Being a Fan

Why are we fans of sports? How is it that we use professional teams to define part of us? I know most people in the world don't have a team, but they have something. For me, being a sports nut, and a proud Chicagoan, I use my teams. I AM A SOUTHSIDER! I BEAR DOWN. I run with the BULLS with the best of them. I wear my heart on my sleeve every pitch of every inning every summer. I back the Sox in the fan frontlines, and i wear Black to ensure that no one is mistaken. I will get into discussions with geo-political fervor over why my team is so much better than yours. Hell, I even use my fantastic memory and amateur clarivoyant skills to decifer the next pitch, or next play, or next offensive set. I do this with a straight face and no pretense that I am not even on the teams and benefit in any financial way.

The question is why? Why immerse ourselves? I think it is because we like to be associated with something. For me, I like to represent my city. For others, they want to be represented by a winner. Which explains how a colombian with no sense of anything becoming a New York Fluffer. Still, it is our obsession that compels the question why. How we rationalize the heroin high after a win and the depressing crash after a loss.

It is like a religion. A choice that has deep effect. Don't believe me? For the sports nuts out there, would you date someone who roots for your rival? Southsiders, would you date a Cub Fan? Yankees, how does Boston ass rank on your desirability scale? CArdinals, u would bang a bleacher bum, but would you treat them with any respect?

I know I am not alone when I live and breathe this stuff. I know how good it feels to be united behind a cause that doesn't require me getting shot in the desert or laying down on the street in front of tanks. I have my uniform, I have my colors. I have my passion.

So LETS GO GO GO WHITE SOX
BEAR DOWN CHICAGO BEARS
IT IS ALL ABOUT THE Ws and THE RINGS, BULLS

and yes...I have not forgotten u, you lovable bastards...LETS GO MORTON MUSTANGS!


-iz3y!