Professional Sports Fans
The 2009 World Series divided the people of New Jersey, because South Jersey residents generally root for the Philadelphia Phillies, while North Jersey and Central Jersey residents usually root for the New York Yankees or the New York Mets.
In addition to the Phillies, residents of South Jersey generally support the Philadelphia Eagles of the NFL, the Philadelphia Flyers of the NHL, the Philadelphia 76ers of the NBA, and the Philadelphia Union of the MLS.
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Famous quotes containing the words professional, sports and/or fans:
“So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.”
—G.C. (Georg Christoph)
“Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“My beautiful, my own
My only Venice—this is breath! Thy breeze
Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face!
Thy very winds feel native to my veins,
And cool them into calmness!”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)