#381 Being Fair Weather Fans

The venerable urbandictionary.com defines a fair weather fan as “A fan of a sports team who only shows support when the team is doing well. During hard times they usually bandwagon other teams. They basically have no real loyalty to the team, but still manage to get better seats than you at the game. Strangely they mysteriously vanish at the first sign of trouble.”

Keithlys love sports every year around the time of the College Bowl Games, Superbowl, NBA Playoffs and World Series. Depending on the year, they can also be crazy about soccer (when there’s a World Cup) or the sports being played at the Olympics. No matter what the sport, or how obscure the team, when the championship games of that sport occur you will be able to find at least one Keithly who claims to love the team and knew they would win ever since the beginning of the season.

Naturally, they are fans of the Lakers, Trojans (even though no Keithly has ever so much as stepped foot on the USC campus), Patriots, the US Olympic team, the Brazilian World Cup team and occasionally the Angels. No Keithly has ever rooted for the Clippers, the Raiders or the Mets.