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<blockquote data-quote="Northeast Stinger" data-source="post: 982554" data-attributes="member: 1640"><p>Having lived and spent time as an adult in the large population centers of the north I’ve always been struck by how football fans up there either watch their local high school teams (often Saturday day games) and/or watch pro ball.</p><p></p><p>Decades before my time, and starting before my parents’ time, college football was a big deal in the north. Big games were held in cities like Chicago and New York, the best teams were considered to be from the north, and epic stories by some of America’s best writers were written about games like Army vs Notre Dame. Princeton still retains the most national championships.</p><p></p><p>I’ve often wondered if the North just caught on more quickly to the emerging hypocrisy of college football. Growing up in the South it was a point of pride when we finally started to win games regularly against the northern schools. Anyone who doesn’t recognize the natural inferiority complex in many southerners going back to the civil war has skipped reading a lot of history. Even Bear Bryant saw Alabama’s first matchup with Notre Dame as a chance to strike a blow for southern legitimacy. Some of that attitude evolved into today’s SEC chauvinism.</p><p></p><p>Ironically, as the south was gaining respect on the football field, the north, as a whole, was caring less and less. Colleges are bragged on as academic institutions. Football is loved primarily as a family thing where and if you played in high school, or it is equated with athletic excellence at the pro level where measurements are far more objective and less political.</p><p></p><p>I’m wondering about my own love of college football, which has diminished greatly over the years, and wondering how much of it is nostalgia for times long gone. Did my northern brethren learn this sooner? All I know is there is something in the average dawg fan that involves personal validation by transference that seems delusional and out of sync with the actual reality of much of college football, something I just can’t relate to at all anymore. Those who generally avoid being exploited by capitalistic interests in every other area of their lives will have a hard time with the current carnival and snake oil show.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Northeast Stinger, post: 982554, member: 1640"] Having lived and spent time as an adult in the large population centers of the north I’ve always been struck by how football fans up there either watch their local high school teams (often Saturday day games) and/or watch pro ball. Decades before my time, and starting before my parents’ time, college football was a big deal in the north. Big games were held in cities like Chicago and New York, the best teams were considered to be from the north, and epic stories by some of America’s best writers were written about games like Army vs Notre Dame. Princeton still retains the most national championships. I’ve often wondered if the North just caught on more quickly to the emerging hypocrisy of college football. Growing up in the South it was a point of pride when we finally started to win games regularly against the northern schools. Anyone who doesn’t recognize the natural inferiority complex in many southerners going back to the civil war has skipped reading a lot of history. Even Bear Bryant saw Alabama’s first matchup with Notre Dame as a chance to strike a blow for southern legitimacy. Some of that attitude evolved into today’s SEC chauvinism. Ironically, as the south was gaining respect on the football field, the north, as a whole, was caring less and less. Colleges are bragged on as academic institutions. Football is loved primarily as a family thing where and if you played in high school, or it is equated with athletic excellence at the pro level where measurements are far more objective and less political. I’m wondering about my own love of college football, which has diminished greatly over the years, and wondering how much of it is nostalgia for times long gone. Did my northern brethren learn this sooner? All I know is there is something in the average dawg fan that involves personal validation by transference that seems delusional and out of sync with the actual reality of much of college football, something I just can’t relate to at all anymore. Those who generally avoid being exploited by capitalistic interests in every other area of their lives will have a hard time with the current carnival and snake oil show. [/QUOTE]
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