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Hey Chad, I'm thinking your Bucs will be the new Lions this year!
ClubNinja:
Agreed - most of that describes the live experience of seeing your local team. That's fine. Just like I enjoy seeing local baseball and hockey minor league teams in person, but would never watch them on television.
I don't see what makes college rivalries any different than serious professional rivalries. In both cases, the rosters are always changing, so its rivalry based on team devotion, just like the pros. If anything, I like pro rivalries more because there's a greater chance of seeing your favorite player sign a contract with an "enemy" team. Little Jimmy switching schools probably happens far less and really isn't that compelling.
As far as egos go, I've heard that arguement often. How "pure" the college game is compared to the professional. NCAA sports are hardly pure and I'd love to see the majors and GPAs of some of the "students" on those teams. I mean, isn't college for learning and stuff? Honestly, I'd rather laugh at someone like T.O. crying about his team on television than little Jimmy who's barely passing Basket Weaving 101 but sure has good hands.
orion:
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Most of that applies to live college football. Not much of it applies to college football on television. I'm all for heading over to any stadium to watch a game so long as it is affordable. TV is a totally different matter.
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I tend to agree with you, I find that I have a better time in Doak stadium watching the 'noles live than I do at an NFL stadium. College games are just much better when you are there, whereas I find that I almost prefer just watching NFL games at home. College games tend to be a lot more fluid than pro, and for some reason that just makes them more fun to attend in person to me.
shardian:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on September 17, 2009, 04:17:54 pm ---
Most of that applies to live college football. Not much of it applies to college football on television. I'm all for heading over to any stadium to watch a game so long as it is affordable. TV is a totally different matter.
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I think alot of it comes through the TV. I also think marching band music is a cool feature of college ball. I have my team's fight song as my ringtone during the football season, and all of my coworkers have their team as their ringtone.
ChadTower:
I wonder how much that applies moreso to people who live in areas that don't have NFL teams to begin with. I never knew the fight song or cared about the team at either major university I went to. It didn't help that our tuition got knocked up substantially right after the NCAA came in and stripped our school of a final four appearance because a guy everyone knew was being paid made it to the NBA and then said "oh, yeah, they paid me, well duh". It wasn't the actual students' fault but we all got whacked by the tuition increase anyway when the school had to repay something like a million dollars in TV revenue from those games.
You just don't see all that many college football fanatics up here. We might have more college football programs here than anyplace in the country, too, but even when they were 2-14 football was all about the Patriots.
Flake:
--- Quote from: shardian on September 17, 2009, 03:59:07 pm ---So do you guys just sit around ALL DAY on Saturday and Sunday watching football?
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NFL only - but yes on Sunday I park my butt downstairs and watch games all day long. When the Rams arent in town usually others come over and we eat totally unhealthy food, drink beer and talk trash all day long. Its great.
I make sure all work is done before Sunday.
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