Sports Fans

Yesterday, the Steelers won a football game that ensures them a place in the Super Bowl. I am very glad they won but I don't really love football. I do love when my family and friends are happy so I have always rooted for whatever team would make them pleased. I live among some diehard sports fans. It isn't just my husband (who has two shelf units full of t-shirts and sweatshirts, all with logos of some kind, and an entire top of the hall closet full of logo'd hats.) His favorite teams are the Pittsburgh Steelers and Notre Dame. I actually shopped in his shelves this morning to find a great Steelers sweatshirt to wear to rehab to impress my physical therapist.

Also there are the younger fans. Laura and Jason like Tampa since they lived there for three years but they also like the Steelers. Their college choice is Ohio State Buckeyes. You might think it's my son-in-law who's the biggest fan and he does play in a fantasy league and he loves his sports, but Laura is right with him. She has favorite announcers and referees. I never knew you could even know who the referees were. Kai at eleven knows more about the pro players and where they went to college than his PapPap does. So far Quinn is oblivious.

Lisa and Jeremy root for the Bengals since Jeremy grew up in Cincinnati but also have to support the Steelers as Joe has engrained it into his daughters that the Steelers rule. They too love Ohio State Buckeyes. Jack, at 10 months, has several outfits to keep him appropriately loyal but many are Ohio University.

Joe, Laura, Lisa, Jeremy, and I are Bobcats and always want them to win. We admit that Jason attended Ohio State but he lived in Athens for a year and I think a little green and white might have migrated into his psyche.

I never really care who wins a sporting event -- I only want the people I love to be happy -- So I root for whoever they do! I am totally fickle and capable of rooting for both sides if necessary.