[efsavage]

Agreed, it seems odd to be a fan of a team when they aren't "your" team, as in you can go and actually see them on a regular basis.

Racing and golf are examples of successful sports that don't have geographic ties, and they're both mostly individual-driven. Racing has teams, but nobody really cares about them.

[jameshart]

I’m assuming by ‘racing’ you mean motor racing.

‘Nobody’ cares about racing teams?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tifosi

[fernandopj]

> Racing has teams, but nobody really cares about them

Italians and Ferrari would strongly disagree with you

[Semaphor]

On the one hand, yeah. On the other, I know many Germans became Ferrari fans while they had Michael Schumacher.

[Godel_unicode]

Yeah, people not caring about the teams is really just applicable to NASCAR in my experience.