The popularity of football ranks right up there with religion. It's even got its own unwritten "commandments" so to speak.
The first commandment is, "Thou shall not blaspheme thy neighbor's college football team."
In fact, attacking someone's favorite team is just about as bad as calling their baby ugly. In the realm of college football, I think the punishment is like, banishment from the man den camp for seven days or something.
Just like commercialism has taken over Christmas, companies have taken notice and waged an all-out battle for the oodles of money consumers spend on their favorite college football team gear.
How sacrilegious of them.
In the world of football, it's not weird at all to have your team's logo on mugs, t-shirts, heck, even toilet paper.
However, NuTone has given you, faithful NCAA followers, the Holy Grail of football fan gear: the College Pride doorbell.
So sit back, learn how the football faithful's mind works, and shop your heart away during halftime.
Oh, and, yes, we're fresh out of toilet paper.
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Frank, I lived in student halls right across the road from the main entrance. Bricks through the windows of the kitchens were a common occurrance back then (early 90s). NUFC were not in the Premiership for most of my time in the city. One Saturday afternoon I emerged from the halls with my cane in one hand and a letter and my handbag in the other. Two mounted police moved to either side of me to escort me down the 100m to the corner against the flow of fans streaming in for a game. Even here in the East the cops line the road at the end of a home match so the fans don't mingle easily with the rest of us. I'm not a football 'fan'. I get annoyed when NUFC lose, and celebrate wildly when anyone beats Man U or Chelsea, as I have no time for those teams. Cycling and F1, on the other hand, I will go out of my way to watch, support, attend events, stand on the side of the road, go to races and so on.
Football is the ancient name, but the game divided into various codes. American and Association football radically different ways. But the name remained.
We have people who take their football very seriously, too much in some cases. That is why when I am teaching I now refuse to tell children which team I support, because I will not feed the obsession. My fear is for boys who are so keen on being footballers that they neglect qualifications. I tell boys that in forty years teaching I have only met three boys who have made the grade as footballers, and none were especially successful.
One of my successes was talking a lad out of football hooliganism. He used to fight for United [United did not want this nonsense of course] but after he left he returned to school, sought me and said, "You were right, Sir, fighting is for mugs." Of course, a girlfriend,a child,a job and a few black eyes might have had something to do with the change of heart.
Sounds like y'all take your football seriously too lol
Bricks through the window! I have lived a mile from Manchester United for thirty four years and I have never seen any trouble.
Wow, you sound like a real fan. I've always wondered why Americans didn't come up with a more original name for the game instead of copying the name of the British version. I guess we were just plain spiteful lol
I had that with Formula 1 in the day with my dad. Now I'm the racing fan and my parents not so much. Football to me means soccer and there is only one team: Newcastle United, playing in black and white out of St James' Park. Not SportsDirect Stadium or whatever Mike Ashley wanted to call it. No. Just NO MISTER ASHLEY. 'Kay? Not that I watch many games these days because, well, Premiership football is overpaid and overhyped, to be honest, but I lived across the road from the ground for two years so some things become a habit. Like breathing again when the cheers from the ground told you the right team had scored. No bricks through the window that night, if we were lucky.
I feel for you. After all those years living around daddy, I know just enough about football to be dangerous
You've just about summed it up. I am familiar with college football because I happen to live with a fanatic who watches all the televised games, and then some.