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Originally posted by baltassoc
The short marriage of my parents was the temporary attempted union of a Michigan family and an Ohio State family; there are some black sheep in both families that went to Michigan State.
For reasons that my paternal grandmother can't fathom, I somehow grew up favoring (but not really embracing) Ohio State. So when it came time to choose, I went a third (or actually, fourth, I guess) way.
There's a family moratorium on athletic apparel as gifts, and that seems to keep the peace for 362 days a year. Game days are just assumed to be bad news.
(And Los Lobos rock)
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Same here. I come from a long line of Mets fans (Dad's side -- live in NY) and Cubs fans (Mom's side from IL). Lot of tension on both sides. Naturally I piss them all off and grow up a Cardinals fan (we lived in St. Louis for much of the time).
Naturally, though, I get older and marry another Cubs fan. Now the war is on between my St. Louis relatives (many of whom got sick of the endless losing and converted during the Cards heyday in the 80's) and my Cub fan in-laws with competing gifts to our kids, etc.
