#GoFrogs #GoBucks

Week 12 of college football this year is over and week 13 is soon upon us. As I look at the season so far, I am elated by how my favorite teams are doing! The Ohio State Buckeyes are 11-0 and ranked second, and the Texas Christian Horned Frogs are 11-0 and ranked fourth. 

Now, despite what it looks like on the surface level, I am not a bandwagon fan of college football (or else I'd be a Georgia fan). I have been an Ohio State fan for my entire life due to generational loyalties to the Buckeyes. And now, I attend Texas Christian University and cheer for the Horned Frogs from five or six rows up from the field in the student section (or at dorm watch-parties). Barring extreme extenuating circumstances, I will still be cheering for the Bucks and the Frogs decades down the road, while more casual fans might stray from their loyalties if their team stops doing well.

After the first half in the TCU home game against Kansas State, the score was 28-17 in favor of the Wildcats. Someone standing nearby me said that if we didn't score soon into the third quarter, he was going to go back to his dorm. This baffled me. The Horned Frogs ended up pulling out the win, scoring 14 points in the third quarter and seven points in the fourth quarter, and the student ended up staying to see it. But, what if Kansas State had won that game or if TCU would've been shut out in the third quarter? That guy would've left. I would've stayed.

To put my point succinctly, "If you can't cheer for a team when they're losing, you don't deserve to cheer for them when they are good." If you truly support a team, you should be a proud fan despite any win/loss ratio. I think it is awesome that, despite some ups and downs, The Ohio State Buckeyes have never really had a bad football season while I've been alive to see it. But, even if it's not always that way, I will always wear scarlet and gray. There is no guarantee that the Horned Frogs will continue to thrive at this high level, but I will always bleed purple.

This doesn't just apply to college football, either. Take the MLB. I was born and raised in Arizona, and so "root, root, root for the home team" meant to root for the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Diamondbacks are my only MLB alliance and just like for college football, I will always cheer them on. Unlike my college football alliances however, the Diamondbacks aren't good. In my life, the D-Backs have clinched their division only twice and they have finished the season with a losing record 11 times. If the Diamondbacks ever do pick themselves off the ground, though, I'll already be there cheering and it will make the good season(s) that much more fun to watch for me.

Obviously the issue of sports alliances isn't the most serious of issues, but I do believe it to be an important thing to consider. Do you deserve to cheer for your team when they're good?

I've been active over on my YouTube Channel! Check out my latest video, a public service announcement on the importance of saying "you're welcome!" in the miscellaneous playlist.