Why did you choose to support Everton?
Post your answer in the LEAVE A COMMENT section below. I’m not the boss of you, though. Don’t write anything for all I care! Are there any other Toffees out there?!
. . .here are my thoughts.
Why did you choose to support Everton?
The English Premier League began being shown on NBC Sports in 2013. It was then that I decided to pick a team to support. I knew I’d be in it for the long haul, so I had to choose wisely. I didn’t want to select a team that would likely soon be relegated to the lower leagues, yet I absolutely couldn’t be seen as a bandwagon fan, throwing my support to a perennial powerhouse: Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal. Then I found Everton. Everton fit my qualifications, having not been relegated since my father was in kindergarten, but not winning the league since I was in first grade. The clincher was Everton’s goalkeeper—Tim Howard was also a stalwart for the USMNT. Since then, Everton fandom has been a rough go! Perhaps it would have been better had I jumped on the bandwagon like people leap into religion.
The bandwagon fallacy: when one claims something to be true simply because many others believe it.
The percentage of atheists and agnostics continues to rise. If longtime believers can jump off the religious bandwagon, perhaps it’s not too late for me to jump on Liverpool’s bandwagon.