Easily the worst fans in college football

[klemman]

That's the difference between you and me. You say the stands were half full. I say they were half empty.

Nice.

 

[klemman]

I have had people tell me that they will never watch a football game with me again. I am a terrible person with whom to watch a televised game. I get upset, very negative, yell at the screen, pace around. I embarrass myself. For years, I would not watch a game live. I would record it and only watch it after I knew we had won. My blood pressure just could not handle it. Strangely, I am very calm at the stadium watching a live game. I don't know why the difference.

This year, I seemed to be better and just was sitting tense and quiet through the first three games. Until Ball State. The old me came out. I think the difference was missed tackles. That was what set me off. We went through three games with almost no missed tackles. Then they seemed to come in droves in the first half of the Ball State game. I lost it.

I am better now.

Glidecat, you just described me. I too got,to the point where I was recording games just to minimize the emotional roller coaster. My wife would watch the game in a separate room. And like you, at the games I am calmer. I think it might go back to when I played sports (except for golf), even contact sports. Actually even more calm with contact sports. Same when I coached my kids. I was always calm because I actually felt I could impact the game.

Like you I also,realized how ridiculous it was. After all, I'm just a fan and I'm hardly invested in the game like the players and coaches. Even with the worst lost, it turns out that it really didn't effect my life anymore than I would let it. I also realized that all my antics had absolutely zero impact on the game.

 

[hdhntr1]

Duke had a ranked Ga. Tech on a rainy day on Saturday and the far stands were less than half full. I would rank us ahead of them. As good as Cutcliffe is, unless they hire coach K to handle football as well as hoops, they will never ever draw.

Looking at the stands at DUKE when we played them. Pretty empty. I think I heard about 20K

 

[GlideCat]

I also realized that all my antics had absolutely zero impact on the game.

Since I have watched every game this year on television live and we have won them all, I will continue to do it until we lose one. I don't want to jinx the team. So I guess that I have not made that last realization yet.

 

[klemman]

Ok, full disclosure. I don't wear anything of one of my favorite teams on the day of a big game. I don't know if it's because I think it will jinx my team or I might somehow get past the gods of "making fans miserable" unnoticed.

 

[DaCat]

I wear a purple NU hat on game day. No exceptions.

 

[RevCat]

You might try reading the Duke board and checking what their attendance was like the past Saturday.

+1

 

[SkolCats]

Mikero1 would probably appreciate that more than the indifference he feels is the problem. Any fan base has a smaller % that would be called rabid. Since our base is small we have a much smaller number. THe Dark ages also took a big chunk of what should be the fan base. There are maybe 30K alums in the Chicago area and about 1/3 of those would have been Dark Ages alums. In general the rabid fans might be 5 to 10% of the fan base. Fur us that is a pretty small number and the more casual fans basically keep them separated, minimizing their impact (people telling them to sit down is an example)

I think we actually have one of the more engaged fan bases among our peers (national academic private schools), except for Notre Dame.