Life is what you make it, the flows are makeshift
I draw this off inspiration, you fake shit
— Pusha T, Re-Up Gang’s “Ultimate Flow”
There is an idea weirdly common in college football fandom — really, in sports fandom as a whole — that the median or mean fan’s experience is what every fan of a certain player or team or sport or concept is experiencing.
It’s wrong, of course. Fandom, like life, is what you make it: You, or I, or anyone else, can choose to feel whatever way we feel about what we’re seeing on the field or court or ice or what have you.