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[QUOTE="OrangeDW, post: 2925788, member: 2458"]
No.  Buffalo is hours away too.  They aren’t the home team.

Everyone has a different story.  Moving to different cities, where you went to school, etc...that’s a whole different ball game.  Pretty clear to me he’s talking about locals with no connections to Duke.  Not people who moved here from N.C.  Not Duke grads.

It is hard to fathom how someone born and raised in Syracuse, NY or very close by becomes a Duke fan or a Hoya fan.

Some of you are doing too much with this.

That some of you grew up elsewhere(I’m noticing many from large cities - completely different dynamics there), doesn’t change his point.  Growing up in Philly or NYC or a place without a major college program nearby is completely different than growing up in a “one horse town”(Buzz was right on that one, sorry).

Someone growing up in Lexington, Kentucky being a fan of someone other than UK.  Growing up in Lawrence, Kansas and not being a Jayhawk fan.   Growing up in Bloomington, Indiana and not rooting for the Hoosiers.

These smaller cities that have college programs with massive followings - it’s kindve odd when someone grows up there and roots for their rival or a school that everyone else hates.
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