Did you follow your old man?

[SweetLeftFoot]

Had no choice. Family on my Dad's side all die hard North - to the point where my Granddad was a life member who owned a shop on Errol Street. Simply impossible I could have been anything else and wouldn't have it any other way.

 

[SweetLeftFoot]

I came over from NZ to half of my family living here who all followed Collingwood. All I heard was that Collingwood was going to win the 1980 GF - so my first game was watching Richmond win the 1980 GF - against Collingwood. It turned me off Collingwood, and as I don't like following the sheep I went for a smaller unfashionable club that had a lot of character and guts - still happy I did, but wish they would hurry up and win their 2nd premiership.

Good on you for doing that. Nothing worse than someone who turns up and just goes for wehoever is successful at the time: have a Kiwi mate with an Irish girlfriend who turned up to live here just as Geelong got good in 07. Having them hang shit on me over that Quaifying Final pumping when they'd been following the game for five minustes was rather galling.

 

[Aussie_Roo]

My Dad followed Essendon when he was a boy, when he started dating my mother, my grandfather told him that if he was going to stick around he would have to go to the footy with him, so they could bond.

Thankfully my grandfather was a passionate North man in the 40's & 50's and my old man coverted. Since then, both my parents are North, I'm North, my sister couldn't care less about football, but both her kids are North.

My husband was always a NRL man, but he is now coverted to AFL and follows Sydney because we live in Sydney no other reason. He also has no intention of switching to GWS despite us living in Western Sydney.

I've come to conclusion that we have to move back to Melbourne, before our son starts school, because he is going to want to play what all the other kids play - NRL and he can follow North.

 

[Tarkyn_24]

Dad's a Magpies supporter and up until I was eight I had a soft spot for them but supported Sydney.

Dad didn't mind this choice as he was from Sydney, so he was quite happy for me to be a Sydnehy supporter but tiowards the end of 2000 I started watching more and more Collingwood games, picked out a favourite player and since then I've been the same as my dad. Collingwood with a soft spot for Sydney.

 

[Eatosk]

My Dad come over from England in '64 and became a Saints supporter due to landing a job in St Kilda, my mum was a Melbourne supporter. I became a Rooboy due to my Grandma's influence and her knitting me a blue and white scarf as a baby. Her brother (Les Reeves) was a North Melbourne player back in the '50's and obviously she became a Roo's supporter her self. So she got in early to make me a Rooboy before my parents could make me support their teams. Thank goodness for that, born in '73 and I have seen 4 Roo's flags, to Saints 0, Melbourne 0. Go those Rooboy's in '11.

 

[BandF]

Dad & Myself started following Subiaco in the WAFL in the late 70's as my uncle was playing for them. Then when West Coast was formed we both started to follow them simply because of the fact they were a WA team.

(Before West Coast we both had a very mild following of Hawthorn in the VFL simply due to the colour similarity's of Subiaco)

Both my Son's follow Subiaco & West Coast.

 

[greatwhiteshark]

Same as above, basically grew up with one blue eye and one red eye of my beloved West Perth.

As far as the VFL was concerned I liked Richmond but never really supported them, when Leon Baker went to Essendon I sort of followed his progress as he was from South Bunbury as I was.

Once the Eagles were formed it was a no brainer to support them.
But West Perth will always be my number one favoured football club.

 

[The_Wookie]

Dad was WA man who followed North, and conned us into it because we were too small to have any say about it. Then first week in primary school at Pascoe Vale North PS in '81 my newest friend was a carlton supporter, and he sold me on it pretty easily.

been The blues ever since. The gap widened in 87 when he followed the eagles ( i know more than a few north fans who were lost to interstate clubs on introduction for some reason), as did my brother. Not me, Blues all the way. Brisbane (birthplace) a distant second, gold coast is up there and the rest can go to hell.

 

[Godzke]

Old man was a passionate Lion supporter but by the 90s he knew they were finished and dying so he tried to be very impartial with who we should support. My head swiveled a few times before choosing Essendon when I was six. My brother regretfully (his words) North Melbourne.

Dad I think has a soft spot for the Roos and edged him a little to choose them.

 

[Philth]

Dad was a passive Collingwood fan and didn't make me follow them. it was late 70s and Kevin Bartlett became my fave player so I became a Tigers fan from a young age.

I've since moved to regional WA and have a 2 year old son. If he wants to support the Tigers that's great, but because he will rarely get to see them play live, I won't be pushing him.

 

[Bulldog Breed]

Dad's a Port supporter, but supported St Kilda before Port entered the AFL. His brother and sister also follow Port whilst my nana follows Essendon and my grandpa followed St Kilda. I did follow him in the SANFL though, both my nana and grandpa support(ed) WWT but my old man and his borther and sister supported Port Adelaide, although I've never known how he started to follow them. I also followed him with Newcastle United in the EPL.

No one on my mum's side follow footy.

 

[Zeke]

My old man and brother are Hawks supporters.

Can't remember when or why I started following Collingwood. It's just always been that way.

 

[Copernicus]

My dad was born a Pom and moved over to Australia in 1964 - the year after the Cats won the flag over Hawthorn. So I believe that's how he ended up a Cats' fan. Most of the rest of my family on both sides follows Collingwood, though I wouldn't call most of them diehards like my dad is. He dragged me along to games in the 80's as a kid and that, along with watching Ablett Sr and the score machine Geelong teams is what cemented me as a Geelong man. Have to say I am glad he did!

 

[PumpyChowdown]

Nope. My dad and my brother are Saints fans, but it was my older cousins who are fanatical Blues supporters that got me onto the Mighty Blues. Thank feck for that!

 

[big footy cyril]

Nope, but it was hard! My old man has always been the most one-eyed demon supporter to have ever lived. The first team I ever played under was a junior colts team wearing the hawk colours and so then and there my mind was made up (as a 5 yr old). Both stubborn and delighted by the hawks in the 80s (seemingly beating melbourne everytime!) my old man and I went on to passionately support against each other until the day he died. One of the most enjoyable decisions I ever made
Amongst my alltime fav days with my old man were the 88 grannie and the 96, merger match (He didnt allow ANY talking for the entire 3 hr car trip home that night, even after I ran onto the ground and was bursting)
Peace Dad

 

[GetDimmaBack]

Yes. The only reason Dad didn't play with the Dogs was that he was on plenty at Williamstown.
I saw my first Dogs game at 7, been following them ever since.

My son declared himself a Freo supporter at age 5 .
That was the day I took him to training at Whitten Oval, and then back to Dimattina's restaurant, where Dimma made a big fuss of him. Worked well!

At times, though, I think I've really just saddled him with pain...


Nah! Go Dogs!!

 

[Blues_Man]

I come from a long line of North supporters dating back to around the early 1920's.

I never had a choice, and thank god for that.

Whereas i was never brainwashed, and selected my own team to support without any influence from anyone...and i made the best choice of all

 

[millsie]

My Dad is a Magpie.

Im a Magpie.

My son is a Magpie. Unfortunately my daughter follows her mother with Carlton so the only Carlton games she will get to see is when they play the Pies.

What is it with Collingwood supporters marrying Carlton supporters? I'm married to a Carlton supporter (although I think she only barracks for them to annoy me) and so is my brother. My sister was married to a Richmond supporter but they are now divorced. Maybe it's true that opposites attract. Weird.

Anyway my Dad's a Collingwood supporter and so are all of his kids and grand kids, with the exception of my brother's 2nd son who is a St Kilda supporter.

It's strange that my Dad is a Collingwood supporter as he grew up in Richmond and his uncle played with Hawthorn. He and his brother both became Magpies when they were 9 or 10 and their uncle took them to a game and afterwards they met Phonse Kyne. I think all of my Dad's siblings and their kids are Collingwood supporters also, except for his eldest brother who is a St Kilda supporter.

 

[Danog]

Everybody in my family goes for a different team.

Dad = Geelong
Mum = Collingwood
Brother = West Coast
Me = Tiges

 

[tugga]

Old man is a passive Essendon fan and not in the slightest bit fanatical. Just enjoys footy in general.
I chose RIchmond at age 7 and although he still follows Essendon, he has more than a soft spot for the Tigers.
Every game he took me to as a kid was a Richmond game.

 

[Donstuie]

My old man's a Collingwood man, and my brother is a Richmond man. My mum is Carlton, but not really interested.

Strangely, my dad gives me more crap when Arsenal beat Man U than when Collingwood beat Carlton.

 

[Pj.Rj.Hj]

My Dad doesn't know Football from Curling. He say's that he's a Collingwood fan, chose them as a child to piss off his family who supported Melbourne back in the early 50's.

So because of my fathers complete lack of will to even mention Collingwood to me (unless asked) and general apathy to any sport I decided to support the home town team (and East Freo, via my Mother who thinks she's a Dockers fan).

 

[Fitzwah]

I ended up following my Mum in the football stakes. My Dad is a North supporter and the way our family was planned was that my dad would get the say on the first born, Mum on the second and so on. Well they ended up with 6 boys. Since I was number 5, I should have been a Roos supporter, but it wasnt to be.
The day I was born, one of my older brothers who just happened to be a Dogs supporter slipped me a doggies soft toy in my cot to instantly convert me. It also helped that my Mums cousin, Simon Beasely had a day out that weekend too. They saw it as.a sign.
Would I have seen 2 premierships by now if I was a North supporter? Yes.
But I wouldn't change it for the world. So many great memories from freezing to death down at the Western oval to the heartbreak of prelim losses in the 90's and 00's

 

[Liam Boy]

My grandfather played for North, so almost the whole extended family supports/used to support North.

 

[Hatchy1992]

I'm the first person in my family to start supporting the AFL. The rest of them are complete rugby league nuts.