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My eight-year-old son brought home an assignment the other day. I swear I did not help him with it one bit, and if my wife hadn't shown it to me after, I would've never seen it.

The question was "What color do you think most represents courage?" His answer:

Purple. I think this way because Northwestern University lost almost all their football games from 1973 to 1995 and in 1995 they had enough courage to beat Notre Dame.
 
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SmellyCat said:
My eight-year-old son brought home an assignment the other day. I swear I did not help him with it one bit, and if my wife hadn't shown it to me after, I would've never seen it.

The question was "What color do you think most represents courage?" His answer:

Purple. I think this way because Northwestern University lost almost all their football games from 1973 to 1995 and in 1995 they had enough courage to beat Notre Dame.
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That is awesome. Hope he gets an A !!!

Go Cats !
 
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SmellyCat said:
My eight-year-old son brought home an assignment the other day. I swear I did not help him with it one bit, and if my wife hadn't shown it to me after, I would've never seen it.

The question was "What color do you think most represents courage?" His answer:

Purple. I think this way because Northwestern University lost almost all their football games from 1973 to 1995 and in 1995 they had enough courage to beat Notre Dame.
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That's AWESOME...

But...

There's no way an 8 year old spelled all that correctly. Maybe if he'd spelled it Noter...
 
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That's pretty cool, Smelly. For Father's Day this year, my wife got Northwestern bedding/sheets for my five year old son's bed. It's got the big Wildcat logo (the one Fitz supposedly dislikes) and everything. Purple is his favorite color, and his Northwestern t-shirt is one of his favorites. All he knows at this point is that Northwestern is where dad went to school a long, long time ago, but he's already a fan.
 
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Thanks for all the great comments. My son got a big kick out of them, and I assure you he spelled everything right. I'm proud of both my boys - my four-year-old made sure I got the purple yarmulke for Yom Kippur this year because "Northwestern."
 
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SmellyCat said:
Thanks for all the great comments. My son got a big kick out of them, and I assure you he spelled everything right. I'm proud of both my boys - my four-year-old made sure I got the purple yarmulke for Yom Kippur this year because "Northwestern."
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Great stories.... so here is my question for fellow parents on this board: Is it wrong to be indoctrinating our children with our devotion to our favorite teams? My kids have grown up on the East Coast, yet their favorite teams are all certain mid-western colleges or pro teams because of their dad. Is that ok? (I often think about this as my kids should be allowed to enjoy the New England Patriots winning yet another SuperBowl like their friends instead of rooting for the Cincy Bungles like me.)
 
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Great stories.... so here is my question for fellow parents on this board: Is it wrong to be indoctrinating our children with our devotion to our favorite teams? My kids have grown up on the East Coast, yet their favorite teams are all certain mid-western colleges or pro teams because of their dad. Is that ok? (I often think about this as my kids should be allowed to enjoy the New England Patriots winning yet another SuperBowl like their friends instead of rooting for the Cincy Bungles like me.)
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As a person that completely rebelled against the indoctrination, I have no problem with it. There's nothing wrong with wanting to watch a football game with your dad or your son/daughter and wanting to root for the same team. Some kids will be big pain in the asses like me. Some will follow the family's team like my brother. Why can't your son like both the Bengals and the Patriots? The question is are you forcing it on him, or are you letting him make a decision about something you like while trying to bias him as much as possible? You buy him a bunch of Bengals gear... do you let him pick out which clothes to wear or do you force him to wear it? Are you watching the games and asking him to join you or are you forcing him to sit there? Most likely, he'll want to emulate you in some ways. If you create an atmosphere where watching the Bengals is fun and exciting, he'll think being a Bengals fan is fun and exciting.
 
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OK, here is my NU alum- son story. During the run to the Rose Bowl my then freshman son at Harvard was wearing his Northwestern cap as he went to one of his classes. The professor took note and let him know that she was a Northwestern grad. He definitely scored some bonus points from her.
 
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There's no difference in rooting for a sports team because it happens to be located in the city you were born in and rooting for a sports team that your parent is affiliated with. You take the hook and run with it.
 
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villox said:
There's no difference in rooting for a sports team because it happens to be located in the city you were born in and rooting for a sports team that your parent is affiliated with. You take the hook and run with it.
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There is a difference, if you're talking about a pro team with which you have no personal connection (other than a rooting interest) as opposed to a college team that's the parent's alma mater. I enjoyed my time at Northwestern and am a proud alumnus. I root hard for the NU sports teams. But I don't want it to be so intertwined with my identity that my son feels like a failure if he doesn't get in NU, or (heaven forbid) doesn't even want to go there. Northwestern was a good place for me, but another school may be better for him. I don't want to create such an aura about the place in his mind that he feels uncomfortable exploring other options. So that's a possible issue with college teams that you don't really see with the pros.
 
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Yesterday my son got a care package from his cousin of hand-me-down football jerseys. He was going through all of them one-by-one, all excited (he especially liked the LaDanian Tomlinson one), when he got to one, all disgusted and said, "Mom, can we give this one away? I don't want it."

A Notre Dame jersey.

That's my boy.
 
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