If you either didn't go to college or you went to UIC or DePaul for example who doesn't have a team and you like football what's the difference between deciding to root for Northwestern, Notre Dame or whomever than liking baseball and chosing the Cubs or Sox?

I know a few DePaul students that have adopted NU as their favorite team.

i agree with the twerp on this one. college football sucks. look at the badger game last night. they got their ass handed to them by a no name team and what happens? some junior kicker cant kick a 20 yard field goal and the badgers still win.

what a joke. college football sucks. oh yeah and like 3 times yesterday some guy running with the ball gets swarmed by 20 people and some how gets out of it and runs for a td? do they start teaching tackling in the pro leagues?

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BernSTINE is an insufferable faux intellectual douchebag.

That aint no act on the radio, folks.

I have to agree. I hate college football. I can't stand the people clamoring for it either. The tackling thing does stand out a lot when I do happen to watch it, frustrating beyond belief.

It's a short distance from "rooting for a college team is stupid" to "rooting for a team is stupid" to "sports are stupid." You know what? Sports are stupid. And they are fun and I like them so sod off.

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Fire Phil Emery

And anybody who says otherwise is a bloody wanker!

no youre wrong. pro leagues are full grown men competing for millions of dollars TRYING to hurt each other. that is real entertainment.

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I don't have a problem with casual fans. The problem for me is those "fans" who have no affiliation with the school but get so involved in the outcome of a game being played by 18-20 year old kids that they poison tress and shit.

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+1. Enjoy the game; but that sort of shit is just stupid.

College sports fandom too often fancies itself as something more encompassing than just liking a sports team, which is where it gets so ugly to me. I've never used a Blackhawks win to tell a Islanders fan that this outcome proves my superior intelligence, our divisional competitiveness, hotness of local females, drinking prowess, so on, so forth. (Besides, Long Island has some srs QTs if you're into that whole thing.) Et tu, Bee Won Jee fans?

I don't get into international sports for the same reason, especially international hockey, which really seems to rankle my fellow hockey fans who eat the shit up with a spoon. USA-Canada is the fakest-ass "national" rivalry around, as far as hockey goes. Most elite American players grow up in states that are more culturally akin to Canada (Minnesota, Michigan, upstate NY) than parts of their own country, then play their major-junior in Ontario or the Prairies, and wind up pronouncing "out" as "oat" like a hoser. Most elite Canadians play in a mostly American league and profit immensely from our tax system. Furthermore, many players have dual citizenship as children of Canadians born in America or whatever. It's cooked-up nonsense based on which side of an imaginary line your mom was on when she popped you out, if even that. Finkle is Einhorn. Sorry for the off-topic rant.

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Initially I would say root for whomever......however after being around the likes of Ohio State fans I think Bernie may be onto something. The OSO fandom is creepy and obsessive.

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That's my purse! I don't know you!

Keep telling yourself that pro sports aren't like that.

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Git on back there.

Yeah, college football is awful because someone missed a chip shot field goal to win the game. Did you watch the Patriots-Cardinals game or last year's AFC title game? Then the NFL must suck as well.

Go to Madison, Ann Arbor, or South Bend on a Saturday and tell me that is not fun. Better yet, check out an SEC game. It is pure fandom.

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Pulling for a college team makes bernstein feel like a rube. And feeling like a rube is anathema to metropolitan dan. It's as simple as that. He'd rather marvel at the way Ennis Whatley cuts his toenails.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Sports = Entertainment.

Neither of their principals will ever care as much about their fans as they do for them

Over the top love for any team = A creepy celebrity obsession

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I agree with the whole college thing but Cubs suck.

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
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