College Football
College football is true grit football. I have spent serious cash buying college football tickets and traveling vast distances to watch those big games between huge rivals. There’s just something about NCAA football; before the ego-massaging media and designer sportswear companies get their agenda-riddled hands on the talented athletes in college sports, before the kids’ heads swell too big for them to remember who they are and where they’re from anymore. Before they become soft, jaded and cliched.
College ball is football from the heart, played for the love of the game and for the pride in one’s college or university. That’s why I love it so much.
I remember the day I fell in love with Grid Iron. It was while watching a TV show that told the story of college football. I was so taken by the sight of the athletes barging down the field, making human missiles of themselves, that the narrator completely inspired me; he spoke of first downs, rushing yardage, fumbles and penalties, field goals and total offense. I was hooked; I wanted all the equipment right away, including a white and orange Georgia Tech helmet and some Kansas State tickets so I could see those purple and white warriors with my own eyes.As the years have passed, I have come to love all college footbal teams equally, but there will always be the ones I remember most, like the Virginia Tech side that were defeated in the 1980 Peach Bowl despite their awesome run of success that earned them an 8-3 regular-season record and a 30-0 trouncing of nemesis Virginia. Or the excellent record of the Alabama Crimson Tide from the 1920s to the 1990s with the likes of Paul “Bear” Bryant at the helm. Alabama football tickets and Georgia Tech tickets will forever remind me of my youth and early adulthood, watching the best game in the world played in all weathers and by such gifted and selfless footballers.