01-03-2017, 09:27 PM
(01-03-2017, 09:06 PM)Awful Llama Wrote: Picking a favorite team sometimes has little to no logic involved. Sure, some swear allegiance based on simple geography, but many follow a strange path to their fandom. I have a buddy who was a child when the Vikings were in one of the early '70s Super Bowls. He liked the color purple so he rooted for them that game. 40-some years later he's still a Viking fan. Your story is unusual given your residing on the other side of the planet, but you're no less of a fan than someone who lives ten miles from PBS and cheers for the Bengals. You took a road less taken but arrived at the same spot as the rest of us.
No doubt, I don't miss a Bengals game. During the 90's it was hard we only had a weekly update show here in Australia but I'd find the scores in the Newspapers here, buried away in the result pages. The advent of the internet made it a lot easier to keep track of the scores and around 2008 the tv channels here started broadcasting about 3 games a week and I watched the Bengals when ever they were on. I eventually discovered gamepass and haven't missed a game since around 2010. Even attended my first game in 2011. I am now as passionate about the Bengals as my favourite sporting team, The Wests Tigers who I am a season ticket holder for. I ride the highs and lows like all of you from the otherside of the world and I am extremely grateful for this forum as it allows me to hear from other fans.
People think i'm weird when I am visibly down when a sporting team that plays on the otherside of the world loses, but that's what the Bengals are to me, they are my team!!!
