bandwagon (band-wag-on): noun
1. Suddenly giving a damn when a team gets good.
2. Liking a sports team only because they’re winning
3. When a person likes a trend, or sports team, just because it is getting more popular
(SOURCE: Urban Dictionary)
Not that you do not know what a bandwagon is, but that is the topic today, kids, and I want to be sure you are all hopping on this blog’s bandw….yuck…nevermind.
The bandwagon, for today’s purposes, will relate specifically to sports. More specifically, Boston sports.
Ah, the bandwagon. The bandwagon-effect is the true core of every sports fan, just the part no one will admit to existing. Well, I am coming clean today, people. But before I do, let me step back for a second.
Like most red-blooded New Englanders, I have always stood by our beloved Boston teams over the years. For most of my life (at least until the millennium) I have had to endure many, many grueling seasons of sports watching. Losing teams. Playoff heartbreak. You name, we lived through it. Pain like 1986 when both the Red Sox and Patriots reached the pinnacle of their respective games only to let us down in the end. Truthfully, I was a better fan in those days as a child than I am today.
Sons of Franky Cabot 