College football's got some serious mystique, an aura, excitement about it, especially Sep. & Oct.
Posted By: Ultimate Ute (Edit User) (132.1.207.4)
Date: Tuesday 30 July 2002, at 03:52 pmI think the main thing is that it starts in September. The September & October feeling is special. The kind of mystical melanchology something about it time of year. The lower angle sun. Just looking at a tree, or more so, a mountain side, spashed in fall color stimulates the psyche. The start of the school year, with all the accompanying anticipation, andrenaline. The uncertaintly of new academics, buddies, and girl friends, and sex. And football, and a whole bunch of other stuff.
Just looking at the utahutes.com action image of Antwoine Sanders emanates some of that feeling. So does seeing a schedule showing BYU playing at Colorado State on a mid-season Thursday night. I'm definitely more inclined to go see Cal host Stanford (11/23/02), or UCLA host Colorado (9/21/02), in football versus hoops.
College football is a fair, a festival. A college basketball game is more like going to a movie, albeit possibly an exciting one. Basketball is more macho than tennis, but football is more macho than basketball. It's got an edge to it. Like looking over the side of the cornice while climbing up to ski the Baldy Chutes, or being lifted up on overhead swell shoulders while paddling out to get into position at December Rincon. Not something done with kinda sorta preparation or mindset.
September was the time of year that I rolled into SLC in '74. That time, scene, newness of first visit to Rice stadium, etc., will almost always certainly have some emotional presence in my mind. The U's had more success in baskebtall, and the Huntsman center gets rockin' and rollin', but it's not the same, nor outside.
That the football schedule is more limited and managable in size makes it more appealing. Relatively few in number, each game is more significant.
That football has a marching band is huge.
When you get outside of the warmer weather states, many of the November games start entering a little to far into the possibly brutal weather, the trees have lost their leaves but it's not quite winter white either, tired and possibly injured players, i.e., battle weary, and people are more into a grove, where it's not quite the same aura as earlier fall.
Anyhow, Good Luck Ronnie Mac.
Last modified .