cdrudge Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 I'm the odd one here probably as I didn't start watching really until later in my life. I tried out for football my 6th grade year, but didn't make the team. I became a student manager and did that for 3 years but still really didn't get into football except for the Superbowl. It wasn't until I was 25 that I got involved. One of my best friend had a slot in a fantasy league he was in and I signed up. I new nothing really of the current players but I grabbed a cheat sheet out of a magazine he gave me and made it to the playoffs that year just on dumb luck. From then on, I watch as much as I can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockerbraves Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Sorry to go off on a tangent, but, just typing this has me anxious for my new son and I to share in all of this. Hopefully my son is growing up in an era much like your dad's. He actually thinks the Saints are going to the superbowl and he only knows LSU as a top ten team. Playstation and Madden football is what has my son hooked on the NFL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarryTheRock Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 Sorry to go off on a tangent, but, just typing this has me anxious for my new son and I to share in all of this. It's awesome! My son who will be 3 in a couple weeks is really getting into it this year. Running around yelling "Touchdown Saints" and "FIRST DOWN" throwing his arm out like an official. Always asking me "Watch a football game Dad?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heydave76 Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 I believe when I was 8 was when I first really began to watch. I remember the Colts going 0-13 to start the season ( I think it was '86), then firing their head coach (Rod Dowhower, I believe) and hiring Ron Meyer. They went on to win their last 3 games of the season. I've been a die hard Colts fan ever since. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chargerz Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 My dad loved football and got me interested in elementary school. I grew up in Peoria, Illinois and idolized Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azazello1313 Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 i remember quite a few things before this, but i'd have to say a big moment in my personal history as a football fan came during the first pick of the 1983 NFL entry draft, when i was 8 years old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonkeyOne Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 I didn't see any until I was about twenty, but you do have to search it out a bit here in the UK, and one night while idling surfing the channels I caught a highlights programme, just the best bits from a week's games. What hooked me was an over the shoulder catch, never seen anything like it before, just watched it from then on. Took me a while to work out the rules! As for supporting the Bucs, i don't know how I landed on them, but I figured that being too excited to sleep before that Rams-Bucs playoff game qualified me as a fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egret Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 NES Playaction Football and Tecmo Bowl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T-Scorp Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 My first memory of football is watching the Vikings losing to the Chiefs in SB IV ( I was 4 at the time). Living in MN I naturally became a Vikings fan (we only had 3 TV stations and I think only about 2 games a week...we got our weekly highlights from Howard on MNF) so they were the team I got to watch. Vividly remember the next 3 Superbowl loses and Drew Pearson cheating! For some reason I was the only Viking fan in my family. Two of my sisters hated football and the other two chose the the Steelers and the Buc (my sister stuck with them through many losses and was finally rewarded a few years ago...I called her after the game and she was crying with joy!) My dad just recently started watching the Vikings. I have 3 children and none of them are Viking fans either. My oldest daughter is a Panther fan, my 2nd daughter hates football sort of a fan of the Colts as her name is Peyton and my 2 year old son, Eli, is a fan of the Giants! (his favorite player is Shockey...go figure!) I have stuck by the Vikings through many disappointing seasons and only hope that before I travel to that big stadium in the sky I get the joy of celebrating a SB victory! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Todd1 Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 It's awesome! My son who will be 3 in a couple weeks is really getting into it this year. Running around yelling "Touchdown Saints" and "FIRST DOWN" throwing his arm out like an official. Always asking me "Watch a football game Dad?" My nephew will be 3 in February and I call him on the weekends to tell him the Badgers and Packers are on. He'll shout "Grandma, turn off the Wiggles, Packers are on!" Can't wait to someday share football with my son(s), my Dad never came to my games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jolly Rodgers Posted January 17, 2007 Share Posted January 17, 2007 I first started out watching college football when I was young and for some reason started watching the NFL on TV when the Bucs were away (because all the home games were blacked out). My first memory of the Bucs is seeing in the newspaper all the fans wearing paper bags over their heads at the games. I was interested in why they were doing such an odd thing so I guess this is how I could have got roped in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknrobn26 Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 My dad loved football and got me interested in elementary school. I grew up in Peoria, Illinois and idolized Lombardi and the Green Bay Packers. An Illinoisan a Packer fan???!!!!! I hope you don't go back "Home" very often, 'cause I'm sending a copy of this to the Peoria Picayune! You'll never get back into that town! Where were we.....Oh yeah...........Grew up near Chi, My Dad was a Bear's fan, no one I knew rooted for the Chicago Cardinals , ergo I'm a Bear's fan! If memory serves...circa 1958, Rick Casares in his prime. I was the first one on my block to collect Football cards instead of baseball cards! Dam....wish I had them now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chargerz Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 An Illinoisan a Packer fan???!!!!! I hope you don't go back "Home" very often, 'cause I'm sending a copy of this to the Peoria Picayune! You'll never get back into that town! Hey, I was eight! Since then I've wised up and moved on. Now I root for a REAL NFL team! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rocknrobn26 Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 (edited) Hey, I was eight! Since then I've wised up and moved on. Now I root for a REAL NFL team! Ok...OKAY! But a Packer fan! At least the cardinals were in Chi! Edited January 18, 2007 by rocknrobn26 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isleseeya Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 watching steelers in SB vs Dallas in 70's as young boy ...rooted for steelers dad explained some of game to me and how it worked...got hooked Became Giants Fan in 1980 - 81 and have been die hard since Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilthorp Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Pretty simple. My old man played at Purdue, football was 24/7/365 in our house. He was my football coach in high school and I was playing since I was in the 4th grade, playing for St. Joseph. Never really considered myself an NFL fan...it's the whole game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clubfoothead Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 My father was a big sports fan. Basketball (Celtics), baseball (Red Sox) and football (ABC). My mother's family is from here in north Texas and they are all Cowboys fans. Big family events were rare because our family was never stationed in north Texas. It would be a treat if every few years we were lucky enough to go to my Mom's parents' house. It would always be for Thanksgiving or Christmas, we always gathered around and watched the Cowboys, played football, ate big and did the general big family holiday with all the relatives. Plus, it is really easy to be a fan of the Greatest Franchise in the History of Professional Sports. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clubfoothead Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 St. Joseph. Missouri? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilthorp Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Missouri? Nah...just a catholic program from 4th-8th grade in my hometown. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrograde assault Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Military town in the mid-60's, lots of kids and we played sports 24-7 it seemed. My dad didn't watch much sports on tv but he watched the Cowboys, so me and my brother did too. Dad's been dead for years but he left two sons behind that love the Cowboys as much as he did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Neutron Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 I watched a Thanksgiving weekend game between Denver and Baltimore (then Colts) when I was 6 or 7. They were playing in the same snow storm I was experiencing and that made me feel connected to it somehow. Denver came from way behind to win the game in the last few seconds. Denver cemented itself as my favorite team and Craig Morton became my hero. I don't think I've missed half a dozen Denver games since that day - some 30 years worth. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skins Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 (edited) My old man played in college and him, me and my kid brother would watch NFL as far back as I can remember. One specific memory I have was when we visited some of his colleagues at the Air Force Academy and me and my brother were playing football in the yard with the sons of the other family and they were teaching us about the Orange Crush. They were about 3-4 years older than us and I remember that I didnt particularly like their version of it. Who knew the Denver defense was so violent? I think there may have been a fight and my bro might have bitten someone. He was a pre-Romo Romo. Edited January 18, 2007 by skins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gunther Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Nothing exciting about my story...in the early 70s (living in Michigan at that time) I came across a football game and the Dallas Cowboys were playing in it. Since I was born in Texas, I decided I would be a Cowboys fan and have been ever since...I was seven or eight at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randall Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Hey, I was eight! Since then I've wised up and moved on. Now I root for a REAL NFL team! That's no excuse. Fricking traitor. Up here we hate the Bears when we come home from the hospital. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Favreforlife Posted January 18, 2007 Share Posted January 18, 2007 Late sixty's both Grandparents were season ticket holders of the Packers. Everything came to a halt when the Packers were playing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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