I hate Michigan.
Being a fan of Ohio State, this is expected.
I also hate Penn State, Illinois, Wisconsin, Northwestern, Minnesota, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan State, and Purdue.
Yeah, they’re in “my” conference, but on any given Saturday in autumn, they play “my” team. As notoriously pessimistic as I am about the Buckeyes, there is no other school I would consider rooting for in college football.
By that logic, I also hate the Gators, LSU, and USC, just for spending five years in the Trojan bandwagon hell that is Orange County. Trying to find a Trojan fan in Orange County that doesn’t just like the team because “they win a lot” is like trying to ask Lee Corso to stop picking winners by wearing the foam heads of mascots on “Game Day.”
Does that mean I hate Gator, Tiger, Wolverine and Trojan fans that passionately follow their teams through all their respective ups and downs as much as I do with the Buckeyes?
Hell no.
As a matter of fact, some of the most intelligent sports discussions I’ve had have been with Trojan fans when I lived in Southern California, and even a couple of Gator fans at the Phoenix airport after that embarrassing 41-14 slaughtering the night before in January 2007.
I’ve even gone so far as to congratulate Wolverine fans for doing what we couldn’t a year earlier—defeating Florida, which they did in the Capitol One Bowl last January.
However, that doesn’t mean that I didn’t take a perverse delight in watching Michigan (also known to Buckeye fans as “SCUM," “That School Up North,” or "TSUN") fall to Appalachian State and Oregon earlier in the 2007 season.
The Buckeyes lost to both Florida and LSU in embarrassing fashion, and everyone outside the state of Ohio was drinking Buckeye—flavored Haterade. We were “too slow” and “couldn’t keep up with the SEC speed” and whatever other examples were rubbed in our faces to explain the slaughtering in back-to-back championship games.
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