team allegiances and odd beginnings

My LSU fandom started similarly to Zack's. It was 4th grade and me and 2 other students were in the back of the bus on the way home from school. One of the guys I was friends with, the other I didn't like. My friend asks both us who we liked in the LSU/Tulane game. I didn't know either of them at the time; this was 1979-80 so not much choice on TV channels or games being aired. The kid I didn't like said Tulane, so I went with LSU. Life may have been so different had he said LSU.
sort of opposite for me - everyone on my team was pulling for LSU so i went with Tulane
also, my dad grew up Uptown so maybe he hand an affinity for them, but we would go to games in tulane stadium and Loyola fieldhouse so i think i just gravitated to pulling for them