when the Broncos were starting out as a college team. Certain qualities evident then are evident now. Broncos have always fought for respect; always been exciting; always been innovative. My affinity for the team in my mind is connected to my affinity for Boise as a city and shares a certain “chip on the shoulder” animus but the chip gets smaller all the time. This is an exceptionally nice place to live with an unexpected level of sophistication. I no longer resent it when I encounter the occassional putdown(much rarer now). I am secure in knowing we are remote but not backward, small but not insignificant. Like our team.

and have an aunt that used to be the head women’s athletic trainer there. Needless to say I grew up knowing nothing but BSU.

Born in Caldwell, I was the only spud of my family. They moved up here from Cali in 77. We lived off of Middleton Rd. Until after 3rd Grade and then we moved to Ontario OR. I’ve lived here for 18 yrs and I still don’t claim anything Oregon. Anyone will tell you that it’s a whole different state west of the Cascades.
I have several family members who are alumni and I plan on joining them once the Marine Corps stops sending me the armpits of the world.
At any rate, I look at football as a mock battle with opposing forces trying to execute their will on the other side. I root for Boise because I see them a lot the same as the team I play for: The Marines. We do more with less and when the landscape is full of intangibles we simply win. We may not always win like everyone thinks we should, but we know what it takes and we execute. Oh and we have the best looking uniforms.

I’m just glad no one has voted for the bandwagon option yet.

joined the early “bandwagon” in the years of 1999 to 2004 would bring more votes.

I think there are as just as many that started following the Broncos during that time frame as those that joined after the Fiesta Bowl.
The 20007 option has probably gone unselected because of the stigma of the word bandwagon. We don’t know if they are bandwagon fans yet, because the team has not had a down year to encourage them to jump off.

I follow both teams, but the Broncos are my passion. (My wife and I sit in different sections when the Broncos and Beavers play)

My family used to run the concessions at Bronco Stadium and the old Bronco Gym. My earliest memories are from the late ’70s. I was too young to work, so I would just wander around the stadium during the game and then smash some drink cups together to make a football and go play on the GREEN turf while after the game while everybody else cleaned up.

in my mind, “bandwagon fan” is a derogatory term used to denote a fan who aligns himself with a team when their up and dumps them when their down. A fan who decides to support a team when they are winning and keeps supporting them is just a fan. I don’t get deriding a person for the time in which they choose to start rooting for a team. That derision is best saved for the “fair weather” fan who jumps ship after the first loosing season. My 2 Abe’s.

Because several of the options apply to me.

* I grew up a Boise State fan
* I love the blue collar, underdog, hard working,
 chip-on-the-shoulder attitude that BSU football represents
* I was a student at BSU
* I am from Idaho and hate the Vandals

And there’s more, I was born in Boise and lived there for large parts of my life ( ‘79-’89 and ‘97-’02 and also ‘02-’06 in Twin), so I really had no other option.

The last event held there before The Blue was installed, if I remember correctly.

I was born and raised in Idaho. My mom attended some classes in the early 70s and I attended some classes in the early 90s. I was born in Burley, but lived in the Treasure Valley and McCall all but 7 years where I lived behind Zion’s Curtain and the 4 years overseas while in the USAF.

There was no way I was going to be a fan of another team. My parents were fans and they were born in Idaho too. Same with my grandparents.

I guess what I am trying to say is that rooting for BSU is in my genetic code.

I grew up in Boise and my mom has worked for BSU for about 20 years. I didn’t go there, however. I went to College of Idaho and the USC for a J.D. Sort of root for the Trojans, unless they play a WAC team or some other team they need to lose to improve Boise State’s SOS. It’s kind of funny, but the longer I’ve been away, the more I root for the Broncos. It keeps me close to home and family. Of course, obviously it’s easier to root for a successful team. Going to Phoenix with my future fiance and then meeting my mom for the Fiesta Bowl on game day was a lot more exciting than going to the New Mexico Bowl would have been. Maybe wouldn’t have bothered flying from Miami to Albuquerque. So I guess I’m also a bit of a bandwagon fan, too.

i was in the drum line, which meant i was at every game. i got to witness the emergence of Ian Johnson and the Broncos as a big-time team first-hand. i was hooked from the opening kick-off of the first game.

ironically, i actually follow the team more closely now that i’m out of the school…. weird.

I’m an Oregon alumnus and fan. And a BSU fan, too. That dates from your win over us in this year’s embarrassing week 1. With every justifiable opportunity to gloat about the victory and to rant about Blount’s postgame meltdown, most BSU fans, at least on these blogs, have been understanding and supportive. You guys are a class act.

If the game were replayed today, would BSU win? I don’t know. If both teams run the table, should UO pass Boise in the rankings? No.

This Duck fan is pulling for you the rest of the way.

I am agrad of both Boise Stae and u of I. I last attended aUI?Broncos game in 1990 with my in laws all vandals. I’ll never attend another; came close to “a frank exchange of views” a la LaGarrotte.

Born in 1984 and lived there until I left for college in 2002, came back for summers in ‘03 and ’04. Since then I’ve never lived in Boise, but I go back every year for Christmas.

My parents grew up in Oregon and my Dad is an Oregon alum, so his first rooting interest in the Ducks. But he failed to indoctrinate me growing up (I don’t think he actually tried that hard), so I went with the flow of cheering for the hometown team. He and my mom were at the game this year and were really disappointed in the whole debacle (game+postgame). But other than Oregon-BSU matchups my parents root for the Broncos, and virtually all of my friends from high school root for them. Except for the few that went up to UI.

In retrospect I wish I had gone to more games while I lived there, although I was in high school (or younger) and my family wasn’t big on shelling out money for sporting events. I do remember going to one Broncos-Vandals game in the early 90s with my dad, and another Broncos-Vandals game during high school with one of my football buddies (must have been the ’00 season). Also I went to the ’05 H-Bowl, disappointing as it was. I did get to see the very first H-Bowl (Cincy vs. Utah State) as well, which is kind of cool in a historical way.

Living in Seattle now I get behind the Huskies from time to time, but BSU will always be my #1 NCAAF team.

how the topic of liking the Broncos morphed into reveries, ruminations and reminiscences of living in Boise. The poll questions were not overwhelmingly slanted that way. Maybe the connection to place is stronger for the Broncos because the team, like the school, grew organically out of the city itself(as opposed to being the sole reason for the city). Just a thought.

Ive been a fan since 98. My story is. One day back in 1998 when i was 11. I was channel surfing and stumbled across a local cable access channel, and long and behold they were showing the Boise st bronco games. Mind I live in Ohio and were all buckeyes here. I knew nothing of Boise nation. Nor the blue turf. I just got hooked, everything from the great coaching, outstanding players, smurf turf . and gotta love the gadget plays SO ORIGINAL!! I found it odd tho that i picked up ktvb in ohio but the rest is history. Ive followed them week in week out for the past 11 years, and up till the 06-07 season i took heat from everybody. Until the glorious fiesta bowl win and alot of people actually congratulated me. They actually apologized, for not knowing how good Boise really was lol. So i am a rare breed out here in the buckeye nation. I represent every year for the broncos out here in the north, not to many people in ohio do, that alone makes me feel ORIGINAL just like the broncos.