The
contest from last week was to share your favorite team from a sport
outside of baseball. I thought I would share a few of my favorites
before announcing the winner.
First up, my favorite NBA team:
The
Sacramento Kings. I grew up in the Sacramento area and was living
there when the Kings moved from Kansas City. My dad had season ticket
for the first 7 or 8 years so I went to a lot of games and saw some of
the best players come through Arco Arena. Unfortunately, the opposing
players were the highlight for the first decade or so. They had a nice
run with Webber, Vlade, Peja and JWill but were never able to win the
title. It appears almost certain that they will move away from my home
town and I am not sure how I will feel about that.
Next up my favorite College team:
I
began following USC in the late 70s when OJ Simpson was traded to the
49ers. I checked out a book about OJ from the library and decided that
since he went to USC that would be my new favorite college team.
Amazingly, I ended up being accepted into USC's engineering program and
winning a partial academic scholarship that allowed me to attend. My
freshman year we had a nice season lead by Junior Seau, Mark Carrier and
freshman QB Todd Marinovich. This year has been really tough but I am a
Trojan through and through.
And my favorite NFL team and favorite team other than the SF Giants is:
I
became a 49ers fan when the trade with OJ went down. My dad was a huge
Oakland Raiders fan and the acquisition of OJ gave me a reason to be
different from my dad. I was pretty young, 6 or 7, and this was my
first act of rebellion against my dad. OJ really didn't pan out but
with the hiring of Bill Walsh, the drafting of Joe Montana and Dwight
Clark's catch in the back of the end zone at Candlestick park my
favorite team became a winner and started a dynasty.
I
want to thank everyone else for sharing their favorite teams, it is
great seeing how far or how narrow everyone's sports fandom extends
beyond their favorite baseball team. Now for the winner o the contest:
Here is a list of the 23 entries:
And after 3 randoms, here is the winner:
Tim Byrd from
Home of the Toddfather. Congratulations Tim!
This
week's contest will be another quick and easy one. Share something
sports related and/or hobby related that you are Thankful for. Seems to
fit well with the Thanksgiving week. We will do the 3 times random
thing once again.
Thanks for participating.
I'm thankful that the two sports I follow and love, Baseball and football haven't had to go through a major lockout like Hockey this year and Basketball last year. I'm also thankful that we are entering the last year of Topps exclusive deal with the MLB and hopefully won't get another one.
ReplyDeleteI'm thankful for all of the trading I've been able to do since joining the blogosphere.
ReplyDeleteI'm Thankful for the generosity of bloggers. Very thankful for arpsmith weekly contest! So many contests have occurred throughout 2012, and I hope the generosity continues!
ReplyDeleteI'm thankful for finding the blogosphere about a year ago. My view of this hobby would definitely not be the same without it!
ReplyDeleteI'm thankful for all the other bloggers out there who give me something to read everyday. (since I don't do much posting of my own anymore)
ReplyDeleteI thankful for 1987 Topps and 1989 Topps Traded and 2012 Topps Heritage. Oh, and I'm thankful, of course, for all the fine people I've had the pleasure to meet as a result of blogging. Happy Thanksgiving, y'all!
ReplyDeleteThankful for players who sign Ttm, 1978 Topps, and Vin scully returning in 2013.
ReplyDeleteIm thankful i dont usually have to enter my comments by phone like i am now. aaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm thankful that the Mariners gave the gift of finally getting rid of Chone Figgins. It doesn't get much better than getting rid of Donkey. Watching the Giants run to the championship was pretty special too.
ReplyDeleteI'm thankful andy reid will be fired at the end of the season
ReplyDeleteMine is the wife. huge sports fan.
ReplyDeleteI'm thankful for an additional community to be a part of. I haven't found many locals that share my love for the hobby. I enjoy reading the content from the blogosphere everyday, writing when I have the time, and the generosity that is so abundant.
ReplyDeleteI'm grateful that my wife is pregnant with our first boy, who I hope to share my love of baseball with, just as my dad did with me. Also grateful that I have a wonderful wife and an amazingly adorable little girl who love me.
ReplyDeleteAlso grateful that I grew up in a city with an MLB team, something that I don't have right now.
I'm thankful the Cardinals are going back to red caps on the road. It's a good look.
ReplyDeleteI'm thankful that I stumbled upon your blog as well as the other sports card blogs out there over the past few months as it has brought me back to the hobby that I lost track of for a while.
ReplyDeletePiggy Backing Brian's comment above , I feel the same , being out of the game for years , it was nice to jump in and have my son now to take and pass on this incredible hobby.
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