Riots at penn state

[Sasaki Kojiro]

We have this level of sports because it is human nature to identify yourself as part of a group and then demonize those that are not part of your group. In college when most people start learning about themselves, it is easy to just latch onto their uni's sports teams for identity.

Seriously, the amount of elitism in here is just embarrassing. Why do the commoners waste their time, investing so much of themselves into something they have nothing to do with? It's like they are being human? Rabble, rabble rabble, why can't people be as enlightened as me and transcend sports?

If the sports program is a major money grabber for the uni, the uni should place it first, because if it doesn't then everyone is for the worse.

You guys are all talking as if sports haven't been causing riots in LA, or fights between New Yorkers and Bostonians for 100+ years.

Hmm no, I already said I watch football every sunday.

The issue is that too many people view college as a certain kind of experience that has little to do with anything intellectual and that universities market themselves in that way. Why shouldn't they just have intramural sports?

Hmm, there's some old English book about being a soccer fan and the sense of community that I can't recall the title of right now.

Fever pitch?