Syracuse Fans Are Baltimore Ravens Fans For The Next Month
by Sean Keeley on Jan 10, 2011 11:05 AM EST
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Assuming you don't have an allegiance to another team in the playoffs, that is.
With Dwight Freeney, Taj Smith and the rest of the Colts eliminated from the NFL Playoffs, the Baltimore Ravens are the lone multi-Cuse'd NFL team left alive.
Baltimore defensive lineman Arthur Jones and linebacker Jameel McClain take on the Pittsburgh Steelers in what is sure to be an emotional battle, not just for the divisional rivalry but due to the Ed Reed situation as well.
McClain had four tackles and two assists in the Ravens' win over the Chiefs. Jones didn't record any statistics in the game.
So we know you're pulling for the Ravens to beat the Steelers. Who are you rooting for in the other games?
Jets vs. Patriots: Believe it or not, you're rooting for the Pats (Offensive tackle Quinn Ojinnaka).
Packers vs. Falcons: You're a cheesehead for this one (Safety Anthony Smith).
Seahawks vs. Bears: You love anarchy cause you're all about the Hawks (Kicker Olindo Mare). Mare was 2-for-2 on Field Goals and 5-for-5 on extra points in Seattle's crazy upset over the Saints.
Since no one wants to see Seattle in the Super Bowl (as the game itself would implode), it looks like Syracuse fans are rooting for Ravens-Packers in the Big Game. Not the sexiest match-up, but certainly the Cuse-iest.
BTW, the Jets don't have any Syracuse players on their roster, though I suppose some of you are rooting for them regardless. I have to say, they've got quite the gauntlet to run here. If they do beat the Pats and then theoretically beat the Steelers the following week, they will have beaten every AFC Super Bowl team since 2004 to get there.
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“Since no one wants to see Seattle in the Super Bowl (as the game itself would implode), it looks like Syracuse fans are rooting for Ravens-Packers in the Big Game.”
Packers/Ravens was a popular pre-season Superbowl prediction.
I guess I’ll pull for the Ravens now. Still so bummed out about the Eagles I’m not sure how much I’ll watch though. (yeah, that was a mess grammatically, but I’m tired and too lazy to change it)
Never argue with an idiot. They'll bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
Ravens Packers
was my Superbowl pick in the preseason. I’ve got money on both teams from my September trip to Vegas.
Guess I'm the exception
"Since no one wants to see Seattle in the Super Bowl (as the game itself would implode), it looks like Syracuse fans are rooting for Ravens-Packers in the Big Game."
As probably the only Hawks fan in CNY, implosion or not, go to root for my team.
I'll high-five some Seahawk fans for you
TONS of Hawks gear out right now.
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NFC West vindicated!
Sorry, as a Niners fan, I’m looking for any silver lining I can find. I wasn’t actually rooting for Seattle (or GB, or the Jets).
I just wanna tell you both good luck, and we're all counting on you.
Anthony Smith's on IR
Smith is out for the year with an ankle injury and only ended up playing about 2 games for the packers when they traded for him from jacksonville. Arther Jones hasn’t played all year so McClain & Mare are really the only 2 regular active players.
by sieg44 on Jan 10, 2011 12:41 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Eh. GO PATRIOTS!
'Cuse 2010, Michigan 2012
by Orange22 on Jan 10, 2011 1:15 PM EST via mobile reply actions
Heck no, down with Baltimore!
If it weren’t for Pitt (a gigantic IF, I know), Pittsburgh would be a flawless sports city.
Pirates? What are these “Pirates” you speak of?
As a Browns fan
I’d rather swallow rusty nails than root for Baltimore OR Pittsburgh. That’s why I’ll be rooting for the stadium to collapse this weekend. Sorry, Art & Jameel.
Decades have past since I left Cleveland
And I’m no longer anything resembling a Browns fan. But I still hate the Ravens (and Broncos, though living in San Diego for the last decade helped keep that one going).
"Jets vs. Patriots: Believe it or not, you're rooting for the Pats (Offensive tackle Quinn Ojinnaka)."
Believe it or not, I’m not rooting for the Pats. NEVAR!!!
Go Orange(men)!
If the Pats somehow
drafted our entire 2011 Senior class I might consider hating them a little less. Cheering them would require something much more substantial – say, a halftime show consisting of Bill Belichick beating Greg Robinson with a copy of “the little engine that could”. Having his way with Greggers wife afterwards – optional.
by bloodyyank44 on Jan 10, 2011 2:44 PM EST up reply actions
against the Jets...
I’m rooting for the Pats. I’ll root for either winner of the Ravens-Steelers game over either winner of the Pats-Jets game.
I just wanna tell you both good luck, and we're all counting on you.
Rooting for the Pats is akin to rooting for Georgetown. They’re both sickening to me. I don’t think there’s a team in football where I’d say “I’d like the Pats to beat them”
Never argue with an idiot. They'll bring you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
for me that's the Cowboys
or maybe the Giants. But not the Patriots.
I just wanna tell you both good luck, and we're all counting on you.
NAWT YOU, NAWT YOU
AND NAWT YOU!
Troy Nunes Is An Absolute Magician - The Syracuse blog that cares.
Buy my book "How To Grow An Orange"
Yay for already having a good cuse-ian allegiance
GO PACK GO
Syracuse '12
by blackknight76 on Jan 10, 2011 2:51 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Lets Go Seahawks!
I’m all over Team Mare. Screw the Ravens and their Cleveland robbing Demon spawn.
The Clots could've had 21 Dwight Freeneys and a Peyton Manning
and I’d still root against them. I hate the Mannings (and I know Dwight Freeney was the key to that Super Bowl run, so I’d respect the world if they gave a Cuse kid the credit he’s due, but he’s on a team QB’d by a prettyboy good ol’ boy and that QB will get the credit) and I love my Jets, so whoever the Jets play will get trash talked, even if they went to Cuse.
That being said, I’m still gonna root HARD for the Jets no matter who they play, but if they lose, I will root for the Ravens to win because of my aunt and her connections to the team, not because of multiple Oranges.
Syracuse Fans are Baltimore Ravens Fans...
I may bleed orange in sports (SU ’69: My freshman year I saw Jim Boeheim and Dave Bing in backcourt at good old Manley, and Floyd Little and Larry Czonka in backfield in Archibald)….. but in the pros, as a native-Pittsburgher, I bleed BLACK AND GOLD! Cradle to the grave, womb to the tomb: GO STEELERS!
Really the only pro sport that I choose my rooting allegiances by how many Syracuse players are on the roster is the MLL. Yes, I watch the MLL. It’s on TV a lot and I don’t like any other summer sports. When watching pro Lacrosse I choose who I am rooting in every game by which ’cuse players are on each roster.
In every other sport, I root for Boston. Except Hockey. Which I don’t watch.
'Cuse 2010, Michigan 2012
other than the lacrosse comment
i agree with you completely. go Boston. screw hockey
"We don't lose hat and t-shirt games" - Tedy Bruschi
you? a lacrosse fan?
Why I never would’ve guessed that… (-:
Growing up hours away from any pro sports city, I never really latched onto semi-local pro teams (Bills, Giants, Jets, Yankees, Knicks, etc.). The pro teams I root for are scattered all over the place.
I just wanna tell you both good luck, and we're all counting on you.
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