Here's a test to determine whether a college football team "matters":
(1) Go to any city or town at least 1,000 miles away from the school
(2) Go into a bar in the selected city or town in the Fall
(3) Buy a beer and strike up a conversation with the locals about college football
(4) Mention that you are a fan of the school in question
(5) For all the college football teams in the country, except one, the response from the locals will be complete and total indifference.
(6) For one school, and one school only, the reaction will be visceral, either positive or negative.
And that School is Notre Dame.
Notre Dame doesn't just "matter."
Notre Dame IS college football.
And everyone else is just local flavor.
Stone.
posted by Marco @ 7:08 PM
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4 Comments:
Stone Mountain Rock Solid Right!! Could not have said this better myself. Excellent work Marco (and glad to see you're back blogging again). IRG
Unless that "local flavor" is the team that taught notre dame to play football and leads it in every historical category that matters.
Stone.
Ha. Ask football fans 1,000 miles away from that unspecified school and you'll get a big collective .... YAWN. Not even local flavor. More local bad aftertaste.
Ask them about Notre Dame, and you'll get a lively conversation.
Notre Dame not only matters. It is the ONLY college football team that matters. Thus, the only one with its own network television contract. Thus, the only one with multiple movies made about it. Thus, the only one that other jealous teams use as background on their own blogs/team sites. Thus, the only one that Karl Rove seeks to attack through nefarious cheating schemata. Thus, the only one with a field blessed by the almighty. Thus, the only one with a genius robot coach.
Notre Dame IS college football. The rest are, well, the rest.
Anonymous,
Nobody in my part of the country cares about Michigan. Don't flatter yourselves. Everybody cares about Notre Dame, though it's mostly negative.
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