Fan For Life

September 21, 2006 - 5:37 PM by Allison

You can take a guy out of the U.S., move them to Israel, up to its northern reaches, Hezbollah can throw a few hundred rockets at their house….but you can’t get rid of their team spirit. Just ask Rock of Galilee.

I haven’t seen a football game in over 3 years and I don’t even know who any of the players are. Yet somehow it really bothers me that the Lions lost to the Bears. What makes it even worse is that I ride the train every morning with someone originally from Chicago. Its not like I have pride in the city of Detroit or a great hatred of the city of Chicago. Somewhere deeply ingrained in me is a need for the team of the city that I grew up in to win. God knows that the Lions will never make it to the Super Bowl, but if they did I would probably stay up all night watching them lose. I don’t know what it is about sports that creates that magnetic pull that you are unable to break. It must be the first 18 years of life when every breath you take includes statistics and who is better and the most addictive part of all sports – the rivalry.
Because when it comes down to it, if the lions lose to the colts or
someone, I couldn’t give a damn but after a loss to Chicago (or Green
Bay for that matter) I just have to say to the Lions, In the name of
all the people who have a connection to Detroit sports, you let us down.

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