It is very easy to jump onto bandwagons. Sure, why not? Go ahead and cheer for the local football team (e.g. the Oakland Raiders) as if you have always supported them. When they win, you win and you can temporarily share in their moment of victory. There is no emotional attachment, which a true fan feels, to bring you down when your team is down. All the pleasure without the pain. You can see how bandwagons could really rub folks, like the Raider Nation, the wrong way.

In all honesty, I'm not a big football fan. Sure, I know bits and pieces about the sport, a name here or there, but I don't have the same passion for it like I do for baseball. Between the two Bay Area teams, I have probably followed San Francisco more times than not. I grew up during the eras of Montana and Young, which is enough to tie someone to a particular bandwagon.

There are most certainly exciting plays in football. Emotions can run the entire spectrum from elation to exasperation within a couple of plays. I experienced it Sunday as I checked in on the Oakland game. I was thrilled that the Raiders won, but I really only watched so that I could speak knowledgeably about the game when I came back to work on Tuesday. Football is acceptable office conversation amongst the manly engineers and architects. The other things I saw over the weekend (musical theater and figure skating) are strictly taboo. True.