Driving home yesterday, I passed several different cars (with OH-Hamilton County plates) with stickers and flags for non-local sports teams. Okay, yes, this is America. It's their right, but we are so fortunate to live in an area that has two professional squads (if you count the Bengals as professional) and have fantastic local college teams. We don't need to go outside of our area to find someone to root for. So, when I see cars with Tennessee Volunteer stickers on it, or Florida Gators or Michigan Wolverines, I just don't understand. If you went to those schools, I understand, but it's my experience that this area has a lot of fans of these programs in our area. Which I don't get. If you're born and raised here and didn't go to a college outside of this area, why are you a Volunteer fan? Why the Gators? Why do you have custom plates supporting a team that's 500 miles away? Why can't you support UC or Miami or Xavier or even Ohio State or Kentucky. But to me, there's no reason to pull for a non-local team. It's the same as all those Chicago Cub fans this area has. Why? Chicago isn't remotely close and it's not like the Reds are a new franchise or that the Cubs are even a successful, bandwagon team. Local Cub fans might be the most bewildering to me. Which brings me to my last point. The local Steeler fans. Is there a more odious group of human scourge than people who live here but are Steeler fans? This makes no sense other than it's easy to cheer for a team that's successful. While I don't like the Browns, I get the history of Ohio and Cleveland Browns football. Since the Bengals are the newest pro football team in Ohio, I can at least understand why there would be generations of Browns fans down here. But Steelers? Really? I don't get it and frankly, I have no kind words to describe you.

If any of these people don't appreciate the sports scene we have here including the Bearcats, Musketeers, Bengals, Reds and Redhawks, then why not just move to Knoxville or Chicago or Pittsburgh or Gainesville. What are your thoughts, other than I'm idiot?