OK to root for your race/ethnicity in sports? (1 Viewer)

[fantasycurse42]

I'm Native American and love the Redskins.

 

[Rohn Jambo]

I earned some points when I briefly rooted for Tiger Woods.

 

[Sabertooth]

I root for the Packers. I think they started 7 white guys on offense last year. Heck I'd say the 5 best players on the team were white.

 

[Insein]

I root for the Packers. I think they started 7 white guys on offense last year. Heck I'd say the 5 best players on the team were white.

The other teams kept letting Jordy run by them because they thought he couldn't.

 

[Righetti]

I think rooting for a nationality is acceptable in almost every situation

 

[General Tso]

I tend to root for whoever sticks out. The black hockey player, white basketball player, gay football player...

 

[Mister CIA]

Welsh and French guy here. Except for Tony Parker and that race car driver in Talladega Nights, I've never really rooted for my own ethnicity.

 

[TripItUp]

I think rooting for a nationality is acceptable in almost every situation

Agreed. Different premise than the OP.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I tend to root for whoever sticks out. The black hockey player, white basketball player, gay football player...

I want to see a 300 pound punter.

 

[NCCommish]

We are all the same race. The question is about skin tone. That's just how silly all this racial nonsense is.

And no I don't root for or against anyone based on their skin tone. I root for the teams I support and all the players on them. I don't really follow individual sports so on the occasions I do I tend to root for the underdog.

Wanted to add that like many Americans I am a mutt so ethnicity doesn't enter into the equation.

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

"Oh, the game is on? Who's playing?"

"Giants and Cowboys."

"Who are you rooting for?"

"All the white players."

 

[Fennis]

I root for the favorites, I like to see them crush the underdogs.

 

[General Tso]

I tend to root for whoever sticks out. The black hockey player, white basketball player, gay football player...

I want to see a 300 pound punter.

Reggie Roby was close wasn't he? He porked up nicely towards the end of his career.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

I root for the favorites, I like to see them crush the underdogs.

It's always nice to be right most of the time.