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OSUScoonie12

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ESPN.com has a debate going on about this so i thought i'd bring it up here. Looks like college is winning on ESPN.com but lets see what people here have to say.

I say college football by far. Every game means something more in college, 1 lose and your season could basically be over. Where else do you get stadiums with 100,000+ people yelling, cheering, and signing along with fight songs. It is a football game but it is also a game of pride for your school. All the traditions and great mascots. IMO, college football trumps NFL big time.
 
I think the argument as to what is better is like trying to argue what is the prettier color - green or red. To each their own. But having said that, college ball by a landslide.

I had a crazy Seahawks fans as a poli sci prof and he would always argue why professional was "so much better." He would go off on rants like "I can systematically prove to you why professional football is better!" To which we'd reply, "Great. We care. Obviously you never went to a football school, nor did you grow up in a state that had a big football school, so you wouldn't get it."
 
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College, has way more passion and enthusiasm...on a side note look at this reason Pasquarelli gave for the NFL Being better


12. The Hall
The Pro Football Hall of Fame is located in Canton, Ohio, where the game actually originated when a bunch of guys huddled in an old Hupmobile showroom. The college football shrine is in Notre Dame, where a lot of people only think every good idea was hatched.
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This would have been a much tougher question pre-free agency. for the last 20 or so years since then, you just don't get to know all the guys on the team and make a connection with them, same with basball.

My vote, college. You might have been a bengal/steeler/brown once, but once a buckeye, always a buckeye.
 
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I've wondered why college football can get 100,000+ fans into a stadium every game, but NFL can't. Does anyone have a reason? I think that Washington's stadium is the biggest at about 90,000. And I don't know that they even sell out.

Someone said that he thinks the reason is because, basically, what other big things are there in Columbus? Cleveland and Cincinnati have baseball and football, and Cleveland has basketball. That's why everyone in Columbus likes the Buckeyes, but not everyone in the bigger cities like the pro teams.

I disagree, though. That doesn't explain how Penn State, in a city of about 200 people, gets 100,000+ fans. Is there more passion in college football? From what I've seen of Browns' fans, I don't think that's the answer, either. Anyone?
 
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Zurp said:
I've wondered why college football can get 100,000+ fans into a stadium every game, but NFL can't. Does anyone have a reason? I think that Washington's stadium is the biggest at about 90,000. And I don't know that they even sell out.

Someone said that he thinks the reason is because, basically, what other big things are there in Columbus? Cleveland and Cincinnati have baseball and football, and Cleveland has basketball. That's why everyone in Columbus likes the Buckeyes, but not everyone in the bigger cities like the pro teams.

I disagree, though. That doesn't explain how Penn State, in a city of about 200 people, gets 100,000+ fans. Is there more passion in college football? From what I've seen of Browns' fans, I don't think that's the answer, either. Anyone?
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I think some of it may not necessarily be the passion, but the PRIDE associated with college football. Pro teams have players that are drafted or signed as free agents and have no real ties to the area or state. When we are rooting for our Buckeyes, we are rooting for mostly fellow Ohio boys. There is also the fact that many of the fans have attended the school they chose to cheer for, while the stands at Cleveland Browns Stadium aren't exactly full of former Browns players(insert Browns joke here).
 
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Zurp said:
I've wondered why college football can get 100,000+ fans into a stadium every game, but NFL can't. Does anyone have a reason? I think that Washington's stadium is the biggest at about 90,000. And I don't know that they even sell out.

Someone said that he thinks the reason is because, basically, what other big things are there in Columbus? Cleveland and Cincinnati have baseball and football, and Cleveland has basketball. That's why everyone in Columbus likes the Buckeyes, but not everyone in the bigger cities like the pro teams.

I disagree, though. That doesn't explain how Penn State, in a city of about 200 people, gets 100,000+ fans. Is there more passion in college football? From what I've seen of Browns' fans, I don't think that's the answer, either. Anyone?
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I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that no one ever attended and got a degree from the Cleveland Browns or Miami dolphins. College fans are associated with the school they support. Somewhere along the line, someone in the family attended the school, or is going to. Kids become big OSU fans because dad wne there and he's a fan. You grow up with it.

Another reason the NFL can't get 100,000 fans into a stadium might be that there isn't a stadium in the NFL that will hold that many people. If the Redskins had built a stadium that was a replica of the Shoe. it would fill most of the time, because Redskin fans are psycho rabid like we are. Green Bay, I think, could too.
 
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