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bestcee said:
My uncle is a huge Tigers fan! He grew up in Southern Ontario Canada, and so the Tigers were his team because he didn't like the Blue Jays. They are still his team today. He worked with automobiles, so I wonder if there's a connection there for him too?
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Most likely there is a connection. It's The Motor City, so there must be! When you live around there, you do get "Detroit teams fever". That whole area goes crazy - especially if any of the Detroit teams are in playoffs. Hockey is really crazy - when the Wings were in playoffs, everywhere we went they were selling octopi - people used to throw them on the ice.
 
bestcee said:
And this sounds crazy to non hockey fans. :giggle But it's pretty awesome history!
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They do have a long and colorful history. The management tries to stop the throwing of the octopi, but people still smuggle them in. I can't imagine having one of those stinky things in my pocket. My hubby says the knickname for the octopi is "Al". They have octopus cakes, breads, donuts, etc. all over the stores, too. It's "Hockey Town" during Wing's seasons.
 
My cousin spent 2 (maybe 3) years with the Detroit Lions in the mid 70's. He played during pre-season his first year since the NFL players were on strike. When they came back from the strike, he was cut from the roster but the coach liked him and kept him as a statistician. He left on his own and got a job in sales in the Toledo area but kept his ties to the organization. For 3 or 4 years in the early 90's, the family would go to the Thanksgiving Day game. My parents went to 2 of them. I attended 1 as I worked in a hospital at the time and my holiday to work was Thanksgiving (got Christmas/New Year's off though). Even though he now lives in Orlando, he is still a fan of the Lions. He prefers college football and has now become a fan of Florida, even having season tickets (both daughters went to school there, one undergrad, one graduate/medical school). He played football for Toledo and kept his ties to the team there as well... tries to come back every couple of years for a game in Toledo.

Relationships due to sports are definitely unique. Bruce is very good friends with several of the Toledo coaches that coached long after he was out of the program! He has kept in touch with several of his teammates all these years as well and he's been out of college 45 years.
 
That's awesome Rene @HavaDrPepper !
I know my brothers are still in touch with a hockey couch from 20 years ago. It's crazy how those long relationships form.
 
Cherylndesigns said:
He went to General Motors Institute in Flint, but says he remembers listening to the Tigers on the radio long before that.
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(Now Kettering University; before that, when I went, it was GMI Engineering & Management Institute, where the GMI didn't stand for anything, since GM no longer owned it. Your husband must have graduated before 1982?)

My college (see above, LOL) didn't have any competitive sports teams, and I don't follow any other sports myself, college or otherwise. My husband and I used to watch the Red Wings when we first married, but it's been a long time since we've been able to even do that.
 
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