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[MaryPoppins]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

You know a thread has succeeded when it has turned into a northern vs southern football war.

Amen!

[AZTheta]

^^^Jinx! Buy me a coke.

[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.

[33girl]

For the purposes of football, Pennsylvania is not in the North as defined by TSteven's post. Neither is Ohio. This starts in junior high and never stops.

[Sciencewoman]

Originally Posted by 33girl

For the purposes of football, Pennsylvania is not in the North as defined by TSteven's post. Neither is Ohio. This starts in junior high and never stops.

I would say that Michigan football falls into almost every single one of those "south" categories...except forget getting tickets 5 months ahead. You have to be on the waiting list for 5 years, have a degree from Michigan, and donate money. All of those things get you "points" toward qualifying for tickets.

[Benzgirl]

Originally Posted by Sciencewoman

I would say that Michigan football falls into almost every single one of those "south" categories...except forget getting tickets 5 months ahead. You have to be on the waiting list for 5 years, have a degree from Michigan, and donate money. All of those things get you "points" toward qualifying for tickets.

Don't talk to me about tickets. Unless you are a member of the President's Club at Ohio State (something like $5000 per year), you can't get season tickets no matter when you apply for them. Even with 105,000+ seats, a ticket in the 'shoe is a coveted item at nearly $70 per ticket.

Lifetime Members (alumnae who have paid something like $1500) are entered into a lottery for 2 tickets to only 1 game. I'm a Lifetime Member and several times was closed out of the lottery completely. For the past 5 years, while I was awarded tickets, I received crappy non-conference games.

To apply for the Lottery, you must first get an invitation and send your money in by May 1. You don't know until mid-Summer if or which game you have tickets. My dad, aunt and I always are in the lottery with hopes we get 3 different games.

[KillarneyRose]

Originally Posted by 33girl

For the purposes of football, Pennsylvania is not in the North as defined by TSteven's post. Neither is Ohio. This starts in junior high and never stops.

Especially SW Pennsylvania. Football is serious business there. I'd put it up against the legendary Texas football hysteria any day.

[DrPhil]

This thread

[PersistentDST]

*ducks in thread*

Ohio lives and breathes football. And we do it in ALL variations of weather.! We start them in elementary school! (Plus it's no accident we have the Pro Football Hall of Fame )

And appropriate to this thread, Alabama's Head Coach played football with my Dad...in Ohio!

*ducks out of thread*

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by PersistentDST

*ducks

*ducks

[naraht]

I'd like to know, does my alma mater qualify as "North" or "South"?


* The football team went undefeated my senior year, less than a quarter of the campus knew according to a survey from the school newspaper
* My freshman year for one game, they gave away floppy diskettes to each person attending the football game.
* The football team didn't play on campus at all for my Junior year because they were rebuilding the stadium as part of moving the stadiums and fields around for space for a new Dorm.

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by naraht

I'd like to know, does my alma mater qualify as "North" or "South"?


* The football team went undefeated my senior year, less than a quarter of the campus knew according to a survey from the school newspaper
* My freshman year for one game, they gave away floppy diskettes to each person attending the football game.
* The football team didn't play on campus at all for my Junior year because they were rebuilding the stadium as part of moving the stadiums and fields around for space for a new Dorm.

I think it may be in a 3rd category all by itself...

[naraht]

Originally Posted by Titchou

I think it may be in a 3rd category all by itself...

Probably. Collegiate Athletics wasn't exactly a strong drawing point for the school. (except for some reason, Women's long distance running)

Originally Posted by clemsongirl

I think your alma mater qualifies as "confused". I like the idea of floppy diskettes as a handout, though. What was on them?

More like *really* geeky.
Absolutely nothing. They were blank.

Originally Posted by DGTess

CMU????

I know there was one year, probably in the early-to-mid eighties the CMU team went undefeated AND had a 4.0 GPA.

Yes, Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh.

I know there were other seasons we went undefeated. 4.0 GPA for the entire team would have been very surprising, that's 50 or more men.

The really bizarre thing is that the school used to be (back in the 1920s!) very good nationally in Football. We played and beat Notre Dame back in the late 1920s. (Under the old name Carnegie Instititute of Technology)

[DGTess]

Originally Posted by naraht

I know there were other seasons we went undefeated. 4.0 GPA for the entire team would have been very surprising, that's 50 or more men.

The only reason I remember it is that I was living in Denver, and read a small blurb in one of the Denver papers that mentioned it. One of those "can you even imagine ..."-type paragraphs used as filler. Not that I could have told you where the football stadium was (hyperbole; it was next to Tech House).

[clemsongirl]

Originally Posted by naraht

I'd like to know, does my alma mater qualify as "North" or "South"?


* The football team went undefeated my senior year, less than a quarter of the campus knew according to a survey from the school newspaper
* My freshman year for one game, they gave away floppy diskettes to each person attending the football game.
* The football team didn't play on campus at all for my Junior year because they were rebuilding the stadium as part of moving the stadiums and fields around for space for a new Dorm.

I think your alma mater qualifies as "confused". I like the idea of floppy diskettes as a handout, though. What was on them?