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After Colts’ Super Bowl win, opposing fans face blue nation

By: Stephanie Hodgin <[email protected]>

She was frustrated.

Frustrated at the fact that her favorite NFL team lost the Super Bowl game to one of its biggest rivals. Frustrated in knowing that all of the team’s hard work throughout the season came down to that game. Frustrated because going to school the next day in a sea of Colts jerseys would be dreadful. The next day at school, junior Emily Morin, a spirited Chicago Bears fan, would have to face her entire group of friends, most of whom are Colts fans.

“I was kind of disappointed (about the Super Bowl loss) because I’m from Chicago and everything. I was even more frustrated because everybody kept rubbing it in,” Morin said.

Students here that support rivals of the Colts, or any other team outside of Indiana for that matter, may face pressure and bitterness from their peers around school. Tracy Markus, Chicago Bears fan and math teacher, that she always gets a hard time from her students that are Colts fans.

“Yes, most of the time they give me a hard time, and it’s all in good fun,” Markus said via email.

Junior Aaron Morrow, a New England Patriots fan, said he didn’t care about the Colts’ Super Bowl win for long.

“I cared the day after, but it didn’t make a difference. We already have three rings,” Morrow said. He said his friends annoyed him after the AFC Championship last year.

“My friends were dogging on me for a week. Finally they just let it go,” he said. Morrow said that he also gets a lot of animosity from his friends and other students in the hallways when he wears his Patriots jersey.

“In the hallways, I sometimes get a lot of ‘Patriots suck’ comments. One girl actually said she liked the Patriots, but only because she liked Tom Brady,” Morrow said. Morin said that she gets yelled at from her friends from wearing the signature navy and orange colors for the Bears.

But students aren’t the only ones that get bitterness from other students. Some teachers in the building get the same amount of resentment for supporting the “wrong” football team.

“(The students) basically just tell me how horrible the Bears are,” Markus said. She also said that she has gotten more animosity from her students since the Colts’ Super Bowl win compared to before they won.

“…Because the Colts beat the Bears in the Super Bowl, it’s like everyone thinks the Colts can’t be touched,” Markus said.

With all the Colts fans in the building, it makes one wonder if they are just fans of winning, or of the Colts team itself. Markus said she thinks that having a great quarterback has something to do with it.

“I think that everyone is a Colts fan now because Peyton Manning has made them a winning team. Where were all the Colts fans before him? Everyone will drop them as soon as he retires,” Markus said. “The Bears made it to the Super Bowl with Rex Grossman, who is a less-than-average quarterback. Could the Colts make it there with Jim Sorgi? I think not,” she said.

“I think a lot of people don’t really care, they just pick the Colts because they are in Indiana and they win a lot,” Morin said.

“Nobody supported them when they were doing really bad. Before last year, nobody went to the games, there were no dress up days, no Colts blue days. Now that they are winning there are a bunch of parties and stuff,” she said.

Markus said, “Pray that Peyton Manning never gets hurt or retires because the Colts are nothing without him.” Morin said that she is tired of students getting after her for being a Bears fan.

“Get off the fact that I’m a Bears fan,” she said. “It is not going to change.”

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