I love college football, but I just don’t get people getting THIS invested in the outcomes of sporting events played by people they don’t know.
I guess it really is true that sports are a replacement for clan wars like in Braveheart. The desire for that type of activity has been channeled into being a fan of teams.
Also another reason why people don’t pay attention to what is happening right before their eyes..too busy reading celebrity gossip, watching idiotic TV shows or following sports.
And yes I love to watch sports...so I’m talking about myself too.
Perhaps you ignored this...
http://goldentornado.blogspot.com/2005/11/rivalries-can-go-to-far.html
Alabama fan stabs 5 Auburn Students
A fan screaming “Roll Tide” outside a fraternity house led to a violent altercation early Saturday that left seven Auburn students injured, five with stab wounds. At about 12:30 a.m. Saturday, a person described by the Auburn Police Division as an unknown white male yelled “Roll Tide” outside of the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity house at 841 West Magnolia Street in Auburn. One person at the house confronted the person who yelled, and a fight broke out between the two males. According to police, several others joined in the altercation, when the unknown white male suspect pulled a knife, stabbing one of the people involved in the fight. He then ran trying to escape the scene on Hemlock Avenue, with several people chasing him. About a block away a second fight broke out and four more people were stabbed before the suspect again fled.