In other words, Relay picked a market where customers were bound to root for its success.
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If you pride yourself on being a super-patriot, you really ought to root for America.
And we will do our part as a people, which is to root for them.
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Rest easy, for I have devised a way for you to pick a team to root for.
Did we want to root for the great athlete and underdog when he was diagnosed for cancer?
Still, viewers might choose one kind of puppy to root for, or even one particular player, Toporoff said.
The oddity soon recedes, leaving us to root for Diana as a classic protagonist in a boxing movie.
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This week, the sisters of those boys will also have someone to root for in Juno and The Golden Compass.
Because even if you hate the quarterback, you are always going to root for the team to win.
You wouldn't know which character to be sympathetic to, or to root for.
Then again, when she gets an earful of the British argument it might not be so hard to root for illegality.
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And in that case, we will all have reason to root for Gates--no matter how ruthlessly he goes after his new adversaries.
Do humans simply need to root for something, to engage in warfare?
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That's why it's fun to root for the fantastic three plus one.
The District is a transient city where fans come to Nationals Park to root for their distant home teams rather than Washington.
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Then there is a human sporting instinct to root for the underdog.
We love to root for or against teams, the underdog, the love story or character story that triumphs in the context of sports.
If Forbes readers are having trouble deciding which team to root for in the World Series they should consider backing the San Francisco Giants.
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The only reason to root for the (mostly) black heroes is that they stand up for African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and Native Americans against white predators.
But divorced couples may have an easier time competing in the workplace than spouses, who are expected to root for each other instead of putting themselves first.
"It wasn't like I had a parent who told me I had to root for a certain team or I had to leave the house, " he said.
Back in the 80s when Hollywood cast cuddly nerds as the movie hero and high school jocks as the jerks, it was much easier to know who to root for.
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It's a Cinderella story, but the problem is that the filmmakers haven't given us any reason to root for their wet-behind-the-ears Cinderella except that everyone else is being mean to her.
Now at least Australian tennis fans have a new star to root for: 18-year-old Bernard Tomic, who has become the youngest men's player since Boris Becker to reach the quarter-finals of Wimbledon.
So if you are unsure of who to root for, take a listen to all of these songs and choose based on which team has the better musical selection for its city.
At least Evan Longoria and David Price of the Tampa Bay Rays were complaining because their fans were not coming out to root for them capture a division title, not for a .500 season.
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Not only are you unsure who to root for until the second act, but far too much of the first act is spent introducing the 10 contestants (of whom there are two too many).
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