I understand I may not be one of the people you were responding to, but I feel I need to make this point. I fully understand that people who go here may have very deep and very personal sentimental reasons to cheer for other teams. I have no problem with that. I'm (and I know this is the wrong thing to say in a discussion with an OSU fan) a lifelong Michigan fan. I was born in Detroit and grew up watching the games with my family. I can certainly understand your point. BUT, when I chose to come to BG, I became a Falcon and nobody takes precedence over them. (And, call me crazy, but I don't see OSU fans taking it too lightly if a kid waltzes around OSU's campus in Miami gear and says they're his favorite and he wants them to beat OSU.)OilerBuck wrote:1. Roots - ... Many have grown up following the Buckeyes on TV, cheering them on with their families and friends. My dad and I have had season tickets and gone to games, since I was a child. That was a special bond between him and I. Maybe it's nostalgia taking over, but I have entirely too many great and painful memories of past Saturdays in the Shoe.
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Congratulations on being Bowling Green fans. I'm dead serious when I say it takes awesome effort and school spirit. ... I admire it.
My main concern is that if a person chooses this University, they are choosing to let their education be represented by the diploma granted to them by this institution. It would be difficult to argue against the point that athletics programs are one of the national (and international) faces of said University. By choosing to root against the national/international face of your own University, you're basically asking to have the reputation of your school and your diploma de-valued. This makes little sense to me. But hey, that's just logic speaking, I know it has no place in a football discussion.
I also appreciate the fact that you admittedly give respect to us for being BG fans. That's not something we hear often out of fans of that particular institution when they come over to this board. The one thing I will say though, is that it's hard to believe a word you say about respect when you make statements like, "...who is winning in the Bowling Green vs. South East Central Alaska Tech A&M State University at Anchorage game." I understand we've played some obscure teams (Southeast Missouri State, for example), but the fact of the matter is, we also don't shy away from playing teams like Pitt, Purdue, Northwestern, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, OSU, Michigan and more, and we have a history of hanging close or pulling upsets. I think that deserves a lot more respect than we're getting. And even when we are playing an obscure school, as Warthog pointed out, we have a quality radio network to carry our games.
I'll admit people on here have gotten a little crazy with the anti-OSU stuff, by you have to understand that full-time OSU fans who post respectfully around here are usually in the minority and we're used to being dissed and dismissed by pompous meatheads. Yeah, the reception's rough, but if you weed out the kids who are just out to look big and bad, you'll see there are quite a few posters on here who are more than willing to respectfully talk football with respectful OSU fans.
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