I just can’t give myself to college football. Never have, never will. I’ve tried and it’s just not in me. I spent 8 years working in Alabama as a sportscaster and I got exposed to more college football than most people……and I think it only pushed me further away from the sport. Given that I’ve loved sports my entire life and that I spent 17 years as a sportscaster, you’d think college football would hold a special place in my heart. It seems everybody else who loves sports feels that way…….but not me.
Why? I’ve asked myself that question many times. It’s a complicated answer. First of all, I spent the first 13 years of my life in New York. That is a portion of the country that doesn’t hold college football in a high regard. New Yorkers are too busy dealing with the Mets, Yankees, Giants, Jets, Knicks, Nets, Rangers and Islanders. Can you name a good college football program that calls New York home????? I can’t. I went to ASU….a school where football is the top sport. Even back then, I remember not getting as excited as my Sun Devil friends for Saturday night games, yet I always thought of myself as a bigger sports fan than any of them. I guess I’m a pro sports elitest. I want to watch the best athletes play….not just the best athletes from high school.
Finally, I think the main reason I can’t get into college football is that I’m just too busy watching the pennant races in baseball. This is the most exciting time of the season for any big baseball fan! I just don’t have time for college football. I will watch the NFL because I do like football….but I won’t watch those games seriously until after the world series. There’s just not enough room for everything and every year college football gets left on the ”cutting-room floor” in my life.
Just when I think I get to know you, boom goes the dynamite!
Go Devils!
ASU 45 – Stanford 10
I’m with you Chris. My first love is baseball, especially at this time of year when the season is starting to wind down and I’m in a frenzy. My husband is the same and that’s one of the many reasons I married him 33yrs ago. If you’re a true baseball fan, how can you focus on another sport at this time of year?? Yes, we do love football too so we can’t totally ignore the beginning season of football, but until The World Series is over, we just keep one squinty eye on the football scores…both college and the NFL, then we’re football all the way till Spring Training Baseball. But…why does baseball overlap the beginning of the football season, but at the end of the football season, there’s nothing?? Something’s wrong with that. Football shouldn’t start till after baseball is over. I’m tired of watching football with “baseball infield dirt” down on the field.
Chris,
I really liked your sports report from the “Sports Chair”. Will you be doing it more?