Or is it?  What team do root for and why do you root for them?  Is it something that you
choose to do or is it something that is locked inside you your entire life until it comes time
to show itself?  I've come to the conclusion that a favorite team is something that you have
no choice over.  You can try all that you want to convince yourself that you like another
team better, but you'll never do it.  Something inside you will not allow it.
    I will use me as an example since this is my webpage and everything and if I want to go on
an ego trip and talk about myself then that is my right.  I of course go to Florida State
University.  Now, a normal person would think that they would be my favorite team in every
sport and that I bleed Seminole maroon and gold.  Well, that would be true if it weren't for
the fact that my entire life, for reasons unbeknownst to me, I have been a Miami Hurricane
fan.  I just can't seem to help it.  I tried to like Florida State better, but I just can't do it.  This
comes up because as you know, Miami and Florida State played each other in the College
World Series championship game last weekend.  My buddy in Tallahassee who will remain
nameless (Chuck) came over to watch the game with me and he goes to Florida State also.
Well, the whole game I tried to pull for Florida State, I really tried, everytime Miami did
something good, out loud I would yell "Crap" or at least something that means the same
thing even though inside I was saying "Yes, kick the hell out of them."  At the end of the
game, when Miami won, I tried to feel sorry for FSU, I tried really hard, but I just couldn't
do it.  Something inside me was screaming, "Ha, ha, the better team won and you guys
deserved to lose and I hope you lose every year because Miami is superior to you in every
way shape and form."  Or at least something to that extreme.
    There is just something inside me that doesn't allow me to root against the Canes.  If I do,
it's like betraying how I really feel.  It's something in the depths of my soul that at birth I was
meant to be a Miami Hurricanes fan.  I don't even remember why I started liking them.  It
wasn't because anybody else in my family liked them, because my dad and brother both
dislike them and severely wish I'd fallen in love with another team.  But I didn't.  It's not my
fault, at no time in my life did I make a conscious decision to like the Canes.  I didn't say,
"Oh, I think the Canes are the team I will pull for now."  It doesn't work like that.  The good
lord made me a Miami fan.  I just can't help it.  Everytime they play everything in me pulls
for them and hates whatever team they are playing, even if it happens to be the school that I
attend.  So, I'm sorry FSU God made me do it.