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Message: [QUOTE="billybud, post: 2789557, member: 3850"] Part of the deep south's tradition of college football fandom goes back 60 years or so. When I was a boy, there was no pro football team south of Washington nor baseball team, nor basketball team. We followed college ball. The Bear at Bama against Shug Jordan at Auburn, etc. The radio was the medium for a lot of fandom....listening to the games. Fewer were televised. And the south was far more rural 60 years ago...and high school football was a local passion. In many towns, Friday nights are still set aside for high school football games...and crowds show up to watch under the lights. But, the south isn't that south any longer. And in-migration has changed parts of the south and added additional interests...but not in the hinterlands of Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina or North Florida. [/QUOTE]