Welcome to my blog. I've resisted creating one of these for a while now, using Facebook as my outlet for ranting and raving about various topics. I think my opinions and my fervor for defending my position to the death is starting to annoy some people. So I figured this is the best way to vent, but not display it to everyone I know. I will link my posts from time to time and let people choose to view it or not. This should keep me from being un-friended, I hope.
This weekend I started a bit of a childish argument about in state football rivals. I'm a lifelong fan of BYU. I never personally attended BYU, but my dad and stepdad graduated from there and my uncle is a former All American who played for them. The University of Utah is our rival, and to say that we just plain don't like each other is an understatement of the first order. I said some rather disparaging things about their football team this weekend, mainly, that I hoped they got crushed by TCU. I have many FB friends who are Ute fans, and they didn't take kindly to my comments. My ribbing was good natured for the most part, but the whole thing kind of highlighted how serious we humans take silly things like sports. I'm certainly not guiltless here. I've committed countless childish acts in the name of fandom, but after this weekend, maybe I need to re-evaluate.
You should have started a tumblr blog - there's a lack of good conservatives there (but there are a couple of really good ones).
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