re: Some of you just need to log off until spring ball starts

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And I'm not sure how any of it should effect whether you keep watching Alabama play sports if you love the University.

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Call me crazy, but I've always felt like the main thing that differentiates college from the NFL is the idea that there is some sort of shared experience and connection between the fans and the players. Maybe that's just because I went to school at Alabama and met a lot of them in class, at parties, out on the Strip, or whatever. I'm never going to be the social peer of an NFL player though. I'm never going to sit next to any of them in a class. So that common experience is just never going to exist.

I do agree that the people acting like we're about to return to the Dubose era are nuts, but I can't blame anyone who is ready to cut back their emotional investment in a sport that is rapidly becoming NFL Lite if pro sports aren't their thing.