The fight to win is hard. Any sport knows that. As a member of the team you have to stick with the team win or lose. You don't have a choice.

Being a fan is different. You have a few options.

First, you could be a fair weather fan. These fans are only a fan when the team is winning. It's kid of like being a fake friend. When times get rough, they run. When they can't take the heat anymore they turn their backs on the team. Is that the kind of friend you want around?

Second, we have possibly the worst fans of all, the bandwagon fans. They are not loyal but instead follow the rings. They follow and cheer for whatever team is winning. That's "their" team. Just like a friend that only becomes friends with you when you have a car or when you pay for them. Not the best friends to have around right?

Finally, and most importantly, we have the true die-hard fans. They know what it's like to lose and to win. They know what the team needs to do to improve. They wear the jerseys with pride no matter what. They stick with the team through thick and thin. Theses people are your best friends. They will be around no matter what.

I am a true die-hard Cleveland Fan.

We true fans had it rough. We were there when we lost Lebron James. We were there during the painful losing seasons when he left and when he was still there. We struggled through watching the Indians lose every game and never being given the recognition they deserve. We were there all these years that the Browns have lost. We held our head high when we spent money we didn't have on players who didn't help. We sat by and gave the new coach the benefit of the doubt. Yet we are still losing. We aren't just fans we are members of the team.

With the recent successes of the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Cleveland Indians many of these fair weather and bandwagon fans are trickling back in. They don't know the facts. They don't know the good from the bad players. They are taking credit for being true fans and taking the validity away from the actual true fans. The true fans who actually stood by Cleveland in the bad times. They take the tickets away from the true fans who have waited patiently for this day.

So to those fair weather and bandwagon fans. You don't know what it's like to sit through game after game still holding onto the hope that your team might win for once. You don't know what it's like when your best players leave and walk away form what they had been working hard for. You don't know how hard it is to be made fun of for liking a losing team and don't have any comebacks accept, "just wait our time will come."

So please go back to whatever winning team you were a "true fan" of last year because we don't need you. We Clevelanders have each other and our winning or losing teams no matter what. It's our time.