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re: Do you care about football as much as you used to?
Posted on 8/17/17 at 11:10 am to AlaTiger
Posted on 8/17/17 at 11:10 am to AlaTiger
I still care for it. I just don't go batshite crazy over a loss. Comes with maturity and old age I guess. Used to, I would bitch and complain the entire ride back home from the stadium and then stay up half the night. Now, after having been a HS coach for a large part of my career, I just let it roll off my back. My livelihood doesn't depend on the outcome, unless I was a gambling addict and I am not.
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Posted on 8/17/17 at 11:11 am to AlaTiger
No. LSU loses...meh. I'm not losing sleep over some 19 y/o kids who miss a tackle, catch, etc.
Also, if it is a beautiful fall day out, I'm not going to be glued in doors watching game after game.
Also, if it is a beautiful fall day out, I'm not going to be glued in doors watching game after game.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 11:14 am to AlaTiger
I still love college ball, but I'm done with the NFL.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 11:16 am to Vecchio Cane
Haven't been interested in the NFL since I went to college.
Probably more emotionally involved now than I was before.
Only issue I have is that I have a bit of guilt being a fan because of the concussion issues.
Probably more emotionally involved now than I was before.
Only issue I have is that I have a bit of guilt being a fan because of the concussion issues.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 11:56 am to oman
still enjoy college football esp SEC.
lost interest in nfl a long time ago. free agency.
lost interest in nfl a long time ago. free agency.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 2:05 pm to AlaTiger
It sucks and it's ironic but I cared more about it when Mike Dubose was coach and not just because I was a student then. I was knee deep involved when Shula was coach then Saban came along and changed everything. It isn't near as exciting when you know you are going to win every time we tee off. I knew we would make the playoffs the last 2 yrs before the season started just like I already know we are a playoff team this year. Takes a lot of the fun out of it.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 2:25 pm to AlaTiger
Everything has changed except for Ole Miss still can't go to Atlanta
Posted on 8/17/17 at 3:01 pm to AlaTiger
I don't love the actual game as much as I used to but I love the game day routine as much as ever. After a long work week, there's nothing like setting up the tv under the gazebo, firing up the grill and drinking beer. I enjoy it all the way up until the last west coast game is over although I usually can't really remember how that one plays out.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 3:06 pm to AlaTiger
I'm the same way. From teenage years up to my even my mid to later 20s I still cared alot. Now I'm 31, I get pissed if we lose but shake it off quick
Posted on 8/17/17 at 3:10 pm to AlaTiger
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Anyone else like that?
Its amazing what having kids will do to priorities. When my kids have games opposite a Bama game, I completely forget Bama is playing. I never thought that would have been possible 20 years ago.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 3:12 pm to AlaTiger
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Do you care about football as much as you used to?
yeah
Posted on 8/17/17 at 3:16 pm to ArabianKnight
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Its amazing what having kids will do to priorities
Spending the first few months with a child in the NICU (he's fine now)will really put your priorities in order. The Saints Super Bowl win was the first and only football game that I watched that season
Posted on 8/17/17 at 3:51 pm to AlaTiger
I don't because I used to bet huge on it and don't any more. 
Posted on 8/17/17 at 4:05 pm to AlaTiger
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I used to be REALLY into it,
Yeah, I have lost much of my desire to watch multiple college games each week. I never was a huge pro fan other than when I was an ardent Saints fan.
I know that as I have gotten older, I have found other things more important to spend my time on, but Les Miles was also a major culprit in my decline. Miles' conservative coaching style and downright archaic offensive philosophy made me dislike him much more than the opponent LSU was playing.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 4:16 pm to AlaTiger
Message boards have changed things. Now, anybody can whine and get attention. I would never have known about all the butt hurt amongst fans without it.
I'm not sure that is a good thang, however.
I'm not sure that is a good thang, however.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 6:58 pm to BowlJackson
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Says username "gladchiefisgone"
My board name could have easily been
gladbowdenwyattisgone
gladjimmacdonaldisgone
" "billbattleisgone
" "johnnymajorsisgone
" "philipfulmerisgone
" "lanekiffinisgone
" "derekdooleyisgone
I'm a fan of the university...not the coach. The only coach I hated to see go in my lifetime was Doug Dickey
This post was edited on 8/17/17 at 6:59 pm
Posted on 8/17/17 at 8:25 pm to AlaTiger
The SJW movement is slowly bleeding my interest in it, especially the NFL.
Posted on 8/17/17 at 8:29 pm to DuncanIdaho
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Same here. I don't get the highs and especially the lows like I used to over football.
I'm having the same thing.
I think part of it is getting older, but I think a part of it is also being an Alabama fan I've become numb to success.
Regardless, I miss the days of it feeling like life and death.
My interest in NFL is 0. It used to be maybe 4/10 when I was younger. I don't give a crap bout it now. The play is terrible, the climate around it is terrible, the politics is terrible. frick the NFL.
This post was edited on 8/17/17 at 8:39 pm
Posted on 8/17/17 at 8:39 pm to AlaTiger
The day I stop caring about college football is the day I want to die
Posted on 8/17/17 at 8:43 pm to VolInBavaria
I had begun to care a bit less, but with the outside world being so fricking shitty these days I am beginning to escape back into it. CFB in the Fall is one of the few truly good things out there. That being said, once snow is on the mountain, I'll be on my snowboard and not in front of a TV...so basically, it stops at CFB, frick the NFL.
This post was edited on 8/17/17 at 8:48 pm
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