How to Pick Team #2

In response to the post below, "What We Root for When We Root for (or against) Another", I have to say this. Those elderly relations of the blogger who know John Updike personally aside, I say bullshit. No one picks the Celtics as their 2nd team. Why? Because it's against the rules. Rule #1 of picking a second team: it is the act of coward to pick a historically great team. 

Here's noted Hills douche Brody Jenner partying with Reggie Bush of the saints after they earned a trip to the Super Bowl. We all know what's wrong with this - Jenner probably doesn't know Reggie Bush from Reggie White (unless they give each other the secret L.A. handshake). He's a bandwagon fan. When you jump on the bandwagon of a medicore franchise for the Saints, who happen to be having a magical season, maybe you can be forgiven for getting caught up in the moment. 

However, that guy in Connecticut furtively burying his brand new Ben Roethlisberger jersey? He signed up with the winners so he could be associated with winners. And after a few years of being dressed in black and gold, and maybe even visiting Pittsburgh, he'll start talking your ear off about Mean Joe Green and the Immaculate Reception, and you won't even know he started following this team in 2006. The Steelers are in the high pantheon of American Sports: the All-Time Dynasty. There are maybe 6 teams across the 4 major sports that fall into this category, and Alistair, the Celtics are certainly one of them. And if you've been doing it since 2007, then it didn't just start when the Jazz got beat a couple weeks ago. 

If you want to pick a second team, pick them when they're down and you can pity them. Watch them grow. Not when they put together three and half future hall of famers and are going to their 31st NBA finals.