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Do you root for your alma mater?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by BertoltBrecht, Sep 14, 2007.

  1. BigSleeper

    BigSleeper Active Member

    Kind of. Went to a MAC school that last went to a bowl game before I was born and played a school I'm not sure even exists anymore. I think they've had a handful of winning seasons since then, but only won something like five times while I was attending. However, when the basketball team made the Elite Eight and the football team looked like they might earn a bowl bid last year, I admit, I got a little excited.
     
  2. Matt1735

    Matt1735 Well-Known Member

    Actually, it's kinda tough being a Florida Gator... I mean damn, the Gators haven't won a national championship in a major sport in more than five months now.

    Just remember: Ohio State, the official bitch of the University of Florida.
     
  3. Tom Petty

    Tom Petty Guest

    solid post farmer, very solid.
     
  4. micropolitan guy

    micropolitan guy Well-Known Member

    Sure. It's about 3,000 miles away from Microville but I give them some money every year, know people I went to school with in the athletic department, try to follow what's happening via the Internet and the school's website, and want my alma mater to flourish in all areas.

    Why wouldn't I? I have great memories of college.
     
  5. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    I'm with Claws.

    And, criminy, 15 years since dropping football. Time flies.
     
  6. Bob Slydell

    Bob Slydell Active Member

    My alma mater sucks at most everything except bowling. So no.

    I do, however, still root for my high school. Since I don't cover my old HS, I have no problem with this.

    My favorite team (Louisville) is school I didn't go to.
     
  7. Idaho

    Idaho Active Member

    I celebrate like crazy everytime my college's football team wins. I knock over a liquor store, fire off a few dozen rounds from my glock into the night sky and light my neighbor's couch on fire. That's about once every other year.
     
  8. Tom Petty

    Tom Petty Guest

    mizzou grad?
     
  9. Barsuk

    Barsuk Active Member

    Nah, we just rip down the goalposts and drag 'em to Harpo's to get bombed and saw 'em up. Rarely do we burn anything.
     
  10. Armchair_QB

    Armchair_QB Well-Known Member

    Yeah but it's a small DIII school so nobody's heard of it. Mainly keep up with football. I also keep up with baseball but only because I played one year there.

    I also keep track of my high school's football team.
     
  11. mike311gd

    mike311gd Active Member

    Not at all. Aside from baseball, my school doesn't do much anyway. Football was a huge joke there, and it still is -- but in a completely different way now.
     
  12. Mystery_Meat

    Mystery_Meat Guest

    My two schools have no football, though ODU is starting a program for 2009. Other one isn't going to have a team until eight hells freeze over at the same time.
     
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