When it comes to sports teams, I’m pretty lucky.
My mom was a Jamaican immigrant raised in New York, but the only team from the city she loved was the Yankees. And for it I was able to experience four pennants in the 90’s in my favorite (and collegiate) sport, baseball.
My dad was raised, as was I, in Pittsburgh. Home to the Steelers and to the Penguins. I bled Black and Yellow while living through a dominate stretch of football spanning decades, reveled in two Super Bowl victories and cried over a third. Hall of fame players were and still are the norm for the Steelers alumni.