My team doesn't EXIST anymore. My Seattle SuperSonics are now owned by Clay "I'm a bigger liar than Urban Liar" Bennett, and left 6 years ago. But since I'm guessing you are more wondering about who my football team is. I don't have a football team. Never overly liked football enough to have a team. Once I got into TV and worked for ESPN, I couldn't root for Boise State if I wanted to. Besides, every bandwagon fan in Southern Idaho rooted loud enough to more than make up for it.
The whole Sonics thing REALLY left a bad taste in my mouth about blindly rooting for a team. Hell, let's face it, the Red Sox would likely move outta Boston if a city offered to build a new stadium, buy every seat and let the owner keep all the profits. Too much money involved in sports now, college and pros. No such thing as a Cinderella now. And when there is a Cinderella (i.e. 2012 Oakland A's), that team won't look a thing like it did com 2013.
And here's the part that really bothers me the most. The Angel of Stern now says his top priority, before he retires and goes off to his almost-finished 8th level of hell, is to return a team back to Seattle. So now, in order to get the team back that I fell head over heels in love with in 1979, got into playing basketball and patterned my game after the legendary Gus Williams, raced home from church on those VERY few days when they were on "The NBA on CBS" (usually when they were playing the Lakers or Celtics, cuz that's all they showed back then), threw my Dale Ellis t-shirt at my TV the moment it was announced they were drafting some kid Shawn Kemp, only to eat my words many years later and bought an authentic jersey of his the last year they wore my all-time favorite jersey (the one with the arc across the front before they changed their jersey & logo to The Space Needle with a basketball circling it) and died a thousand rainy-day deaths the day it was announced they were going to OKC, some other team that has a fan that has grown up with THEIR team since they were in grade school is going to have to move. Like Sacramento, who is deciding on whether to build a new arena or have streets. Spend $500 trillion on a new arena so rich men can get richer, or keep schools open. And even then, building a new stadium does NOT guarantee the team won't leave anyway (see Key Arena). I'm sick to my stomach that I have to watch some other fan lose his beloved team and all his momories so I can get mine back.
So yea, I don't really have a team.
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