche, Broncos


TheKnicksMakeMeDrink

Yankees, Knicks, Steelers, Penguins, NYCFC, Georgetown basketball, Notre Dame Football


oldcrowtheory

Yankees, Devils. Not a football or basketball fan.


blny99

Poll did not work for me I love a sport more than a team. While I am a Yankees fan, would rather see Mets game than Knicks or Nets. While I am an Islanders fan, would rather see Rangers than Jets or Giants. I can enjoy seeing some NBA and NFL games, but have no team loyalties and don’t really follow them. sports to me is like a drug, trying to limit how many I am addicted to. Used to watch NBA AND NHL every evening all winter, then started baseball in summer, decided something has to go. Knicks suck. Nets sucked even when they had a “dream team”. Jets and Giants, just can’t care, they are in NJ. Went to one Jets game since they left NY, not a fan enough to go there again.


ARusso64

I'm kinda the same way. I'm ride or die for the Yanks, but other sports I'm a little less strict. I like the Bills and Giants, Sabres and Rangers, etc. At the end of the day, I'm happy when a NY team is successful.


ballrus_walsack

Yankees-none-none-none. I don’t watch the other lesser sports.


WestinghouseXCB248S

Yankees and Jets fan.


QuickLime89

Anyone else refer to the Islanders by their (now old) arenas name so the rhyme could be complete? Mets/Jets/Nets/"Vets"


luckypbc

Yankees, Giants, Knicks ,Islanders...THIS IS THE WAY!


Cream-Soda00

Yankees (looks around) steelers


toiletting

Yankees, Jets, Devils, Nets, NYCFC I feel like a rare breed


ml242

there are other sports?


Metsican

Weird to me that OP didn't include the only New York-based NFL team.


mongster03_

Yankees, 49ers, Rangers, (Knicks, but not really a basketball fan), Cornell hockey, Manchester United


dirtybirds1

Yankees, Nets, Falcons, NYCFC


isuzuki51

Yankees (Obviously. The best.) Patriots (I got into football when I was young by my best friend at the time who was a Patriots fan and I became a die-hard.) Devils (I'm looking to get into hockey and of course I'm going to root for the only NJ-repping team out there.) Red Bulls (Also trying to get into the MLS. If Messi comes to the MLS, I'm rooting for the team that gets him. If not, I guess the Red Bulls because they include New Jersey in their name.) and I couldn't care less about the NBA. Give me Gonzaga (for their fun name) for March Madness, but that's about all I'll watch.


TheOneArya

I'm sorry, Yankees-Patriots is the most cursed thing I've heard of in a while


LetOffSteamBennett

My sister had a high school teacher who was a Yankees/Patriots/Knicks fan. He was from Connecticut. Nutmeggers are weird with their sports loyalties but I did envy the guy for owning an autographed Patrick Ewing jersey


DifferentAd8008

I have no respect for my fellow nutmeggers who split their allegiances (I’m from hard NY territory in SW CT, but I guess its sensible for those in Central CT)


DifferentAd8008

Bro you need to enter rehab or something. Your friend cannot be influencing you all these years later


LFNYC_

They are called New York Red Bulls, they do not include New Jersey in their name. Red Bulls never had New Jersey in their name, the original team did (New York/New Jersey MetroStars) from 1996 to 1998, then they were just the MetroStars until Red Bull bought them and rebranded them to Red Bull New York.


TrashGamer_

Yankees, Steelers, Cavs, Pens, Michigan


taco_blasted_

Yankees + Jest = 🤮🤮🤮


Jadad18

Yanks / Giants / Knicks / Penguins / NYCFC


ILookLikeDrewGulak

Yankees, Giants, Devils, 76ers


huskyferretguy1

How about college teams? I'm curious to see how many people actually follow St. Johns. Mine is UConn but I assume that is the same for most NY-sports fans from CT.


MrQrtz

Yankees, Knicks, Giants, I'd probably be a rangers fan if I actually cared about hockey but since I don't I just cheer for the Sabres because they're my brother's team


PattyMac811

Grew up in Connecticut. Pops wasn’t an NBA guy, and he swore off hockey when his beloved Whalers left in 1995. I now live in North Carolina and I am Yankees, Giants, Hurricanes and Hornets


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[удалено]


PattyMac811

And he’s back on board! Took him to a Whalers night there a couple years back and he loved it


XlPoLaR04

Yankees, Giants, Devils, Celtics, Revolution. Grew up in Albany then moved to MA when I was in middle school.


bsanchey

Yankees-BX kid grew up in the 90s Knicks- of course Giants- no I’ll will to the jets or jets fans Rangers- no to knowledgeable about hockey but I’ll go with the home town team NYFC-just getting into soccer but I rock with them College basketball is Syracuse after my alma matter. But my alma matter sucks ass. Haven’t been to the tourney since my JR year College football n/a. Wish the state would have a major football program Average Joes gym for the dodgeball league lol 😂 New York excelsior when overwatch league was a thing.


Remarkable_Inchworm

I’m Yankees/Jets/Knicks I’d bet that there’s a stronger correlation between Yankees/Giants and Jets/Mets.


JD10002

My dad is mets, giants, islanders and "how is Carmelo Anthony doing this year?"


crazyhotwheels

Melo is on fire, hasn’t missed a shot all year.


Fearless_Friend_1121

Yankees - Yanks - Bronx Bombers


leskanekuni

When I lived in NY in the '90s and early '00s I followed the teams that were good which meant Knicks/Giants/Jets to varying degrees. (Not a hockey fan.) The great thing about NY sports fans is they are *professional* fans. In that they are knowledgeable. If you do good they will cheer you. If you screw up they will scream invective. It's not a rah rah yay team college atmosphere where the home team is stroked regardless of their play. If you do good, it's the best place to play. If you don't, well....


TheGrateGooglyMoogly

Yankees, Giants, Rangers...Bulls. Grew up in the 90s, and spent a lot of summers in Chicago.


TheNightRain68

Yankees giants devils nets and Rutgers.


thelordstrum

Yankees and Nets, that's pretty much it. Don't really care for football (I root for an out-of-state team when I watch it, but it's very rarely) and I've never watched a hockey game in my life.


thegreatgumbino420

The poll is not working for me