@BleacherReport explains how to #RootRootRoot for the Home Team (@OKCThunder @OKCBlazers @SoccerOklahoma @OCUSpiritSquads @OKC_Sports @ThunderGirls), even when they Lose ... @Lions)
When Microsoft Bing told me about the OKC Thunder's recent 'second-place finish,' I searched to find out how fans persist in cheering for losing teams.
And who knows better than the fans of the Detroit Lions?
That rooting-strategy is explained at the report linked through 'the main word' below; but I feel it's more important to understand that word better. And I find that you understand words better when you look at the other words at the bases of the words you're thinking-of ...
The word “Root” (the "Cheer, Support"-sense is American English (originally applied to Baseball) via intermediate sense of Study, Work Hard) is built on ancient words that mean "to |Gnaw" (to Dig out, |Plow up ... related to the plant- (& teeth-, hair-, etc.) sense, which is built on ancient words that mean Branch).
#Rooting #Rooted #TakeRoot #RootBeer #RootDoctor #RootCap #RootHogOrDie #RootinTootin #Uproot #ArrowRoot #BeetRoot #GrassRoots #Rootless #Taproot #Uproot
This is the Facebook-post inspired by Bing's report that 'my home-team' "let the opponents win one":
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