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T-Shirt Infidelity

We've all seen it: people wearing the garb of other institutions walking around campus, in bars or around Boone.  Though not nearly as common as it was before the football program began to grow exponentially, it is still the quintessential pet-peeve of die hard App State fans everywhere.

The phenomenon climaxes in the spring when certain ACC teams are leading the country in basketball, but declines dramatically when ASU football is in season.  Indeed, the lack-luster performance of the ASU basketball program certainly isn't helping.  Another contributing factor is ASU's location in North Carolina, the nucleus of NCAA basketball.  Kids grow up rooting for a certain shade of blue, only to find themselves on the campus of a football school that's basketball team hasn't seen the big dance in over a decade.

It is certainly understandable that these individuals don't just trade every single piece of baby-blue swag for handsome new App gear, but there is a time and a place for such bandwagonism.  It is a blatant act of disrespect to wear another school's gear while walking around campus.  Imagine what an athlete must feel when he/she sees a student walking across campus, wearing a UNC shirt.  Wear your Tar Heel shirt when you're home watching March madness, but keep it off campus.  Show some pride in yourself and what you've accomplished.  Let the actual students of that school along with countless rednecks that didn't attend college at all glorify Bandwagon U.

There are also a small handful that openly support their favorite BCS school more than the one they attend.  This level of infidelity is inexcusable.  These people come to Appalachian, mooch a terrific education and experience, and contribute nothing.  They wear their certain blue every day, frequently bring up ACC basketball and are clueless as to the status of their own school's season.  This kind of behavior has a strong correlation with certain other undesirable personality traits.  From a very young age, they found the need to religiously pull for a school to which they most likely have no real connection what-so-ever.  They jumped on the bandwagon as children and never looked back.

These Walmart ACC fans are a detriment to Appalachian State.  Their numbers are plummeting by the year, but their presence is still utterly apparent in the campus area, especially during basketball season.  If they were to garner the same passion for their own school's basketball program that they hold for the team they arbitrarily chose out of a three-choice Walmart rack when they were five-years-old, perhaps App could become a perennial basketball contender.

But the question remains: What is an acceptable amount of T-Shirt Infidelity?

• If you have no connection to the ACC school you support, it's time to give up the charade and embrace App State.  Acceptable close connections being: a parent, son/daughter or sibling that attends of attended the school.
• If you do satisfy this first rule with a close connection, the rule of thumb is 3 or less times a month.  This is or course assuming that the individual wears App gear 6+ times a month.
• Even if every single family member attended another school and you grew up going to games there, it is never acceptable to wear the garb walking around the Appalachian campus.  
• Wearing a UNC shirt to an App basketball game will draw dirty looks and snide comments from certain die-hards, but your physical well-being will most likely not be affected. Never-the-less,  UNACCEPTABLE
• If you wear a UNC shirt to an App football game or tailgate, you will likely endure a barrage of beer cans and salty language.  Do this at your own risk.  This is also UNACCEPTABLE

*Image stolen from Nickmack.net

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