So I have failed as a parent, not in everything, but in developing the next generation of sport fans. I am not a big fan of New England sports and do not like any of the New York teams. This goes for any of the professional sports; baseball, football, basketball, or hockey. A few of these teams I despise (Yankees and Patriots) the rest I just do not care about. It is partly because of the zombie like mentality of the fan base here in the northeast.
I went to college for a little while in the midwest, and started to follow a few of the teams then (KC Chiefs and Chicago Blackhawks), the other I started following after the '86 World Series, and swore that I would never put on anything Sox ever again, no matter what, and I have kept to that. Shortly after that the Mariners drafted Junior and I have never looked back, and have been suffering ever since, but I am used to that as a former Sox fan. I don't like professional basketball, so who cares about any of the teams at that level.
My oldest is a Sox, Bruins, and Celtics fan, but is a Green Bay fan (?), total failure on part, although I did raise him properly in that he is an Arsenal fan (GO GUNNERS!). The youngest has now donned some Sox apparel and has followed in her brother's shadow and gone zombie on me. But there is some hope for her, she refuses to wear Patriot gear (smart girl), and her brother has bought her her first Arsenal kit. He has tried forcing the Packer stuff on her, but she has been reticent about wearing it. She has yet to discover hockey and basketball is never on unless it is college.
So while I do well in raising smart articulate children, that everyone likes and marvels at, I have my flaws. The younger one has just started to like teal and that is one of the Seattle colors, so maybe, just maybe there is hope yet.
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