I don’t like it.
Ok.. I don’t like the Ohio State Buckeyes. I am going to throw that out there right away to avoid any confusion about what this blog may hold. I may piss you off with this blog. At this point, I’m not even going to say what college teams I like, except that I am a BGSU Falcons fan and a Cincinnati Bearcats fan (my first school before I transferred here a year ago).
On Falcon game days it’s hard to distinguish between who goes to school here and who goes to school at Ohio State. Well, let me re-phrase that. It’s hard to distinguish between those that are proud of their school and root their own school on and those that wish they went to Ohio State and were Buckeyes instead of being Falcons. (Personally, in real-life, a falcon is waaaay cooler than a buckeye.)
The first game of the year I went with some friends to Jed’s because I’d never been and everyone wanted me to scope it out since I am still sort of a newbie at the BGSU college kid scene. When I walked into Jed’s I was disappointed because, of course, the OSU game was on the big screens. This was the game day when OSU played Youngstown State, which was a pretty boring game since everyone had a good guess as to who would come out on top. The BG game on the other hard.. We were playing no. 25 ranked PITT, and guess, what.. we won, and it was a good game to watch and I wish the majority of the school watched it while it was on. I may be mistaken, but the impression I got was that mostly everyone watched the OSU game. Oh well, I hope everyone goes to Homecoming this weekend.
The reasoning behind this OSU fan base upsetting me stems from the fact that I grew up in “Buckeye Country” in Dayton, which is give or take an hour from Columbus, depending on construction and traffic. When I transferred to BG from UC, it was really hard to not want to support my Bearcats 110% like I did for the long stint I went to school there, but I became a BG fan. I live in Bowling Green and I go to BGSU, so for me, it makes sense for who I root for on Saturday.
