Pittsburgh Steelers
Kordell Stewart (OK get the gay jokes out of the way). My brother went to UC Boulder in the early 90's and was there during the Hail Mary at Michigan and when Colorado was number 1 in the country. So I already idolized him, and when he went to the Steelers it was a match made in heaven. He was originally slash and then turned into a pro bowl QB. Unfortunately, my fan hood of him didn't realize he wasn't that great, but whatever.
Why UK?
Because Jamal Mashburn and Antoine Walker were my favorite players of all time.
When Jamal Mashburn was there in the early 90's I loved everything about that team. I loved the young Tony Delk, and 5'9 Travis Ford dominating. I thought that Jamal was going to be the greatest player ever, and although he wasn't, he was a solid player for a long time.
Antoine Walker carried that on with Kentucky actually winning a championship with him on it. That team had a older Tony Delk and I LOVE WALTAHHHH on it.
So when Pitino came on to coach the Celtics, I loved that he tried to make the Celtics Kentucky..... but it failed miserable.
Alabama;
I wasn't an Alabama fan at all, I didn't like them because I wasn't a big fan of the state of Alabama to begin with.
But when I was moving to New Orleans a hurricane was hitting it and I was stuck in Tuscaloosa for a while and it happened to be the start of the college football season. The people there were super nice, they gave us free meals, and let me run around Bryant Denny Stadium alone. It was sweet.
They were playing Clemson to start off that season in Atlanta, and you would have never known. The bar where we were at was packed and during every kickoff, touchdown, etc. the bar would go silent and the fight song would go on. Something I never had at URI.
So even though that's my most recent fan hood. Fuck it, they earned it.
So now you get it, fuck off.