re: You don't win when your favorite team does..

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You don't win when your favorite team does..

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That dopamine hit says otherwise...

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It really is kind of sad. It is also uniquely American - in the case of "amateur" sports anyway, almost everyone around the globe is emotionally invested in some form of team worship, but rarely to the scale that we are in the US. It is a relatively small number of people even in the US relative to the population. I have spent an inordinate amount of time and money on UGA football and after all of that - 31 years of buying 4 season tickets - my parking situation on game days has gotten significantly worse. Not UGAs fault, I knew that I could increase donations and spend more money to get better parking but wasn't quite that big a fan. UGA football has been an integral part of my life for 54 of my 53 years....and college football in general. There is no logic in it, that's why we are fans - short for fanatic. Those of us on these types of boards are not "normal" - most "fans" of college football are involved because its an event, win or lose they get what they put in - an event - something to do on a Saturday if they are attending in person or something to have on TV while they are involved in other things with CFB serving as background noise. They aren't hanging on every play and interacting in in game threads on these types of message boards. I get the distinct feeling that we, the fanatics who do, to some extent, base some portion of our identity on laundry and a bunch of 20 year old's and their millionaire coaches, are getting fewer and fewer as CFB changes into a professional football league, loosely tied to a university and somehow connected to state and regional pride when that element of CFB hasn't really existed in 40+ years. I have made a conscious effort to kick the habit myself...it is not going well and it ain't easy but I continue to watch less and less CFB. If UGA was going 8-4 most years I don't know that I would continue to watch much if any CFB. I don't think I am alone in this...I think a LOT of true CFB fans are pretty put out by the current state of CFB and are also beginning to be less invested. I have never been a fair weather fan - I have missed 6 quarters of UGA football either on the radio, TV or in person, for 54 years - 4 of those quarters were due to surgery and I am told I watched the second half of an Auburn and a SC game - I don't remember this but my Father was in the hospital room with me and says I did. The other 2 quarters I have missed was on my Wife's 50th birthday trip to Las Vegas and we left a beer garden in the mountains at half time and I could not get the rest of the Auburn game on my phone. That is a lot of time invested in a game that has zero bearing on my life...its brought a lot of joy and some grief so I do not regret it but the current state of CFB is far less enjoyable and infinitely more frustrating.

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Neither of my parents attended UGA, but when my father was in high school in the ‘50s, the coach would load the team on the bus and take them to UGA games. They wouldn’t even have tickets. The coach would just tell the gate attendants that he was there with a team, and they would all be let in.

As an adult, he bought season for 20+ years going back to the Wally Butts days, and he and my mother would attend games with a set of friends. After 1980, the demand increased and when they raised donation level to buy season tickets, my father made a value choice and let them go.

He said he couldn’t justify spending that much money on his entertainment when he had a family to raise.

He would sometimes get individual game tickets from a friend and take me to a game. We attended a UGA/LSU game when I was in high school in the ‘80s.

In the early 2000s, he took my young nephew to a game and vowed never to go again due to the rude and drunken behavior of the crowd.

It’s crazy the money people spend on donations, season tickets, and parking.

True, but it’s fun.

It is sad. I've encountered plenty of Bama fans over the years who think they are actually better than other people because the school they support football team wins. Really odd and embarrassing for them.

No lies detected.

Congrats on your advanced level of human enlightenment and having so many more worthwhile worldly pursuits than the rest of us, ya smug dooshbag!