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Message: [QUOTE="AZHuskiePop, post: 4028831, member: 1609"] I’ave been a college football fan since I was very young. probably the 1940’s which is even before I became a UConn Basketball fan. I remember watching the The sprit of West Point in the movies and the legends of Doc Blanchard and Glenn Davis bigger than life stars. It made me a Army fan of course I would adopt a team an their rival was on my most hated list . love Army hate Navy Love Ohio State ( they had a guy named Hopalong Cassidy ) hate the Mich Teams liked Tenn they wore orange hated Alabama like UCLA cool powder blue and gold uniforms hate USC Love Okla hate Texas hating Texas makes you automatically become an A&M and Arkansas fan Liked Fla hated Georgia and later FSU Like Georgia Tech. until they refused to allow Pitt to use a black player In the Sugar Bowl Switched sides The list is very long I collected and cherished my football legends cards with old time players. Even though I was a Catholic boy I wasn’t a huge ND fanboy like most of my friends . I kind of Liked Yale and hated Harvard and when is was 13-14my friends and would hitch to the Bowl to watch a game in person getting permission from my parents was optional. i never told this story on the board but it’s absolutely true I knew a guy at ESPN who was responsible for programming at ESPN which at the time was the home of college basketball We were at a girls softball game sitting next to each other and he had a notebook He told me ESPN was going to televise college football and asked if I was a fan. I told him of course but to me college football was the game of the week . This guys experience had been primarily in basketball and baseball so he asked me to review the potential menu which read something like week 1 a v b or c v d each week there was a choice of games. He asked my preference some weeks were toss ups in my mind but most weeks there was clearly a better choice. I gave him my preferences and that’s the schedule ESPN went with for its first go round So I’m the root cause of all this conference realignment pushed by ESPN . My priest who was ND fan gave me absolution for my sin. But I’m haunted by the guilt. [/QUOTE]

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