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To: MontaniSemperLiberi
This will be like a death in my family. Rural PA took much of their identity from JoePa and Penn State. They always held their heads up because they might be never-graduated coal miners but they were also Penn State.

It simply amazes me how so many grown adults across this nation place such importance on "their" college football team.

These people base their entire identity in life on a group of 20 year old kids they don't even know that happen to play a sport a few months out of the year.

Even if they don't know anybody that goes to school there or have any form of connection to the school, they seem to think the most important thing in their lives is a college sports team. I'll never understand it.

103 posted on 11/09/2011 8:05:20 PM PST by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes

Me neither! Well said.


159 posted on 11/09/2011 8:28:25 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes

These kind of supporters are the ones who bust their rear ends all week leaving little time for more than a couple distractions in life. Pennsylvania is a huge football state and most of these rural people played when younger. It is just like basketball and Indiana University here in my Hoosier Wonderland. It’s just what you do.


232 posted on 11/09/2011 8:54:07 PM PST by InvisibleChurch ( go in peace , serve the Lord)
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes
I'll never understand it.

Ditto. Colleges provide a service; you pay for it; end of story. I don't owe them any loyalty or any additional monies.

588 posted on 11/10/2011 3:45:30 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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