If anyone wants to jump on the men’s soccer team bandwagon, it will be parked at West Gym Field this Saturday afternoon. Great seats are still available, but with a chance at first place hanging in the balance against preseason favorite Vermont, the wagon might fill up soon, so act now!

Everyone hates bandwagon fans. We all know them. You probably have class with them — heck, maybe you are one. If you are a 20-year-old Long Island kid and you’re a fan of the Green Bay Packers or the Dallas Cowboys or the Chicago Bulls or the Detroit Red Wings, there is a very good chance that you yourself are a bandwagon fan.

But why does everyone hate these fans? Everyone had to jump on a bandwagon at some time. If Thomas Jefferson and George Washington hadn’t jumped on that crazy anti-England bandwagon back in the 1700s, America would be having tea parties, trimming the king of England’s beard and riding the lift up to our flats.

And what if no one jumped on the pizza bandwagon? When that first guy invented the pizza (and if my history serves me correctly it was one of the Mario brothers who invented it), what if everyone said, “I don’t want to eat that delicious concoction, I don’t want to be a poser”? Pizza would never have become the staple of life that it is today. The fun food to eat with your friends while watching a ball game might have become soup.

That is a world that I am glad I never had to live in.

The point is, everyone has to jump on a bandwagon at some point, and there is no better chance to jump on the Bearcats bandwagon as now. Seriously, the men’s soccer team is good — really good — and pretty soon it might be too late to jump on the bandwagon without being obvious. But if you start now, and you go to the game Saturday and you learn that Peter Sgueglia is not just fun to say, but also fun to watch, then you yourself can be the one looking down on future bandwagon fans.

And isn’t that why we become fans in the first place? To realize that we are better than the fans of other teams, or the fans that aren’t as dedicated to our teams as we are?

This is your chance, BU Zoo. Embrace the men’s soccer team before they become too good and the bandwagon fills up. But if you do miss the bandwagon, don’t despair, plenty of room just opened up on the Arizona Cardinals bandwagon.