Originally Posted by
BiffTFinancial
i grew up rooting for UNC because my dad is UNC fan. same with the Redskins. watched pretty much every televised game they played from mid-80s through about 1999 (loved those Thursday night Jefferson-Pilot games). i watched the Chris Webber timeout on Franklin Street at a bar and slept in a homeless shelter that night (cops wouldn't let anyone sleep in cars). what happened? i grew up, went to college, now i root for William & Mary and Ohio State because i went to school there (almost went to Duke too, getting over childhood super-fanship is part of being an adult). i've never liked Roy Williams, and i've never liked the Yankees or the Stillers or the Cowboys or Kentucky, and as a gambler, rooting for UNC sucks. i've gradually stopped rooting for them (a) because it was no fun, (b) Roy Williams is a clown, and (c) identifying so closely with a popular persistent fave school you did not attend is just weird. in fact, fighting over fanship and tying up all kinds of emotions in rooting interests in general is creepy.
whatever your opinion is of that, i could care less. go back to picking fights with strangers over shit that doesn't matter.