Why I'm a Dodgers Fan...

This was the birth of a Dodgers fan. I was 6 years old and I watched this game with my dad. At the time I didn't understand the significance of this moment, I saw my dad's reaction and I knew something big had happened. And so, as any boy wants to be like his dad, I became a Dodger fan. I grew up in LaHabra until I was 5 and had been an Angels fan because it was convenient. This one video (and I wish I could find the whole back story video to this moment) never fails to make me misty-eyed. What Kirk Gibson meant to the Dodgers this particular year, and what this home run meant for the Dodgers in this World Series makes this moment really heavy. He was the league MVP and in the playoff series before this, he hit a homerun and to keep the Dodgers alive, and then hurt his already ailing knee further. So in this at-bat, he's come out of the dugout after not playing the whole game and the whole at bat he is having trouble just standing and this was his first and only at-bat in the World Series. This moment is iconic in baseball and Dodger history. Any time this is being relived on TV I stop and watch.

These next two videos are from the same game, but the series of events is so unpredictable that you can't find one video with everything in it. I wish I could find actual footage, but this is the best I could find, which really is better for showing the raw emotion in the stadium that night. I don't remember the significance of this game, it may have been a meaningless game, but the opponent (Padres) coupled with what happened makes this huge. At the beginning of the 1st video the Dodgers are losing 9-5 in the bottom of the 9th and the Padres are basically just going through the motions to close out the game. The Dodgers then hit 4 consecutive homeruns to tie the game, and then in the 2nd video, they hit a home run in the bottom of the 10th inning to win the game. 

Besides all of this, I like the Dodgers because they are almost always the underdogs, they are almost always counted out, they almost always underachieve, and because they're on the west coast, don't get a lot of media attention. I like that the stadium is a 'baseball' stadium. No playgrounds, no pools, no extra curricular activities in the stadium. When you go to Dodger Stadium, you're going to watch a baseball game and nothing else. It's the same reason I respect Red Sox, Yankees, and Cubs fans. You can tell they show up to watch the game and they know the rules well. They know game situations and pick up on things much faster than the casual fan that may go to a game. 
Apart from having one of the most storied franchises and oldest stadiums, the Dodgers posses one of the best announcers in all of sports who has been broadcasting games for over 50 years. 
Simple colors, simple uniform, simple logo.