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Personal Narrative: Growing Up In A Football Team
*Warning, lengthy post* Hey guys, long-time reader, first-time poster here. I’m a highschool student in Kansas City and I’ve been wanting to let some thoughts out of my head about this playoff run, so I figured I could share them with you guys instead of some Chiefs fans that really couldn’t care less.

Growing up in Steubenville, Ohio, we lived much closer to Pittsburgh than Cleveland, and the majority of my family was from Western PA. This meant I grew up as a Pittsburgh sports fan. Some of my earliest sports memories were watching the Steelers win the Super Bowl and the Penguins hoist the Stanley Cup. The two sports I didn’t follow much was baseball (what was the point when the local team was the Pirates) and the NBA, since Pittsburgh didn’t have one.

This changed in the 3rd grade when I won a school contest via Hoops for Heart to go see a Cavs game. My friends said I was really lucky, since I got to see LeBron James and Shaq play in-person. I wasn’t expecting much, since I had never really been a basketball guy …show more content…
I had been to the city and to the games so many times that I convinced myself that I could no longer try to root for both of them (most of you would consider this a sin.) My friends and family thought I was crazy. Why would I root for Cleveland, a city known for their teams’ letdowns, instead of Pittsburgh, the self-proclaimed “City of Champions?” I even have a hard time answering that question. I feel like I have a much deeper personal connection to Cleveland than I ever did for Pittsburgh. There’s a feeling I get when I think of Cleveland that I never got in the ‘Burgh. I love everything about the city and the people. I loved that I could walk into Tower City and strike up a random conversation about sports with someone I’ve never met, and I loved the “Cleveland Over Everything” motto that I had learned to take
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