Mods a Request please...(Another Manning/Colts Thread)

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Yes I have. Actually went to their first game in Nashville at Vandy. I have the commerative Brooks and Dunn cd they gave away to prove it. I have also been to a couple other games. I never purchased tickets. I do like the game of football I just in case I didn't mention it before...hate the oilers.
 
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gnm53108 said:
I get what you're saying. I can "pull" for several teams each week...depending on who they are playing and how it could benefit the Titans. I also like to see all our VFL's do good.

The only NFL apparel I own is Titans.
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Then I think we are on the same page.
 
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volfanjustin said:
So, are you also a Pats, Browns, Chiefs, Texans, 49ers fans and every other team that has former Vols players?
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Just curious, but are you from Indiana or the midwest? Murfreesboro being 30 miles from Nashville, it would seem the Titans would be a more logical choice. I know people become fans of different teams for a variety of reasons, not just proximity.
 
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Guess i'll jump on and get bashed too. I have been a Colts fan for as long as I can remember. Since the days of Johnny U. I did not like the way they did him in the end, but still a fan. I thought it was crazy what they did to the Baltimore fan base, but still a fan. Hate what is happening to Peyton, but still a fan.

Having said that. I am a huge Peyton Manning fan. I wish him luck where ever he goes and will root for him to do well. I would like to see him get at least one more SB ring before he retires. He deserves it.

Oh, by the way. I also hate the Titans. I was in the Marine Corps for 20 yrs and gone from Nashville. Imagine my surprise when I found out that someone had let the Houston Oilers sneak into town. I've had a question for all these years....what happened? Does Nashville have a squatters law i don't know about? Surely they were not purposely let in.

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bray2milton said:
Yes I have. Actually went to their first game in Nashville at Vandy. I have the commerative Brooks and Dunn cd they gave away to prove it. I have also been to a couple other games. I never purchased tickets. I do like the game of football I just in case I didn't mention it before...hate the oilers.
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The vandy junk don't count. That was a mess.

Well if you hated the Oilers, then I can understand. Didn't know that piece of the puzzle.

I was just so-so on pro football until I went to my first Titans game in 2001 (or 2002ish?). We got hooked fast.
 
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billbattle said:
Just curious, but are you from Indiana or the midwest? Murfreesboro being 30 miles from Nashville, it would seem the Titans would be a more logical choice. I know people become fans of different teams for a variety of reasons, not just proximity.
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I am from Memphis and lived there up until about 6 years ago and was there when the Titans moved here. I didn't have a team I watched the NFL as a kid but never really liked any team, until the Colts drafted Faulk. Not to mention I have made that drive to Indy from here and it's really not to bad of a drive, seems like it only took about 4 hours or so. I was in the house for Peyton's last game as a Colt.
 
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Jackson_Harris said:
The vandy junk don't count. That was a mess.

Well if you hated the Oilers, then I can understand. Didn't know that piece of the puzzle.

I was just so-so on pro football until I went to my first Titans game in 2001 (or 2002ish?). We got hooked fast.
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Jackson my friend. The Titans ARE the Oilers. I don't like or dislike any other pro team except for the Toilers. I do respect other peoples fandom though so if you like them you like them.
 
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jimvols said:
How bout the Titans, you know, Tennessee's NFL team?
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Nope you can't like them or even talk about them because they moved here (dumb). And they get payed to play if you can believe that. I may want to get paid for what I'm good at but Lord forbid they do the same and make more than me. And you'd only be watching some of the best players in the country...yawn.
 
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volfanjustin said:
Not a loyal one. One can be a fan of all 32 teams if they want, but a loyal fan can't have multiple teams.
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...why not? Someone could still follow and stay supportive of those two teams regardless of how well or poorly they performed that year (through thick and thin, etc).

This isn't the same thing as giving someone to cheer for another team because his is doing badly (or alternatively, because the other team's good/the best and he wants on the bandwagon)
 
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TrueOrange said:
...why not? Someone could still follow and stay supportive of those two teams regardless of how well or poorly they performed that year (through thick and thin, etc).

This isn't the same thing as giving someone to cheer for another team because his is doing badly (or alternatively, because the other team's good/the best and he wants on the bandwagon)
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I just can't understand how you wear two teams hats. How someone can have loyalty to 2 different teams. Hell as emotional as I get watching the Colts I don't have the energy to pull for a second team.
 
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FearlessFreep said:
Wow - the front runners here are just staggering. Explains a lot when it comes to UT football and this board.

I have been a Colts fan for 35+ years. Went to games in Baltimore as a kid. I dare say I'm one of the very few who remained a fan of the franchise when they moved to Indianapolis.

I love Peyton, but he's not the Colts. A huge part of their recent success, sure, but no one person is bigger than the franchise itself.

I have to echo the statements earlier, if you aren't a Colts fan now that Peyton will not be a Colt, then you never were a Colts fan.

It's easy to simply like the team that's winning, I get it. Some people get some sort of self-worth by associating themselves with what they perceive to be winners, masking an insecurity they have about themselves. So they bounce allegiances to what they perceive are the current 'winners.' If it makes you feel better, great.

But as a lifelong fan of the Colts franchise, please don't disparage them for doing what's in the best long-term interest of the organization.

I'm sure I will get attacked, personally insulted, whatever. Again, if it makes you feel better, then go for it.
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How'd you feel about how their move from Baltimore all went down? Possibly more on the manner in which they actually left the city.

(asking out of curiosity)
 
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volfanjustin said:
I just can't understand how you wear two teams hats. How someone can have loyalty to 2 different teams. Hell as emotional as I get watching the Colts I don't have the energy to pull for a second team.
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(this just seems like an interesting topic for discussion)

But that might just be you versus just how some others are. Maybe some aren't capable of dividing it up; perhaps some have more or less they're capable of investing in this area (be it either in a single direction or multiple ones).


For example, my dad grew up in Memphis. He went to the University of Texas. He then got his post-grad schooling at University of Tennessee. He is an absolutely huge fan of both. Every year, he follows both teams each season. He watches all of their football games, keeps up with them in basketball (he wasn't as familiar with the sport until more recently), celebrates all the successes, feels all the losses, and cheers for the schools in everything they do, through the good years and the bad. He has very strong ties to both. He hopes for nothing more (in this area) than for each school to have the utmost success each season. At*the same time, he's admitted that he dreads the two playing each other, because in all honesty he would not be able to (very willingly or at least, in good feeling) bring himself to cheer more for one team than the other in such case.*

(He jokes about a "super fans" skit from Saturday night live where. After Mike Ditka went to coach New Orleans, one of the characters moves halfway between the cities and wears a half bears/half saints ensemble the entire time - think half a *bears hat and half a saints hat sewn together right down the middle, as well as half a bears sweater and a saints sweater put together in the same manner. He'd always said that were the two to play he'd have to be dressed like that guy.)

Would that, in turn, mean he's not a loyal fan? Would it make him not as loyal /less loyal to both?
 
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I think that's a little different aspect since he went to school at both schools. My Saturdays in the fall are built around 1 team, my Sundays 1 team. Just as a normal fan and not having any real connection to a school or team other than just being a fan, I don't see how someone can have loyalties to 2 different teams. Like for me, I don't care what player goes to the Titans, if Peyton went there I would still hate them and Peyton would then be the enemy.
 
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