Anyone who knows me on here probably knows I'm a Chicago sports fan. I grew up in the Chicago suburbs and have a lot of love for the city itself. It's not perfect, but it's my home metropolitan area. I'll back any sports team if it represents the Windy City. Given these facts, you might assume that the first team I ever considered myself a fan of was one of the Chicago teams. Believe it or not, that wasn't the case.

It was a moment of my childhood that I'll always remember. My father was big on teaching us kids things. He wanted us to learn all the states and their capitals, all the U.S. Presidents, and even all the Major League Baseball teams. Rather than just telling us the names of the teams, he tried to teach us by letting us guess along the way. For one team, who played in Montr