My Family and Football

PackFan2005 Okay, I don’t have just a family of Packers fans. While a lot of my family members have ties to Wisconsin, they’re still fans of other NFL teams. I just felt like discussing it.

Anyway, most of my family members are Green Bay Packers fans, me included. My mother, father, one of my uncles, my aunt who’s married to him, my great uncle (who passed away about a year ago), and one set of grandparents. Yes, many of us are self-proclaimed cheeseheads. No one in my family is a Vikings, Bears, or Lions fan, but the football ties extend from the NFC North.

My aunt and uncle on my mom’s side of the family are fans of two different teams. My uncle is a huge Oakland Raiders fan, and their basement is full of banners and signs. I remember having a conversation with him during the 2015 NFL season. It was just before week 15, and I asked him how the Raiders could still make the playoffs. I don’t remember everything he said about it, but we talked about it for a while. Ironically, Week 15 was against the Packers, in which Green Bay won, eliminating Oakland from playoff contention. They went 7-9. Then there’s his wife, my aunt. She’s not a really serious football fan, but she’s a San Francisco 49ers fan. I figure she must be happy the way things are going for San Fran currently. Their son, who’s my cousin is a Raiders fan too, but here’s where things get complicated. My cousin’s wife is a Kansas City Chiefs fan, and while she was sleeping on a couch once, my cousin put an Oakland Raiders blanket on her, took a picture of it with her phone, and sent it to her dad, who is also a hardcore Chiefs fan. I can’t imagine how heated things get during those two games a year they play.

We’ll stay in the AFC West for this relative, but it starts in the NFC South. My grandfather was a Tampa Bay Buccaneers fan in the 1990’s and early 2000’s. Last season as a Bucs fan for him was when they won the super bowl in 2002. Then, they became garbage, and my grandparents moved from Florida to Colorado. My grandpa then became a Denver Broncos fan, which he still is today. I told him before the 2015 playoffs that Denver would win the super bowl, and I was right.

Let’s get to the relatives who are the only ones who like a certain team. My uncle on my mom’s side of the family is a Miami Dolphins fan, for some odd reason. My aunt on my dad’s side was raised in Massachusetts, so needless to say, she’s a New England Patriots fan. I’ve also had friends who have been fans of teams other than Green Bay. A few were Minnesota Vikings fans, one was a Seattle Seahawks fan, one was a Baltimore Ravens fan, another a Chicago Bears fan, and there was even an Arizona Cardinals fan. Not to mention two Carolina Panthers fans, and a Pittsburgh Steelers fan.

I’ve known many different people who were fans of different NFL teams. I’ve seen 31 different types of fans. Except the Cleveland Browns. I’ve never met one. Go figure.

Comments

For the Buccaneers paragraph, it’s meant to be NFC Central instead of NFC South. Oops - PackFan2005 (6/23/2018)

I like the directory of this post where its me as a life of a Lions fan where you guys are loyal, and not as dysfunctional as our fanbase is.

I'm not gonna make a huge post about it, but I might as well be detailed in how I started out as a fan in general. I would say I started watching in football in like 2005 ironically like your username states. As I'm watching the horrid years of the 2000's I had this hatred where I just couldn't route for the team for some reason its just that yes there were really bad, but man were they unbearable with Matt Millen and company. The one bright spot was witnessing the greatness of Megatron (Calvin Johnson) however. Than of course there's Matthew Stafford who at first I routed for like the first 4 seasons of his career until realizing how overrated he was by not winning a very convincing game against.500 opponents granted there close now, but in 5 years will he ever win a playoff game? Everyone around me is either a loyalist Lions fan or one that hates there home team no matter the circumstances I actually find it funny in ways. Most of them let out there anger on sports radio which is always fun to hear the backlash. For the most part I have met yes Steelers fans, and Packers fans before I have a uncle who is a die hard even. Most of my classmates that graduated were super into the Patriots.

I haven't seen hardly as much as you, but I have seen 5 or 6 different fans of another team that isn't the Lions though. My mother was super into the Eagles way back than, and she still believed they would win despite Wentz being out amazing. My father, and brother were die hard Lions fans cheered no matter the suffering 50 years takes a toll on a franchise that's been dead in the water of having spirits lifted. I'm still a neutral Lions fan in which I still route for them, but if they just look bad as they do let's midway through I won't route for them I end going against, and half the time I win that battle because this team has been predictable the last 27 years. So yeah there's my take on Family passion, and other life experiences of a misunderstood, but takes things a but too serious Lions critic. - visitor (6/23/2018)

My family isn’t quite as spread out as yours is. My Dad’s side is pretty much all Chiefs fans. My Moms side is more interesting because she’s not really into football but she’s kind of a Packers fan. My uncle doesn’t pay much attention to the NFL anymore but he likes the 49ers. My other uncle is a Denver Broncos fan. However I have friends who are fans of a wide variety of teams from the Packers to Cowboys to Steelers to Seahawks to Vikings to Eagles. So I have definitely seen a few different types of fans - visitor (8/3/2018)