The other day I was talking to a friend about the SDSU vs Washington State football game we went to a few days ago. Surprisingly that was the first SDSU football game I've ever been to. While we were talking about the game, my buddy mentioned how good the game was. Somehow I didn't even notice. I started wondering how I didn't notice. It was either because I was too drunk or I just don't care if we won or loss. The more I think about it, I believe drinking was part of it, but I mostly just didn't care.
Then I started thinking about all the teams I identify with: Seattle Seahawks, San Diego Chargers, San Diego Padres (kind of) and SDSU men's basketball. I'm a Seahawks fan because I grew up watching Seahawks games with my dad. I can still remember him always wearing his Seahawks jersey every time a game was played on TV. I became a Chargers and Padres fan while growing up in San Diego going to the games with my dad. I always assumed I grew into caring more about Chargers football as became a teenager, but now that I think about it, it's possible I became a fan when we started doing well a few years back. I've only recently started to care about SDSU basketball in the last few years, even before I became a student at SDSU, but I hopped on the bandwagon when they started doing well.
So I guess what it comes down to is that I might be a bandwagon fan. The more I think about it, what's so bad about being a bandwagon fan? I cared about all these teams before they were good, but once they started playing really well I really started to pay attention. What kind of a fan wants to love a team that is horrible year after year? Maybe more of us are bandwagon fans than we thought...
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