I would like to say it gets easier but it doesnt. I am LDS and a Ute grad/fan and have lived in American Fork for the past 10 years and have found similar reactions. Im not from Utah but I married a Utah girl whose whole family is within a few blocks of each other. I graduated from the U back in 2004, since that time I have had many scoffs, wrinkled brows and even police pulling me over and the first thing out of their mouth is “so a Ute fan”? My reply is simply, yep, thats not againts the law in Utah County yet, right?
All that being said there has been more and more Ute gear being warn around and the Zoobs are less vocal, probbaly because we have owned them in football the past 10 years or so. I was in smiths in Lehi and I was walking past a kid around 6 years old decked out in his baby blue retardo zoob gear and the little lad was just staring at me with his jaw on the floor. his mom grabbed him and said its not nice to stare. I came close as I walked by and said are we as scary in real life?
Good ole happy valley.
Utah @ 
Baylor 
