Kingston 6

Sports Teams

My favourite teams / players by sport and the years I've been watching them:

Basketball - Chicago Bulls, 1989 -
Magic Johnson, 1989 - 1991
Lebron James, 2004 -
Dwayne Wade, 2004 -

Baseball - Chicago Cubs, 1989 -
Barry Bonds, 1991 - 2003
Frank Thomas, 1993 - 2002

Football (American) - Philadelphia Eagles, 1994 - 2002
Indianapolis Colts, 2002 - Barry Sanders, 1994 - 2002

Ice Hockey (Yes, Ice Hockey) - Pittsburgh Penguins, 1990 - 1996
Wayne Gretzky, 1990 - 1994

College Basketball - North Carolina, 1989 -
University of Pennsylvania, 1990 -

Now for the real sports:

Football (Soccer although i hate that word) -
Barcelona, 1992 -
Liverpool, 1985 - 1989
Jamaica (OF COURSE)
Brazil (OF COURSE)
Maradona, Socrates, Platini, Tigana, Robinho, Ronaldinho, Ronaldo, Rivaldo, Rijkaard, Gullit, Van Basten, Blacka Boyd, Bibi Gardner, Okocha, Zidane

Best Goals Ever - Maradona vs. England, 1986 World Cup (2nd of 2 goals)
Zidane, Real Madrid vs. don't even remember who, 2002 Champions League Final


Cricket - West Indies, 1988 -
Lara, Ambrose, Bravo, Walsh, Richards, Hooper, Haynes, Greenidge

Other than West Indians - Ponting, Warne, Flintoff, Ntini, Gilchrist, Pietersen, Tendulkar, Dravid, Sehwag, Muralitharan, Vaughan

Tennis - Federer, Agassi, Edberg, Seles, Kournikova (den nuh mus)

Boxing - don't like boxing

Athletics - I only like Olympics and I only cheer for Jamaica
If I was forced to watch an out of season race it would be a 200M and it would involve Michael Johnson...

Golf - still don't like golf, regardless of Tiger Woods

Best Scrimmage Players (at Campion) - Itana Henry, Jamie Lue

There is actually a method to this madness:
1. There was only one television station, JBC between 1980 and 1990 (I think) and most of my generation grew up on one channel that would sign-off each night at midnight! There was little american sports on JBC at that point, it was mostly football (soccer) and the most famous Jamaican playing abroad was John Barnes (even though he played for England) and he played for Liverpool. They also had Ian Rush and Bruce Grobbelaar but we all watched for super winger Barnes.

2. I got a satellite dish in 1989, after Hurricane Gilbert. And so my world of american sports opened up - first the Bulls, who were at that time losing to the Pistons (I hate the pistons, old and new) and then late nights with the Lakers...

3. Two of the most prominent channels were WTBS and WGN-9, the former based in Atlanta, the latter in Chicago. So it ended up that probably you either followed the Braves or Hawks of Atlanta, or the Blackhawks (Ice Hockey), Cubs, Bulls, White Sox (baseball) of Chicago - I stuck with Chicago...

4. My sister went to school in Philadelphia, hence my fascination with the Eagles, or more importantly their black quaterbacks - Randall Cunningham and today, Donovan McNabb...

5. Jordan retired and i went away to school (in Philadelphia) in 1998 so most of my tv watching habits changed dramatically, esp. with basketball - I have found post-Jordan NBA to be IMMENSELY boring - people shooting 42% getting $50M contracts, ridiculous! Until LeBron James and Dwayne Wade, anyhow...

Thats my sports affiliations history, so now you know (and knowing is half the battle)...

posted by damanimichael @ 11:48 PM