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Would you date someone who rooted for the Jazz's biggest rival?

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Yes I would........ if she is hot enough
 
I dated a Chicago Bulls fan in the 90's - although she was strictly a bandwagon fan. I distinctly remember her calling me to gloat after Chicago won Game 1 of the 1997 finals.

I think I hate-****ed her once or twice and it was over.
 
I don't mind people that root for other teams unless they are jerks about it. So not dating someone like that would be more about them being a jerk than about them rooting for a rival team.
 
No, absolutely not. If we we're getting serious and then basketball season starts and she pulls out Laker purple and gold I would end it.
 
Just long enough to press a pillow over her face.
 
What's worse than having her be an ardent sports fan is when she absolutely isn't at all. Nothing worse than gushing about Rudy's most recent 20 reb, 6 block peformance for 10 minutes to and then having her follow it up with "that's nice dear. I am sure that trudy bear guy is great!"
 
LogGrad98 said:
What's worse than having her be an ardent sports fan is when she absolutely isn't at all. Nothing worse than gushing about Rudy's most recent 20 reb, 6 block peformance for 10 minutes to and then having her follow it up with "that's nice dear. I am sure that trudy bear guy is great!"
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Trudy bear? LOL.
 
LogGrad98 said:
What's worse than having her be an ardent sports fan is when she absolutely isn't at all. Nothing worse than gushing about Rudy's most recent 20 reb, 6 block peformance for 10 minutes to and then having her follow it up with "that's nice dear. I am sure that trudy bear guy is great!"
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This is kind of how my wife is. I mean bless her heart that she pretends to be interested and she doesn't mind at all that I'm obsessed, but she really doesn't care.

I will see an amazing block/pass/dunk or whatever and rewind the game to show it to get and I just see her eyes glaze over.

She did get a little curious about treys weird neck strain injury last night though.
 
Yup.

I am a Broncos and Jazz fan. Half my family are fans of the Lakers and Raiders.

But I guess it all comes down to is she hot and have a personality?
 
The only one I would care enough to be mildly bothered by would be the Lakers, but she would have to be one of "those" laker fans to bother me. I could just imagine going to a Jazz/Lakers game, Kobe's back, he hits a shot, and she turns to me shaking that #24 jersey in my face.

That would be the end of it.
 
Just long enough to get her drunk and visit the tattoo parlor, only to leave her on a park bench with her new Utah Jazz tramp stamp.
 
Who is, pray tell, the Jazz biggest rival? And who would consider the Jazz their biggest rival?

Because I have no idea at this point.

I would say this, in order of strongest argument for who Jazz fans consider to be the biggest rival:

Lakers
* that 7-game 1987 series
* Stockton taking over Magic's assist record
* Karl being all Karl about Magic and HIV
* Kobe's airballs
* The Lakers bouncing the Jazz from the playoffs for 3 straight years
* All those annoying zoobs that come up to the ESA every time the Lakers are in town. Yay! You're from Cali, I get it.
* When Karl Malone played for the Lakers
The Lakers probably consider the Celtics to be their biggest rival.

Rockets
* winning the chips in 1994 and 1995 (It's Our Year! promotions)
* Uh OH!
* them being lil bitches about Karl Kung Fu kicking his way into the paint
* losing in the playoffs after going up 3-1 and T-Mac's mind "already in the next round"
* James Harden turning into a battering ram
* Dwight Howard
* The WHOPPER
Rockets probably consider the Spurs or Mavericks their biggest rivals.

Denver
* Geographically closest.
* When LHM got into a fist fight with a couple of Denver degenerate seat jumpers
* 1997, When the Jazz went down by 30 and still won the game
* Carmelo "missing the all-star game to Kirilenko? I mean, come on!"
* Fesenko getting off on them in the playoffs
* Boom, Bitches!
Nuggets probably consider Utah or LA their biggest rival.

Golden State
* Tanking for Harrison Barnes
* Us bouncing them in 2007 even though they believed so hard
* Baron Davis flashing after dunking over Kirilenko.
* Mark Jackson
* 1994 playoffs
Golden State probably considers the 1996 Bulls, the 1986 Celtics or the City of Enoch All-Star team its biggest rival.

Sacramento
* 1999 playoffs
* 2003 playoffs, sending Stockton out
* Cowbells
* Jason "da history professor" Williams
Thanks to Shaq talking about taking a dump and calling them the Queens and the 2002 WCF, Sacramento considers LA its biggest rivals.

Sonics/OKC
* GARY GARY GARY GARY
* 1996 WCF when the DC was louder than a space shuttle launch
* The Kanter trade
OKC considers the OKC media to be its biggest rival.

Portland
* The 1999 playoffs
* The 1993 WCF
* Danny Ainge
Portland considers corporatism and bones to be its biggest rivals.

My nomination:
The Detroit Pistons
* Dennis Rodman
* Isiah Thomas
* Chuck Daly (RIP in Peace)
* Chris Webber
* Allen Iverson

Also, anyone who says they wouldn't date someone who was a fan of another team is lying. If Strom Thurmond sired a mixed-race child, you would bang a Laker fan. No doubt about it.
 
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