Bandwagon Fans

Why are there bandwagon fans? Do people feel such a need for winning that they abandon the team they love for a team that's winning? Why can't people just love one team, through thick and thin?

I have been a lifelong fan of the Cincinnati Reds, Bengals, and Bearcats. The Bengals didn't become a winning team until the last couple of years, but that run has been shortlived. If they go back to the Bengals of old, I will still be the same old fan. I'll watch their games every Sunday, and keep cheering until we get to the playoffs. The Reds are finally becoming a good team again, but I never stopped loving them. I went to game after game while they were bad, and I'll go to game after game while they're good. My beloved Bearcats have been excellent my whole life, up until they fired Bob Huggins. Just because they have faltered, I'm not going to quit loving them.

Many people are quick to jump off a team's bandwagon just because they stop winning. Who cares? They are the same team, they just need help. They're not going to get better because somebody quits supporting them, so why do it? What does it prove if you quit supporting one team, and support a team that is winning? I guess that just shows how little of a fan you actually are. What's the competition in it? Hopefully people support the team, because those are the true fans that can get the team back on track.

Teams like Duke, North Carolina, UCLA, Kentucky, they all have tons of fans. It's not that people have supported them forever, it's that people want to support a winner. Why not try to make your team a winner. It might not be much, but if you support an organization like UCats, which is the booster program for the UC Bearcats, you are supporting your team. You are helping your team build a foundation for forever. That way those fans are jumping on your bandwagon, not off.

The New England Patriots

The New England Patriots are now perfect. They accomplished something that only one other team has ever done, they had a perfect regular season. They showed that even in a salary cap era, there can still be dynasties. Weather or not they win the Super Bowl, they can take home that they truely were the best team of our generation. What that means to them I don't know. They aren't a team that would seem to take pride in that, as they will only be happy with a Super Bowl victory.
Have the Patriots gotten lucky? Sure, they have gotten lucky. Heck, that's part of sports. When you have two teams of the best athletes in the world, sometimes the game doesn't come down to talent. The Dolphins got lucky in their perfect season, so why shouldn't the Patriots? The funny thing about luck is that you never know when it will turn on you. The Pats are just hoping that doesn't happen soon.
I have wondered weather of not I should root for the Patriots. After all, I am a life-long Bengals' fan. I have spent years rooting for a team that never seems to come out on top. So why should I all the sudden be rooting for the Patriots, who always seem to come out on top? I guess that it's jelousy. I watch them, hoping that one day, that will be the Bengals. I sure hope I'm right too.

You stay classy New England.







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