Fair-Weather Fans: Are You Supporting Your Team, or Is Your Team Supporting You?

I was watching the USC game last Thursday in a pretty crowded sports bar. Needless to say, I was surrounded by cardinal and gold, which isn’t exactly my cup of tea, but hey—there was a football game on and the No. 1 ranked team in the nation was playing, so I couldn’t complain.   I’m a Wisconsin Badger fan. Any team playing against a better team than my Badgers, I am rooting for. Of course, I was rooting for Oregon State, though I really thought there was no way they could upset USC.   The point of this article is not to talk about the win against USC or who my favorite team is. What I want to write about is the loyalty of sports fans.    As I said earlier, the bar was full of USC fans, most of them hungry for that next win—confident that their Trojans were going to walk away with another victory.   There seemed no worry, even after their team went down 7-0. I actually heard a guy say, “Ah, no big deal. That’s ... (link)