I went to a college in the Atlantic Coast Conference, but it was a basketball school-let’s leave it at that.
I had two kids, and once you have kids you can watch football on Saturday or Sunday, but not both, and my fantasy team plays on Sunday.
I drifted from the game for all kinds of reasons, but at first it was just life stuff. Jemelle Hill: College football is cannibalizing itself I wasn’t looking for reasons to break up with college football. I still love so much about the game-the unhinged unpredictability, the ludicrous offensive schemes, the mad carnival that is ESPN’s College GameDay, Lee Corso going to his grave in a Wisconsin Badgers mascot head. I was so obsessed with college football growing up that I would spend all of December watching every single televised bowl game, until it got preposterous, until I was wasting a Saturday afternoon watching the Poulan Weed-Eater Independence Bowl. What if he turns their season around and they make a playoff run? Some Browns fans won’t skip a beat-they’ll mutter something about second chances and note that the criminal charges were dropped-and some Browns fans are going to feel lousy about it until the day he leaves Cleveland. What are Cleveland Browns fans supposed to do about DeShaun Watson, their new franchise quarterback, whom team ownership signed to a five-year, $230 million megadeal this spring knowing full well that the NFL was about to suspend him for being a sexual predator? Boycott the team? Root for everyone on the field but him? His 11-game suspension ends in early December. Maybe you stuck with the Brooklyn Nets’ Kyrie Irving when he wouldn’t get vaccinated, but dropped him when he finally got suspended this week for refusing to apologize for tweeting out the link to an anti-Semitic, Islamophobic documentary. Maybe you’re a Miami Dolphins fan, so you’ll root for Tyreek Hill, the Dolphins’ $120 million wide receiver whose girlfriend accused him of threatening her life and breaking their 3-year-old son’s arm, but you refuse to draft him in your fantasy league. ET on November 5, 2022Į very sports fan, whether they acknowledge it or not, has a line they won’t cross-where the intrusion of the ugly real world onto the playing field becomes too much to ignore and they have to look away.
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