One of this blog's Confederate readers noted that yesterday began the college football season. He and I will always have a special bond becuase he likes Ole Miss and my man Eli Manning* went to Ole Miss.
One of the quirks of the Northeast is that it's not really good college football country, with one notable exception being the Irish and Notre Dame. But really we have no college football loyalties.
We married a Penn State girl (actually Mrs. Stroock went to UD but her parents went to and met at Penn State. She grew up with a cat named Nittany after the Penn State Nittany Lions.) Her lions crushed Idaho yesterday 79-7. Hope the network TV money was worth the humiliation, Idaho.
Such is the way of college football were the top 25 or so teams beat and wail on the weaklings.
Here in New Jersey we have Rutgers (New Jersey U) which has pretended to be a top football program for 20 years. They even joined a serious conference, the Big Ten, home to Penn State. Go ahead and laugh, we do. People do go to the games, but its more of a 'thing to do on a Saturday' than actual rabid fandom. We're about 20 minutes from campus.
When Penn State comes to town every other year Mrs. Stroock and her sisters go to the games. Last year when the Nittany lions annihilated the Scarlet Nights someone was spotted with a sign calling for the expulsion of Rutgers from that proud conference.
*Brother of the less successful Peyton Manning. Eli is 2-0 is the Super Bowl while Peyton is 2-2.
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