I'm gonna chime in here and my opinion of NFL is its just another job and if I am going to watch grown men at work I will just go into work and get paid for it. The young men playing at the college level are still trying to prove something and play with much more heart.
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Sorry man, I'm a huge college football homer, but I gotta disagree here. There are PLENTY (millions) of pro football fans who live and die by their team the same way college football fans too. I know many myself, and if I lived in other parts of the country where they actually have pro football teams, I'm sure I'd know a lot more. There's a reason pro football dominates Sportscenter and First Take over college football, and there's a reason there is a pro football network, and it ain't because people aren't passionate about football. They are plenty passionate about football. Just ask Steeler fans, or Browns fans, or Raider fans, etc etc, who are downright depressed when their teams lose, just like we are when they Irish lose.
No doubt that fantasy football has brought the casual fan into liking pro football, but that doesn't take away from the millions of fans who are die-hard about their teams.
Now, I used to love pro football - when I had a team to root for. But when the Rams left for St. Louis, my love for pro football has waned with each passing year. Don't get me wrong, I still follow it and am in some betting leagues and I watch it if I'm in front of the TV, but I'm not nearly as passionate as I once was.
My wife knows - on Saturdays in the fall, it's college football all day - whether we go to a friend's house to watch the Irish or whether I stay home all day, I need my college football fix and a cold beverage or 6. And on Sunday, whatever she wants to do, I'm in. (She likes football so sometimes that means she's grading papers and watching pro football with me...win win) I figure I only get about 13-14 Saturdays a year of this great sport, so the rest of the year we do husband-wife stuff on the weekends...
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johnnykillz
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Cowboy fans...
Long are the Emmitt Smith and Troy Aikman days.
Long are the Emmitt Smith and Troy Aikman days.
dshans
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Pro Football, pro Baseball, pro Basketball, pro Hockey, pro Futbol, pro Lacrosse, pro Volleyball, pro Curling ... OK, OK, I'll watch and follow, fervently, some of them.
I'll watch a non-Vikings game when it means something to me (regional biases for the most part) or I'm snowed in and there's little else to do. I will scramble like hell to watch an ND game. I'll even go to a smarmy, over priced sports bar.
Be that as it may, that being said: qué sera, sera.
Consider that, in the early, early days college football was professional football. Colleges and Universities "hired" athletic thugs to man their teams and ignore their classrooms for the "glory." All while getting a degree.
This is a recurring theme that exists to this day, but at least there are some nominal curbs to the practice. If there is a profit to be turned, in whatever form, this will continue until the Rapture.
A year or three without the NFL may well benefit my adopted home town. The Golden Gophers might actually fill their new stadium. We residents of Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota might not have our fingers and legs broken to coerce us into paying taxes and fees to build (in large) a new stadium for an owner that stands to make millions upon his eventual sale of the team . All while paying players millions, as temporary and part-time residents, who contribute little to the livelihood of the general populace and the world at-large.
My convoluted point? Were there no NFL or any other professional football league, the pressure to pay college players would escalate and be even more subterranean than it is currently.
Another (unintended) consequence of the possible demise of the NFL, CFL and EFL is that there would be a paucity of potential college football players willing to go through the exquisite pain and benefit of college while on the road to heady NFL riches.
The college game, should it remain truly amateur, would see its talent pool dry up.
I can see a benefit to college football without a professional level on the short term with regard to interest and/or audience, but not to the allure and true tradition of the game.
Fire away if you've bothered to read through these Rapture/Rupture drinking inspired ruminations.
[Damn, I'm still here. I don't even have to worry about "setting my house in order" in the next five days.]
I'll watch a non-Vikings game when it means something to me (regional biases for the most part) or I'm snowed in and there's little else to do. I will scramble like hell to watch an ND game. I'll even go to a smarmy, over priced sports bar.
Be that as it may, that being said: qué sera, sera.
Consider that, in the early, early days college football was professional football. Colleges and Universities "hired" athletic thugs to man their teams and ignore their classrooms for the "glory." All while getting a degree.
This is a recurring theme that exists to this day, but at least there are some nominal curbs to the practice. If there is a profit to be turned, in whatever form, this will continue until the Rapture.
A year or three without the NFL may well benefit my adopted home town. The Golden Gophers might actually fill their new stadium. We residents of Minneapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota might not have our fingers and legs broken to coerce us into paying taxes and fees to build (in large) a new stadium for an owner that stands to make millions upon his eventual sale of the team . All while paying players millions, as temporary and part-time residents, who contribute little to the livelihood of the general populace and the world at-large.
My convoluted point? Were there no NFL or any other professional football league, the pressure to pay college players would escalate and be even more subterranean than it is currently.
Another (unintended) consequence of the possible demise of the NFL, CFL and EFL is that there would be a paucity of potential college football players willing to go through the exquisite pain and benefit of college while on the road to heady NFL riches.
The college game, should it remain truly amateur, would see its talent pool dry up.
I can see a benefit to college football without a professional level on the short term with regard to interest and/or audience, but not to the allure and true tradition of the game.
Fire away if you've bothered to read through these Rapture/Rupture drinking inspired ruminations.
[Damn, I'm still here. I don't even have to worry about "setting my house in order" in the next five days.]
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I hate "Ruptures."
ndcoltsfan2010
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It's funny you talk about Saturdays being for you and Sunday is to do whatever the wife wants. I totally feel you there. My wife understands this and always gives me my Saturdays to either gloat and feel good or pout and be in a bad mood. She has always been supportive of my love of Notre Dame football so I never miss a game. Lucky for me she also enjoys watching Colts games when they are on tv so I usually get to watch their games as well. But bottom line is that if she wants to do something on a Sunday, I go along with it, because she knows I am a huge CFB and Irish fan and I am one of those guys that will watch college football all day long. So it is only fair I guess.
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johnnykillz
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Yeah no kidding. Epitome went through the Rupture 30 days ago or something like that...
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Bogtrotter07
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Oh, man! Thats gotta hurt. Kinda like having all your teeth pulled, you know what I mean?
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johnnykillz
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lol.
An ascension is brutal.
An ascension is brutal.
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Bogtrotter07
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Ask Old Man Mike.
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With all the todo about the NFL I wonder how many guys out there are like me. If I'm home on Sunday night or its bad weather and I'm inside I watch the pro game thats on. But I set my day on SAT around the Irish. The pros will not affect me one way or another. I dont even watch it on Monday Night because espn (notice small caps) does such a screwed up job (unless Pittsburgh is playing).