{"id":56,"date":"2002-06-21T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2002-06-21T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/randthought.com\/wp\/?p=56"},"modified":"2002-06-21T09:27:00","modified_gmt":"2002-06-21T13:27:00","slug":"who-do-you-cheer-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randthought.com\/index.php\/2002\/06\/21\/who-do-you-cheer-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Do You Cheer For?"},"content":{"rendered":"

American’s are so fickle. Suddenly, we are all World Cup<\/a> fans and consider getting up ungodly early in the morning to watch team USA “battle” Germany normal, when a few weeks ago, half the country couldn’t even tell you we had a soccer team. As soon as they lose<\/a>, they will all go back into soccer oblivion. Why are we such fairweather fans? Is it the media? Do we really bore that easily? Are we that shallow? Sadly, for most of us, the answer is yes. Think about it, a few years ago, you were a social outcast if you didn’t like the Chicago Bulls. Once Michael Jordan “retired,” the torch was passed to Shaq and the Lakers. We’ll see how long that one lasts. Closer to home, when I first moved to C-town 6 years ago, you couldn’t beg, borrow or steal your way into Jacob’s Field<\/a> (home of the Indians); it was the envy of the league for its great fans. Where are they now? Sure, the Indians suck, but where have all these “true fans” gone? It certainly hasn’t been to see the Cavs, Browns or Rockers because they all suck, too. Wait, that’s right, I know where they are; they’re at Firestone Country Club<\/a> watching Tiger Woods play golf! Did anyone actually consider spending a beautiful Sunday indoors watching golf on television until that witch came along? His talent is amazing, that is no question, but can you really be a true fan when the only things you know about golf are the name Tiger Woods<\/a> and the word bogey<\/a>, even if you can’t define it? When is the last time you watched tennis when one of the Williams’ sister wasn’t on the court or Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi weren’t battling for bragging rights? I am beginning to think the only real fans left out there are NASCAR<\/a> fans. Oops, that one got away too. When are we going to learn? We are all being manipulated like puppets on a string. Sometimes I wonder if any of us are actually fans of anything, or if we are just too afraid to admit we don’t care because the rest of the crowd might get us. The only people you can trust are the fans you have when you are down and out; unfortunately, they usually have a sickness or some sort of unhealthy obsession. I don’t have to be the last man standing, I just want to be the one who had the guts to stand up for what I believe in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

American’s are so fickle. Suddenly, we are all World Cup fans and consider getting up ungodly early in the morning to watch team USA “battle” Germany normal, when a few weeks ago, half the country couldn’t even tell you we had a soccer team. As soon as they lose, they will all go back into […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/randthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/randthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/randthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/randthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/randthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/randthought.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}