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Tomorrow is an EXTREEEEEMLY IMPORTANT FOOTBALL GAME here* and thus life is currently very uncomfortable for those of us who despise most sports.** I have already been chided none-too-gently by a coworker for inadvertently wearing a shirt that incorporates the opposing team's colors***, and there's been a helicopter flying over the stadium for an hour, presumably getting color footage to use in the game broadcast tomorrow and DRIVING ME INSANE.

Have made note to be nowhere near the campus tomorrow.

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* Something to do with trying for the first undefeated season since 1938, which I understand, and something about bowl games, which I don't.

** More uncomfortable than usual, considering that I'm in Texas, where football is the national pastime.

*** I said "I don't follow sports." She said "It's not just sports! It's national!" I said "The difference between you and me is that to me it's just sports." She stopped talking to me after that, presumably sensing that I was going to go for her throat shortly if she didn't.

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I lived in a very hockey-focused city for a couple of years (wow, do Toronto folks love their hockey!), and I have absolutely no interest in sports either, so I sympathize. And I like your answer. ^_^

Haha. So I was reading my Network and I was like, yeah, I don't like football either and then I was like, campus? Tell me about it, I live on campus, I can't even escape the madness. And then I read you're in Texas and I was like, wait. Does this person live near me?

Do you? o_O

I am a librarian at a very purple school. :)

Ah. The school around here is very orange, so probably not too near me.

Nevertheless, I feel your pain.

PS - librarians are awesome. <3

Yeah. I was down in orange-school area for a wedding the same weekend as most of the students were traveling north for the big game last month, and I was exceptionally glad that the traffic flow was all opposite me. :)

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I think I'm going home early - the helicopter's incessant thumpthumpthumpthump made my head hurt. :P I will never understand the whole football fanaticism thing, and I grew up in College Station, surrounded by Aggies!

Oh, goodness. I know the feeling, having lived in Arkansas for many years and then gone to the University of Arkansas. Many of my childhood friends and classmates on Facebook have profile photos of themselves in Razorbacks gear. It's all lost on me...

At least at Stanford, I could roll my eyes and take refuge in being a grad student (we were officially allowed to not care, just as we were presumed to be free from other human urges like dating or having fun--nothing mattered except studying and finding free food :P).

I went to high school with Emmett Smith. My dad would have told you at length that he was THE top-ranked football player in the nation in those years, leading the top-ranked football team in the nation in his senior year, turned down offers to go pro in his senior year in high school - and continued to do so until he got his college degree - and then had a long and profitable career with the Dallas Cowboys.

Me? I went to ONE football game the entire time I was in high school (due solely to the fact that my dad insisted that if I'd just try, I'd find some school spirit somewhere in my bones if I went) and then just ignored the whole thing as best I could. I even shared a class with him at one point, and didn't give a shit, nor could I have pointed him out in a crowd.

And then I went to FSU during two of their biggest winning seasons, and made a point of going shopping at a bookstore clear across town on game nights - because then I didn't have to hear the damn game from a mile away, nor did I have to deal with the idiots who took over our dorm parking lots. Did I mention that the dorm I was at was about a mile away from the stadium and you STILL couldn't park anywhere on the street the dorms were on? Ugh. If I hadn't hated football before that I would have after.

Growing up near A&M, we found that during the game was the best time to go grocery shopping, as nobody else was. :)

Oh god, flashbacks to my time at UTAustin. My sympathies.

I was a big fan while I was IN school, and for a couple years after, but now I despise all college and professional sports. It's great to have a spouse who is the same way.

You have my sympathy there. I live just up the road from the Arsenal stadium, and on match days the place is swarming with people in red shirts. Any other colour is looked on a bit askance, especially blue and purple (colours of their local enemies). Since, as my brother says, no-one in my family has the sports gene, and I'm bored senseless by the whole idea, it can be a bit annoying.

My sympathies. We have a basketball game tonight, and football game tomorrow. Maybe it will be possible to drive in town Sunday.

I'm rather glad that I've never had to suffer through such things here in England. In fact usually it seems to be that the sports fans in all their sporting regalia seem to be seen as the odd ones instead in my experience :D

She stopped talking to me after that, presumably sensing that I was going to go for her throat shortly if she didn't.

No jury of your peers would convict you. ^_^

For me, football is something you only pay attention to if someone gives you a free game ticket, or if there's NOTHING ELSE INTERESTING TO DO.

This is why I picked a university that lacked both a football team AND Greek frats. I knew either of those plagues would render me buggy... so I ended up being driven buggy by the stink of pot in the dorms instead. Because what do college kids do when they can't make jackasses of themselves over rush week and homecoming? They make jackasses of themselves with underage drinking and toking instead. :P Though to be fair, this WAS California in the early '80s...

I beg to differ. Football is not the Texas national pastime.

Football is The Established State RELIGION. First Amendment be damned.

::eyeroll:: (I don't get it myself. I mean, really--it's just sports!)

Ugh

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