Being an Ohio State fan isn't fun? Strong reactions to the joys and burdens of following the Buckeyes

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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🗓️ 15 June 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Are the expectations for Ohio State football creating a burden that fans feel, and that affects their enjoyment of their very successful program? On this Thursday Buckeye Talk, Doug Lesmerises once again dives into talk about his joy initiative and the hope that all OSU fans can love following their team. Some texters are sick of this topic already, and maybe so are you. But there are some interesting survey answers in this episode to questions like: Does the burden of expectations make rooting for the Buckeyes less fun at all? Have you ever thought you cared too much about Ohio State football? What is the best type of team to root for? Is Ohio State the most successful team you root for? Do you root for a second college football team? On a scale of 1-10, what's your joy vs. angst when it comes to rooting for the Buckeyes? There are comparisons made to the best teams in North American sports, and strong words on both sides when it comes to how OSU fans should view and handle expectations. It's a feelings pod more than a football pod, which sometimes happens here. As always, thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, where you've been, but got talk is about to begin, hey, hey, hey, come on in.
0:26.4	Back to your Thursday buck, I talk and I won't lay out exactly what we're doing with a question from a tech
0:31.7	subscriber. Um, y'all are going to do a pod over analyzing what it means to be a fan.
0:38.2	LOL. This should be interesting, I guess, from the 614. That's what we're doing here. It's just me,
0:43.9	Doug Lamaries. It's not rants. It's overanalyzation. Some would say it sports therapy. Some would say
0:51.6	Dr. Doug is in the house. Some would say, please stop. Please stop. Some would say, don't do these
0:57.6	podcasts anymore. This line of questioning is starting to get old and annoying. Anyone who says
1:03.4	being an Ohio State fan isn't fun is dumb and doesn't have the mental capacity to be a fan.
1:08.8	It's the mindset of a child. Stop enabling these whiny losers. Yes, it's fun to have a team that's
1:14.3	good. No, I'm not miserable because we don't win a national championship every year. Duh, move on
1:20.1	from the 419. That's what we're talking about. So this is continuing part of what I have
1:27.6	called. I think the joy initiative that we're on and there are two questions that spurred this
1:34.2	and then we did a big survey about are the burdens of expect the burden of expectations. Does it
1:40.0	ever make it less fun to be an Ohio State fan? Have you ever tried to make yourself be less intense
1:46.3	of an Ohio State fan? Do you wish you could? Are you national championship or bust?
1:52.9	This is, we've done a lot of things like this. We did the pot a couple, I don't know, 10 days ago
1:59.2	about is Ohio State standard a national championship standard? We did a pot about how much faith
2:05.9	do you have in Ryan Day? And I think your view of the program affects your faith and the coach.
2:12.1	So your lens through which you view Ohio State football, I think affects everything that you do.
2:18.4	So I'm going to chill out after this one. I'm actually going on vacation for a little bit.
2:22.2	We have a lot of pods back long, so you'll still hear me. But I wanted to do this before I left.
2:27.7	And the deal is that a lot of you do feel this and we got a lot of responses. We got a lot of
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