Why College Football Has The NFL Beat
Saw this posted on another board.. Discusses our game, and all the others from this weekend, and how at this point the college game is just more exciting then the NFL
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PacMan321
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Nice read!
Thanks PacMan321. (Jerry drugging his girlfriend was. . . . . .epic!)
"As for being a Raiders fan, I wouldn't wish that fucking shit on anybody." [the venerable OTS at Roll Bama Roll}
Totally agree
I might watch the Sunday and Monday night NFL games because they’re on. College football has just the right combination of amateurism and vitriol to make it worth tuning in to games featuring colleges I have no real interest in. In fact, it’s prompted me to dislike colleges I have no reason to dislike. I love it.
You can disengage
when you watch the NFL, they’re just not as compelling. You get up to make a sandwich, get a beer, go to the can, help the kids with their homework, change a lightbulb, run to the store at halftime, etc. But when it comes to College Ball I’m glued to the set.
TOTAL WINNER!
So true. I watched the Women’s World Championship cycling event on Ch. 4.4 instead of the Bears/Falcons game yesterday at my ex-girlfriend’s house. Good game, though it was. . . . .as I read on yahoo later on in the night.
NFL = B.O.R.I.N.G
"As for being a Raiders fan, I wouldn't wish that fucking shit on anybody." [the venerable OTS at Roll Bama Roll}
by BixBeiderbecke on Oct 19, 2009 7:15 PM PDT up reply actions
What I like best about college sports is that I have an actual connection with the players. They go to the same school I did, they have the same college traditions, may even live in the dorm as I did — unlike pro athletes, whose only “connection” with me is that they signed a contract to get paid to play in the city where I happen to live.
I was at a casual restaurant in Sacramento, where I live, a few years ago wearing a Cal sweatshirt. This guy walked up to my table and asked, “Hey, did you go to Cal?” I looked up, and it was Kevin Johnson. We had a nice little exchange about Cal. (And this was well before he was running for mayor, so he wasn’t trying to get my vote.) Another time I was wearing a Cal Football shirt and a guy stopped me on the street. Turns out he had been an offensive lineman for Cal back in the Chuck Muncie days. We had a nice chat about Cal and Cal football. Stuff like that would absolutely never happen with pro players. There just isn’t that kind of connection.
And best of all, you never have to worry about your college team threatening to move to another city!
This nails it...for me at least
I think that “connection” element is absolutely what gives college football the edge for me, personally. It’s probably also why people who didn’t attend a D-I school would say that we’re crazy, and that the pros are vastly superior to college, given that the players at that level are more talented.
by insomniacslounge on Oct 19, 2009 11:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Eh. They've both got their good points and bad points
College ball is more innovative and more passioniate, because it’s played by younger guys and coached by people who generally have far more job security. But big-time college athletics (which is to say FBS football and division I men’s basketball, for the most part) are seriously screwed up when it comes to recruiting and making sure athletes actually get the education they’re supposed to get, and largely act as feeder systems for the NFL and NBA.
The NFL has a higher level of play, far fewer lopsided games, and actual playoffs based on actual wins and losses rather than bowls and polls. But for a lot of reasons low-risk styles of play tend to dominate the game.
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