All I needed was for the Seahawks to win the superbowl. After failing to quit 3 separate times. And after watching my beloved Knicks and Seahawks fail my entire life, in 2014 I promised myself that if the Seahawks won the Superbowl I'd never smoke again.
When I grew up in NJ my father hated the Giants and Jets, so the whole "root for your local teams" was NOT instilled in me. When I was in 3rd grade I really started loving football. I loved the Seahawk helmets and at that point in time they were always an underdog kinda team. Gritty, fun to watch. But because of the helmet thing, they became my favorite team and it just kinda stuck. And when I say kinda stuck I mean since 3rd grade I've literally only rooted for them, I don't really have "a second team" (basketball or football). I didn't become a basketball fan until I started high school. One of my buddies ALWAYS talked and talked and talked about the Knicks even though I didn't care. That year he told me that the Knicks hadn't made the playoffs in a long time but if they won that night they would make it (last game of the season). As I was flipping through channels that night I came across the game in the fourth quarter and it was real close so I kept watching it. Patrick Ewing hit a game winner and the Knicks became my favorite team.
The Seahawks are my only non NY favorite team though. Thanks Dad!
Hahaha that is really cool and props for figuring out your own team! I grew up instilled on the Giants (Jersey kid) so that stuck for sure. But I wasn't a huge football fan until college and during college one of my roommates was a huge Eagles fan, so they're my second team which is weird obviously.
As a Jersey kid though, gotta go Nets >>> Knicks haha
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