How the heck do you manage to be a F$U fan, a Duke fan, a Celtics fan, and a Red Sox fan? Is it just front-running (like those "oh, I like the Cowboys and the Lakers and Notre Dame" people), or do you have some sort of bizarre "lived all over the place" background?

I grew up in Atlanta, went to school at Georgia Tech, and work for Georgia Tech - it's pretty easy to track my fandom.

Braves fan since 1982, the first year I can remember really paying attention to baseball as a kid. Hate the Yankees. Tolerate the Red Sox because I hate the Yankees, and because of Varitek (and formerly for Nomar), two former GT players from when I was in college. But the Red Sox are well on their way to BECOMING the Yankees, so I'm ready for them to be taken down a notch.

Falcons fan, to the extent that I care about the NFL. It's easier to be a Falcons fan now that the team seems to have competent ownership and coaching - I had a hard time stomaching the Mora era, the Petrino debacle, the Glanville years, etc., but it looks like the team is finally heading in a direction that I can support unreservedly. I found myself pulling for the Cardinals in the Superbowl even though they knocked the Falcons out of the playoffs - Ken Whisenhunt was a former Tech and Falcons player, so that team was pretty easy to root for.

And I'm a GT fan for everything college - no picking and choosing, I'm in for better or worse. (I mostly care about football, though. I'm not really into basketball or baseball beyond listening on the radio if I'm in the car, but I travel to all our football games, home and away.) My hatred for U[sic]GA and Notre Dame knows no bounds. :-)

JRjr