Are "Da Bears" Popular in Florida?
Welcome to Paradise.
I grew up near Fenway Park, I actually lived on 'The Fenway', it's a Street. We could tell whenever one of the Red Sox got a home run by the crowd noise. But like everyone that has grown up in a city with a professional Sports team - I wasn't a fan. Kids from the suburbs were, they would wear the merchandise and not have all their good neighborhood parking spots stolen on game night.
If you grow up that way, you think of a sports team as an entertainment device that people from outside the city think is cool. Sort of like a Bennigan's, let's say you drive in from Taunton on a Friday night and you think it's cosmopolitan to order a burger from someone wearing suspenders with several items of flair. Everyone thinks that you are a mook from the suburbs but, you don't know it. You're having a good time.
I guess this hit me today when I saw someone say that they were excited because the Bears won a big game in Chicago (so all of the people that live outside the city were celebrating). Good for them. But it's another reason that paradise if such a great place to live - we are the suburbs of multiple northern cities. So go Bears, Hawks, Pirates, Orioles, Patriots, Bulls and the rest. You'll like it here and find that more of you are at our home team sports matches cheering for the away team than locals.
Sure Florida is different than where you are from but there are still plenty of people that like to enjoy sporting events and theme restaurants. So please put on your favorite game day shirt and order a Super Mushroom Menace Burger. You'll be glad you did.
I grew up near Fenway Park, I actually lived on 'The Fenway', it's a Street. We could tell whenever one of the Red Sox got a home run by the crowd noise. But like everyone that has grown up in a city with a professional Sports team - I wasn't a fan. Kids from the suburbs were, they would wear the merchandise and not have all their good neighborhood parking spots stolen on game night.
If you grow up that way, you think of a sports team as an entertainment device that people from outside the city think is cool. Sort of like a Bennigan's, let's say you drive in from Taunton on a Friday night and you think it's cosmopolitan to order a burger from someone wearing suspenders with several items of flair. Everyone thinks that you are a mook from the suburbs but, you don't know it. You're having a good time.
I guess this hit me today when I saw someone say that they were excited because the Bears won a big game in Chicago (so all of the people that live outside the city were celebrating). Good for them. But it's another reason that paradise if such a great place to live - we are the suburbs of multiple northern cities. So go Bears, Hawks, Pirates, Orioles, Patriots, Bulls and the rest. You'll like it here and find that more of you are at our home team sports matches cheering for the away team than locals.
Sure Florida is different than where you are from but there are still plenty of people that like to enjoy sporting events and theme restaurants. So please put on your favorite game day shirt and order a Super Mushroom Menace Burger. You'll be glad you did.
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