No, you CAN'T root in the damn press box

I don't wear expensive watches or jewelry but I'm on probably my sixth pair of Oakleys, getting my first pair in the summer of 1990. They're not the January 6 edition wrap around razorblades; it is a smaller model. The reason I keep buying them is that I have a smaller head and its the only brand that sits on my face correctly and doesn't hurt or pinch behind the ears or on the nose. I bought a pair of Ray Bans for our wedding trip for something dressier. I like the way they look but they keep sliding down my nose.

 

I love my Oakleys. Wore $20 Target brands for eons and there is no comparison. Especially if you are outside a lot.

 

When I wasn't doing as well financially about a decade ago (not that I'm rolling in it now) I went cheaper and picked up a pair of Nikes for $30 at Costco and Callaways from RockBottomGolf and both pair fell apart within a couple of years. I had the arm on a pair I got as a birthday gift in 2002 finally give in and crack last year. And i beat the hell out of these sunglasses. Tossed them in golf bags, pockets, car center consoles, duffel bags, name it. Still lasted 20 years. Reached out to Oakley because, in the early days, they offered a lifetime warranty. No such luck on these but they did give me a coupon code for like 30-percent off.

 

I think I’m on 3-4 years with the generic Target shades I’ve been rocking.

EDIT: 2.5 years. I got contacts again when I escaped quarantine in spring 2021.

 

I absolutely think it plays a huge role, the P5/G5 thing. As I said earlier the proximity to Denver, although it isn't that much more but it is actually part of the metro area compared to Fort Collins, plays a role. The schools themselves are pretty similar on most levels, but CU just always has been P5 and was really good in the 90s so they get that consideration. There for some reason is a wealth of sports journalists that have stayed in the area out of CU as opposed to CSU (CSU has many good journalist alumni, but not tons out there in sports). Heck, CSU's play-by-play guy went to CU and that irks many a Ram fan. He does a good job and I have never seen any bias out of him, but that is funny.

I lived in Nebraska and my wife is a Creighton grad and honestly, I don't even think that is the same. Creighton doesn't have football and Creighton gets covered very well in the Omaha market for everything else (obviously really good in basketball but also has been in soccer, baseball, volleyball over time). If they both had football it would be interesting.

I think an area to look at would be Washington-Washington State, Oregon-Oregon State. All are "P5" but at least as an outsider, I would assume the state schools are considered the little brothers. Maybe they aren't and it is pretty equal in how they are covered or viewed, but I bet that might have some similarities.

 

I have a $400+ pair of Ray Ban prescription sunglasses. Took all the money we had in the health savings account and bought regular glasses and the Ray Bans. I should have gotten a darker tint.

 

Washington is in Seattle proper. State is in Pullman, hundreds of miles to the east and even 60 miles away from the nearest city, Spokane. So Washington gets more coverage because it's plunk in the middle of the state's largest market.

 

I guess not same markets either, for both of these examples I think. Boulder and Fort Collins are both in the Denver market.

 

Corvallis is in the Eugene TV market. OSU gets covered, but generally not nearly as much as Oregon.

 

All you have to do is look at auto stickers in Oregon. The big O sticker outnumbers the Beaver sticker 10-1.

 

As a longtime wearer of Ray-Bans, if you purchased aviators, you can gently (!) maneuver around the nose pieces to alleviate the glasses sliding down your nose. Also, you can bend the earpieces down to get them to better grab around your ears, also helping with the sliding issue. One or both adjustments should help without pinching your ears or nose too much.

(And yeah ... I buy them not only because I think most of the other attempts to look modern look goofy, but also because I have a large head. I purchase the biggest black aviators Ray-Ban produces ... would be difficult to describe how ridiculous spoons and blades designed for smaller craniums would look on me.)

Well, that and - like Ray-Bans - they provide UV protection for your eyes against the sun. Some of the cheap glasses are worse than not wearing any at all because they allow the UVs that harm your eyes in easier.

I have a spare pair that I'm tempted to see if a specialist could work some magic. What should help is that they're made with optical glass, so it's not exactly a massive stretch.

 

Mine are Wayfarers, not Aviators. They just look better on my head.