For what it's worth, I grew up (and still am) in NY. I'm a Boston Celtic and Sox fan, along with the 49ers. Go figure.
DanF
----- Original Message ----- From: "Vinny Natale" <vnatale@xxxxxxx> To: <celtics@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 12:39 PM Subject: Eric Williams...
> I follow three teams - Providence College, the Yankees, and the > Celtics. And Eric Williams is all of them wrapped up into one! > > Vinny > > > THE PRINCE SPEAKS > > > You can take the boy out of Yankees country, but you can't take the Yankees > out of the boy. So when you ask Celtics forward Eric Williams -- a Newark > native -- if he's still a Yankees fan, he reaches up into his locker and > grabs a white hat with that familiar interlocking NY symbol. > > > "That give you an answer?" Williams said. "I wear my Yankee hat everywhere > I go. In Boston. In the locker room. Doesn't matter." > > > But isn't being a Yankee fan sort of an occupational hazard for an athlete > in Boston? > > > "Here's what I tell people in Boston," Williams said. "If you grew up in > Boston, if you went to school in Boston, and then you moved to New York for > a big money job, would you become a Yankees fan? Of course not. So I'm not > going to change, either. > > > "You can't take my childhood away. I was a Yankees fan back when Phil > Rizutto was calling the games. The teams weren't very good back then, but > we still had the tradition. I was a Dave Winfield fan. Him and Tommy John, > Ron Guidry, Dave Righetti -- those were my guys. Growing up, I breathed New > York Yankees. And I still do."