copy/pasted from sportsline.com
1. No Overhype-Underdeliver.
The NFL with all it's pregame shows and nationwide coverage is becoming like a mole on the side of a hot chick's face. Sure she's hot, but there's just something about that mole that drives you nuts. It disgusts you, but you just can't look away. No more greatest show on turf, now all you get is an unexciting dink and dunk 10 yard pass play followed by a swing route, followed by a run up the gut. Rinse and repeat.
2. Money. Paid players don't really care. They're playing for themselves and that's pretty much it. There's no pride in which team you play for, it's all just a job, you get drafted and you play for whoever gets the rights to you. I'd rather see some kid on the field that loves the game who's playing not because it's his job interview to get into the NFL, because most college kids don't go on to the next level. They're playing because they love the game and are competitors.
3. Tradition. Now there are some old teams in the NFL, but not college football old. Everything in the NFL has become cookie cutter. packers wear cheese heads so every other team has to have some lame plastic hat for their fans to wear. Sports Marketing at it's finest folks...
4. The student section. There's no equivalent in the NFL. What's better than having a whole section of your stadium devoted to nothing but hard core fans with a vested interest in seeing your team win? Every student section has their chants and traditions all their own. What do you get in the NFL? The Packer Pope and some retarded Raiders fan that dresses up like Mad Max in Thunderdome.
5. Bands. Marching bands and bands in the stands. What's better than live music while you're watching the game? Nothing can get a crowd moving like a rousing rendition of your school's fight song, which leads into my next point.
6. Fight Songs. To me this is one of the finest of college football traditions. It embodies everything that is good about college football and everything that stinks about the NFL. A song that's yours. It holds the tradition of your team, your pride, your identity. When I hear The Victors, I immediately think of Michigan Football, and everything that goes along with it. What do you get at an NFL game? Pump up the Jam and some lame techno song nobody knows the real name of blasted through crappy stadium speakers, because it's not like I could hear that at any NFL game I went to...
7. Innovation. This isn't to say the NFL never does anything new, but it's like a neverending game of one upsmanship. Everybody jumps on the latest bandwagon and tweaks it to fit their talents and style. The result: Pretty much the same team in different colors, doing the same thing, week after week, and looking for the next big trend that could take them to the super bowl. If you watch 4 different college games on Saturday you'll see 4 very different games. Spread offense, Spread option, Triple option, pro set, etc. Some might argue that these won't work in the NFL, but how does anyone know, nobody's ever tried. Why haven't they tried? They haven't tried because the NFL is big business, and nobody wants to be on the wrong end of their GM's beadown stick. 8-8 mediocrity is much preferred to doing something radically new and building a system over 4 losing seasons.
8. Blowouts. I mean real live ugly 60 point victories. Now when you're on the losing end of one of these it sucks, everyone knows that. What is the average margin of victory in any given week in the NFL? I gotta think somewhere around 6-10 points. I refuse to apologize for wanting to see my team hang 70 on some division 2 chump.
9. Bowl Games. Say what you will about the BCS and all the bad that comes along with it, but how many NFL postseason games are there? How many bowl games are there? Every year you see the same contenders in the playoffs. Bowls change every year, and if you've got the right TV package you can just about cram in two weeks of football every day. Not to mention the parades and tradition that goes along with some of the older ones. Rose Bowl: Spend the morning with family watching the parade and finish the day with a game and dinner on the couch. Super Bowl: Wake up the next morning not caring who won and puking into the garbage can you placed next to your bed the night before. That one's a no brainer.
10. Last but not least CHEERLEADERS. Yeah sure, the NFL has cheerleaders. 20-25 year old professional dancers with boob jobs and dyed blonde hair who are an afterthought. What do we get with CFB? Real live college girls rooting on their team. Colorful outfits with a routine a minute for the whole game. These girls are athletes in their own right, not just eye candy for the drunk guys who get bored at the game and need something to take their mind off why their beloved patriots can't seem to score from the 2 yard line
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1. No Overhype-Underdeliver.
The NFL with all it's pregame shows and nationwide coverage is becoming like a mole on the side of a hot chick's face. Sure she's hot, but there's just something about that mole that drives you nuts. It disgusts you, but you just can't look away. No more greatest show on turf, now all you get is an unexciting dink and dunk 10 yard pass play followed by a swing route, followed by a run up the gut. Rinse and repeat.
2. Money. Paid players don't really care. They're playing for themselves and that's pretty much it. There's no pride in which team you play for, it's all just a job, you get drafted and you play for whoever gets the rights to you. I'd rather see some kid on the field that loves the game who's playing not because it's his job interview to get into the NFL, because most college kids don't go on to the next level. They're playing because they love the game and are competitors.
3. Tradition. Now there are some old teams in the NFL, but not college football old. Everything in the NFL has become cookie cutter. packers wear cheese heads so every other team has to have some lame plastic hat for their fans to wear. Sports Marketing at it's finest folks...
4. The student section. There's no equivalent in the NFL. What's better than having a whole section of your stadium devoted to nothing but hard core fans with a vested interest in seeing your team win? Every student section has their chants and traditions all their own. What do you get in the NFL? The Packer Pope and some retarded Raiders fan that dresses up like Mad Max in Thunderdome.
5. Bands. Marching bands and bands in the stands. What's better than live music while you're watching the game? Nothing can get a crowd moving like a rousing rendition of your school's fight song, which leads into my next point.
6. Fight Songs. To me this is one of the finest of college football traditions. It embodies everything that is good about college football and everything that stinks about the NFL. A song that's yours. It holds the tradition of your team, your pride, your identity. When I hear The Victors, I immediately think of Michigan Football, and everything that goes along with it. What do you get at an NFL game? Pump up the Jam and some lame techno song nobody knows the real name of blasted through crappy stadium speakers, because it's not like I could hear that at any NFL game I went to...
7. Innovation. This isn't to say the NFL never does anything new, but it's like a neverending game of one upsmanship. Everybody jumps on the latest bandwagon and tweaks it to fit their talents and style. The result: Pretty much the same team in different colors, doing the same thing, week after week, and looking for the next big trend that could take them to the super bowl. If you watch 4 different college games on Saturday you'll see 4 very different games. Spread offense, Spread option, Triple option, pro set, etc. Some might argue that these won't work in the NFL, but how does anyone know, nobody's ever tried. Why haven't they tried? They haven't tried because the NFL is big business, and nobody wants to be on the wrong end of their GM's beadown stick. 8-8 mediocrity is much preferred to doing something radically new and building a system over 4 losing seasons.
8. Blowouts. I mean real live ugly 60 point victories. Now when you're on the losing end of one of these it sucks, everyone knows that. What is the average margin of victory in any given week in the NFL? I gotta think somewhere around 6-10 points. I refuse to apologize for wanting to see my team hang 70 on some division 2 chump.
9. Bowl Games. Say what you will about the BCS and all the bad that comes along with it, but how many NFL postseason games are there? How many bowl games are there? Every year you see the same contenders in the playoffs. Bowls change every year, and if you've got the right TV package you can just about cram in two weeks of football every day. Not to mention the parades and tradition that goes along with some of the older ones. Rose Bowl: Spend the morning with family watching the parade and finish the day with a game and dinner on the couch. Super Bowl: Wake up the next morning not caring who won and puking into the garbage can you placed next to your bed the night before. That one's a no brainer.
10. Last but not least CHEERLEADERS. Yeah sure, the NFL has cheerleaders. 20-25 year old professional dancers with boob jobs and dyed blonde hair who are an afterthought. What do we get with CFB? Real live college girls rooting on their team. Colorful outfits with a routine a minute for the whole game. These girls are athletes in their own right, not just eye candy for the drunk guys who get bored at the game and need something to take their mind off why their beloved patriots can't seem to score from the 2 yard line
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