Are you ready for some Football??? Week one is underway, and besides Fantasy Football, the Marlins players also have allegiances to certain teams. Being an Eagles fan, I already knew who the Eagles supporters in the clubhouse were: Brendan Donnelly and Dan Meyer. On the flip side, there are way too many Cowboy fans in there – Cody Ross, Bo Porter, and Brian Sanches. At least Burke Badenhop told me he strongly dislikes the Cowboys, though he doesn’t really have a favorite NFL team; I enjoyed hearing that.

Locally we only have two Dolphins fans in Gaby Sanchez and Jeff Urgelles. Ross Gload was caught wearing his Jets shirt today, and that won’t make the locals too happy I’m sure. But across the state, Chris Coghlan supports the Bucs – his favorite player was Derrick Brooks.

I did confirm today that Jeremy Hermida is indeed a Gator fan, though he grew up in Atlanta; he said it’s because of his parents and he was definitely the underdog in high school – most of his friends liked the Georgia Bulldogs of course. Back to the NFL – his team for that at least makes sense, the Atlanta Falcons.

Andrew Miller is a Jaguars fan – he had season tickets. But the other dominant team in the clubhouse was the Tennessee Titans believe it or not: Brett Carroll, Dan Uggla and Sean West. Meanwhile, Cameron Maybin pulls for the Carolina Panthers.

Over to the west coast, Tim Wood flies with the Cardinals, Nick Johnson’s a 49ers fan and Jorge Cantu likes da Raaaaiders.

A nice number of the guys in the clubhouse prefer soccer though, in their mind, the real football. I spoke with Rick VandenHurk about it a bit, and his favorite is the local team where he’s from, PSV Eindhoven. Apparently they’re number one in their conference right now. Last time he went to a game was January, and he had season tickets – still follows them on the Internet while he’s over here.

So there doesn’t seem to be too many rivalries in the clubhouse for NFL teams, besides the Eagles-Cowboys domination. And as I write this, both teams are winning in week one. Let’s see what happens Sunday night, November 8th when they faceoff.