I was at a UCLA-$C game (My mother was a Bruin my father a trojie, but I was always a Bruin first). It was this day that would make me a lifer and determined to get my own degree from UCLA.

We were at the dumpster fire of a stadium downtown, so the $Cum fans were more sleazy than usual. What transpired that day made me forever hate $C. I was walking with my father and there was a woman near us with a little boy (for me to remember him being little when I was 9 must mean he was really young). The little boy was carrying a stuffed bruin bear, and a few guys wearing $C shirts who were probably in their early 20’s (student most likely) grabbed the little boy’s bear and stomped on it till it was torn and essentially destroyed.

I have never witnessed anything so unbelievably cruel. That poor little boy was not only distraught over his bear, but obviously terrified.

Since then, I am proud to say, my father has been a bruin supporter. He has had season tickets for more than a decade, and, since I began attending UCLA and graduated, he proudly wears Bruin gear to the big game.

I know its tough on him, but he decided years ago that it was not only unsafe to take his kid to a game, but that the quality of people associated with the university (particularly their athletics) was something he could not continue to honorably align himself with.

He may be one of a very few to ever convert, but it speaks to the disgusting behavior of their fans that they could drive their own away.

But I’ve always thought, though, that UCLA fans were more like fans of my always and forever Los Angeles Rams.