How I Accidentally Became an IU Fan

Okay… I’ll admit it. I’ve officially fallen down the IU Hoosiers fandom rabbit hole. Call me a bandwagon fan if you want, but in my defense, I’ve never really followed a Division I team before. And now that I’m an Indiana resident, I figured—why not pick the home team?

A Pit Stop That Changed Everything

It all started after a late afternoon hike in Brown County. It was getting dark, we were hungry, and we still had a two-hour drive ahead of us. So we stopped halfway and landed at Yogi’s in Bloomington. The place was *packed*—crimson and white everywhere, walls covered in IU pride, and the whole restaurant buzzing like a college stadium that smelled like french fries.

College students, alumni, and families were decked out head-to-toe in IU colors, hyp

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