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Sports villains.

Sports are a lot more fun to be honest when you have a team that you love and you have teams that you hate.

It does make it more fun because, well, when the team that you love is playing for championships, obviously nothing is better than that.

Right.

Nothing is better.

Nothing is better than watching your team play for a championship.

It has not been that long since we all enjoyed, thoroughly enjoyed Michigan's 15-0 run to the national championship.

And think about going to the games, watching the games on TV, being at the celebrations, talking about it with your friends, right?

Everything about your team winning makes, like, that's why we watch sports.

But when your team is not there, or sometimes even when your team is there, but the

opponent for your team, sometimes the reason you watch sports, I know for me, a lot of the reason why I watch a game,

in addition to I enjoy that sport, but you're looking for a rooting interest.

And what helps you with that rooting interest?

Having a, the heroes or the villains.

And obviously, we have heroes that are our favorite teams, and then we have villains,

the ones that we go against.

And there are, over the course of time, you have villains that are team villains that are,

you know, locally, of course, we, Ohio states a villain, Michigan states a villain.

Universally, you know, the conversation around the country, you would have conversations about

the Yankees and the Cowboys, the Lakers, Notre Dame, those are universally considered the villains

of sports, right?

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