Why are you a Bears fan? Is it deeply embedded loyalty? Is it tribalism – you live in these parts, therefore this is the team you’ll defend to the death? Is it a genetic thing, passed down like big ears?
I suspect it might be a matter of having no options. I’m dating myself here (just like in high school), but there’s a scene in “An Officer and a Gentleman’’ in which Louis Gossett Jr., playing a drill sergeant, screams at Richard Gere to drop out of the Navy’s aviation school. A sobbing Gere responds, “I got nowhere else to go!