1. We as Ohio fans are sort of devotees of an outlawed pirate radio station off the coast of
Appalachia that can't be heard anywhere without secret decoder rings. (What a mixed metaphor! Yikes!)This is the place to plug in our secret decoder rings. Often I feel like I'm rooting for something alone. When you come here, you realize other people love the school and the athletic programs as much as you do. More than even going to Peden or the Convo and getting stuck by a 22 year old who will leave at halftime and smells like the bottom shelf had a shelf life and needed to be stored in their stomach.(Awful metaphor! Yikes!)
2. I've met a few. They had no idea who I was when I talked to them. The biggest problem with the whole decoder ring thing is: it makes you so nerdy you don't want to admit to it in real life. I don't really come here to interact with other Ohio fans. I just like knowing they're there. At a safe distance from me and those I love.
3. I think 90 percent of the users don't actually type anything down. They are the sane ones who lead productive lives. The rest of us are insane. Clinically insane people who argue over whether we should be known as OU or Ohio or or The Artist Formerly Known as Ohio U. We all have grandiose and shockingly intricate ideas for how Ohio becomes a major collegiate power, how Peden will one day have a Jamba Juice in a newly-added solid gold upper deck built by virgins, and how pretzels are too or are not soft enough at concession stands. One person got kicked out of a basketball game. Another threatened to leave the stadium at halftime because we played Wofford. Other fanships don't think about these things. We...we are nerds. I say that in as loving way as I can.
4. The place gives you a sort of peer pressure to be more supportive.
Every year at MAC tourney time in basketball there is a thread that basically threatens the life of any board member who isn't in Cleveland. We largely acquiesce.
Last Edited: 10/24/2011 3:24:56 PM by Brian Smith (No, not that one)