[DubaiSis]

That was funny, even for "who the hell cares about friggin football anyway" me. Being a Midwestern girl, I think the Midwest falls in between. My high school football stadium was remarkably similar in size and structure as where Northwestern plays (big for a high school TEENSY for a Big 10 football stadium), tailgating is huge at Iowa and Iowa State and I think most of the large schools in the Midwest. On game day, yes, Iowa City becomes one of the biggest cities in Iowa, more than doubling its Tuesday population. But other than a year in contention, the tailgating is the thing, not nearly as much the game. My junior and senior year I didn't even buy season tickets (which had to be purchased in the spring or you had no chance of getting them and there's no such thing as block seats so you had to go as a group with all of your sisters if you wanted seats together). If the weather was decent I'd go to the tailgate and then go back to the house and watch the game on TV, just so I'd know what everyone was talking about. Now true, I was an anomaly, but my method wouldn't have been seen as completely bizarre.