In my experience no one picks a team, it is typically geography that does it, or it can be you saw a particular game that made you dig a team. Or someone important to you gets you into a team.

Growing up I was mostly indifferent to sports, I joined the Army was the same until I got married. My wife who spent her formative years in Texas was a huge American football fan of the Dallas Cowboys and the TCU Hornfrogs, so I was indoctrinated.

The Army stationed us in Maryland and we settled here so we became Ravens fans and she never lost her love for TCU.

Now I did love one sport growing up and that was Lacrosse. One drizzly night my friends and I were wondering around the grounds of the University of Virginia and we walked into Scott Stadium, as the gates were wide open and I watched The University of Maryland play UVA in lacrosse and it was fucking unreal watching those guys play. As I was a total townie I had to hate UVA soo…

I fell in love with the UM LAX team and have followed them for decades, as much as I could we not TV and pre-internet days.

I can count the number of ways that having Maryland as my last duty station benefitted my family and how lucky it was.