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<blockquote data-quote="Roundball Sage" data-source="post: 1952666" data-attributes="member: 748116"><p>Attachment to teams is formed in childhood. Many of us retain those allegiances throughout our lives no matter where we might live.</p><p></p><p>BUT... when ‘Your’ team moves away it changes you. First, you realize that they are not really Your team but they are owned by someone else. Second, your heart can be broken and you feel betrayed so you might turn your back on them for abandoning you. While others look passed all that and just keep on rooting for them regardless of their ‘betrayal’.</p><p></p><p>The Cleveland Browns is an interesting case. The Browns of today are not The Browns of yesteryear. The legacy Browns moved away and a whole new team took the Browns logo in a full-start of an actually new franchise. Most Browns fans probably don’t care about the legalese and just treat them as the Old Browns. But they are not. Browns fans of today are truly rooting for a logo and laundry.</p><p></p><p>Both Brooklyn and Cleveland are examples of some of the most passionate fans in all of sports. They really love/loved their teams and felt them to be part of their community and family lives. But it really is hard to understand why anyone in Brooklyn would still care about the Dodgers. They have been gone for three generations and they left in pursuit of personal riches without regard to Brooklyn fans. A cold-blooded move despite the SoCal warmth.</p><p></p><p>There is talk of the White Sox moving away from Chicago. Should that happen... I can’t imagine very many South Siders even wanting to give that franchise one more minute of their time. No one should love logo and laundry that much to ignore that kind of fan betrayal.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Roundball Sage, post: 1952666, member: 748116"] Attachment to teams is formed in childhood. Many of us retain those allegiances throughout our lives no matter where we might live. BUT... when ‘Your’ team moves away it changes you. First, you realize that they are not really Your team but they are owned by someone else. Second, your heart can be broken and you feel betrayed so you might turn your back on them for abandoning you. While others look passed all that and just keep on rooting for them regardless of their ‘betrayal’. The Cleveland Browns is an interesting case. The Browns of today are not The Browns of yesteryear. The legacy Browns moved away and a whole new team took the Browns logo in a full-start of an actually new franchise. Most Browns fans probably don’t care about the legalese and just treat them as the Old Browns. But they are not. Browns fans of today are truly rooting for a logo and laundry. Both Brooklyn and Cleveland are examples of some of the most passionate fans in all of sports. They really love/loved their teams and felt them to be part of their community and family lives. But it really is hard to understand why anyone in Brooklyn would still care about the Dodgers. They have been gone for three generations and they left in pursuit of personal riches without regard to Brooklyn fans. A cold-blooded move despite the SoCal warmth. There is talk of the White Sox moving away from Chicago. Should that happen... I can’t imagine very many South Siders even wanting to give that franchise one more minute of their time. No one should love logo and laundry that much to ignore that kind of fan betrayal. [/QUOTE]
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