Can anyone pinpoint the moment when The Conference Fan evolved? Is it me, or did they lose their gills, slink out of the oceans with their newly developed peds, and crawl out into the open when the rest of us had our backs turned?
Reason I ask is that they seem to make up a fairly decent chunk of CFB fans now. At least those from the BCS conferences. So advanced is their development that they've even harnessed the power of the internet. Many I suspect are good souls who, in an era obviously expired, saved their fiercest insults, Bronx cheers, and cheap seat-launched loogies for their traditional rivals (or Kirk Herbstreit). Think Auburn vs. Alabama, Notre Dame vs. USC, Michigan vs. Ohio St., Texas vs. Oklahoma, et la.
How easily they lay down those hatreds now and actually root for those same rival-villians if they happen to be playing an opponent from another BCS opponent.
How easily they lay down those hatreds now and actually root for those same rival-villians if they happen to be playing an opponent from another BCS opponent.
"Daddy, last week you were cussin' at the Aggies like you wanted them drug behind the pick-up. Why do you like them this week?"
"Well that's simple, son. Because they're playing Oregon. Friggin' Oregon. You know. From the Pac 10. They don't know football from nothin' up there. Now run and get your daddy another Lonestar. Go on, boy, git!"
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