I Love Football!!!!!!

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No other sport inspires this type of writing these days. Maybe at one time baseball did (and maybe still does). But this article inspires me and makes me want to do nothing come Saturday but watch football. And this is the type of love that Pro football fans don't have. A Pro football team might inspire a city for a season, like the Saints last year, or Denver when Elway won his Super Bowl finally. But pro football fans do not have the same ties, the overall experience that college football provides. I can still close my eyes and picture Folsom Field in the fall, the walk through campus before the game and the feel after the game. Yeah I was excited when the Broncos and Rams won their Super Bowls but they never inpired me to get a tattoo celebrating the victory. Being a pro football fan only, without having gone to college and therefore having a college team to cheer for, is kind of like being the parent of only 1 child. Yeah you get a lot of joy and it has it's challenges, but it's not the same as having multiple kids (OK I am stretching my analogy just a little bit). You don't have the same depth of feeling for a pro team as you do for college teams.

And all of this is in no way diminished by the fact that Ole Miss had a miserable season last year and probably won't do much better this year. Or that the same can be said about CU. And that is what truly separates the Pro fans from the College fans, when your pro team is bad, your enthusiasm wanes, but in college there is still that wonderful feeling of who knows?