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Originally Posted by demonrail666
Yeah, the franchise thing is an obvious issue that only very rarely occurs in football/soccer. One day the Cardinals are in Missouri, next they're in Arizona. That would irritate the fuck out of me and make it impossible for me to feel any kind of real deep rooted loyalty to any NFL side. And in baseball, aren't certain older people in NY still pissed off about the Brooklyn Dodgers moving to LA? It does happen here but only very very rarely and it's massively frowned upon when it does.
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NFL teams rarely relocate, the handful of times it has been heated. When the Colts left Baltimore, Baltimore fans vowed revenge, and stole the Browns and became the Ravens and went on to win two Championships within 16 years. Colts winning a Superbowl in Indianapolis was fuel to the fire in Baltimore. All this fueled Cleveland's fire to rebuild a new Browns team, only, really, they shouldn't have, and for 14 years the Browns have been the definition of a shit team. The Cardinals seem to work out ok in Arizona. That and Saint Louis got their revenge for losing the Cardinals by luring away the Rams who went from irrelevant but well-loved here in Los Angeles to Superbowl Champions. There are still plenty of die-hard Rams fans here in LA. Oakland rekindled their love affair with Raiders after Raiders ditched Oakland to win some Superbowls in Los Angeles, only to ditch LA to make it to the Superbowl and lose.
As to baseball, well, we in LA bleed the Dodgers, it is one of our few civic franchises and unifying cultures here in LA, even the Lakers aren't that thoroughly embedded in LA's hearts. As such, we understand some folks in New York don't like us, well, that is fine, we don't like them boys on the Yankees neither! Interestingly, there is a whole segment of Los Angeles dedicated to NOT supporting the Lakers, these are the local LakerHaterz. However, considering that as many as half of all people living in Los Angeles weren't born in Los Angeles, this seems reasonable, that they wouldn't like the Lakers because they probably came from somewhere with beef/jealousy/sour grapes..
Again, there are a lot of cities without teams, so it is common for Americans to follow different teams or to switch because there is a difference between local loyalty, and developing a following for a team.