Here to get this off my chest
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People forget that football was invented for college boys
There was a post CW concern that all the folks moving to the city were raising soft fucking losers since there was no war or hay to get in the barn. It started in the motherland of academis superiority - The Ivy League. In SEC SEC country it also became a part of the whitewashing (lol) of the recent unpleasantness between the states.
Southern schools were excluded from early big time football. Vanderbilt of all teams was the first to venture north
It was a violent game filled with death and injury. Teddy R told them to clean some things up
By the 20s it was in the pantheon of American sport in the new advertising age. That's when the big stadiums were built and UW invented football at Alabama in the Rose Bowl
In the depression the football squad revenue kept the doors open at many a university, College football was king when the NFL was playing on sandlots
It was deeply ingrained in the American Experience. Things change though. Now the NFL is king and when us old fucks die college football may die with us
The History of SEC Football is a great resource for all of college football. 8 parts on the ESPN family of networks
And the history of the west coast football and the Big 10 is a big part of the lore. And our DAWGS are part of it
cool story gramps -
Is there a chapter that starts in 1994?
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Nobody has invented more football than UWdtd said:Is there a chapter that starts in 1994?
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I can't tell if this is self deprecating or not.RaceBannon said:
Nobody has invented more football than UWdtd said:Is there a chapter that starts in 1994?
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I can’t decide between the “quit living in the past” or the “you would know, you were there” quip…so ABUNDANCE!RaceBannon said:People forget that football was invented for college boys
There was a post CW concern that all the folks moving to the city were raising soft fucking losers since there was no war or hay to get in the barn. It started in the motherland of academis superiority - The Ivy League. In SEC SEC country it also became a part of the whitewashing (lol) of the recent unpleasantness between the states.
Southern schools were excluded from early big time football. Vanderbilt of all teams was the first to venture north
It was a violent game filled with death and injury. Teddy R told them to clean some things up
By the 20s it was in the pantheon of American sport in the new advertising age. That's when the big stadiums were built and UW invented football at Alabama in the Rose Bowl
In the depression the football squad revenue kept the doors open at many a university, College football was king when the NFL was playing on sandlots
It was deeply ingrained in the American Experience. Things change though. Now the NFL is king and when us old fucks die college football may die with us
The History of SEC Football is a great resource for all of college football. 8 parts on the ESPN family of networks
And the history of the west coast football and the Big 10 is a big part of the lore. And our DAWGS are part of it
cool story gramps
You’re right Race. I do feel like we’re seeing the twilight of college football, at least as we know it, and we’ve covered the root causes here ad nauseam.
But there will be more realignments before that happens, so it will at least be an entertaining final act. -
Cliff notes?
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Why not both?dtd said:
I can't tell if this is self deprecating or not.RaceBannon said:
Nobody has invented more football than UWdtd said:Is there a chapter that starts in 1994?
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Race was there!!!
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Things change, but college football fills a space that is going to be hard to take over. There's more culture and blood in it than the pros.
Baseball is officially regional at best. Soccer hasn't done anything. Basketball has hurt itself and is too individualistic. Cant really smoke weed and talk shit. Hockey has the stigma of being someone else's game.
NFL has hurt itself and has always been a turnoff for a lot of football fans. The field is too small for the athletes, and for all the shit cfb has received this summer, the NFL is needlessly moving teams around. Teams that have won Superbowls in their previous locations.
You get a top 5 quarterback and you're set for years, or you're a boring franchise going through 10+ specimens that throw an out route into the stands. -
CFB might not be dying, but the way many of us would define it, what it means to us, probably is. I see people talking shit about WSU fans for posting that they might give up being fans at all, yet I can 100% already see myself heading down that path and my? team is one of the victors. I don't a flying fuck aboutDoog_de_Jour said:
I can’t decide between the “quit living in the past” or the “you would know, you were there” quip…so ABUNDANCE!RaceBannon said:People forget that football was invented for college boys
There was a post CW concern that all the folks moving to the city were raising soft fucking losers since there was no war or hay to get in the barn. It started in the motherland of academis superiority - The Ivy League. In SEC SEC country it also became a part of the whitewashing (lol) of the recent unpleasantness between the states.
Southern schools were excluded from early big time football. Vanderbilt of all teams was the first to venture north
It was a violent game filled with death and injury. Teddy R told them to clean some things up
By the 20s it was in the pantheon of American sport in the new advertising age. That's when the big stadiums were built and UW invented football at Alabama in the Rose Bowl
In the depression the football squad revenue kept the doors open at many a university, College football was king when the NFL was playing on sandlots
It was deeply ingrained in the American Experience. Things change though. Now the NFL is king and when us old fucks die college football may die with us
The History of SEC Football is a great resource for all of college football. 8 parts on the ESPN family of networks
And the history of the west coast football and the Big 10 is a big part of the lore. And our DAWGS are part of it
cool story gramps
You’re right Race. I do feel like we’re seeing the twilight of college football, at least as we know it, and we’ve covered the root causes here ad nauseam.
But there will be more realignments before that happens, so it will at least be an entertaining final act.playinglosing to Ohio State outside of Pasadena. It doesn't have any meaning, whatever that means.
Maybe I just need to LIPO. But more than likely for many people this is not the beginning of the end, but somewhere much closer to the middle. And then a bunch of young fucks will repalce us in the modern era and life will go on, and like Race said, what CFB was will be dead with each generation we lose. Maybe that's always been happening and I didn't see it until now. Except I did, because the BCS was the real beginning of the end.
