(09-11-2014 11:10 AM)gsu95 Wrote: (09-10-2014 07:05 PM)OsageJ Wrote: (09-10-2014 10:22 AM)arkstfan Wrote: Interesting how people view such stuff.
One complaining because the kids miss it. Another doesn't like it because it isn't mean enough.
I think the person wanting it to be mean misses the point. Kids like friendly characters. AState does all sort of fierce stuff with the Red Wolves name but Howl and Scarlet aren't mean or scary looking and are very popular.
A lot of fans forget that a college athletic program is supposed to be fun for fans. Instead it's WWIII. Sometimes it's hard to enjoy it like that.
Agree. I'd give you a rep point, but I forget how to do that. So +1.
First and foremost, college football to me is remembering some of the most fun times with my parents.
Driving up for a game. Either eating at a restaurant before a game (eating out was a rare occurence, maybe we didn't have a lot of money or Dad just liked Mom's cooking, I don't know) or having a picnic lunch outside the stadium.
The whooping and hollering of the game, the big plays, the girls showing a lot leg twirling a baton. The only music was the band and the only songs they played I knew the words to were the Star Spangled Banner and the Fight Song. The smell of fall in the air.
My dad would consult the program to see who made that block and my mom would occasionally offer a thought or two because she loved the game as well. They went to college on my Dad's GI Bill and had a kid (my older brother) and didn't get much of the "college experience" but they loved their school because it changed their life and I think down deep coming to games made them feel like they were sort of catching up on some of what they had missed out of in college.
The players were bigger than life to me. It's funny but now I know many of my childhood heroes and they are sort of embarassed but also seem glad that some dude with more gray than black left in his hair remembers plays they made.
We'd watch the game, have a good time and I'd sleep in the backseat going home, usually with my dad directing my mom to hunt out the crackly sounds of some other game on the AM radio in the car.
My dad can barely make up and down the steps now, he hurt his knee 40 years ago and time makes the effect of that injury worse. My mother doesn't always know what is happening with the games, and sometimes isn't quite sure who I am but as much as they can they still come back.
That's college football. It's not some light and sound show pitting fierce mascots, it's families having a good day that stays with them even when not all of them are still with us.
