STrib: College football mystery: Why don't students go to games?

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TrapperDoo said:
I disagree. I think football is popular because it is the perfect TV sport as a game. It lends itself to TV like nothing else. I did not really realize this until I was talking to an international friend of mine at work. I was saying that I didn't understand why soccer wasn't a bigger professional sport in the US, given that so many youth play it and its a sport that we really understand, for several generations now. He answered me with the simplest analysis - football plays on TV because of there are so many breaks in the action whereas the soccer game continues uninterrupted. It's perfect for advertising and bathroom breaks. I think he was spot on. Football works for TV like nothing else. I appreciate soccer, but I love football.
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College football was already wildly popular 100 years ago, before TV. Our football simply has a strongly established cultural history in this country, and established fan culture and rivalries. Soccer just never had that going way back. Baseball once had that, but lost it. I've played more soccer in my lifetime than all other sports combined, and still enjoy playing soccer more than any other sport, but in the cultural context the only soccer games that interest me are the national team competitions because they have good history and I have an interest in the teams.

Along those lines it's sad how they screwed up the rules in college volleyball to make it "TV friendly". :/
 


BarnBoy said:
Step 1:
Step 2: Hot girls arrive at TCF Bank Stadium
Step 3: Stadium will fill up

What's Step 1???? Damn it.
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Feel free to borrow something from us: You get to kiss your date after every touchdown. Might stay at the game longer if it looks like your team will score again (and thus you score again, too).
 

BarnBoy said:
Step 1:
Step 2: Hot girls arrive at TCF Bank Stadium
Step 3: Stadium will fill up

What's Step 1???? Damn it.
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ruppert shirt off? He's five pounds above his high school weight!
 

Cole Sundquic, a senior biology major, said he normally goes — he was not this day — and complained of the slow pace of the games.
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Way too slow paced games, right?
 



I'm a student at UMD, so it's a little different up here, but football is really not the best spectator sport. We're jammed in elbow to elbow with a bunch of drunk people for 4 hours and probably don't have a good view of the field, I would imagine especially so at the U. More often than not, I just talk to my friends because it's hard to tell what's going on on the field. Sports like hockey and basketball are 10x better for spectating. You're right on top of the playing field, have a great view, and feel really involved. Football just isn't the same. I much rather stick in the dorms and keep drinking and watch the game on TV with a group of friends.
 

Seems like the game was pretty filled up with students today.
 

Coming from a student in the student section. But I didn't have a view of anyone in the upper section. What bugged me was that a few girls behind me and four girls a bit to my right left when it was 36-38. I was dumbfounded. I couldn't believe they would leave before at least the game was close to being decided.
 



adchester said:
I'm a student at UMD, so it's a little different up here, but football is really not the best spectator sport. We're jammed in elbow to elbow with a bunch of drunk people for 4 hours and probably don't have a good view of the field, I would imagine especially so at the U. More often than not, I just talk to my friends because it's hard to tell what's going on on the field. Sports like hockey and basketball are 10x better for spectating. You're right on top of the playing field, have a great view, and feel really involved. Football just isn't the same. I much rather stick in the dorms and keep drinking and watch the game on TV with a group of friends.
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Pretty tough to find a bad seat at TCF......and it's very roomy.....maybe not in the student section where they choose to jam into the lower level.

Many more people attending football games than basketball.....and especially hockey.
 

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