Blame it all on my roots..

[BFritz21]

Grew up here, so always had a natural following, but I grew up playing football and loved college football so much more than the NFL because it was just more pure football.

Actually, I always wanted to play at Ohio State, and the Bengals being horrible in the 90s always made it easier to just ignore them (although I did still pull for them, which seemed kind of stupid and we didn't get to see many games because of the blackout rules *lived just over five miles from the stadium*).

After the wreck, I didn't follow much besides for local sports and watching the occasional NFL game on Monday Night Football or random games on Sundays.

In 2003, I got into fantasy football with my best friends, so I got back into the wider range of football, and my brother had just graduated college and moved back, which him and all of his friends started going to games and following the team more, so I obviously got into it more and the love for the hometown team was just ingrained in me, even though it had been gone for so long.

Now, it's just the love for football and the hometown team!